Cheese
Bitter lover
The thread will be shut down soon, I know.
Maybe there's still time enough for someone to explain me why such layoffs are considered right in our modern world.
https://www.residentadvisor.net/news/73054
The map has been existing for, I'd say, at least a decade, and has been widely forwarded on PC's and phones around the globe. I even think (not sure) that I had seen it on this site once, some years ago. I must admit, mea culpa, that I even found it funny, and it could well still rest somewhere in my gmail archive. Yet I have to add that in younger years I had the opportunity to travel by land through Pakistan, Iran and Turkey, and that I have great memories of the country and people. Islamic culture sort of suits me well in general. And, imagine!, reading 'Bombs go there' hasn't affected my overall positive view of the place in the slighest.
Showing this slide in the current context may not have been the smartest thing to do, and it's so universally known that it isn't funny any longer either. But of all those who raised the red flag, I wonder how many found the map funny too, say ten years ago, when the context was totally different and when such things were still considered jokes.
Let's also add that the map is not an attack aimed at people from a certain race, it's more a universal persiflage of stereotypes. Even the Americans get their share. Ban all stereotypes ? Okay, start by banning the stereotype that Tories are racists and leftists are snowflakes. And so on.
Maybe there's still time enough for someone to explain me why such layoffs are considered right in our modern world.
https://www.residentadvisor.net/news/73054
The map has been existing for, I'd say, at least a decade, and has been widely forwarded on PC's and phones around the globe. I even think (not sure) that I had seen it on this site once, some years ago. I must admit, mea culpa, that I even found it funny, and it could well still rest somewhere in my gmail archive. Yet I have to add that in younger years I had the opportunity to travel by land through Pakistan, Iran and Turkey, and that I have great memories of the country and people. Islamic culture sort of suits me well in general. And, imagine!, reading 'Bombs go there' hasn't affected my overall positive view of the place in the slighest.
Showing this slide in the current context may not have been the smartest thing to do, and it's so universally known that it isn't funny any longer either. But of all those who raised the red flag, I wonder how many found the map funny too, say ten years ago, when the context was totally different and when such things were still considered jokes.
Let's also add that the map is not an attack aimed at people from a certain race, it's more a universal persiflage of stereotypes. Even the Americans get their share. Ban all stereotypes ? Okay, start by banning the stereotype that Tories are racists and leftists are snowflakes. And so on.