Unpopular opinions you hold - Page 8

Undertoab · 03-22-2007, 11:42 AM

i think clone user id's are a freaking riot if they're used responsibly.

PS, i've changed the tipjar link to go directly to lumberjim's offshore account. please give if you can.

wolf · 03-22-2007, 12:01 PM

Not feeling guilty about having been born white is not racism.

HungLikeJesus · 03-22-2007, 12:04 PM

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Originally Posted by wolf

Not feeling guilty about having been born white is not racism.

The two "not"s cancel, leaving:
"Feeling guilty about having been born white is racism."

Interesting. And true

Perry Winkle · 03-22-2007, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus

The two "not"s cancel, leaving:
"Feeling guilty about having been born white is racism."

You've got your scope wrong...the first not is a negation of the subject, the second not is a negation of the object.

If it was a joke, it was almost funny.

HungLikeJesus · 03-22-2007, 04:12 PM

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Originally Posted by grant

You've got your scope wrong...the first not is a negation of the subject, the second not is a negation of the object.

If it was a joke, it was almost funny.

Grant, I didn't mean that in the syntactical-grammatical-morphological double negative sense, but the implication is the same. It's like saying, for example, "If you don't eat my lunch, I won't hit you," which implies, "If you do eat my lunch, I will hit you." (Sorry, that's not a great example, but I'm hungry.)

Is masturbation a form of homosexuality?

Perry Winkle · 03-22-2007, 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus

Grant, I didn't mean that in the syntactical-grammatical-morphological double negative sense, but the implication is the same. It's like saying, for example, "If you don't eat my lunch, I won't hit you," which implies, "If you do eat my lunch, I will hit you." (Sorry, that's not a great example, but I'm hungry.)

Hah, I completely misunderstood what you said the first time. Go me.

Pie · 03-22-2007, 01:11 PM

Curling the tongue is a major skill. :p

Kitsune · 03-22-2007, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Pie

Curling the tongue is a major skill. :p

That's not an unpopular opinion.

DanaC · 03-22-2007, 03:08 PM

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It's okay to express your pride to be white.

I have never understood why anyone would feel pride in their skin colour....pride in their culture, pride in the town they were born in, pride in their ancestry, I can understand.

I can kind of get my head around someone who has been treated with outright prejudice all their life, based solely on the colour of their skin, taking a perverse pride in their colour as a reaction to that. So, I totally get the whole 'black is beautiful' sentiment as a part of the civil rights movement: after all, that was a response to vicious, legally sanctioned racism (Jim Crow). But pride in being white? What are you kicking against?

Griff · 03-22-2007, 03:21 PM

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Originally Posted by DanaC

I have never understood why anyone would feel pride in their skin colour....pride in their culture, pride in the town they were born in, pride in their ancestry, I can understand.

It's funny they used to make us go to pep rallies to celebrate school pride as a kid, I never got that. Yay! We're better than the other horrifying public school down the road because our basketball team is better...

wolf · 03-23-2007, 01:28 PM

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Originally Posted by DanaC

I have never understood why anyone would feel pride in their skin colour....pride in their culture, pride in the town they were born in, pride in their ancestry, I can understand.

You might recall ... the last two times people got really proud over being German, there were some problems. We're not permitted to say things like that.

Pride of ancestry is another one of those "really only allowable to peoples of a medium tan shade or darker", at least here in America. Black Pride, Latino Pride, Assorted Flavors of Asian Pride, all laudable ... not so for any European culture, unless of course, you're Irish on March 17th ... or you're not but you just really want to get drunk.

Griff · 03-23-2007, 01:32 PM

Wolf can be trusted to hang onto a loaded side arm.

Spexxvet · 03-25-2007, 10:16 AM

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Originally Posted by wolf

You might recall ... the last two times people got really proud over being German, there were some problems. We're not permitted to say things like that.

Pride of ancestry is another one of those "really only allowable to peoples of a medium tan shade or darker", at least here in America. Black Pride, Latino Pride, Assorted Flavors of Asian Pride, all laudable ... not so for any European culture, unless of course, you're Irish on March 17th ... or you're not but you just really want to get drunk.

I think you are confusing "pride" with "violence" and "repression". Nobody had issues with German pride, it was the violence and repression that caused problems. If the KKK didn't lynch black people, they wouldn't be despised. Same for repubicans.

Griff · 03-25-2007, 10:56 AM

In my opinion governments are something that the human race could easily do without and in the course of time will grow out off.

Perry Winkle · 03-25-2007, 12:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Griff

In my opinion governments are something that the human race could easily do without and in the course of time will grow out off.

I believe we'll eventually grow into a world-spanning government. At first it will be a loose consortium of corporations.

03-22-2007, 12:01 PM	#2
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03-22-2007, 01:11 PM	#7
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03-23-2007, 01:32 PM	#12
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03-25-2007, 10:56 AM	#14
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	In my opinion governments are something that the human race could easily do without and in the course of time will grow out off. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

03-22-2007, 11:42 AM	#1
Undertoab Of the Uptown Toabs Join Date: May 2006 Location: Near Filly . . . . . Total 14,555 Posts: 23	i think clone user id's are a freaking riot if they're used responsibly. PS, i've changed the tipjar link to go directly to lumberjim's offshore account. please give if you can.

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