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I’ve got nothing to say that I haven’t said 9 times already.  I shake your hand Kristina.

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Kristina wrote:

On the issues of equity, equality and human rights, the general population. That’s where it starts. I’ve already been over this. Did you think the stuff I was talking about in my first post was from the extreme right? It’s not. It’s prevalent in the general population.

But two wrongs don’t make a…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:

Kristina – that’s fine, and I do take a responsibility to educate myself about marginalised groups and their difficulties.

Do you? You said it took you 3-4 years to come around to ideas that I flat out swear to you were presented reasonably by other activists that were not that difficult to search out. On nearly every iss…[Read more]

I don’t have to explain to you why I wasn’t “woke” enough.  If an idea doesn’t have credibility, I’m not going to be attracted to it.

Simon Paynton wrote:

Kristina – that’s fine, and I do take a responsibility to educate myself about marginalised groups and their difficulties.

Do you? You said it took you two years to come around to ideas that I flat out swear to you were presented reasonably by other activists that were not that difficult to search out. On nearly every iss…[Read more]

Kristina – that’s fine, and I do take a responsibility to educate myself about marginalised groups and their difficulties.  But if someone’s acting like a silly arse, while trying to tell everyone they have problems – people aren’t going to believe they have problems.  That’s the way people are.  It’s not morally wrong.  It just is.  Ther…[Read more]

They may or may not be outliers.  I can understand people making a fuss about things.  But it depends how they do it.  These outliers love trouble.  Sometimes it just turns off the people they’re presumably hoping to convert.

Simon it seems to me that you are being as ridiculously over-outraged over the very over-outrage you are criticising.

Hey Kristina  – “This post has now been featured” 🙂 🙂

Plus what Strega said.

_Robert_ wrote:

Davis! Ketchup on hotdogs ! Your kind has no place in my world. Better not come around here. So Disgusting. Joey 10:2 “thou shall take only mustard on the hotdog or may 10,000 wild boar trample the traitor.”

Question: As a pro-ketchup heathen, will I have a chance to pet one of the boars before the death trampling happens? Are the…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:

Kristina wrote:

And if even now you’re characterizing wokeness as witch-burners, well, I’m going to go out on a limb and say surely you have lost your perspective.

You’ve educated me about your perspective as a trans woman, which I appreciate, and given me a glimpse into your “woke world”, which I also appreciate. But you h…

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Simon Paynton wrote

No, I’m saying I’ve seen it happen as a persistent activism style.

What does that have to do with being woke, specifically? I told you flat out, on the other end I have personally been through that and far worse. I don’t use that as an excuse to shut down all conversation.

If somebody is screaming into somebody’s face, metap…

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Kristina wrote:

And if even now you’re characterizing wokeness as witch-burners, well, I’m going to go out on a limb and say surely you have lost your perspective.

You’ve educated me about your perspective as a trans woman, which I appreciate, and given me a glimpse into your “woke world”, which I also appreciate.  But you haven’t entirely conv…[Read more]

Davis! Ketchup on hotdogs ! Your kind has no place in my world. Better not come around here. So Disgusting.

Joey 10:2

“thou shall take only mustard on the hotdog or may 10,000 wild boar trample the traitor.”

If somebody is screaming into somebody’s face, metaphorically or otherwise, purely because they disagree – nobody is going to take seriously what they have to say

No Simon. I would say that decades of inaction (nobody caring to change harmful oppressive cultural norms) and then people getting loud bringing about actually change would show that you…[Read more]

Kristina wrote:

Are you now entertaining bullshit to patronize them, or have you come around to the realization that hey, it’s not all bullshit?

That’s a reasonable question.  I was anti-racist, anti-sexist, pro-LBGT+ etc. before, but I wasn’t familiar with some of the newer manifestations of these.  These newer manifestations (some of them) too…[Read more]

Kristina wrote:

Are you now saying you were being bullied?

No, I’m saying I’ve seen it happen as a persistent activism style.

I am asking why you used that as some sort of excuse to write off the portions that weren’t bullshit.

If somebody is screaming into somebody’s face, metaphorically or otherwise, purely because they disagree – nobody is g…[Read more]

And yet, it seems to indicate a wider culture of self-righteous rudeness and incivility as a response to disagreement.

It’s a pity you continue to feel this way.