RedAppleGP wrote:Hey guys, is it okay if I do a "HATE WEEK!" on the forum, like the amazing atheist did?
It's going to be about groups of people that piss me off politically and non-politically.
I don't know what that is, but sure. Threads are good, they make the forum active.
Awesome! I already wrote some of them out in Word.
Wanna see my lineup?
Learning never exhausts the mind. -Leonardo da Vinci
RedAppleGP wrote:Hey guys, is it okay if I do a "HATE WEEK!" on the forum, like the amazing atheist did?
It's going to be about groups of people that piss me off politically and non-politically.
I don't know what that is, but sure. Threads are good, they make the forum active.
Awesome! I already wrote some of them out in Word.
Wanna see my lineup?
Or.. you could just make the thread?
"I advocate infinite effort on behalf of very finite goals, for example correcting this guy's grammar."
- David Frum
...I guess it's true that most Canadians are total pusscakes.
Just pandering to the trans people, likely for their support (sounds like something Sanders would do, oddly enough). Doesn't that kinda violate some sort of freedom of speech? (that was probably mentioned in that video you posted, but I'm too much of a lazy ass to watch it).
I don't see the harm in calling someone by their actual biological gender. You could have genitals removed/put on, you're still the same sex you always were. So what if they get offended by something (that will probably be referred to as a micro-aggression in due time)? This is really insulting to the issues that are actually important.
Learning never exhausts the mind. -Leonardo da Vinci
It's just a funny 1 min clip from a 1 hour discussion (pretty interesting by the way)
Yeah, free speech is pretty much the foundation of Western civilization, and more or less the only reason we've managed to achieve... well, anything. It's pretty dangerous to suggest it should be restricted in some sense-- you need a REALLY good reason to do so. It's the best way we have to solve disputes without violence. There are still honor cultures around the world where you settle conflicts by just killing the other person. AFAIK the idea of making a distinction between words and actions/violence is also fairly unique to the West.
This kind of legislation seems to me a regression to "bad words" = violence. Aside from that, it randomly gives an arbitrary group legal power to control other people's language. But who needs equality before the law anyway? It's [current year] so let's just base laws on feelings :S
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I know a transgender person, now a female, and I'm totally cool with their choice, but if they suggested it should be criminal to address them with the wrong pro-noun I would feel obliged to punch her in the face. (If I'm going to be charged with a crime, might as well make it worth going to jail for... )
Great point Knot. Policing language either literally or for political correctness is asinine. I believe we discussed this in a thread about the term "retarded", and basically made the point that every time you change language to make someone feel better about themselves, it only leads to the new term being seen as negative at some point, so we change it again until the newest term looses it's warm fuzziness and we change it again...
(pretty interesting by the way)
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