Saying that the "PC/SJW" movement is all bogus because "blah blah they don't even get how 'meaning' works blah". It's basically the classic trick of trying to limit understanding of racism strictly to individual intent. So, I finally challenge him on it, to get him to clarify. After a few attempts to lecture me and to overcomplicate the issue(shift the conversation into what could be a never-ending challenge to "prove" some real-world situation as racist to him), I make it clear that I'm not interested in going down that path(for obvious reasons), and ask that he just simply accept a hypothetical premise, so that we can move on to clarifying his views on "meaning" and systemic racism(I think hypotheticals might be his weaknessThe idea that something like racism can be "systemic" is nonsense, because the notion that meaning is "systemic" is nonsense.
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). He then vanishes:http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000108/nest/255532655?p=11
The reason this is odd is because this guy isn't someone who just disappears from a conversation. I disappear from conversations all the time if I find them tiresome(if the other person isn't meeting me half way and making me do too much work to explain shit I shouldn't have to), this guy is not to the type to disappear. He loves to lecture people and doesn't mind repeating himself over and over again. And he has replied almost immediately in almost all the conversations I've had with him....to the point where you start to wonder if he's there 24/7.
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My thoughts were all over the place and my claim about where droopy pants came from seems to be questionable. That's annoying. I didn't source my claim before posting because I was TOTALLY confident that the history of the style was fact. It never even crossed my mind because I remember all the debates we've had about the subject. ![[sad5]](./images/smilies/sad5.gif "sad5"){kind=small}