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Derived Absurdity wrote:Can someone sum up this thread for me? I'm way too lazy and impatient to read through it.

A few posters disagree on whether harassing a Neo-Nazi at the gym is a correct approach in dealing with the alt-right.

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But I am not so arrogant as to assume that my opinion is more valid than anyone else's. My sister got into an argument like this with one of her friends who considered it arrogant that she considered her opinion was more correct than others. It confused us because a) most people think that they are...

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Cassius Clay wrote:Me: phe_de, I think you should be drawn and quartered

phe_de: I disagree, but at least I'm not so arrogant to think my opinion is more valid

You are correct. It isn't. But I have the law on my side.

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A user interface is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it's not that good.

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"A few centuries ago, there were plenty of things considered immoral; and nobody within society would have questioned them. Homosexuality, interracial relationships, women who go to work without their husbands' permission..." How did society and morals evolve if nobody within society ques...

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I don't know what you have in mind.

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Because majorities don't decide what is actually morally right, they only enforce it. An important distinction that people conflate and/or confuse. People decide, not "majorities". So, yes, just because a majority(or powerful minority) enforces a norm, doesn't mean it's actually just. On ...

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Ok wait, I think my view is getting conflated with phe_de's here. I don't believe in neutrality no matter what, and recently wrote a Facebook post ranting against this article that wanted to consider 'both sides' of a clearly racist thing. My argument is that things shouldn't be banned or condemned...

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This thread has made me realize that I should be uncomfortable with locking people up for murder. Only if you are an anarchist. Laws reflect the ethics of a society, and ethics are socially agreed upon. And unless I am mistaken, murder is illegal in the USA. Richard Spencer is allowed to walk free....

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CashRules wrote:"Where do we draw the line?" is an odd question to ask when the line is already clear - it's drawn between those who infringe upon the rights of others and those whose rights as human beings are being infringed upon.

Good luck telling this to a free-speech absolutist.

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I've only seen 4 movies on that list.
And lists like these are purely subjective anyway.
Avatar, WALL·E and Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis are not on that list, so I might as well consider this list worthless.

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This is part of your problem. I've spoken about this before...you fetishize logic and "objectivity" to an ironically unreasonable point...to the point of meaninglessness. Are you talking to me? If yes, then I disagree with this. In my opinion objectivity is the notion that observations ca...

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We draw the line at no longer being silent while someone who holds vile views regarding their fellow human expects to live without experiencing consequences. We draw the line before your examples because those with the cross or same sex PDA's aren't expressing their hatred for someone different. Th...

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I lack common sense and I'm proud of it. -phe_de, definitely Indeed. Let's look at some examples of common sense. Dana Rohrabacher called it "Common Sense" to prohibit gays from joining the Boy Scouts. After all, it's common sense that homosexuals are more likely to be pedophiles, right? ...

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I'm all for tolerance, but as a tolerance absolutist, that means we should also be tolerant of intolerance. Because if we don't also tolerate intolerance, then that means we have to use our own values, judgement and common sense to decide when the tolerance principle is applicable and when to take ...

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Gendo wrote:Finally, there's the fact that gym membership isn't life or death.

Neither is a wedding cake.

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I would argue that Richard Spencer was, in fact, bothering someone, and that one need not be actively engaging in hate speech for someone to be bothered by you. I would be *profoundly* uncomfortable sharing a room with the leader of a fascist organisation, even if they were not currently doing a fa...

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This is exactly the kind of behavior that creates monsters like this and that gets you a Trump president. Some people are natural monsters but some are created and a lot have been created by these kind of actions There are no Dr Frankensteins running around creating monsters. Monsters create themse...

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Cassius Clay wrote:I haven't read it yet, but you can be angry at this woman(whatever she did) without making excuses for monsters.

I don't think anyone did on this thread.

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Gendo wrote:I remember that one. Was that Chx also?

Goz, if I remember correctly. But I could be mistaken.

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11. Men can't be raped.

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"Subscribe to read".
No thanks.

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wtf. "We would have approximately zero terror attacks if we still lived in White countries. #Manchester" https://twitter.com/ReeceAllington Yeah, because the RAF (Germany), IRA, Action Directe or Brigate Rosse were full of non-white people... I don't know if the stupidity of some alt-righ...

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I agree that we can find something abhorrent from our point of view (like slavery); but that we should be careful before we make moral judgements. Arguably, the act of considering something abhorrent is itself a judgement, and in the cases of clear evil there's not much need to be careful. Slavery ...

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Derived Absurdity wrote:I like how we've regressed to the point where criticizing someone for owning slaves is now considered "screaming from a moral high ground".

Said the poster who created this thread.
http://forum.pittersplace.com/forum/vie ... f=2&t=1811

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Okay, but seriously, with that said...I think part of the issue is that you keep making this about Tizon's image...and his image really isn't that important. Which is really the whole point of the criticism...that Tizon seems more concerned with his image(than with responsibility, truth and the rea...

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Derived Absurdity wrote:Considering that you can't feel emotions, it's not surprising that you would consider emotional writing a form of manipulation. Thankfully not everyone is as emotionally and morally empty as you.

Coming from you, I take this as a compliment.

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However I am talking about the tone of the article rather than its contents, it's dry, impersonal, distant, detached, I am usually a very emotional person, I cry reading articles about 99% of sad things even sad things with happy endings, I cry re watching a movie for the 10 or 20th time even again...

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Meanwhile, look what I found. [none] "Are men who like Asian women pedophiles?" http://s1.zetaboards.com/anthroscape/topic/4455506/1/ The title says it all, but you can click the thread for more racism racial realism. From the guy who advanced the "hypothesis" that white men who...

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No surprise there.

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Regardless, I've been meaning to ask - what's your take on North Korea? Are things as bad there as the media makes it seem? How much of that is propaganda, where there may be lots of people who are happy there but whose voices are being deliberately silenced? I don't know much about North Korea, an...

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Anakin McFly wrote:http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/04/a ... 46175.html

I'm starting to believe that a wall around the US-American borders might be a good idea. To prevent US-Americans from getting out.
Maybe Mexico and Canada could both pay for it...

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I don't get how that's a style. Unless his intent is just to ramble on about a bunch of topics that are on his mind, one after another. But in that case, why have 2 completely related sections first, before randomly going somewhere else without any segue? I just looked at some other columns of his;...

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I wrote this on the "General" board. Not as funny as the animated movie. Less slapstick. More dramatic. Not a children's movie in my opinion. But they kept all the original songs, and the parts they added add background information about the characters, which fits organically with the whol...

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Since Russian is not a race, it's not racist.
Unless he is racist against Caucasians; and this includes Germany, who behaved worse than Russia after 1919.

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Traditionalism: 33%
Liberal Feminism: 68%
Radical Feminism: 56%
Marxist Feminism: 67%
Cultural Feminism: 53%

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I don't think she really believes this woman is ruining the American "scam-tasy", but I don't know what part seemed like satire. It was pretty straight forward. If a 94-year-old can work twice a week at McDonald's, then nobody should retire or get social security or disability checks. The...

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Oh, the National Council of Churches of Singapore sent out an advisory to parents, cautioning them about this movie: http://nccs.org.sg/2017/03/14/nccs-advisory-disneys-beauty-beast-14-march-2017/ Churchie propagandists. I don't know if they are being paranoid or making subtle advertising for the m...

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I just watched it. I enjoyed it a lot. Not as funny as the animated movie. Less slapstick. More dramatic. Not a children's movie in my opinion. But they kept all the original songs, and the parts they added add background information about the characters, which fits organically with the whole movie....

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Reminded me of: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0301357/ It's a film where an East German man's mother comes out of a coma, but whilst she was in the coma the Berlin Wall comes down and Germany has started the process of re-unifying. The doctors tell him that he can't let her know what's happening as h...

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I got 57 on the Buzzfeed poll. I forgot what it means.
But I don't believe that anything on Buzzfeed should be taken seriously.

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That was a really funny video!

Too bad you can just like the video on Facebook; and the Youtube version has bad quality and does not have subtitles.
But I'm li(n)king it anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPDpcYEdiOg

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Came across this article claiming that hoop earrings are cultural appropriation: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/445611/campus-email-white-girls-stop-wearing-hoop-earrings-cultural-appropriation Wow. If I wore earrings, I'd consider wearing hoop earrings right now, just to piss Martinez off. ...

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Not sure if I am in favour of a parenting license (mostly because I find it hard to implement), but I wouldn't mind child abusers being forcefully sterilized, in severe cases.
If people are unfit to raise children, they shouldn't do it.

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This is a question for the film nerds out there. I apologize in advance for the lack of an easily accessible specific example to use. Let's say we have Film Scene A where there is what appears to be nondiegetic music playing. Let's say we cut to Film Scene B, in a completely different location mile...

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I just googled "beauty beast controversy", and the first hits that came up were about a lesson plan that says that Beauty and the Beast supposedly promotes domestic violence. Other controversies are about the promotion of Stockholm syndrome. Then I refined the google search to hits only a ...

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Here it is on the Washington Post website: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/21/milo-yiannopouloss-free-ride-on-free-speech-is-over/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open...

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Derived Absurdity wrote:Milo shouldn't be getting college and talk show invites in the first place, but now that he is, the way to defeat or shrink him is not to display outrage

Good advice. Too bad Adelaide Kramer didn't follow it.

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Adelaide Kramer has issues.

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The Bible does not say that boys should not play with dolls.

Does this priest really believe what he is spewing? Or is it just a publicity stunt to find a buyer for his house?

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