Kristina

TheEncogitationer wrote:

Kristina,

So when someone makes a joke, you’re digging around to see if they “consciously identif[y]” as woke or pc? Or perhaps you expect them to identify themselves as such for you? Or is it when you see someone woke or pc and they aren’t making a joke at that moment, you assume they have no sense of humour? What, d…

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Kristina, I have never seen anyone who consciously identifies as Woke or Politically Correct have an ounce of humor in them whatsoever.  And they certainly couldn’t do a better lambasting on Mr. Cobb than he did on himself with his posturings of purity.

So when someone makes a joke, you’re digging around to see if they “consciously identif[y]” as…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:

Unseen and Fellow Unbelievers, While any attribution of chosen character traits to immutable traits is bigoted, I say that making bigots the butt of humorous derision is a much better approach to dealing with bigotry than Politically Correct/Woke/Cancel Culture “hate speech” codes and mob violence.

Making bigots the but…[Read more]

I don’t know that I’d qualify those as ethnic jokes. The third is the closest. The second is more of a language joke. The first only feels like an ethnic joke to the extent you could hear a Jewish stereotype delivering that punchline as a sort of dry, almost dark humour.

But even if we include those jokes, I don’t think the issue is that we can’t…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:

Pretty good movie even though Heston is in it. I can’t ever seem to forget he is acting. I don’t know, did he get buried clinging to his musket?

I’ve mostly forgotten his NRA and political activism legacy. To me, strangely, he’s a sci-fi actor and little more despite probably being more famous for Ben Hur and The Ten Com…[Read more]

A couple of restaurants in Vancouver have their Associazione Vera Pizza Napoletana certification. I’ve been to one and the pizza was quite good, but my understanding is in order to retain their official recognition, they have to rely heavily on imported ingredients. Even with perfect preparation, it’s difficult to believe they could quite match…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:

Totally different from the “Whataboutism” fallacy, even if the words “what about” were used.

Person A: X is an issue it makes sense to feel guilty about.
Person B: How can can you highlight X as an issue worthy of guilt when Y and Z are worse?

That is, approximately, the formulation you are being criticized because…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:

There was no Whataboutism there, (especially considering the origin of Whataboutism.) I’m not distracting from pre-existing woo by posting the story on “vaccine guilt.”  I’m saying that both exist and are both dangerous nonsense.

That’s not how whataboutism works. Obviously you wouldn’t be trying to shift focus from the…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:

Kristina,

It’s not silly or deadly. It doesn’t reduce the number of vaccines being given at any point in time. It’s just an emotional/ empathic response to a prioritization system that may leave people in greater need exposed to greater risk for longer.

True, “vaccine guilt” doesn’t decrease the number of vaccines, b…

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It’s not silly or deadly. It doesn’t reduce the number of vaccines being given at any point in time. It’s just an emotional/ empathic response to a prioritization system that may leave people in greater need exposed to greater risk for longer.

Whether others should feel more guilt or not is largely irrelevant to examining one’s own actions and privileges.

Davis wrote:

Do you like maple cookies Kristina (the stuffed ones?)

Every once in a while I get a craving for them, but I don’t tend to buy them, especially now that I’m getting my weight back down to healthy levels. It’s not something I eat in moderation.

I had a strange craving for the maple syrup variant of sugar pie the other day. It’s not…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:

Davis and Roberts, You are forgetting something:

I doubt they are ‘forgetting’. You wrote a bunch of incoherent statements not really backed up by research or data. It’s bias, suspicion and fear-mongering without content. I mean, gas prices going up? It’s because of the storms in Texas. I am not saying the prices needed…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:

Maple syrup is gold. Gold i tellya. But Canada aint got nuthin on Vermont in producing maple syrup.

I do not believe you have adequate data to back this assertion. There is no singular quality for either region. How dare you generalize syrup qualities. How. Dare. You.

Well, I’ve exhausted my patriotism for the decade. Let no…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:

Kristina wrote:

Not having sugar in things seems unamerican to me.

Or, better yet, high fructose corn syrup.

Ah, so that’s what the ‘gold standard’ is. I’ve heard so many Americans go on about it passionately, but I couldn’t figure out why they’d be so fixated on a metal that has little intrinsic or practical value for most. Syrup…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:

Davis wrote:

You put vinegar tomato sauce on your processed meat in a casing on a bun? INFANTILE BARBARIANS!

SUGARY vinegar tomato sauce!

Which makes sense since sugar is often used in both bun and hotdog wiener recipes. Granted, the hotdog itself is usually far more salty than sweet, but the bread tends to be on the sweet…[Read more]