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Yeah Pope it is a mainstream thing. No doubt. It is also stupid as can be.

I’ve come up with a brilliant acronym to replace POC. In so doing the stain of coloured and all associations is abjured and rebuked. The stain is the abhorrent and implicit meaning in which Whites are standard model default ACTUAL humans and Blacks are colored, debased…[Read more]

Pope you have served up a lot of meat. And i am a vegetarian. Thanks for sharing part of your experience with mental illness which by the way is a bit of a misnomer. But goddamnit don’t get me going on that!

Pope: I’m good with PoV usage evolving to invoke pride, while you’re good with pointing out its historical malicious usage. That is not com…[Read more]

Cop a poc. Poc da Poc. That horse is a lock. https://zaroorat.in/2021/06/23/campbell-whats-the-name-study-finds-bettors-inappropriately-influenced-by-horse-names-horse-racing-news/ Bettors are influenced by names. Fast Buck Freddy is gonna take more action than is warranted on his PPs. Hmmm. What is in a name?

Better more neutral descriptions of…[Read more]

Good luck new learner of English in getting that meaning of sick.

Pope, there is no question that language evolves. If you read old literature you are cognizant of words that are archaic and words that once were this and now that. And the this words sometimes change meanings when they become that. There is some scale or other that purports to give the frequency of various word usage during prior years or…[Read more]

Pope, it does not work for me. The three or four authors took the position more or less that the term POC is an expression of the opposition to oppression by Whites. A united front. (Yeah i am paraphrasing without any bs) On that basis the addition of other populations that are now included in POC minimizes those groups who have suffered the…[Read more]

Quick addendum: An entire population or populations ought never be defined by their nexus to another group particularly when that nexus paints them in a bad light-the lens through which they had been perceived.

Hay.la.luyah Simon…glad to know somebody agrees with me.

Most of the authors i read who dislike the term, POC, are opposed because of how it has broadened in meaning to be more inclusive. In being more inclusive it fails to distinguish the levels of oppression various people have experienced. For me that is legit but secondary. STOPS the rant…[Read more]

Pope: Funny thing though, I haven’t even thought about whether my half-Asian daughters consider themselves POC, or how they feel about the label.

Halfs go to the other half. I am half jewish but seen as jewish…never irish or french. Obama was half white but is always black. Look our first black prez so we are doin fine fine. I betya anything y…[Read more]

Pope,

As to being well read i was an animal from age 6 to beginning of law school. Thereafter i would feel guilty if i were not reading law so i curtailed the bajasus out of reading. I am extremely well versed in the racing form though!

I think you may be insinuating that my interpretation of POC is idiosyncratic and personal and therefore…[Read more]

Pope, no doubt POC is mainstream. Does that make it okay?

Pre-emancipation Whites called Blacks a host of hurtful names like nigger, negro, colored, picaninny and darky. The ring conveys a sting and produces imagery that is shameful. Those ugly tags were mainstream and contemporary expressions of racism. Being mainstream is in itself…[Read more]

My eyebrows, what’s left of em, were raised immediately upon skimming that article by Torres. He starts by praising the noted atheists and then reduces his praise to the point of damnation. In essence they’re not smarter than little kids. Says he, Not that Harris, Dawkins and Hitchens were saying anything particularly novel — the i…[Read more]

Davis,

Get the point. He is hallucinating. Those are lines from the movie, Karate Kid.

And yeah i feel a lot of Enco’s ideas are nonsense and taken on faith instead of analysis. However he no doubt feels similarly about my ideas. I share a dislike for Phil Torres at least based on that one article but for different reasons.

Encogitationer is hallucinating. Get the point.

Somehow the Religion part of the equation escaped my awareness. That is a really cool thing to do and i don’t think you will be offended if i adopt that move. I bet some theists ascribe the placement to the devil. I have written some shit in hotel/motel bibles but that is fairly common i suspect.

Reg…If you are ever in a bookshop and see that book in the religion section, I was recently in that store.

Reg that flew right over my head as though i were an ultracrepidarianistic land bird being eyed by circling vultures. Not really but i have no clue what you mean.

Person of colour in official usage is dated to at least the 1807 Act that ended the African slave trade.

There would be no importation of “any negro, mulatto, or person of colour with intent to hold, sell, or dispose of such negro, mulatto, or person of colour, as a slave, or to be held to service or labour.” Later there are state statutes that…[Read more]

Unseen what is your opinion of the Grifters article?

I would be remiss if i did not mention that Koko the gorilla named her beloved cat, All Ball. Koko loved that cat so…

The standard balls are white. White soccer balls. They’re just soccer balls-balls that set the standard. Truth be told almost all soccer balls aspires to be white.

The other balls are known as balls of color. Balls of color is a label reserved for the OTHER BALLS. They’re grouped together because they are perceived as special by the standard…[Read more]