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Post by Joe » Thu Apr 29, 2021 1:23 pm

Hermit wrote:
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My oldest daughter once said I was woke. I still don't know what that means. :hehe:
It has become a synonym for the right's use of 'political correctness'.

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Yeah, it looks like the usual word game of changing a term's meaning to suit a political position.

Why solve problems when you can muddy the water? Dumb political hacks. :{D
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Post by pErvinalia » Fri Apr 30, 2021 12:26 am

I think "woke" was created by the left.
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Post by Hermit » Fri Apr 30, 2021 2:26 am

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I think "woke" was created by the left.
The leftish, yes. So was 'politically correct'.
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Post by Tero » Sun May 02, 2021 11:33 am

Space station does not seem to be solution to Antifa problem:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/02/tech/nas ... index.html
black man sent to space came back.
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:coffeespray:

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Post by Seabass » Sat May 29, 2021 6:49 pm

An actual tweet by an actual sitting US congressman.

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Post by Sean Hayden » Sat May 29, 2021 6:55 pm

--everything's so epic: "WILL NOT FALL!!!". 'fraid it's made me a bit numb.

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Post by Joe » Sat May 29, 2021 7:22 pm

I remember the time I watched the US House at work. It was in the summer of 1976, and I just walked in, asked directions to a coke machine and the visitors gallery. Didn't need a pass or anything. It was dull stuff.

Now, everything seems like

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Post by L'Emmerdeur » Sun May 30, 2021 3:32 am

Oh boy. I don't think anybody's going to bellow about these arse-wipe dirtbags being cancelled, but I could be wrong. 8-)

'Former SC [South Carolina] KKK, Nazi landmark being repurposed to honor civil rights'
A building once known for hate has now become a symbol of hope for one South Carolina community.

The newly-formed Echo Theater was once known as the most infamous white supremacist shop in America. It was also a museum for the Klu Klux Klan and the home of the American Nazi Party from 2008 until 2012.

The theater in Laurens, about 40 miles east of Greenville, is slated to become a civil rights and race relations museum.

The building was bought by the New Beginnings Baptist Church and 'The Echo Project' is a non-profit group working to rebuild the space.

"If you look at this building now, and if you look at old photos what what it used to be, it had a lot of things to say," said architect Michael Allen. "But the firm has been working with the Echo Project and Reverend K and his team to change the narrative."

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Post by Sean Hayden » Sun May 30, 2021 3:15 pm

the American Nazi Party

--fungi exploring new ways to spread :dunno: It's at least as likely as the American Nazi Party being the product of an independent mind, that sounds impossible to me.

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Post by Sean Hayden » Thu Jul 29, 2021 4:53 pm

This elucidation brings further light to my admittedly strong and provocative claim that the privilege framework shares a root with totalitarian thinking, and that it ultimately perpetuates the power structure that it attempts to expose. The collapse of power and identity is characteristic of totalitarian thinking—a mode of thought that categorically excludes certain classes of people from discourse by appeal to insurmountable limitations of their identities. By assuming that the identity of a person can shed insight on the structure of power pervading her argument, the privilege framework—even in its milder iterations that avoid an explicitly ad hominem form—finds itself awkwardly aligned to this mode of thinking. While its aim is to expose how a seemingly universalistic argument neglects to consider the experience of an oppressed or marginalized community, the privilege framework establishes its claim by invalidating or diminishing the privileged interlocutor’s participation in discourse by appeal to an essential feature of her identity. Although its objective is inclusion in discourse, it formally mimics the exclusion that is central to totalitarian thinking. Insofar as the privilege framework endeavors to expose power in discourse, it is thus self-contradictory, as it merely substitutes one form of exclusion with another. To be absolutely clear, my argument is not that left-wing activists are totalitarians; to distort my argument in this way would be to misunderstand the distinction between political forms and modes of political thought. I am by no means claiming that those who use the privilege framework are totalitarian in the sense of endorsing the political and institutional forms of totalitarianism. Instead, I am highlighting that the privilege framework mimics the identity-based exclusionary politics unique to totalitarian thinking, and that, therefore, we, on the left, ought to be extremely wary of its uncritical use.
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Post by pErvinalia » Fri Jul 30, 2021 1:09 am

I was going to say that sounds like something 42 would write. But then I got to the bit where they stated their argument isn't that the left wing are totalitarians. 42 clearly thinks they are.
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