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Now that you have stated what everyone here already knows, perhaps you can get around to stating what the point was in your supposedly rhetorical question, and especially as it concerns the DC trial. Now I'm pretty sure you can't or won't, but maybe you will surprise me.Quote:
Rhetorical means no answer or response is needed. Even you have outdone yourself!
Empathy.Quote:
Originally Posted by jlisenbe
Roger.
Empathy for who, DC, GF, or both?
Even for you.Quote:
Originally Posted by jlisenbe
So I am left to assume, since you did not directly answer the question, that you mean both. I would agree with that.
For Blacks, for Latinx, for Asians, for Native Americans, for whites, for the LGBT+ community, and especially for cats and dogs.Quote:
Originally Posted by jlisenbe
and for the police.
I have no sympathy for the abuser of his authority and responsibility when it costs the life of one he was charged with serving and protecting and happy he was held to account for his action. DC found guilty of ALL charges.
Sentencing pending.
Yes guilty of abusing the trust the community placed in him, and undoubtedly guilty of murder, but the prosecution couldn't prove motive so they settled for three lesser charges
Juan Williams made the cut . Evidently he is not Black enough for any Network but Fox. Williams wrote an op-ed about it .
Juan Williams: Am I not Black enough? | TheHill
He is liberal, a Democratic Party cheerleader, author of multiple books on race relations ,and black . Just not enough so .
Perhaps the key paragraph.
"The sin here is arrogance. It is an unspoken bias that causes too many gatekeepers in American media, business and academia to put people in boxes so they can dismiss or ignore their point of view."
I might add that it is not merely, "so they can dismiss or ignore their point of view," but so they can advance their own views without the inconvenience of having to show why we should accept those views.
Lesser charges that carry an aggregate of 75 years in jail.Quote:
Originally Posted by paraclete
What a noghead but more reflective of one than a wholesale policy as has been all your black lists.Quote:
Originally Posted by tomder55
By JL/
Everybody does that...DUUUUUUUH!Quote:
I might add that it is not merely, "so they can dismiss or ignore their point of view," but so they can advance their own views without the inconvenience of having to show why we should accept those views.
all US sentencing seems excessive in lieu of the death penalty, this is what happens when you don't plead guilty to a lesser chargeQuote:
Originally Posted by talaniman
so Duuuh!
Kieran Bhattacharya dared to question the scientific validity of the term “microaggressions” during a panel discussion at the University of Virginia’s School of Medicine.
Beginning at about 28 minutes. Bhattacharya is respectful and calm, and is asking legitimate questions. It appears his main concern was the blanket vagueness of the term that allows anyone to claim a microaggression for almost any statement or act.
Microaggressions (presented By AMWA) by medgate (soundcloud.com)
As a result, the administration had branded him a threat to the university and banned him from campus.
Who knew that questioning the concept of microaggression was a microaggression in itself ?
A Medical Student Questioned Microaggressions. UVA Branded Him a Threat and Banished Him from Campus. – Reason.comQuote:
The student was informed that he must be evaluated by psychological services before returning to classes. Bhattacharya repeatedly asked university officials to clarify what exactly he was accused of, under whose authority his counseling had been mandated, and why his enrollment status was suddenly in doubt, according to [Bhattacharya’s subsequent] lawsuit. These queries only appear to have made UVA officials more determined to punish him: Bhattacharya’s mounting frustration with these baseless accusations of unspecified wrongdoings was essentially treated as evidence that he was guilty. At his hearing, he was accused of being “extremely defensive” and ordered to change his “aggressive, threatening behavior.”
He was ultimately suspended for “aggressive and inappropriate interactions in multiple situations.” On December 30, UVA police ordered him to leave campus.
Welcome to the 1930's USSR. Thank goodness he at least has some backbone and is resisting.
Bravo the the Kentucky Derby . They refuse the pressure from the cancel culture and will include the song ' My old Kentucky Home ' .The state anthem ,written by Stephen Foster in 1853 , has been played before every race since 1921. According to Snooze Week "Foster is believed to have been inspired by Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, initially naming the song "Poor Old Uncle Tom, Good-Night!"...... "Foster's intentions and the song's meaning have long been debated, with many people considering "My Old Kentucky Home" to be racist."
But as Snooze Week also points out ; "a condemnation of Kentucky's enslavers who sold husbands away from their wives and mothers away from their children," and as "the lament of an enslaved person who has been forcibly separated from his family and his painful longing to return to the cabin with his wife and children." .
Why 'My Old Kentucky Home' is So Controversial (newsweek.com)
So the idea that the song is a racists song is absurd .
Me I'll be rooting for 'Hot Rod Charlie ' to win the race because I like the name .
black listed today is any ex Trump Administration official who wants to get published by Simon and Shuster . Specifically VP Pence ,but a petition by employees makes it clear that they consider all former Trumpsters as persona non grata .
Simon & Schuster Employees Submit Petition Demanding No Deals With Trump Administration Authors - WSJ
Kudos to Simon & Schuster President and CEO Jonathan Karp who defended the company's decision to publish Pence's work, citing the company's duty to "publish, not cancel."
Here's a good one for you sports fans. The symbol baseball uses for a strike out is a "K" . In many stadium ,a "K" is put up on the board to denote how many strikeouts the home pitcher has gotten. Well in Cincinnati the Reds will not put up the third K on the board until a fourth strikeout is recorded . They do not want KKK on their scoreboard. Must be that those thousands of fans at the game may mistake the contest for a Klan rally . ?
Must be quite a conflict for Cincinnati fans .... KKK or the Reds . who to root for ?
Cancelling Disney again .
A revamped version of Disneyland's famed Snow White ride is drawing backlash for portraying the 'true love's kiss' scene, which critics say undermines lessons about consent by portraying the Prince kissing Snow White while she is asleep.
Prince's real name is Chester Molester
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/05...0014443741.jpg
The hits just keep on coming.
some A listers are turning into black listers, Bill and Melinda Gates are divorcing, how much will she get, Geoff Bezos wife got $8 Billion or was that $32 Billion, hard to work out, these settlements are. In the Gates case, the foundation is worth $50 Billion, some cleaver planning there, give half of your wealth to your own foundation
The Gates also convinced other shmuck billionaires to make the 'Giving Pledge ' to donate all their money to the Gates foundation . What is the split on that ?
You'll never know since all the rich guys do it and hide the books and the loot.
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Latest blacklist outrage is Major League Baseball pulling the all star game out of Atlanta because of a new voter ID law passed by the Georgia legislature.
Hey MLB How did that work out for you ? The World Series is being played in Atlanta and Houston ;in two states that have voter ID laws Bwahaaahaaahaaa !!! Go Braves !!!
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It really is amazing (and not a little discouraging) that the sports world has gone so insane over this "woke" nonsense.
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Atlanta won and Commish was roundly booed when he was forced to give the trophy to the Braves !!!!! LGB
There is an amusing and I believe the 1st ever self blacklisting . Last week John Cleese of Monty Python fame tweeted this comment :
John Cleese on Twitter: "I was looking forward to talking to students at the Cambridge Union this Friday, but I hear that someone there has been blacklisted for doing an impersonation of Hitler I regret that I did the same on a Monty Python show, so I am blacklisting myself before someone else does" / TwitterQuote:
I was looking forward to talking to students at the Cambridge Union this Friday, but I hear that someone there has been blacklisted for doing an impersonation of HitlerI regret that I did the same on a Monty Python show, so I am blacklisting myself before someone else does
There is so much strange in that post. The fact that someone can be "blacklisted" and thus not allowed to speak is an outrage. That the person was blacklisted for doing an "impersonation of Hitler" is really unusual. But worst of all, the fact that those people cannot see that all of them blacklisting someone is, itself, a quite accurate impersonation of Hitler BY THEM is the saddest thing of all.
I abandoned this post for a while . Even though I could probably given an example a day ;I figured point made
However when I find an egreviously ridiculous example then I can't help myself .
So today's black lister is the secular Christmas song 'Jingle Bells' .
This is a world wide popular song .It was the first Christmas song broadcast from space (Gemini 6) President's of all political persuasion have had it performed at the White House during the holiday season.
What could be so offensive for it to be cancelled ? Could it be the violence in the song with 2 of the verses describing being thrown from horses and carriage ? .Riding on a horse drawn sleigh was evidently a dangerous activity Nope that is not it . One verse has a young couple sitting next to each other when suddenly their fast-moving sleigh overturns, landing them together in the snow.Back in 1850 it was the equivalent of a Beach Boys car song.
So why exactly was the song cancelled by Brighton’s Council Rock Primary School?
According to Council Rock principal Matt Tappon ;the song is offensive . Yes ; I bet you did not know 'Jingle Bells ' was an offensive song.
Professor Kyna Hamill, director of Boston University’s Core Curriculum wrote an article in 2017 saying it was so .He cites an article written in the Boston Globe in 1946 th at claims the song author James Pierpont in 1850 was a writer of minstrel songs and that Jingle Bells was one such song. Pierpont also wrote ballads, light opera, and polkas. That doesn't get factored in the decision. He wrote songs because he could be paid for his efforts . That the song ended up being performed in minstrel shows was not his fault . The song's lyrics are not racist . People who are offended by the song are looking for reasons to be offended .
Just another example of living in the age of opinion. Many people just blindly accept whatever they read as long as it feeds a particular ideological narrative. It's the ideology that is, in their view, important. Truth has become cheap.
Wow, JL! You've said a mouthful! You've described the Republican mindset since maybe 2016 (and probably before).
Care to elaborate on that opinion?Quote:
You've described the Republican mindset since maybe 2016 (and probably before).
I couldn't have said it any better - you mean like a literal reading of the Bible?Quote:
Originally Posted by jlisenbe
Here are a few "elaborations":
Nationalism dubbed as patriotism. "Make America great again." (It has never been great.) Control elections. Marginalize (and ban books about) poc and the LGBT+ community.
If you think America has never been great, then you've been drinking the kool-aid far too long. As to the rest of your "truth", it is all opinion. You've documented nothing. Thank you for perfectly illustrating my point.
Who has suggested we ban books about the gays? Who has suggested we ban books about poc?
When was it great?Quote:
Originally Posted by jlisenbe
(This country is on a path to greatness. We have yet to achieve that goal.)
Texas Republican State Rep Matt Krause has a list of 850 books that he believes should be banned from libraries, books about sex education, race, LGBTQ+, and – perhaps most troubling of all – those that teach young people about their human rights.Quote:
Who has suggested we ban books about the gays?
Also Oklahoma, Florida, Kentucky lawmakers and school principals/teachers, to name a few more.
1. One man is not the republican party, so your argument has fallen flat on its face. 2. Even worse, what you are saying about Krause is not true. So once again, you are providing a perfect example of my principle. Thanks!!Quote:
Texas lawmaker Matt Krause has a list of 850 books that he believes should be banned
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