EvilGenius posted:

This isn't even true, in Britain at least. The law defines 'race' as a protected characteristic, it doesn't specify which ones. If you were turned down a job for being white, that would absolutely be against the law.

OldMemes posted:

The 'dictator X was really a great guy who loved socialism and was wonderful and everything bad about them was made up by America/the media/zionists/the illumintai to discredit them and they were killed/otherthrown to stop them WAKING UP THE SHEEPLE' is pretty common. It's already been appliled to Chairman Mao, Kim Jung-Sung, Assad, Stalin etc. It's a 'no true scotsman thing - basically if they claim to be socialists, then they were and socialism can never go wrong or be misused so it must be captialist lies.

It's a pretty common train of thought in tankie/far left circles already. Of course, it involves at the best ignoring facts, and at the worst denying crimes against humanity, but it fits the 'plucky little guy standing up to Amerikkka' narrative, I'm sure the far right has a parallel thing.

banned from Starbucks posted:

Ive never played a mafia game but why is the protagonist black?

Midnight Voyager posted:

I think this failure is genuinely so dumb that you missed it. I don't blame you because I'm still reeling.

She insists that since Hawaii became a state in 59 and Obama was born in 61 that Obama was born before Hawaii was a state.

like, I think my brain just stopped functioning there

Or is she seriously saying that Hawaii became a state it doesn't count as living in a state before...

gently caress me, I need a drink

oldpainless posted:

Bond is a severely hosed up individual who happens to be good at killing and fighting and all the women he has sex with are also hosed up in some way

Plom Bar posted:

oh god all i wanted was for people to think critically about how the world at large regards media for women i did not mean for this to happen im so sorry

Henchman of Santa posted:

Right, I'm just saying. poptart_fairy is expressing his point in a stupid way but he also has a point that you can't expect to change people's minds when you're speaking to a 50-year-old like a senior sociology major. It's an annoying thing that a lot of well-meaning people do and it's a huge part of why they always feel like they're arguing with a wall.

Brother Entropy posted:

uh so are you agreeing that the assassination was a false flag

Cumslut1895 posted:

if I want someone to call me an "Idiot Bitch" I don't need to pay for the privilege

Baron Corbyn posted:

Whether or not Caracalla was black, the article weirdly lionizes a man who both at the time and now was and is considered one of the more tyrannical Roman Emperors and even mentions his massacres of the Goths but adds that Gibbons only objects to that because he's descended from Goths!? We're talking about a guy who would have been executed for saying his brother's name.

Baron Corbyn posted:

Maybe the article means Alamanni and is using Goths as a catch all for Germanic tribes? It's not the most egregious problem with that article.

Low Desert Punk posted:

Yawgmoth is a garbage poster and people need to stop humoring them, hth

Fashionable Jorts posted:

Yeah, but its a white cop and non-white targets. If only he had shot them all and destroyed the footage, the dude would be a hero for defending us against a horde of roaming thugs.

skit herre posted:

No, it is not reasonable that only women that sleep with this person are "decent human beings". Accepting Trans people does not require sleeping with them.

kickascii posted:

we haven't had a good one of these in a little while, go nuts on jontron everyone

CommonShore posted:

D&D is that-a-way. Resume posting screenshots of horny grampas misusing facebook.

RatHat posted:

Characters don't have to be morally good to be entertaining.

Zesty Crab Legs posted:

Are you saying non-violent protesting is ineffective?

NO gently caress YOU DAD posted:

"Cultural appropriation", along with other internet movements like Health at Any Size, is bullying for pussies. Every time I see those assholes it's on the internet hurling abuse at some tiny Facebook page. I guarantee that if they went to the local food fair and saw some huge bro-looking dude cooking up a batch of ethnically-inappropriate food they wouldn't say poo poo, because they only pick on targets they know will fold and apologize.

I'm Facebook friends with a girl I went to college with who fell way, way down the Health at Any Size rabbit hole, and all I ever see her do is insult random thin women and small fitness pages, tagging every one of her HAAS buddies to dogpile anyone who doesn't immediately apologise. One of the local gyms has a huge poster outside with a picture of a fit woman in workout gear with the caption "be the real you" or some poo poo, why don't you go protest them? Because someone might tell you to gently caress off to your face and you don't have the spoons to deal with your high school flashbacks.

Hot Smart ARYAN Girl posted:

See, this is the kind of weird "making it personal" vibe I was talking about. Yes, he uses the same words often, but stories like At the Mountains of Madness and The Tomb are well thought out and paced, and good examples of weird fiction.

Midnight Voyager posted:

thank you


(Virtue-signaling actually means exactly what it says, "the action or practice of publicly expressing opinions or sentiments intended to demonstrate one's good character or the moral correctness of one's position on a particular issue." You are signaling that you're virtuous. I don't know where people got disingenuous out of it?)

Hot Smart ARYAN Girl posted:

I'd guess because people are perceived as disengenuous by ignoring contrary evidence and instead focusing on admonishing the person they see as bad, which demonstrates their good character.

Cumslut1895 posted:

This conversation is funnier when you start supporting the rape/torture/murder of white people in south Africa

AnElegantPeacock posted:

poptart_fairy posted:

Did you, because he doesn't say it isn't, only that he doesn't like them. C'mon, of all the things to be posting...

Strudel Man posted:

http://www.britishelectionstudy.com/bes-findings/what-mattered-most-to-you-when-deciding-how-to-vote-in-the-eu-referendum/

Your source also indicates (in the 'coded responses' section) that the single biggest motivation was the issue of sovereignty.

Josef bugman posted:

Hey, at least we got rid of our ridiculous measurements. Eventually.


Yes, but most immigration is not from the EU. Its from further abroad/post-imperial countries.

That and the fact that more Brits go abroad and live as "ex-pats" in Southern France/Spain.