I didn't invent it for what that is worth. The word has been used for a while.
Off the top of my head, OSHA started in the 1970's with Nixon (safety culture from that), and hard hats were first used for the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge as far as I know (I think in the 1930's or 1940's).
So, safetyism has been here for a bit now. Think about all the children wearing helmets while riding a bicycle rather slowly. Children didn't wear helmets in the past.
Think about how often you hear the phrase "Safety First" as opposed to "Break a Leg." Think about when you first heard the phrase "Safety First."
Not sure I would object to worksite helmets (or ballistic helmets, if there are going to be ballistic projectiles). Kids helmets are kind of a joke - they'd be better off wearing mouthguards, statistically speaking.
I think 'safety' is just another word that's lost its meaning in the last century. It used to be a matter of protecting yourself from something imminently dangerous, and now it's about protecting yourself from the mundane.
It was the motto in every (above-ground) workplace I've worked at, some of which were genuinely dangerous.
But in factories and construction sites and kitchens, yes, it's a sensible rule. Always be aware of your surroundings, and be up on your safety protocols. Though people wear more equipment than they did 30 or 40 years ago, most of it makes a damn bunch of basic sense. The province I'm in is based on dangerous jobs for the most part ... Fort MacMurray is where young Newfies go to die.
BUT, it has leaked out into the general use area somewhat too much. Look at the assholes wanting to genocide entire species for to "stay safe", when the solution is "stay the fuck out of their habitats and in your own, dumb human snotlickers."
Welcome to my fucking world for the last 20 years. I wince when people say "Stay safe" as a goodbye, and I say, which I know sounds weird, but this is my duty: "Nope! Be bold!" in response.
"Safety" is a cancer which has been growing since the early 2000s. It is so transparently cowardly an ethos that I thought it was a silly joke or a meme at first, but it has persisted. It is antithetical and ruinous to everything about the American ideal and to anything helpful to personal success.
I assume the cult of safety, much like faggotry, feminism, and the most recent Cult of Alarming Sniffles, is a campaign.
I hope that you do so, and we meme our way back to civilization. Hopefully, then you can join me in stage 2, which is extinctifying the ridiculous fist-bump, which has perniciously gobbled up the handshake--first by that ridiculously obvious quisling Obama, then in the name of a "safer greeting" under covid tyranny.
The handshake is a warm, friendly gesture of vulnerability and therefore trust. An embrace, no weapons, right? What the hell are we doing with this punching-knuckle bullshit? It's Chicago gangland toughguy-wannabe bitch nonsense, and it needs to be rejected into extinction.
Which I do, and I hope you do too. Reach out for a handshake, and if they give you a closed fist in return, just wrap your open hand around their fist and give it a shake. Trust me, every time I have done this it is they who have felt a little foolish.
Do you take issue with phrases like "Safe travels" or giving someone "safe passage?" I feel these terms may be less cowardly than "Stay safe," and they may be older as well.
"Safe travels" and "safe passage" at least assume some kind of fruitfulness, travel, movement, some sort of verve and life at least. I see those akin to the Irish blessings: "May the road rise up to meet you" and "may the wind be always at your back." They assume that the well-wishes and blessings are for some kind of adventure or productive enterprise. There's movement, growth, yearning in the words.
"Be safe" just sounds like such a flat fart of a phrase. It just sits there. It implies "Hurry back to your car. Then the car takes you home by the most direct route. Once there, dart inside and watch streaming television."
This made sense although not really, in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, when the local public library thought the sky was falling and everything was about to collapse on their heads. It has made less and less sense since, until now in which it is an alarming bunch of nonsense. It is paralyzing fear with no hope of ever existing in a state in which mere survival is not the only goal.
It is paralyzing fear with no hope of ever existing in a state in which mere survival is not the only goal.
It's almost like there is a coordinated effort between the UK, US, Western European countries, and their media lapdogs to create and maintain this pants-wetting fear of everything.
I mean, Jesus H. Christ, it's one crisis after another: the rise of neo-Marxist bureaucracy, anti-Trump hysteria, race riots, the imposition of tranny totalitarianism and the destruction of sex, legions of useless young men addicted to masturbation, armies of bums and their third-world encampments, the coof as rehearsal for world tyranny, inflation, WW III, all coming down on us relentlessly. It's no wonder some of our more fragile and simpleminded neighbors have gone off the deep end.
Which of course smart people recognize is death. Only in death is there no risk, and no chance of circumstance which may lead to death. Dumb people think it's just a neat idea.
Absolutely. The reasoning is exactly the same as it is for college "safe spaces": Stifling dissent, stifling divergent ideas and opinions by threatening people with prosecution for saying something challenging the current psychotic totalitarian horseshit.
Safetyism is a feminine cancer in the west. Safetyism and its followers are part of the reason the COVID-fiasco happened.
I didn't invent it for what that is worth. The word has been used for a while.
Off the top of my head, OSHA started in the 1970's with Nixon (safety culture from that), and hard hats were first used for the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge as far as I know (I think in the 1930's or 1940's).
So, safetyism has been here for a bit now. Think about all the children wearing helmets while riding a bicycle rather slowly. Children didn't wear helmets in the past.
Think about how often you hear the phrase "Safety First" as opposed to "Break a Leg." Think about when you first heard the phrase "Safety First."
Not sure I would object to worksite helmets (or ballistic helmets, if there are going to be ballistic projectiles). Kids helmets are kind of a joke - they'd be better off wearing mouthguards, statistically speaking.
I think 'safety' is just another word that's lost its meaning in the last century. It used to be a matter of protecting yourself from something imminently dangerous, and now it's about protecting yourself from the mundane.
It was the motto in every (above-ground) workplace I've worked at, some of which were genuinely dangerous.
But in factories and construction sites and kitchens, yes, it's a sensible rule. Always be aware of your surroundings, and be up on your safety protocols. Though people wear more equipment than they did 30 or 40 years ago, most of it makes a damn bunch of basic sense. The province I'm in is based on dangerous jobs for the most part ... Fort MacMurray is where young Newfies go to die.
BUT, it has leaked out into the general use area somewhat too much. Look at the assholes wanting to genocide entire species for to "stay safe", when the solution is "stay the fuck out of their habitats and in your own, dumb human snotlickers."
Welcome to my fucking world for the last 20 years. I wince when people say "Stay safe" as a goodbye, and I say, which I know sounds weird, but this is my duty: "Nope! Be bold!" in response.
"Safety" is a cancer which has been growing since the early 2000s. It is so transparently cowardly an ethos that I thought it was a silly joke or a meme at first, but it has persisted. It is antithetical and ruinous to everything about the American ideal and to anything helpful to personal success.
I assume the cult of safety, much like faggotry, feminism, and the most recent Cult of Alarming Sniffles, is a campaign.
That is excellent and I'm going to have to steal it. 👌
I hope that you do so, and we meme our way back to civilization. Hopefully, then you can join me in stage 2, which is extinctifying the ridiculous fist-bump, which has perniciously gobbled up the handshake--first by that ridiculously obvious quisling Obama, then in the name of a "safer greeting" under covid tyranny.
The handshake is a warm, friendly gesture of vulnerability and therefore trust. An embrace, no weapons, right? What the hell are we doing with this punching-knuckle bullshit? It's Chicago gangland toughguy-wannabe bitch nonsense, and it needs to be rejected into extinction.
Which I do, and I hope you do too. Reach out for a handshake, and if they give you a closed fist in return, just wrap your open hand around their fist and give it a shake. Trust me, every time I have done this it is they who have felt a little foolish.
Do you take issue with phrases like "Safe travels" or giving someone "safe passage?" I feel these terms may be less cowardly than "Stay safe," and they may be older as well.
"Safe travels" and "safe passage" at least assume some kind of fruitfulness, travel, movement, some sort of verve and life at least. I see those akin to the Irish blessings: "May the road rise up to meet you" and "may the wind be always at your back." They assume that the well-wishes and blessings are for some kind of adventure or productive enterprise. There's movement, growth, yearning in the words.
"Be safe" just sounds like such a flat fart of a phrase. It just sits there. It implies "Hurry back to your car. Then the car takes you home by the most direct route. Once there, dart inside and watch streaming television."
This made sense although not really, in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, when the local public library thought the sky was falling and everything was about to collapse on their heads. It has made less and less sense since, until now in which it is an alarming bunch of nonsense. It is paralyzing fear with no hope of ever existing in a state in which mere survival is not the only goal.
It's almost like there is a coordinated effort between the UK, US, Western European countries, and their media lapdogs to create and maintain this pants-wetting fear of everything.
I mean, Jesus H. Christ, it's one crisis after another: the rise of neo-Marxist bureaucracy, anti-Trump hysteria, race riots, the imposition of tranny totalitarianism and the destruction of sex, legions of useless young men addicted to masturbation, armies of bums and their third-world encampments, the coof as rehearsal for world tyranny, inflation, WW III, all coming down on us relentlessly. It's no wonder some of our more fragile and simpleminded neighbors have gone off the deep end.
Which of course smart people recognize is death. Only in death is there no risk, and no chance of circumstance which may lead to death. Dumb people think it's just a neat idea.
Absolutely. The reasoning is exactly the same as it is for college "safe spaces": Stifling dissent, stifling divergent ideas and opinions by threatening people with prosecution for saying something challenging the current psychotic totalitarian horseshit.