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re: Linguistic Apartheid Must End
Posted by Morgus on 5/2/25 at 7:40 pm
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That said, this started after she berated a special needs 5-year-old. That’s the bigger issue here, not the n-word.
No, it isn't. The far bigger issue is the attempt to destroy her life for it. The damage to the kid is precisely zero. The attempted damage to her is considerable.
I call this ordinal myopia: the inability to evaluate anything beyond the first in a sequence of events. Thus, someone steals an apple from a fruit stand and the owner responds by decapitating the thief then hunting down their family and assaulting them. There are dunderheads in this world who will hear about this and still prattle on just how wrong it is to steal apples.
No one would be giving this woman money upon learning that she used the word or to whom she applied it. It's the utterly insane and unevenly applied desired punishment that they are attempting to lessen. A world in which one portion of the population can use a word freely while others can be utterly destroyed for it is NOT frickING SUSTAINABLE. The tissue-thin foundation it lies upon WILL give way. If you can't differentiate between these things, then you are nothing more than a slave to the same conditioning that demands that punishment.
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re: Linguistic Apartheid Must End
Posted by Morgus on 5/2/25 at 12:08 am
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How about no one uses it.
How about people don't get their lives destroyed if they do in a moment of anger while others are entirely free of consequence from producing the same sequence of acoustic waves?
Or does your ethical calculation not extend beyond the first in a series of events?
Linguistic Apartheid Must End
Posted by Morgus on 5/1/25 at 9:16 pm
re: Looks like the Irish have had a belly full of it
Posted by Morgus on 4/27/25 at 11:24 pm
Ireland is still 78% Irish. It is not too late. The whole point is to reverse trends and the support or doing that is growing. There were no protests like this in Ireland 10 years ago.
re: Michelle Obama: "Black Women Need Permission in Order to Articulate Pain"
Posted by Morgus on 4/27/25 at 11:13 pm
Consistently the loudest people in every room...
re: Biotech Firm Resurrects Dire Wolves w/ 2 New Pups after Being Extinct for 10k Years
Posted by Morgus on 4/7/25 at 2:23 pm
Winter Is Coming.
Even bigger news: ACID BATH!!!!!!
re: In Game Thread for Trump’s Mardi Gras Speech
Posted by Morgus on 3/4/25 at 8:27 pm
Looked like insurrection to me.
re: Gene Hackman Was The Last Of OF Dying Breed; A Hollywood Liberal Who Was A Patriot…
Posted by Morgus on 3/4/25 at 1:02 am
With Harrison Ford thrown in. Pretty incredible group in that scene.
re: Guy caught going 191 MPH in the Woodlands
Posted by Morgus on 2/28/25 at 2:15 pm
re: Woman Forcibly Dragged Out Of Idaho Town Hall NSFW (language)
Posted by Morgus on 2/25/25 at 4:43 am
The 19th Amendment was a mistake.
re: 65% of black women with a degree work for the government
Posted by Morgus on 2/24/25 at 9:54 pm
They were most productive prior to 1865.
re: They just deported his mother, I hope yall are happy
Posted by Morgus on 2/22/25 at 4:35 am
Glad they got those taxes first. Consider it rent for past tenancy.
You're now evicted.
You're now evicted.
re: Judge Blocks Trump’s EO Ending Funding For DEI: DEI Must Be Encouraged & Funded
Posted by Morgus on 2/22/25 at 4:29 am
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Adam Abelson
"Why did a nation follow a mere failed Austrian painter?" they asked.
re: Babies are not born racist
Posted by Morgus on 2/17/25 at 9:08 pm
It's absurd to think that there is not an instinctive preference for those most genetically similar to you.
re: Mid-late 90’s..
Posted by Morgus on 2/15/25 at 2:52 am
No. British influence on US popular music actually declined in the 90s.
In the 80s, U2 alone was bigger in the US than any 5 of those bands combined. Then Duran Duran, Tears For Fears, Culture Club, Wham/George Michael, The Cure, Depeche Mode, The Smiths, Eurythmics, Simple Minds, Iron Maiden, Def Leppard.
All of them "invaded" US consciousness in the 80s and were a massive part of teen culture.
In the 80s, U2 alone was bigger in the US than any 5 of those bands combined. Then Duran Duran, Tears For Fears, Culture Club, Wham/George Michael, The Cure, Depeche Mode, The Smiths, Eurythmics, Simple Minds, Iron Maiden, Def Leppard.
All of them "invaded" US consciousness in the 80s and were a massive part of teen culture.
re: Houston-area teacher arrested for…you guessed it…
Posted by Morgus on 2/13/25 at 12:26 am
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The messed up abuse of a hormonal teen kid is just as wrong when it's a teenage boy as it is a teenage girl.
I lost my virginity at 16 to a 23 year old (long past statute of limitations on this one). I've never been anything but thankful for it.
re: Houston-area teacher arrested for…you guessed it…
Posted by Morgus on 2/11/25 at 9:24 pm
re: Judge Nichols Bros, can Trump just ignore us like this?
Posted by Morgus on 2/10/25 at 6:26 pm
Yes, ignore until at least SCOTUS gets off their arse.
re: A DEI Society gets you a Kendrick Lamar halftime Superbowl show
Posted by Morgus on 2/9/25 at 10:56 pm
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Right wingers make everything about race. That guy won song of the year and album of the year. Race is irrelevant. He’s extremely popular and successful.
Oh, and you think that isn't about race???
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