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| Topic | black people should not |
| legendary_zell 01/17/18 2:23:31 PM #71 | What an original and groundbreaking idea! I'll bring it up at the next black folks meeting this Sunday. I'm sure they'll be fascinated to hear your fresh and completely relevant perspective on this word that deeply affects you. --- |
| Topic | in the civil rights era, many white people thought civil rights activists were |
| legendary_zell 01/16/18 10:44:45 PM #84 | weapon_d00d816 posted... legendary_zell posted...weapon_d00d816 posted...Oh so it's the white people who are wrong to compare it to the civil rights era, not the minorities who could be wrong in comparing it to the civil rights era The TC is certainly not telling us to compare struggles. He's comparing responses and talking about how the default of most people is to compare struggles as a way to dismiss the injustices happening in their time. --- |
| Topic | in the civil rights era, many white people thought civil rights activists were |
| legendary_zell 01/16/18 7:32:57 PM #82 | weapon_d00d816 posted... Oh so it's the white people who are wrong to compare it to the civil rights era, not the minorities who could be wrong in comparing it to the civil rights era The point is not to compare in the first place. Problems should be addressed where they exist. --- |
| Topic | I love how Aziz gets a pass because he's brown |
| legendary_zell 01/16/18 3:59:24 PM #57 | darkjedilink posted... legendary_zell posted...darkjedilink posted...legendary_zell posted...It seems like people like TC have the biggest victim complex of all. Most people who aren't condemning him are doing it because they don't believe her or don't believe he did anything wrong or that it didn't rise to the level of assault. What is wrong with you? What causes such anger and such a victim complex that you warp words that are right there in black and white? "I had assumed that on the basis of intersectionality and all that, theyd stay laser focused on college-educated white men for another few months" That's what the author said. She talked about her expectation that they would continue to focus on powerful white men, not her desire that she focus on white men. It's pretty clear from the article that she wants them to focus on the worst and most powerful abusers. --- |
| Topic | I love how Aziz gets a pass because he's brown |
| legendary_zell 01/16/18 3:47:52 PM #55 | darkjedilink posted... legendary_zell posted...It seems like people like TC have the biggest victim complex of all. Most people who aren't condemning him are doing it because they don't believe her or don't believe he did anything wrong or that it didn't rise to the level of assault. That article barely mentions intersectionality or his brownness. It's barely an afterthought there. It's about how women are being listened to now and how the author doesn't think this was a good candidate for the movement. When it is mentioned, it simply says that their is a special dynamic at play when privileged white women accuse brown men of sexual misconduct. But this article, the incident, and the reaction would all be the same if any reference to race or religion were removed because that's not what it's about. It's about three groups having 3 different conversations. One is simply anti-Me Too. One is reflexively pro me too. Another is having a very necessary conversation about sexual scripts and consent. Which is what we should all be talking about and what this story really raises. --- |
| Topic | I love how Aziz gets a pass because he's brown |
| legendary_zell 01/16/18 2:44:04 PM #52 | It seems like people like TC have the biggest victim complex of all. Most people who aren't condemning him are doing it because they don't believe her or don't believe he did anything wrong or that it didn't rise to the level of assault. But for you, it's because he's not white. --- |
| Topic | Straight single guys. Has #MeToo altered how you behave with women? |
| legendary_zell 01/15/18 10:44:06 PM #58 | AlBundy33 posted... No, because this #metoo shit is fake We got an absolute badass over here, telling it like it really is! --- |
| Topic | in the civil rights era, many white people thought civil rights activists were |
| legendary_zell 01/15/18 10:02:56 PM #53 | averagejoel posted... dave_is_slick posted...SageHarpuia posted...lol @ comparing segregation era social problems to 2018 social problems --- |
| Topic | in the civil rights era, many white people thought civil rights activists were |
| legendary_zell 01/15/18 9:41:38 PM #48 | Taharqa_ posted... Why people continue to respond seriously to Mal Fet I will never know. --- |
| Topic | in the civil rights era, many white people thought civil rights activists were |
| legendary_zell 01/15/18 9:06:27 PM #26 | So if problems aren't of the same sort as Jim Crow or slavery, they're not real problems? Those were about as far as racism can go short of genocide and anchoring your "real problem" detector at that end of the scale doesn't really make sense at all. Black people today in 2018 are behind when it comes to education, housing, wealth, income, criminal justice, pretty much any meaningful social factor you can think of. Many things have gotten much better, but many haven't improved as much as assumed such as housing segregation/discrimination, banking discrimination etc. These are all very legitimate problems, even if they aren't chattel slavery or racial apartheid. People in the future will recognize that these are all real problems. They don't recognize it now for the same reasons they didn't in the past. They don't experience them. Recognizing them would mean they would have to recognize that the system isn't fair. Their ideology and self worth is based on succeeding on a playing field they feel is already level. It was the same in 1875, 1975, and now. --- |
| Topic | I went on a date with Aziz Ansari. It turned into the worst night of my life |
| legendary_zell 01/14/18 6:26:06 PM #269 | AlCalavicci posted... I read this entire topic after reading an article that was different than the one TC posted. I read the article from the OP after reading the topic, and it's a lot more detailed than the first article I read. I have a lot of mixed feelings on this situation. This makes me uncomfortable: This may also influence my reaction. People on the politics board originally read a shortened version as well and had similarly crappy reactions to CE, but a few actually changed their mind with more info. https://babe.net/2018/01/13/aziz-ansari-28355 --- |
| Topic | I went on a date with Aziz Ansari. It turned into the worst night of my life |
| legendary_zell 01/14/18 3:28:25 PM #240 | NinjaBreakfast posted... leana has routinely demonstrated a lot of internalised misogyny over the years. I agree 100 percent. And the post you quoted disgusts me and makes me feel foolish for having hope. I kinda wish I hadn't even looked at this topic now. --- |
| Topic | I went on a date with Aziz Ansari. It turned into the worst night of my life |
| legendary_zell 01/14/18 3:21:31 PM #233 | This was bound to happen at some point. This is a very common situation. All I can do is hope that this will lead to a productive conversation on sexual scripts, a recognition of how people actually react in situations like this, and a move toward affirmative consent rather than "she didn't bite my dick off or leave and never talk to me again" as the standard. --- |
| Topic | I went on a date with Aziz Ansari. It turned into the worst night of my life |
| legendary_zell 01/14/18 2:42:51 PM #208 | The Admiral posted... legendary_zell posted...The Admiral posted...legendary_zell posted...It is one hundred percent CLEAR that she did not want to have sex That's just a summary, she did all the things that you highlighted as well and he acknowledged her discomfort and pushed ahead without consent. You are simply victim blaming in multiple forms and absolving him of his responsibility to obtain consent and recognize and act on non-consent. Women face a lot dynamics that you are not familiar with when they enter sexual situations alone with men and a lot of things contribute to the fear of abruptly ending it. Like I said, she probably liked him and didn't want to piss him off. She just wanted him to stop and she said so. Plus you have to understand there is ALWAYS the remote possibility of physical violence and that creates a residual fear that is always in the background. That leads some people to just give in to lesser acts, hoping it'll satisfy the other person. Not an ideal strategy in hindsight, but it's a pretty common way to cope. However, it's pretty obvious when someone is doing that and again, any person who cares about consent should recognize that and stop well short of that. But this guy and apparently many CEmen are much more concerned about having sex immediately than making sure their partner if fully comfortable with what's happening. --- |
| Topic | I went on a date with Aziz Ansari. It turned into the worst night of my life |
| legendary_zell 01/14/18 2:28:18 PM #193 | The Admiral posted... legendary_zell posted...It is one hundred percent CLEAR that she did not want to have sex Going to someone's place does not give them the right to do anything you told them you didn't want them to do. Making out with them doesn't either. Sex isn't a "yes, unless no situation", it's a no unless yes situation. This woman told him repeatedly she was uncomfortable and he acknowledged that. She stood up and said no at one point. She told him she would end up hating him if he persisted. He persisted anyway. That's not affirmative consent and it was his responsibility to stop making advances at that point. All the other stuff could have happened because she was too scared to leave initially or she did not want to leave, she just did not want to have sex and she left when it was clear he wasn't going to stop at anything short of PIV. There's any number of reasons, but no person who cares about consent should have continued in that situation. Period. It's pretty simple, in the face of all the things she said and did indicating opposition to sexual contact, would you ignore all of that and whip it out? --- |
| Topic | Lawyers are probably the dumbest "professionals" in the USA. |
| legendary_zell 01/14/18 2:07:31 PM #19 | The bar is hard AF, the passage rates are high because of 3 years of schooling combined with intense and expensive post bar courses and months of intense studying for the specific exam. Getting into a top law school is by no means easy, most people don't even have a prayer. And it's not that hard to complete law school in the sense that it's hard to fail out,but to be even slightly above average at a good is very difficult since everything is on a curve. There are a lot of garbage lawyers at the low end, but once you pay the big bucks you'll find lots on freaks of nature. --- |
| Topic | I went on a date with Aziz Ansari. It turned into the worst night of my life |
| legendary_zell 01/14/18 1:34:12 PM #182 | Is having sex immediately in each specific instance really worth potentially going too far? It is one hundred percent CLEAR that she did not want to have sex. She gave more verbal and non-verbal cues than I've EVER heard from a girl in real life and I completely gave it up at the first sign of any reluctance. Because being horny doesn't excuse willfully ignoring whether you have affirmative consent. If you don't understand that based on what this woman said and did, he should have chilled the fuck out, I'm scared for women in your life. And the fact that so many people are defending him and saying that they ignore signs of non-consent like this or say "well if what he did is wrong, throw me in jail"...you see why some women have the opinions of the average man that they do. Y'all sexual scripts are fundamentally broken and dangerous. --- |
| Topic | Trump attacks protections for immigrants from "shithole countries" |
| legendary_zell 01/12/18 11:36:08 AM #322 | TomNook20 posted... Ruvan22 posted...You don't think the president of the United States should carry himself with a bit more diplomacy and eloquence than the average person? I don't need to believe those places are great to make sense or to understand why this statement was racist garbage. The president is blatantly stating his desire to discriminate on the basis of national origin. He wants to restrict immigration from these countries while allowing it from Norway based entirely on stereotypes about eat country (remember his previous statements about aids and huts). He wants to ignore the main reason for immigration and instead is parroting white nationalist rhetoric by essentially saying he wants less black or brown people and more white people. Even fellow republicans can see this is what he said and this is why he was wrong. It doesn't depend on anyone's opinion of the quality of these countries. --- |
| Topic | Trump attacks protections for immigrants from "shithole countries" |
| legendary_zell 01/12/18 3:06:29 AM #297 | TomNook20 posted... How many of the pc police would want to live in those countries? Enough of this garbage whataboutism. Read this whole post and gain some context before you continue to spout it. https://twitter.com/KatzOnEarth/status/951656979658870785 Furthermore, he's maligning every individual from certain countries, including the country that I'm from. And it's clearly because of the color of our skin and our ethnicity, not because of our skills or lack thereof. I'm from one of this shithole countries where everyone lives in huts and doesn't want to go back. I'm an upstanding citizen and a lawyer, but none of that matters to him or cultists because brown skin. Meanwhile, simply being from Norway is enough to qualify you for entry to the US. --- |
| Topic | Is Ugandan Knuckles racist? |
| legendary_zell 01/09/18 10:12:10 PM #36 | NINExATExSEVEN posted... Dash_Harber posted...Is it racist to pretend to be another race and do a bunch of assinine and insulting things? Yeah, yeah it is. Hmmm, the white nationalist is telling people to lighten up about racist memes while he has a coronary if any type of mockery is directed at whites. Hmmmmm. --- |
| Topic | Why does it seem like we've become more accepting of racists, neo-nazis, etc? |
| legendary_zell 01/09/18 12:52:53 PM #24 | NINExATExSEVEN posted... You're surprised that people are partaking in identity politics after years of "fuck you white people" coming from minorities and the left. Why don't you take responsibility for your garbage opinions? No brown person or socialist forced you to become a white nationalist who is more obsessed with grievance and identity politics than any so called SJW I've seen. That's on you. --- |
| Topic | How do you feel about the limiting/banning of books for prisoners? |
| legendary_zell 01/08/18 1:53:31 PM #19 | The Admiral posted... AMERICAS JAILS AND prisons have long since banned and censored books that the institutions determined posed a material danger to the safety of inmates and employees. There is a logic, at least, to prohibiting how-to manuals on crafting homemade weapons or escaping confined spaces. But at least two prisons in New Jersey have gone a step further, deciding to ban Michelle Alexanders groundbreaking work on the rise of mass incarceration in America, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, according to a letter from the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey to the states Department of Corrections. Incarceration as a concept is not inherently, 100% racist (though it may be unfair). But the way it was developed and is carried out is certainly racist and unfair. It's pretty hard to argue that. It's generally a bad idea to stop groups of people from learning about oppression. --- |
| Topic | Anyone else experience motion sickness from some games? |
| legendary_zell 01/07/18 4:46:04 PM #20 | It's only happened with early-mid 3d playstation games like Kingsley the fox and the Spyro series. It makes both unplayable to me. It's worse with Spyro. --- |
| Topic | *Last Jedi spoilers* Ya know you could've avoided that *spoilers* |
| legendary_zell 12/26/17 5:37:53 PM #65 | dave_is_slick posted... legendary_zell posted...It seems like a lot of the hatred for the Admiral and instance that she was a horrible character that destroyed the franchise is based on culture war/anti-SJW fervor. People have decided that her existence is the infiltration of the SJW agenda into their Star Wars and so her and everything she does is horrible. It's pretty simple. People hate her and much of the movie because they think it's SJW related. Just on this board, I've seen her called Admiral Gender Studies Major. The overlap between vocally anti-SJW posters and people who hate Holdo has been 100 percent from what I've seen. I'm not saying that's the only reason to dislike the character. I'm saying people have been very explicitly connecting their dislike to their general cultural views. --- |
| Topic | *Last Jedi spoilers* Ya know you could've avoided that *spoilers* |
| legendary_zell 12/26/17 5:28:25 PM #57 | It seems like a lot of the hatred for the Admiral and instance that she was a horrible character that destroyed the franchise is based on culture war/anti-SJW fervor. People have decided that her existence is the infiltration of the SJW agenda into their Star Wars and so her and everything she does is horrible. --- |
| Topic | McConnell, Ryan both talking about ending food stamps program |
| legendary_zell 12/26/17 1:47:34 PM #16 | I work with poor families daily. Millions of people, especially children rely almost entirely on foodstamps to live. It's already a temporary program that has amounts that are frequently adjusted. If you cut it, children WILL go hungry. That's a fact. This program is alone is keeping millions of people alive. No exaggeration. --- |
| Topic | Thanks to the shit media, Americans don't realize that 80% of them get tax cuts |
| legendary_zell 12/23/17 2:52:04 PM #101 | The media accurately reported on the bill. It's a garbage bill that was passed through a garbage process. It was unpopular from the very beginning because it's a huge tax cut where the vast majority of the benefits go to the wealthy and corporations. Those aren't popular policies. There are or were all sorts of attacks on blue states, students, and professions that typically vote democrat (state tax deductions, work expenses, student stipend income etc). It's been rushed through so that almost no one has any time to understand it, so much of its popularity depends on whether you trust the Republicans and the Republican party is less popular than cancer right now. These media websites you are reflexively attacking (and then posting as your sources?) accurately informed people about the law. They posted tax cut calculators and scenarios. They all said that most people would be getting a small, temporary tax cut while work would still be taxed at a higher rate than unearned income and Republicans were openly bragging about how this would blow a hole in the deficit and how we would need to fix that by cutting SS, Medicare, Medicaid, etc. They could have passed a tax plan that would have been very popular and gotten bipartisan support. It still could have included cuts to the corporate tax rate and simplification of the tax code. They could have focused on a big cut for the middle class to show they're not simply passing a plan for and by their donors as they openly admitted at throughout the process. Maybe all this has something to do with why people don't think this bill will benefit them? --- |
| Topic | When you die, what do you want done with your body? |
| legendary_zell 12/17/17 11:03:54 PM #53 | Captain_CE posted... Just throw me in the trash. This. I'm dead. I'm gone. I'm irrelevant. I have no wishes at that point, nothing that's done to me will affect me at all. I've already told my family that I'll be pissed if anyone wastes a single peso on me after I'm gone. Buy some ice cream with that money. --- |
| Topic | This looks painful |
| legendary_zell 12/15/17 1:34:37 AM #12 | |
| Topic | apparently my brother has mesothelioma |
| legendary_zell 11/16/17 1:31:14 AM #16 | Don't let the fact that your brother has mesothelioma distract you from the fact that if you or a loved one has been diagnosed with mesothelioma, you may be entitled to financial compensation --- |
| Topic | What's your unpopular food opinion |
| legendary_zell 11/09/17 1:07:24 AM #60 | Butterfiles posted... watermelon and avocado are bland and boring foods Thisx1000. People look at you like you're Hitler if you're not a fan of avocado though. But while all these other millennials are buying avocado toast, I'll be buying a house! --- |
| Topic | Why Liberals are so in favor of socialism |
| legendary_zell 11/04/17 1:44:34 PM #95 | Liberals and socialists want fundamentally different things so this topic makes no sense. I know some conservatives like to equate everything to the left of Mitt Romney to Stalinism, but supporters of capitalism are not the same things as opponents of capitalism. --- |
| Topic | Donna Brazlie sells out the DNC |
| legendary_zell 11/02/17 10:57:58 AM #73 | HiddenLurker posted... _OujiDoza_ posted...HiddenLurker posted...so take your sexism bullshit and shove it up your arse. Palin was absolutely an incompetent person. There's no comparison between her and Clinton. None. --- |
| Topic | Donna Brazlie sells out the DNC |
| legendary_zell 11/02/17 10:16:01 AM #49 | So CE trusts Donna Brazile now? I thought she was public enemy number 2, after Crooked Hillary? I'd like to hear this from someone other than her. If this is all true, it raises a fundamental problem which is that we're supposed to be a democracy, but the choice of candidates is heavily controlled by political parties which are private organizations. They have the right and ability to support the person that they think will help them the most, and I don't think they were crazy for choosing Hillary, considering the other guy is a socialist. But it's pretty bad for people's sense of political control and enthusiasm to do things this way or even give the perception that you are. Basically, the role of political parties needs to be examined. --- |
| Topic | Virginia governor candidate would ban sanctuary cities |
| legendary_zell 11/02/17 10:01:03 AM #8 | What an idiot. He's giving credence to his opponent's manipulative frame of debate since there are no sanctuary cities in Virginia at all. It was literally just a tactic to allow him to stoke anti-brown people sentiment and ride the Trump wave. And this guy fell for it. Now he'll probably lose enthusiasm from left wingers and get stuck talking about this, so he'll also lose support from moderates and conservatives as well. --- |
| Topic | Sports Illustrated said the Astros would win the 2017 World Series in 2014 |
| legendary_zell 11/02/17 12:30:16 AM #19 | AND predicted the key player/MVP as well. I would be absolutely insufferable about this if I was the guy that predicted this. --- |
| Topic | Trump blames the Democrat's "Diversity Visa Lottery" for NYC terrorist |
| legendary_zell 11/01/17 11:53:08 AM #74 | I came to this country through the Visa lottery and it's disgusting that he chose to point the blame at this. It's given me every opportunity that I've had in my life. I'm an upstanding citizen. In fact I find out tomorrow whether I passed the bar exam. The fact that a program that provides hope and life changing results to so many people may now be under attack honestly makes my blood boil. --- |
| Topic | What's some questions you've always wanted to ask a black guy? |
| legendary_zell 10/31/17 11:26:37 PM #97 | boxington posted... I'm just saying, let's say an alien came to Earth - you think it'd be fine with Susannah, but Shaniqua was weird? It's literally just culture and class. There's zero other explanation. If the Pilgrims had a bunch of Shaniqua's and Darmanes, and it was a lower class stereotype to be named Susannah, we'd be seeing the same thing. --- |
| Topic | Why do people who aren't committing crimes don't complain about police violence? |
| legendary_zell 10/31/17 11:15:06 PM #8 | He's been lucky enough that he hasn't been affected. You can get harassed for simply fitting a description. Of course not being a criminal will lower your interactions with the police, no one is disputing that. However that's not nearly enough in a lot of areas and it hasn't been enough historically. When the police are camped out, waiting for someone who looks like you to do something bad, bad things can happen. I hope you're not privileging the opinion of one black person with a minority opinion vs the many more saying the opposite. --- |
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