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seeahill wrote:
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Blaidd Drwg wrote:I like the nuanced parsing of relative racisms where Garm and Hebe get a pass for theirs but the first seriously lyrical chap to put of a bit of stick about gets called out.

It's a special kind of ridiculous.
I'd like to know how we're supposed to have a good old fashioned flame war around here when we've gotta be extra sensitive about each others feelings. I may even have to develop some just to fit in to the new IGx.
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Kazuya Mishima wrote:
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Kazuya Mishima wrote:Tim can sense the hate and intent behind my words...he has some special glasses.
Either words mean something or they don't. And no fair using one of my favorite B movies against me. That's hateful.
B movie?

How dare you insult this cinematic gem.
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DrDonkeyLove wrote:
Gorbachev wrote:
milosz wrote:
baffled wrote:Cracker? Honkey? White boy/girl?
Right, which of those words carries the connotation and history of nigger (or kike/spic/slant/gook/chink/etc.)?

Nigger is, as pointed out, a placeholder for black. Not 'black trash,' as some people want to claim, that's just a pathetic defense from people unwilling to own up to their innermost feelings and why they use the word.

As usual, they get uncomfortable and defensive, they and their defenders trot out the Chris Rock skit, or a Dave Chappelle skit or point to rap music. It's a remarkably weak argument to pretend that an angry white man calling someone a nigger bears any more than a tangential relationship to its use among (primarily) young black men. The words don't mean the same thing within those two contexts and it doesn't take a limp-wristed pinko sociology professor to understand this.
Great post. The history of slavery in the US and the barbarism visited on black slaves imbues the word "nigger" with a savage contempt for that history and use of it by white people giving out about black people is a considered, conscious attempt to denigrate, generalise, belittle and humiliate. Period.


For some, probably yes. For some, definitely no. That's a rather broad white brush with a very long handle that you're painting with. How did you become so expert in the inner thoughts of Amerikkkans?
Your bullshit Jesuitical distinctions aside, you do not slate "niggers" in real DrDonkeyLove polite society. Because in real life, we are socialised and constricted in what we say. Because we are parents, neighbours, fellow travelllers and social animals. Here, the cloak of anonymity hides our face amd we choose who to be and how to act. It allows a Lord of the Flies anarchy. Perhaps a useful vent for people to express feelings and ideas they simply can't in real life (EZ's tranny fetish, for example). Maybe all of this is an engine driving us to truth. Or maybe it's juat another mob looking to kill Piggy because they are fundamentally red of tooth and claw, without anything much to redeem them. My money's on the latter, boys.
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I'm thinking this thread has a secret purpose-- for our most 'enlightened' members to repeatedly write a word they claim to despise. Because they're the only ones using it here.
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Gorbachev wrote:
DrDonkeyLove wrote:
Gorbachev wrote:
milosz wrote:
baffled wrote:Cracker? Honkey? White boy/girl?
Right, which of those words carries the connotation and history of nigger (or kike/spic/slant/gook/chink/etc.)?

Nigger is, as pointed out, a placeholder for black. Not 'black trash,' as some people want to claim, that's just a pathetic defense from people unwilling to own up to their innermost feelings and why they use the word.

As usual, they get uncomfortable and defensive, they and their defenders trot out the Chris Rock skit, or a Dave Chappelle skit or point to rap music. It's a remarkably weak argument to pretend that an angry white man calling someone a nigger bears any more than a tangential relationship to its use among (primarily) young black men. The words don't mean the same thing within those two contexts and it doesn't take a limp-wristed pinko sociology professor to understand this.
Great post. The history of slavery in the US and the barbarism visited on black slaves imbues the word "nigger" with a savage contempt for that history and use of it by white people giving out about black people is a considered, conscious attempt to denigrate, generalise, belittle and humiliate. Period.


For some, probably yes. For some, definitely no. That's a rather broad white brush with a very long handle that you're painting with. How did you become so expert in the inner thoughts of Amerikkkans?
Your bullshit Jesuitical distinctions aside, you do not slate "niggers" in real DrDonkeyLove polite society. Because in real life, we are socialised and constricted in what we say. Because we are parents, neighbours, fellow travelllers and social animals. Here, the cloak of anonymity hides our face amd we choose who to be and how to act. It allows a Lord of the Flies anarchy. Perhaps a useful vent for people to express feelings and ideas they simply can't in real life (EZ's tranny fetish, for example). Maybe all of this is an engine driving us to truth. Or maybe it's juat another mob looking to kill Piggy because they are fundamentally red of tooth and claw, without anything much to redeem them. My money's on the latter, boys.
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Gorbachev wrote: Perhaps a useful vent for people to express feelings and ideas they simply can't in real life (EZ's tranny fetish, for example). Maybe all of this is an engine driving us to truth. Or maybe it's juat another mob looking to kill Piggy because they are fundamentally red of tooth and claw, without anything much to redeem them. My money's on the latter, boys.

So far off the mark. EZ sat in my very living room with whiskey in hand discussing the free range urban youth problem and the joy of ladyboyz
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seeahill wrote:Catholic, Catholic, Catholic. Pope. Transubstantiation.
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Shafpocalypse Now wrote:If IGx is making your more racist, it's your own goddamn fault.

That's the most simpering, whining piece of garbage you've posted Bram.
LOL, you and BD have both tried to get me riled up for months. It's hard to take any criticism either of you lob at me seriously.

I don't feel racist after stating how I feel, in fact I feel a hell of a lot better - reading all this shit and not saying anything was driving me in a direction I don't want to be in.

As for BD's comment about free speech -- free speech goes both ways, both with people saying whatever it is they want to say and people's responses. And the topic is "why racism is contemptible" - I outlined my reasons. It makes you dislike, or do worse to, vast swaths of people without ever knowing them. What an awful way to go through life.

That said, I think both of you guys are smart trainers and have a lot to offer - I apologize if I've come off as a self-righteous prick with other stuff like training, I look at too many things here and in real life as arguments vs. discussions.
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Shafpocalypse Now wrote:That's the second most most simpering, whining piece of garbage you've posted Bram.
Hey Brim,

.don't blame me..I didn't know you still posted here.
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Blaidd Drwg wrote:
Shafpocalypse Now wrote:That's the second most most simpering, whining piece of garbage you've posted Bram.
Hey Brim,

.don't blame me..I didn't know you still posted here.
Lol, I guess no peace to be had huh?
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Bram wrote:
Blaidd Drwg wrote:
Shafpocalypse Now wrote:That's the second most most simpering, whining piece of garbage you've posted Bram.
Hey Brim,

.don't blame me..I didn't know you still posted here.
Lol, I guess no peace to be had huh?

Peace offering..amuse yourself in a hate free zone.

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Counterpoint.....

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtJp28v7bGs[/youtube]
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Blaidd Drwg wrote:Counterpoint.....

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtJp28v7bGs[/youtube]
God damn it I'm still fucking LAAAWL'ing my ass off over that.

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Also, is it weird that I kind of have a thing for the circa-late 70's Shelley Duvall?

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Haha, nice video :)

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I like coming here because I'm in the fitness industry and my nightmare is being a narcissist with no integrity shoving my lies down other peoples throats. I think it's very easy to follow that path. Getting attacked for what I say here has been good for my ego.

But I think this place would be more fun and less boring with less racism.

You'd get more users, more content.

Attacking people for their character is fine by me. I come here for the character assassination, but I don't like the other stuff - to many bad side effects for me to do myself - especially cause a goal is to like everyone as sappy as it sounds.
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Dr. Agkistrodon wrote:Also, is it weird that I kind of have a thing for the circa-late 70's Shelley Duvall?
+1
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seeahill wrote:Catholic, Catholic, Catholic. Pope. Transubstantiation.
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Bram wrote: But I think this place would be more fun and less boring with less racism.

You'd get more users, more content.

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Worst Nightmare.

Sounds like TnationalSherdoggingStrengthDragonDoormat Forum.

No. Just no. If you can't suspend disbelief over some bad words and open cruelty, you are by my admittedly narrow definition, unworthy of a moment's consideration.
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Blaidd Drwg wrote:
Bram wrote: But I think this place would be more fun and less boring with less racism.

You'd get more users, more content.

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Worst Nightmare.

Sounds like TnationalSherdoggingStrengthDragonDoormat Forum.

No. Just no. If you can't suspend disbelief over some bad words and open cruelty, you are by my admittedly narrow definition, unworthy of a moment's consideration.
Or: perhaps you'd like a variety of opinions rather than a veritable shitstorm of uncontested bigotry.
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Would

But would not go around talking about it.




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