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Applewhite posted:I'm not mad I'm happy. My username I picked it because I like the book it's from but when I chose the name I was quite like Jim Barris in many ways. Less sinister, maybe. You ever have that feeling like there is meaning in words that you can't quite arrive at? There's something like that at the end of A Scanner Darkly where Donna brings Bob into the new path clinic and the nurses working there call him a loser so she retorts "It's easy to win, anybody can win." and every time I arrive there I feel like there's something there I can't quite see. I could of course interpret that line all sorts of ways, it's not like I'm saying it's unintelligible, but I never feel like I've fully arrived at an answer. I guess that's life, right.
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I think the answer is to put the book down and keep quiet about it, because what's a grown person doing reading books designed to trick children into being christians?
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Mar 30, 2016 00:52
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appleman did you know that CS Lewis' full name is Computer Science Lewis? all his characters were actually robots thats why they could do magic, and lions and so forth so don't worry he isnt racist you are for erasing the robots race and misconstruing them as muslims
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Profondo Rosso posted:u need more or better drugs need to operate in a careful cycle of different drugs to manage withdrawal and tolerance so that no chink in the drug armor is ever allowed to form and let the pain in
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Mar 30, 2016 01:06
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chaosbreather posted:appleman did you know that CS Lewis' full name is Computer Science Lewis? all his characters were actually robots thats why they could do magic, and lions and so forth Oh God I'm... I'm a monster...
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gleebster posted:I think the answer is to put the book down and keep quiet about it, because what's a grown person doing reading books designed to trick children into being christians? My feelings about that accusation are a whole different rant for a whole different time.
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Mar 30, 2016 01:07
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kids are idiots and basically exist only to be tricked by adults
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Mar 30, 2016 01:27
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Orwell loved fighting the good fight and being man of the people and all that, but if you ever read his collected papers it becomes readily apparent he couldn't stand actually being with common folk. Also, a genuine hatred of the gays. Would still suggest a read though.
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Mar 30, 2016 01:28
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Kitsunegari posted:I would say to them, to close my recommendation, "hey bud this book is a little racist but that's the least of your worries because they're putting chemicals in the water that's turning the fricken frogs gay. Infowars.com" Lol
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Mar 30, 2016 01:32
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nomadologique posted:kids are idiots and basically exist only to be tricked by adults insert jesus / santa comparison here
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Mar 30, 2016 01:54
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the minute i get my hands on some kids i am going to fill their heads w so many lies they won't be able to sort them out before judgment day
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Mar 30, 2016 01:55
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Make a mental note: "if I ever write a book, leave out the racism"
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Mar 30, 2016 03:24
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Fellbat posted:Orwell loved fighting the good fight and being man of the people and all that, but if you ever read his collected papers it becomes readily apparent he couldn't stand actually being with common folk. Also, a genuine hatred of the gays. Would still suggest a read though. Lol if you think an average left wing supporter (aside from some crazy Marxists, I guess) gives a drat about "the common folk", even back then.
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Colonel Cancer posted:Lol if you think an average left wing supporter (aside from some crazy Marxists, I guess) gives a drat about "the common folk", even back then. Pretty much gently caress Down and Out in retrospect, thanks for letting me know douche who feigns poorness on family money while they 'pursue the arts' is a time honoured tradition.
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Mar 30, 2016 04:46
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nomadologique posted:kids are idiots and basically exist only to be tricked by adults When I was 6 me and my dad played basketball he would tell me he's a backup on the Bulls but he only goes to games when they need him. Gonna convince my son I'm a pro hearthstone player.
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Mar 30, 2016 12:32
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I loved donald trumps latezt published book it was an easy read no fancy schmancy grammar like the liberals like
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You should follow up by reading another racist book. I hear Gone with the Wind is good.
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OP when I clicked on this thread I thought the op would be an accusatory statement claiming a book I have read recently was a racist book and that I should be ashamed of reading it or something, so thank you for belying my expectations of GBS
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Mar 30, 2016 13:29
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Ok, class. We've just finished our discussion about racial stereotyping in Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days, now everybody get in a circle so we can all pat each other on the back for not being racists because we're drat sure not going to do anything else with this information. Thank goodness we've all reassured each other and ourselves that, although we consume, enjoy and encourage the distribution of media with racist elements, we are not racists and thus superior to the ignorant, benighted people of previous generations who didn't know any better.
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Mar 30, 2016 15:41
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Applewhite posted:Ok, class. We've just finished our discussion about racial stereotyping in Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days, now everybody get in a circle so we can all pat each other on the back for not being racists because we're drat sure not going to do anything else with this information. Stupid child: Racism is bad, we shouldn't be mean to people like they were in those times. Wise goon, chuckling: Kid, listen........
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Agag posted:Stupid child: Racism is bad, we shouldn't be mean to people like they were in those times.
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Mar 30, 2016 15:56
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I'm guessing Kurt Vonnegut is considered extremely problematic nowadays since he was a huge proponent of humanism. Everyone knows it's not right to try and treat everybody equally and with compassion, we've got to separate people into strictly divided racial and cultural groups so we don't accidentally end up appropriating or erasing them!
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Uneducated Reader: Man, those swarthy Southrons in Lord of the Rings sure are bad... Makes me kind of wonder about the swarthy foreigners in my own hometown. Could they be allied with an evil sorcerer? Smart Liberal Arts Major: Actually Tolkien's decision to portray the only dark-skinned humans in his setting as allies of the ultimate evil was problematic and almost certainly based on his personal prejudices. Newly-enlightened Reader: Oh! Well thank goodness you told me when you did, before I turned into a racist!
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Mar 30, 2016 16:06
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The best course of action: don't read.
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notZaar posted:The best course of action: don't read. The Farenheit 451 approach to social justice.
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Mar 30, 2016 16:09
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write another book
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French college student: I used to love France and our history, but then my professor assigned some Houellebecq novels. Now I hope our entire civilization is destroyed.
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Agag posted:French college student: I used to love France and our history, but then my professor assigned some Houellebecq novels. Now I hope our entire civilization is destroyed. I don't understand the reference but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that it's funny.
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Applewhite posted:I don't understand the reference but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that it's funny. Funny is a strong word.
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Applewhite posted:Uneducated Reader: Man, those swarthy Southrons in Lord of the Rings sure are bad... Makes me kind of wonder about the swarthy foreigners in my own hometown. Could they be allied with an evil sorcerer? The best enlightened lib arts major Tolkien criticism is that Orcs, a sadistically violent animalistic evil fictional species that's vaguely humanoid and lived in caves, were black people.
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SurfaceDetail posted:The best enlightened lib arts major Tolkien criticism is that Orcs, a sadistically violent animalistic evil fictional species that's vaguely humanoid and lived in caves, were black people. Yes that was the first comparison I drew as well because I'm not a racist like Tolkien was.
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SurfaceDetail posted:The best enlightened lib arts major Tolkien criticism is that Orcs, a sadistically violent animalistic evil fictional species that's vaguely humanoid and lived in caves, were black people. They fail to understand that the orc his simply a characterization of how British conservatives view anybody who disagrees with them. Certainly blacks, but also socialists of any colour, Poles, Irish, trade unions, Catholics, and the ex-spouses of the royal family.
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Applewhite posted:Yes that was the first comparison I drew as well because I'm not a racist like Tolkien was. Yea when I was reading the Lord of the Rings and got to the part about how the Orcs were raping and murdering their way across Rohan, my first feeling was anger. Anger that Tolkien would try to sneak a fast one by me make an allusion to the flood of black people moving into my neighborhood. Not today you vile racist I went to college.
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Applewhite posted:I don't understand the reference but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that it's funny. If you replace France with America and Houellebecq with Edith Wharton it crosses the cultural border pretty well
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I, like many Americans, are uncultured swine who own the world so I'll take your word that its cutting social commentary.
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Applewhite posted:The Frankenstein book was a blast.
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Booblord Zagats posted:If you replace France with America and Houellebecq with Edith Wharton it crosses the cultural border pretty well Yeah I didn't read Wharton either... 
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As a former enlisted Marine retard can be well read, there is no excuse for anyone else not to be. It's just staring at weird markings until your brain paints picturesApplewhite posted:Yeah I didn't read Wharton either... Stephen Crane? Because Red Badge of Courage is about the most overrated goddam thing this side of Salinger
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nobody told me harry potter hated jews
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