Students Sign Petition To Ban ‘Oppressive’ White Stick Figure In ‘Walk’ Signals

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  1. Spim

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    Interesting, never viewed it from that perspective. Next time I watch it I'll keep that in mind.
     
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    Standard conservative behaviour - get caught out making stuff up, dodge and weave, refuse to accept responsibility.
     
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    It was meant with a little humor. Perhaps you need a little smiley at the end to help further your understanding. Any particular color?
     
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    You're killing me! :roflol:
     
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    Hmm. Where I live they are red and green. The man himself is the signal.

    I'd note also that they can't really attack it on the basis of gender as there are no gender specific attributes on the stick figure.

    Sure, female stickfigures use a dress to show gender, but it is probably sexist under their own logic to imply the cross walk figure is male just because he's wearing pants.
     
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    And $100 says that they’re all democrat voting robots.
     
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    And hate is what the leftist democrat does best. So well in fact, that it’s an auto pilot setting 24/7 to them.
     
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    You're here defending the outrage. I have yet to see you say anything in the reality of "wow, this is a retarded race card. I do not support this".

    In fact, you've done the opposite. You have cited other nations that use other colors in an attempt to justify the outrage.

    Do you alt left radicals remember what you post?
     
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    Are you ****ing kidding me? Do you even read the posts before you respond to them?

    You responded to a post in which I literally said, "I wouldn't have signed that petition. I think the people who did sign it are stupid / gullible / careless / easily influenced etc."

    Once again, I challenge you to quote anything that I have written on this thread that defends the people who signed the petition. All I have said is that it is LOGICAL to use red/green. I have NEVER said that it is racist to use white.

    Try reading what I've actually written, rather than what you assume I must have written.

    Waiting for your apology.
     
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    You ALSO cited posts defending the move, as you pointed out, other nations use other colors and not white.

    You alt left radical extremists cannot remember anything you type.
     
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    I did not "defend the move". I did not say it was racist to have white figures. You are literally making up stuff and claiming that is my position.

    You alt right radical reactionaries cannot understand written English.
     
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    I didn't SAY you said that. I'm proving how you're defending it even though you want to appear not to. It's how you alt left radicals work. Even when you know something is stupid, you say "well it's not that stupid".

    You're literally citing links of other nations that don't use white figures in attempts to defend it. No need to throw another temper tantrum- we know your position on this.
     
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    Making the stick figures a different color because someone feels that "white is racist" is stupid.

    There is a logic in making them green - to make them consistent with the colors used in traffic signals.

    Someone came up with a stupid reason for changing the colors. That reason is stupid. Even if there is also a logical reason for using different colors.
     
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    It's a fake position and yes it's stupid, tell that to the campus progressives who signed it.
     
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    That's what I said. It's stupid to change on the basis of alleged racism.

    However, it would not be stupid to change for other reasons. Lots of countries use green for the logical reason that it corresponds with traffic lights.

    I don't really care. ArmySoldier claimed I was defending the stupid reasoning. I'm not. All I'm saying is that stupid reasoning does not make the underlying idea necessarily stupid as well.
     
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    The reason they are white is specifically so they DO NOT correspond with traffic lights. This specification is per the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD). The belief is that if they were green it could confuse drivers into thinking they had a green light. This is the same reasoning as to why the "don't walk" hand is not red....it is "Portland Orange". Though orange is close to being red, it was felt that if a driver confused the hand as being a stop light, stopping is not necessarily as bad as going on a green hand.
     
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    no offense but the US has a rep to be idiots in some cases (thinking of all the warning labels with the most retarded warnings to avoid getting sued)
    so white = less confusing
    is a good thing in some of their cases

    maybe go with bright yellow instead but then they might complain about the asians,
     
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    NOTHING needs to be done here. Our signals are just fine. It displayed stupidity to fall for and then sign the fake petition.
     

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