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Post by bar on Nov 14, 2017 8:35:11 GMT -8
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Post by bnsf971 on Nov 14, 2017 14:16:49 GMT -8
My personal opinion is that people are becoming too easily offended, and about the wrong things.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2017 16:45:59 GMT -8
Yea but we live in a different world now.
And they should use the brain their given considering all the shootings of recent.
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Post by canrailfan on Nov 14, 2017 20:41:28 GMT -8
My personal opinion is that people are becoming too easily offended, and about the wrong things. It's not just people being too easily offended, it's the response to minor offenses by media and the "Twitter-verse" that is also a problem. I guess the cute skinny-dipping and hanky-panky in the cornfield scenes will be the next targets. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2017 0:05:08 GMT -8
My personal opinion is that people are becoming too easily offended, and about the wrong things. It's not just people being too easily offended, it's the response to minor offenses by media and the "Twitter-verse" that is also a problem. I guess the cute skinny-dipping and hanky-panky in the cornfield scenes will be the next targets. I think you just hit it on the head the media spotlight puts everything front and center and not always in a good way. |
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Post by Brakie on Nov 15, 2017 6:17:37 GMT -8
Seems the PC crowd,media and the other pansies is way to easy to be offended--what's next a Catholic church scene? The hunter on the log and the bear scene? Period cigarette advertisements on the side of transition layout buildings?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2017 15:47:21 GMT -8
Seems the PC crowd,media and the other pansies is way to easy to be offended--what's next a Catholic church scene? The hunter on the log and the bear scene? Period cigarette advertisements on the side of transition layout buildings? you could be right |
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Post by kentuckysouthernrwy on Nov 16, 2017 5:51:59 GMT -8
I guess the 1950s era chain gang cleaning up the cemetery on my layout wouldn't pass the PC police. What we has heah is a fail-yah to communicate...
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Post by roadkill on Nov 16, 2017 6:11:04 GMT -8
PC or not, it is pretty crass...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2017 12:21:35 GMT -8
I guess the 1950s era chain gang cleaning up the cemetery on my layout wouldn't pass the PC police. What we has heah is a fail-yah to communicate... I need you to check every outhouse, hen house, farm house, dog house, until we find him. |
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Post by kentuckysouthernrwy on Nov 17, 2017 5:56:20 GMT -8
I guess the 1950s era chain gang cleaning up the cemetery on my layout wouldn't pass the PC police. What we has heah is a fail-yah to communicate... I need you to check every outhouse, hen house, farm house, dog house, until we find him. You right, Boss.... 
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Post by Brakie on Nov 17, 2017 9:04:26 GMT -8
You call him captain..The rest of us Boss.
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Post by jlwii2000 on Nov 18, 2017 9:01:43 GMT -8
Guys I try to stay out of everything politically hot but I guess I'll dive in for just this one time..... First of all, anyone could have moved the figures to show the scene in any light they wish. I'm not sure why it's being blamed on the club. As for the sensitivity level of everything and people constantly being offended by every little thing, I will bite my tongue. Those closest to me know how I feel and if you read between the lines you can probably figure out how I feel as well. |
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Post by bar on Nov 18, 2017 11:48:23 GMT -8
Yeah, I figured you'd say that.
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Post by Great-Northern-Willmar Div on Nov 20, 2017 0:24:08 GMT -8
The answer to question is pretty easy.
The person that posed the figures could have:
A. Attempted to provoke thought in the audience, about current events.
B. Thought is was "funny" to take a swing at current events.....PC be damned!
C. Doesn't have a thought in their head and didn't realize what he had done. Thus setting the stage for his club to come under scrutiny by spectators and media.
Seeing that model trains is a mainly made up of white guys. I couldn't fathom a guess at what the scene setter had on his mind when he set it up.
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Post by valenciajim on Nov 20, 2017 11:45:19 GMT -8
"Attempted to provoke thought in the audience, about current events"
I have done that with scenes on previous layouts.
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Post by Paul Cutler III on Nov 30, 2017 0:43:04 GMT -8
If a layout on public display at a train show displayed mini-protesters burning a mini-American flag, I bet those who label others as easily offended PC pansies would be singing a different tune...
Of course, it's not the first time controversy has been shown on layouts in our hobby. I remember the tempest in a teapot in r.m.r (and on the old Atlas Forum and in letters to the editor) back when MR published a layout modeling the deep South in the 1950's-'60's that displayed an Army of Northern Virginia flag over a US flag on a courthouse flagpole. Many electrons were killed during those battles.
Heck, layout controversy is not even limited to politics. One of my fellow club members installed scale Giant Redwoods on our layout complete with a billboard sign that read, "Viagra National Forest: Home of the Big Woodies". A point: we're modeling the northeast; there's no redwoods around here. He made those trees just so he could put up that dumb sign. The sign disappeared real quick, and the trees were eventually plucked and replaced as part of a whole scene renewal. When asked why he had done so, the now-former scenery guy said, "'Cause it's funny!" I mean, jeez, we're displaying to the public as a family-friendly event in a town-owned building. We don't need to be crass to be funny; we don't need to tick people off so they won't come back and pay money to see you again.
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Post by valenciajim on Dec 3, 2017 10:59:57 GMT -8
I love the Viagra Forest sign. I have the Hotel California on my layout. A few feet away there is a billboard advertising the hotel with the tag line, "You can checkout but you can never leave."
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Post by edwardsutorik on Dec 11, 2017 18:33:37 GMT -8
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2017 15:32:42 GMT -8
I just want to ask one thing: would it have been perfectly ok for a scene where a black trooper is pointing a gun at some white guys?
Where would the outrage have been then?
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