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Ukraine has been kidnapping their own citizens to feed the maw of the war god (Washington D.C.) and while Russia has been doing the same, Ukraine’s going to run out of cannon fodder long before Russia and the Ukrainians know it and just want the war to stop.

Right now, propping up Netanyahu’s genocidal apartheid regime is a higher priority. As…[Read more]

@ Anybody here

Explain to me how developing unique terms to supplant the familiar ones is inclusive rather than divisive. It feels like relegating people to boxes (categories), each with their own highly specific terms, is hardly inclusive. “You’re not one of us, the majority white folks You’ve got your own category now. You’re a latinx. Feel…[Read more]

I propose POD for Muslims.

Just when I thought I could get away from the vile bigotry of the last thread, its ugliness resurfaces. Not sure I want to be part of this forum anymore if every thread is going to be a discussion thread spreading and cheerleading bigotry.

Autumn wrote:

Unseen wrote:
You pronounce Latinx to rhyme with “sphinx,” right?

I believe it’s pronounced as the letter ‘X’ as you would in x-ray.

We should do what we often do: default to the male term. We use “man” to represent mankind.

That’s what is currently done and one of the reasons people want to do away with defaulting to Latino. One…

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You pronounce Latinx to rhyme with “sphinx,” right?

We should do what we often do: default to the male term.

We use “man” to represent mankind. We often use the term guys when referring to any of our friends whether they are men or women, straight, gay, “queer” (whatever that means), trans, cross dressers, or drag queens. These terms have become…[Read more]

For others here, out of dozens of reviews of Hi Ren, none disliked Ren’s musical style, and most, especially the professional guitarists, commented on how creative and talented he is as a guitar player. I’m still in awe of it every time I watch. I consider Hi Ren as a short opera, as the story takes us through a very emotional topic, and the…[Read more]

Hitch on Israel and Zionism:

@ Robert

More than half the Gazans support Hamas. What was their choice? Who else could they vote for who would help them with their plight? Who else was there to express their rage at losing their ancestral home and land and at being forced into an open air prison? at being subjected to the brutality of the Israeli police?

You quote the…[Read more]

DOHA, Qatar: I am in the studio of Al Jazeera’s Arabic service watching a live feed from Gaza City. The Al Jazeera reporter in northern Gaza, because of the intense Israeli shelling, was forced to evacuate to southern Gaza. He left his camera behind. He trained it on Al-Shifa hospital, Gaza’s largest medical complex. It is night. Israeli tanks…[Read more]

On a related note, boosted now by the House out to Cancel the Executive Branch’s use of a word. I had no clue that use of the term LatinX was yet another propagandanismistic (sp) tactic of Woke Culture.

As just another naive white guy, post-colonist, I sought out and found a bit of Latin[?] history and insight from someone, who I think is one of <…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
Israel doesn’t want or purposely attempt to kill non-combatant Palestinians.

You’re making a distinction that sounds a lot like the one between first and second degree murder or reckless endangerment.

But is Netanyahu losing any sleep over collaterally damaged Palestinian civilians? No. But you can be sure he’d be a lot more c…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
I made no analogy. I simply took three positions, condemning self-inflicted, senseless death caused by religious nonsence, condemning a mass-merdering group motivated by religion named Hamas, and upholding the Natural Right of self-defense for Israelis, Jews, and humqns in generql.

Then you don’t know what an analogy is.…[Read more]

All of these hate driven obscene overgeneralisations, demonising nearly a billion people…that’s not bigotry. How dare you label over the top blanket vile stereotypes as bigotry. I don’t take kindly to other people’s bigotry being called out.

Too bad. For all the talk about moral superiority, the more “civilised” part of the world…sure is a…[Read more]

@ Enco

Pro tip: Not exactly the master of the apt analogy, are you?

Yes, Malaysia is not ideal. Nor is it a death cult. All the things you talked about happen in non- Muslim countries. They do FGM in Christian countries in Africa. Should we bomb to smithereens the Christians in Nigeria too? Homosexuality is illegal in Christian, Bhuddist and Hindu countries. Should we label them all a death cult as well and…[Read more]