rmgill Posted June 30, 2022 Share Posted June 30, 2022 1 hour ago, sunday said: The concept of intrinsic human value — that you have dignity, worth, and purpose by nature of simply being human — is foreign to the vast majority of human history. It has only recently been broadly accepted, and only due to the Judea-Christian ethic, that the value of the human being no matter what size, stage, situation, race, gender, etc., etc., came into fruition as a societal norm. This is the key thing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daan Posted July 2, 2022 Share Posted July 2, 2022 Portland today... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikel2 Posted July 2, 2022 Share Posted July 2, 2022 Good lord. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucklucky Posted July 3, 2022 Share Posted July 3, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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R011 Posted July 3, 2022 Share Posted July 3, 2022 1 hour ago, lucklucky said: You quote people using the language they used. You can be sure they wouldn't have corrected it if she had used "they" and the alleged assailant perferred "he" or if she said "that [insert slur of choice]". If you want to add that the person being referenced identifies as something different and uses different pronouns, add a sentence to the story, don't change the quote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucklucky Posted July 3, 2022 Share Posted July 3, 2022 It is Newspeak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stargrunt6 Posted July 3, 2022 Share Posted July 3, 2022 On 7/2/2022 at 8:43 AM, Daan said: Portland today... Colonizer? Assuming he is Hispanic, he has no room to talk. Brb gonna force conversion on the natives.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urbanoid Posted July 3, 2022 Share Posted July 3, 2022 Yeah, that's another woke inconsistency. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunday Posted July 3, 2022 Share Posted July 3, 2022 (edited) Against what some envious cultists of Jingo could think, conversion of the American natives was quite willing. Imagine trying to force Apaches like Geronimo to convert... Edited July 3, 2022 by sunday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickM Posted July 3, 2022 Share Posted July 3, 2022 3 hours ago, urbanoid said: Yeah, that's another woke inconsistency. I'm Greek and Armenian but my wife's family is from Cuba and ALL their butts are whiter than mine! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmgill Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 The average woke-ster's view of history is based on highshool history class so it is so utterly full of holes in reality it's not even funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BansheeOne Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 On 3/14/2021 at 11:51 AM, BansheeOne said: AKA TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists) as their opponents call them. From the folks who brought you TERFs: 😁 Quote Truscum[3] (pronounced "true scum"), also known as transmedicalist and transfundamentalist,[4] are trans people who delegitimize the gender of other trans people.[5] They claim[6] one can't truly be transgender unless one experiences gender dysphoria, in this context it can sometimes be called physical dysphoria[7], as defined by cisnormative psychiatry[8] and medicine.[9] Due to the fact that truscum are overwhelmingly a social media phenomenon, with a less than rigorously defined ideology, there are as of yet no academic or scholarly references to support claims about their demographics and beliefs. Notwithstanding, some attempts have been made to quantify their identities with respect to gender, age, and race.[10][11] These results, along with their behaviour and views, lend support to the view that the typical member of their community is an adolescent USAmerican White trans man with little to no experience with the medical establishment, and has been out for a relatively short amount of time. Placing emphasis on dysphoria (often one's own dysphoria) in order to invalidate non-binary identities is often framed as an attempt to validate binary trans identities at their expense. http://sjwiki.org/wiki/Truscum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 (edited) 3 hours ago, BansheeOne said: From the folks who brought you TERFs: 😁 http://sjwiki.org/wiki/Truscum " there are as of yet no academic or scholarly references to support claims about their demographics and beliefs." Yet being the operative word. Just wait and see some "academic" claiming research -- a.k.a. tax-payer monies -- are needed for further "studies." Can't wait to read Skywalkre's reply to this via the mental health route. Edited July 4, 2022 by Rick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BansheeOne Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 I think you missed the irony of this being trans activists denigrating trans folks for insisting that being trans is an actual psycho-medical condition rather than a matter of self-chosen identity. IOW, trans activists transphobically accusing actual trans people of being transphobic towards pseudo-trans folks. 😁 Luckily, cultural wars like these are rarely between radicals and normals rather than between radicals of opposing, and frequently also of the same, sides. Most people live in the natural evolutionary stream of society in between, and their normal attitude is to point and laugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ssnake Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 An important lesson I learned through Steve Jackson's "Illuminati" board game where you try to achieve world domination as the head of some world conspiracy, by acquiring independent fringe loonies as pawns in the power game against the evil other world conspiracies (your co-players). Each of these societal groups has one or a set of attitudes, most of which come in antagonistic pairs. Since each world conspiracy typically operates by proxy, finding overlap or fierce opposition between proxy and target greatly reduces the cost of an operation. Notable exceptions are "criminal" without an opposing attitude, and "fanatics" --- which are always opposed to other fanatics. Marketing companies are, of course, one of the few groups devoid of any values. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivanhoe Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 1 hour ago, Ssnake said: Marketing companies are, of course, one of the few groups devoid of any souls. FIFY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ssnake Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 Meh, that applies to many, especially the larger, corporations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bojan Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 Devoid of any fundamental ethics. If it was legal to market heroine to children no marketing company would have a slightest issue with that and you would have "specially formulated heroin for 5-7 years old, giving them optimal high for their development phase" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucklucky Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10973289/Halifax-pronouns-scandal-customers-close-accounts-social-media-manager-told-to.html Quote Halifax is branded 'old fashioned bullies' as MORE customers close their accounts after social media manager told them to LEAVE if they don't like staff sharing pronouns on badges Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivanhoe Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 11 hours ago, bojan said: Devoid of any fundamental ethics. If it was legal to market heroine to children no marketing company would have a slightest issue with that and you would have "specially formulated heroin for 5-7 years old, giving them optimal high for their development phase" "Builds strong bones and prevents diarrhea!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R011 Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 12 hours ago, lucklucky said: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10973289/Halifax-pronouns-scandal-customers-close-accounts-social-media-manager-told-to.html The article claims "hundreds" are closing their accounts. For a bank that large, that's not even a rounding error or couch change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucklucky Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 1 hour ago, R011 said: The article claims "hundreds" are closing their accounts. For a bank that large, that's not even a rounding error or couch change. Agreed if that is the value. But there are also those they will not go there now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ssnake Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 You'll know if the customer reaction threatens the board of director members' bottom line if and when Halifax stops aggressively promoting the path they ostensibly chose to march. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
17thfabn Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 10 hours ago, R011 said: The article claims "hundreds" are closing their accounts. For a bank that large, that's not even a rounding error or couch change. It's a pain too change banks. You have to reroute payroll payments and automatic payments. Easier to just complain about them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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