21 Jun 2020, 9:30 pm
21 Jun 2020, 9:55 pm
21 Jun 2020, 10:13 pm
I think the dissolution of the popular rhetoric into a slurry of fascist rationalizations is hateful & I know for a fact that it's not a hate crime for my thinking as such to trigger anyone.
I don't want to mince words, supporting a sick regime just to keep some money & guns is just as sick as the regime is.
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21 Jun 2020, 10:14 pm
Calling someone ignorant has evolved over the years into a basic insult on par with calling someone stupid.
The difference is this. Stupidity is a slur (lack of common sense or intelligence)
Ignorance can also be due to not being aware...
And calling someone "ignorant" without supplying information to remedy the supposed "ignorance" makes it a slur rather than an innocent description...or, alternatively, a dismissive way to ignore inconvenient information which the "ignorant" person was conveying because it did not match the bigoted opinions of the person making the "ignorant" claim.
There's a number of contingent assumptions linked to the use of ignorance as a slur. My point is it's not automatic.
I would agree there, but under popular current usage\understanding of the word, the balance of probabilities would indicate it is indeed intended as a slur, with the person making the "ignorant" claim required to prove it wasn't so intended.
Adjectives that offend you in particular are not automatically slurs.
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"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos
21 Jun 2020, 10:51 pm
Does that mean an intelligent person is obliged to not make that observation when dealing with someone who is grossly misinformed or uninformed? Are intelligent people not entitled to become frustrated with others if they lack knowledge on a topic but insist on commenting on it?
Name-calling is stupid (not intelligent).
Even if you get lazy, frustrated, angry ... Forest will still judge you ...
21 Jun 2020, 10:56 pm
Arguing about who's stupider must be dumber than name calling or it wouldn't be happening in a thread about antagonistic nationalists feeling victimized by the general public they've been crusading against.
I might remind you that reminding people the degree to which they're being judged isn't really conducive to life as usual in a free country.
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"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos
22 Jun 2020, 12:30 am
22 Jun 2020, 12:34 am
So don't elect someone who fails to do that? I got nothing.
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-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos
funeralxempire
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22 Jun 2020, 2:54 pm
Does that mean an intelligent person is obliged to not make that observation when dealing with someone who is grossly misinformed or uninformed? Are intelligent people not entitled to become frustrated with others if they lack knowledge on a topic but insist on commenting on it?
Name-calling is stupid (not intelligent).
Even if you get lazy, frustrated, angry ... Forest will still judge you ...
It's rude, but not related to intellect at all. Stomping your feet and insisting otherwise won't cause your emotionally driven perspective to become objective fact.
22 Jun 2020, 2:57 pm
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22 Jun 2020, 3:30 pm
We need his type of character in today’s world.
Instead you got cadet bone spurs.
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for supporting trump. Because doing so is deplorable.22 Jun 2020, 4:25 pm
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22 Jun 2020, 5:49 pm
22 Jun 2020, 7:37 pm
Quick, find your most anti-Semitic neighbour with a rat rod.
The character....not the actor
Mel get's a hall pass as he's a bit of a genius and a fellow Aussie
22 Jun 2020, 10:24 pm
Trump just called Coronovirus "Kung Flu" in front of people at his rally
He never learns
23 Jun 2020, 10:49 am
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