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sounds like conservatives just need to toughen up and live in the real world like the rest of us grownass adults
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# ¿ Nov 28, 2014 00:38 |
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# ¿ May 22, 2024 19:09 |
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fanged wang posted:in my opinion, they are less than human. i'm insanely progressive. this but un
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# ¿ Nov 28, 2014 00:45 |
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fanged wang posted:i feel that if you just surround yourself with people that agree with you then your mind because mushy and you develop an overinflated sense of your own intelligence and a hilarious lack of self awareness ironic cat emoji
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# ¿ Nov 28, 2014 00:47 |
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# ¿ Nov 28, 2014 02:22 |
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on the left posted:Schools are generally pretty lenient towards leftist "no platform" activists, and generally allow them to use physical resistance and blockade buildings where wrongthink is occurring. If hard-right groups were allowed to use the same tactics while the administration turned a blind eye, there wouldn't be nearly the same perception of bias or censorship. as clearly evidenced by yosbutt
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# ¿ Nov 28, 2014 05:59 |
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saying things is hard when people don't like you
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# ¿ Nov 28, 2014 08:26 |
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Skeesix posted:That joke is now roughly 20 years old. bob dole doesn't like this
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# ¿ Nov 28, 2014 08:45 |
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:http://www.thefire.org/headline-reading-trigger-warning-apparently-enough-warning-purportedly-triggering-poster/ Oh my god so boring.
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# ¿ Nov 28, 2014 21:10 |
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fanged wang posted:there's actually a broad ideological spectrum between orthodox anime marxist and black person murdering rethuglican shitlord in my experience That's also been my experience IRL. TheImmigrant posted:Nuance is for right-wing racists. You're either with us or against us. this is also true
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# ¿ Nov 28, 2014 22:40 |
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stop disagreeing with me and let me voice my opinions completely unopposed forever you closedminded cowards
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# ¿ Nov 28, 2014 23:33 |
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oh no how will outspoken newspaper editor dan savage overcome his vast petition writing and crying while room-leaving opposition
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# ¿ Nov 28, 2014 23:44 |
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Pedro De Heredia posted:'Don't need to be given a non-hostile audience' is a really odd way of removing agency from the concept of going to other people's talks and preventing them from speaking. Not really.
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# ¿ Nov 29, 2014 00:04 |
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look if you disagree with me then just shut up and silently disagree while i continue talking
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# ¿ Nov 29, 2014 02:05 |
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on the left posted:The problem is that in some cases, extremists will physically block entrances or pull fire alarms to stop sanctioned talks from happening, and not a finger is lifted to stop them (and god help you if you do anything to ensure that your activity proceeds as planned) all the time im erious
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# ¿ Nov 29, 2014 02:38 |
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kapparomeo posted:Actually, something not too dissimilar happened just last week in the UK which has a bearing on the issue of students' - or activist groups who claim to speak for them - current enthusiasm for the censorship of wrongthink. The author was attending a debate on abortion at Oxford University (for the pro-choice position, which should make him sufficiently Correct for D&D to tolerate) and the event was cancelled because an activist group threatened "disruption" because the speakers both had the wrong chromosomes. doesn't speak to the speakers faith in their believs
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# ¿ Nov 29, 2014 02:50 |
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on the left posted:I used the pull the fire alarm example because that's exactly what happened when a men's rights activist was supposed to give a speech at the University of Toronto. wow that's terrible i remember one time in elementary school someone pulled the fire alarm i don't think ill ever get over it
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# ¿ Nov 29, 2014 02:55 |
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spacetoaster posted:Sounds like D&D. soundls like dnd whining about dnd
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# ¿ Nov 29, 2014 05:07 |
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look maybe you dont get it heres an incredibly long article that pretty much just repeast the thing i just said with a single anectode added
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# ¿ Nov 29, 2014 05:17 |
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Ogmius815 posted:Today I learned that not having your views dominate every physical and cultural space you inhabit is oppression! Turns out I've been opressed all of my life. Who would have thought? you've only just learned that?
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# ¿ Nov 29, 2014 20:10 |
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Ogmius815 posted:I'm starting to worry that we're doing the OP's homework or something. yeah i dont think anyone's in danger of taking away new or useful information from this thread
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# ¿ Nov 30, 2014 04:47 |
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Pedro De Heredia posted:Yes, the all-too-common leftist idea that certain people shouldn't discuss discuss certain subjects is precisely why these impediments to speech happen. excuse me it sounds like your tyring to censor our freedome of speech i assume that the fire organization will have some things to say about your att
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# ¿ Nov 30, 2014 08:14 |
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TheImmigrant posted:I wonder what someone who confuses his opinions with objective fact is doing on what is, ostensibly, a debate forum. People who want to debate your objectivism must infuriate you for not already grasping Your Truth. and thats wny people need to no disagree with me
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# ¿ Nov 30, 2014 20:28 |
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The Snark posted:The worst is that I do believe you believe this. it really is Ogmius815 posted:All of this ignores the biggest harm of providing venues to bigoted speakers: the targets of their bigotry feel further excluded from the academic sphere, which is already dominated by at least moderately wealthy white people. sound s like theyre just afriad of debt
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# ¿ Nov 30, 2014 20:59 |
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The Snark posted:There doesn't seem to be discussion here, just circle jerking. iron
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# ¿ Nov 30, 2014 21:11 |
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guys im ashamed of you for not taking this discussion deadly seriously
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# ¿ Nov 30, 2014 23:34 |
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spacetoaster posted:lol. Kind of like all the horrible crap that came with the patriot act and it's ilk. Horrible under Bush, Obama straps a rocket to the thing and it's all good and necessary. obama!
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# ¿ Dec 1, 2014 02:58 |
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seems like fire's trying to censor university's free domes
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# ¿ Dec 1, 2014 04:27 |
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TheImmigrant posted:Until the African-Sinta autistic children with cleft palates are on the same footing as Bill Gates, any humor or attempt at humor is per se racist. its
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# ¿ Dec 1, 2014 19:32 |
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The Snark posted:A number of you seem almost entirely incapable of speaking in anything other THAN straw men, loving with the details until you cannot possibly be wrong. That's not healthy. Mind you, perfectly entitled to do so- but it's still stupid and unhealthy. how awful
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# ¿ Dec 2, 2014 02:45 |
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The Snark posted:I'm sorry, posting peer, but I believe you meant to ask Vitalsigns that. For what it's worth though I would certainly agree that Straw Men are at best ineffective argument tools. If it bothers you, please direct your complaints to those who seem to be completely incapable of speaking in anything else. God knows I'VE tried.
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# ¿ Dec 4, 2014 00:02 |
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i still call it political correctness because im 50 years old
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# ¿ Dec 4, 2014 09:00 |
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The Insect Court posted:Uh, how do you know I'm not genderfuck engaging in reappropriation of a negative dysphemism? Or did that possibility not even occur to cisscum blinded by hir own privilege? gay
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# ¿ Dec 4, 2014 09:50 |
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sounds like you just dont like dissenting opinions
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# ¿ Dec 4, 2014 20:01 |
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na gor was run by alphas
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# ¿ Dec 4, 2014 20:12 |
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VitalSigns posted:When the matriarchy is in chains, all betas can be alphas no because they were enslaved by the alphas god its like your not even taking this discussion seriously enough to read the thing were discussing
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# ¿ Dec 4, 2014 20:27 |
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VitalSigns posted:tl;dr just what id expect from a user of the web based internet website that's on the internet hyperext
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# ¿ Dec 4, 2014 20:31 |
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:just what id expect from a user of the web based internet website that's on the internet hyperext oh oops
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