(01-19-2019 12:57 AM)The T-Shirt Wrote: Wow... okay.
Listen, you've successfully let Superfly off the hook for his insinuation that white males were under attack. I'm going to bed.
There is no hook friend. This isn't an inquisition and I believe in live and let live. I wasn't insulting or hating on you, I just saw you cornering someone and don't agree with that. We live in a free society, a man is entitled to his thoughts and if he doesn't want to share them, that's his business.
As far as white males under attack go, in certain quarters they are. The Kalergie plan was a real thing, so was the Frankfurt school but I think white supremacists give those things far too much credit. People move forward with incompetence more than malevolence in most cases. I think there's a little bit of both at play in the racist, tribal, crazy ass far left. But things are more nuanced than some sinister cabal wringing their hands at the idea of getting "whitey". For instance, corporate culture does what it does because advertisers and shareholders, those groups do what they do because they take the opinion of a whiney few progressives as representative of the majority of people and they're scared of losing money.
University administrators? Kind of the same thing. Profs can be far out there wack-a-loons though.
However, Many areas have imposed diversity, affirmative action and diversity quotas or the ever popular "White exclusion" crap we see on the coasts
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201...-white-st/
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201...te-people/
But I'm more concerned with censorship of thought and writing...
Quote:I'm not looking to insult you because you think differently than I do, but I'd like to say that these are just 19 or 20 year old kids trying to make a positive change, to change out something antiquated for something a smidge more modern.
I don't think there's anything modern about policing language. I think it smells of ancient tyranny and moral puritanism our founders threw off, and I will not eschew the gifts given to us by the enlightenment to appease the tribal left. It has nothing to do with anachronisms in the song, "boys" is never going to cease to exist in our vernacular, and the future doesn't belong to emotionally stunted children who can't accept that there exists differences between people. You think this is just about a song? ….
If they were just kids going out on their own volition and doing things, I wouldn't mention it. 18 year olds don't care that a song said "boys". Listen to the music the average 18-20 year old listens to, those songs that have actual lyrics anyway, and tell me how "boys" or the rest of our fight song compares to any of it.
Quote: It's not an opening salvo against the western world.
It's Marx and Michel Foucault's bastard child. It makes us weaker and adds nothing of value. It claims to mend fences and does so at the cost of tearing down tradition. We have a national character and they're lucky to have inherited it.
Quote: the lefts ideologies aren't akin to murdering babies in the maternity ward.
They are in the sense that reallocation of wealth and power comes at a cost to someone else. We live in a finite world, just as in nature their is no such thing as free energy, and everything is gained through either chemosynthesis or photosynthesis; animals taking down other animals, plants choking out other plants, there's no such thing as gains made at no one else's expense.
If you want to be morally pure, suicide is there. If you want to be a person, imperfect and trying their best, accept that we all have advantages and disadvantages, and let other people do their thing. Don't try to have it both ways.
There is no move you can make that won't cost someone, but only a narcissistic, psychotic, Dbag intentionally takes from others on the basis of "righting past wrongs".
There is no being morally pure as long as you have money in the bank, food in your belly and a place to rest your head; as those things are missing from the lives of others. If you want to be pure, give up all your possessions and walk the earth as the apostles. Short of that?
Don't waste other people's time with self aggrandizing, sanctimonious, faux-altruistic BS
I'm sure all the tyrannical states of the 20th century told themselves the same philosophical circle jerk, how they were doing what was in the interest of humanity. I just see a bunch of uppity pricks messing with something, because other people who have their ears and pretend to be adults, likely baby boomers still carrying their own daddy issues, told them to.
Quote:But above all I truly hope you have a good day tomorrow.
Ditto.