Boulder removed because it was considered offensive.

[XsjadoBlayde]

Reminds me of a local situation where a grass-layered roundabout was built with multiple rock formations as a sort of half-assed art or something, I dunno, it was something to look at I suppose. But apparently it got enough complaints that one of the rocks looked too much like a cock when driving from a certain road angle towards it. So eventually they just lopped off the top of it...no rounding off the edges or anything to help it fit in with the other rock shapes whatsoever.

So now it has immortalised the dumb controversy because every time anyone drives around it, there's a blatant odd one out amongst the rest that's way shorter and with a smoothly cut top as opposed to the pointy, naturally-shaped rest. When lil children ask us why the rock doesn't fit in with the others, we got no choice but to honestly reply "it was an accidental cock, silly child!"

Tbh I find that anecdote more outrageous than this. Cause loads of shit is shaped like cocks! Like dildos, my experimental dish involving a button mushroom stapled to the top of a Frankfurter, battery-powered neck massagers, you know...all the phallic forms. Whereas the many flavours of racism is just kinda shitty to keep putting on a pedestal.

Omg, trying to search for the story online brought nothing but this hilarious example of classic British conservative angst:

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/giant-penises-appearing-devon-road-1806731

The stakes could not get any lower.

 

[Dwarvenhobble]

No longer a memorial, rock removed from campus

"It was a powerful moment today to see this demand come full circle," said Nalah McWhorter, former president of the Wisconsin Black Student Union. WBSU and Wunk Sheek lobbied to remove the rock because it had historically been referred to by a racist slur.

news.wisc.edu

Ah yes, courage and commitment to get people to move a rock.

Guess the university was stuck between a rock and a hard place?
.......... I'll show myself out.

 

[Dwarvenhobble]

So proud culture warrior, which outrage-bait subreddit are we copying content from now? At least the underlying story seems factually true this time.

So that's how you plan to dismiss or deflect this one?
Come on you can do better than this I know you can.

How the fuck does removing a rock fix the present issue of racism on campus?

It doesn't the point is to force people to do ultimately meaningless acts as a show of power, control and appeasement. A "See look what we got the university to do now fear what we could get done to you if you dare cross us". It's not about changing anything just making it look like "The powers that be" are on your side.

Not quite as much courage and commitment to decry the passing of a racist landmark though.

Have you ever considered the landmark was just there before and people then assigned the name later?

Before it might have been just called some variant of "Big fucking Rock" or something.

 

[Agema]

TBH I'm kind of disappointed it was just a big rock and wasn't even shaped like a penis or something.

This was the (abandoned) quarry I passed the other day whilst out on a hike.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

This was the (abandoned) quarry I passed the other day whilst out on a hike.
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Should this thread just be about things that look like penises now?

 

[Avnger]

Should this thread just be about things that look like penises now?

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More constructive than the OP

 

[Adam Jensen]

It doesn't the point is to force people to do ultimately meaningless acts as a show of power, control and appeasement. A "See look what we got the university to do now fear what we could get done to you if you dare cross us". It's not about changing anything just making it look like "The powers that be" are on your side.

So this is essentially a non-story of a rock being moved from one place to somewhere else.

 

[Casual Shinji]

I too feel offended by others feeling offended over something that has no bearing on me personally, but why ignore it when I can point out how it's not a big deal for me so neither should it be for them.

More constructive than the OP

Can I keep it? I'll pet it and feed it everyday. Honest.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Can I keep it? I'll pet it and feed it everyday. Honest.

So long as you clean up after any mess it makes.

 

[Dwarvenhobble]

So this is essentially a non-story of a rock being moved from one place to somewhere else.

Yes and no.

The Rock being moved?
Well it's not the real story it's not some horrifically awful thing that's being moved.

The story is people convincing a university it should be moved to appease them. It's the possible start of the story. Evergreen College didn't likely start with a professor facing a mass mob outside his classroom. The rock being moved is a group flexing their political muscles possibly before pushing for more changes.

 

[Avnger]

Snippy Snap

Snappy Snip

I'm sorry your feelings are so hurt by this non-event.

Just in case you need it: https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/talk-to-someone-now/

 

[Dwarvenhobble]

I'm sorry your feelings are so hurt by this non-event.

Just in case you need it: https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/talk-to-someone-now/

I'd say it's more relevant to you considering you your rather tetchy and slightly insulting initial post in this thread.

 

[Seanchaidh]

Boulder is kind of a boring city, but removing it seems a little extreme

 

[happyninja42]

I'd be kind of surprised if it was "ni**er rock."

Really? I wouldn't. Either that or some native american slur. I think you underestimate just how casually racial slurs are used in various regions of the country, especially historical ones associated with places. I mean around where I grew up, when you described someone fixing a mechanical device with improvisation and whatever is on hand....they didn't use the phrase "jury-rigged." I'll let you use your imagination on what word the substituted in for jury.

Also I don't find this fact at all surprising. Nationalists lose their fucking minds if you even hint at maybe removing some historical building, because Colonial/Confederate Dude happened to sleep here for a few weeks while he was helping to found the confederacy. Nevermind it's a rickety old house, built to scale from 200+ fucking years ago. It's IMPORTANT damnit!! SO important that we're going to pass fucking laws to make it illegal for you to demolish it and build something actually useful for something OTHER than just pointing out Famous Person Was Here.

So yeah, I call it squarzies if people are annoyed that a rock referred to by a racist slur they walk by every day, on a fucking school campus, is removed. I know the kind of assholes who would call it that, and they would take great delight in using it in circles to intentionally try and antagonize people.

Fuck the rock, and fuck anyone that thinks it's a bad idea to get rid of an object associated with bigotry.

 

[Ravinoff]

Dumb, but god damn that wasn't even a difficult rock to move, it was just sitting there on the surface. I was hoping this would be at least as entertaining as the "boulder" my grandparents' neighbor had to get rid of to put in an extra-long driveway for the two-car garage behind the house. Which, much to the dismay and presumably incredible expense of said neighbor, turned out to be less of a boulder and more (from what I've gathered about local geology) of a protruding spur of rhyolite bedrock half a billion years old.

 

[Mister Mumbler]

 

[Drathnoxis]

Really? I wouldn't. Either that or some native american slur. I think you underestimate just how casually racial slurs are used in various regions of the country, especially historical ones associated with places. I mean around where I grew up, when you described someone fixing a mechanical device with improvisation and whatever is on hand....they didn't use the phrase "jury-rigged." I'll let you use your imagination on what word the substituted in for jury.

Also I don't find this fact at all surprising. Nationalists lose their fucking minds if you even hint at maybe removing some historical building, because Colonial/Confederate Dude happened to sleep here for a few weeks while he was helping to found the confederacy. Nevermind it's a rickety old house, built to scale from 200+ fucking years ago. It's IMPORTANT damnit!! SO important that we're going to pass fucking laws to make it illegal for you to demolish it and build something actually useful for something OTHER than just pointing out Famous Person Was Here.

So yeah, I call it squarzies if people are annoyed that a rock referred to by a racist slur they walk by every day, on a fucking school campus, is removed. I know the kind of assholes who would call it that, and they would take great delight in using it in circles to intentionally try and antagonize people.

Fuck the rock, and fuck anyone that thinks it's a bad idea to get rid of an object associated with bigotry.

I don't really care whether the rock stays or goes, but the thing is though it's just kind of stupid to cave and get rid of something because other people call it by a name you don't like. The rock isn't even associated with bigotry. It's unofficially associated with a word that's associated with bigotry. It's called the Chamberlin Rock in the article, but some people call it by a different name and you will never win against those people. It's pointless to remove something just because people call it something you don't like, because it's trivial to do so. Whatever they put there is probably going to get a racial slur attached to it anyway out of spite by the same people, and then you will have an endless task of replacing monuments on the hill for basically no reason. Removing the rock is treating the symptom and will have absolutely no affect on the cause of bigotry. The only people who win in this situation is the company that moved the rock.

 

[Worgen]

I was hoping this would be about removing Boulder Colorado.

 

[Generals]

Fuck the rock, and fuck anyone that thinks it's a bad idea to get rid of an object associated with bigotry.

That's just wrong in so many ways. The rock is innocent and wasn't in itself a reference towards bigotry in any way. It was apparently a geologically interesting rock (not sure, I am not a geologist) and used as a memorial for a famous geologist. What is racist about that? Had it been a memorial to Robert E. Lee (to take the usual suspect) than fine, you would have point. But it wasn't. It's just that some idiots used a racial slur to refer to that rock. The idiocy in this event is that these student unions have basically empowered racists. Apparently all that a racist person has to do to turn something totally normal and inoffensive into a symbol of oppression is giving it a racist nickname.
Waw, maybe racist far right activists should start referring to welfare as "*insert racial slurr*-money" and tomorrow anti racist groups will demand the abolition of welfare...

 

[Gergar12]

College students this day are mostly focused on semantics. I would know if half of them would shut the fuck up on petty issues, and actually vote we could have an actual change in this country.