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Re: Language Police

#621  Postby GrahamH » Feb 10, 2020 9:30 am

Cito di Pense wrote:
GrahamH wrote:What were you saying about dwindling "pinkness"?


There are virulent racists, Graham, they are not committing "microaggression", and they are not being abetted by people who you and other say do commit such imaginary offenses. Find somebody else's chain to yank, if you want to quotemine my posts.


If you feel offended by what you perceive as a "quotemine" maybe you should do something about it to "accept it easily".
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Re: Language Police

#622  Postby Cito di Pense » Feb 10, 2020 9:33 am

GrahamH wrote:
Cito di Pense wrote:
GrahamH wrote:What were you saying about dwindling "pinkness"?


There are virulent racists, Graham, they are not committing "microaggression", and they are not being abetted by people who you and other say do commit such imaginary offenses. Find somebody else's chain to yank, if you want to quotemine my posts.


If you feel offended by what you perceive as a "quotemine" maybe you should do something about it to "accept it easily".


I accept it fine, Graham. You don't have anything to say, so this is the road you've chosen to go down. Make your case, or fuck off with avoiding the points that others are making to you.
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Re: Language Police

#623  Postby Fallible » Feb 10, 2020 9:35 am

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Untrue. This applied to anyone who feels they belong in the place they reside


So, then, this is about people who "feel" they belong. They belong, by rights granted to citizens by birth, and immigrants belong wherever they are granted residence. People cannot be compelled to recognize every nuance of somebody's feelings of belonging, and this whole long circus is about the psychological torment inflicted by people who have no interest in wacky buzzwords like "microaggression". No one is entitled to feel offended, Graham, but feeling offended is all "microaggression" is about.


What? Of course they are, what a silly thing to say.
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Re: Language Police

#624  Postby Cito di Pense » Feb 10, 2020 9:38 am

Fallible wrote:
Cito di Pense wrote:
GrahamH wrote:
Cito di Pense wrote:


Untrue. This applied to anyone who feels they belong in the place they reside


So, then, this is about people who "feel" they belong. They belong, by rights granted to citizens by birth, and immigrants belong wherever they are granted residence. People cannot be compelled to recognize every nuance of somebody's feelings of belonging, and this whole long circus is about the psychological torment inflicted by people who have no interest in wacky buzzwords like "microaggression". No one is entitled to feel offended, Graham, but feeling offended is all "microaggression" is about.


What? Of course they are, what a silly thing to say.



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Re: Language Police

#625  Postby GrahamH » Feb 10, 2020 9:43 am

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I accept it fine, Graham.... Make your case, or fuck off with avoiding the points that others are making to you.


It doesn't look like it. If the "points" you are making aren't utter crap then take your own advice. You have some work to do on your attitude.
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Re: Language Police

#626  Postby GrahamH » Feb 10, 2020 5:17 pm

Caution, you might find this triggering.
Stanford Psychologists talking about race.

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Re: Language Police

#627  Postby GrahamH » Feb 20, 2020 3:22 pm

A variant from David Starkey, trying to boast about Britishness and making a fool of himself.:



Plain as anything he looks a the other guest's face and sees an African instead of a Londoner.

The comments on that video reveal how wrong Starkey is. Very sad.
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Re: Language Police

#628  Postby Tracer Tong » Feb 27, 2020 12:30 pm

I didn't see anything wrong with what he said. Actually, his point was quite a thoughtful one, even if I'm not sure I could agree with it.
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