modestie markham

Anyone who questions a word they say is branded a “fascist” or a “racist” and is liable to have their career ended.

Again your hyperbole is out of control. I don’t know anyone who calls someone who disagrees with terms a fascist. A loud tiny minority does it…so are we all guilty by association? A few got hit unfairly by such claims but they ar…[Read more]

Yes, the right is very skilled at portraying liberals as useless snowflakes to sway the center to the right. Facebook, Twitter, and Yahoo are awash in such material and leftists often play right into it and offer lots to work with. Pretending that women are incapable of lying and that all white males are automatically toxic rapists is ill advised.…[Read more]

The people who attack left-wing progressives are right-wing dingbats.

A lot of them are.  But I’m not a right-wing-nut.

Who is branding the left wing as right wingers? … Why does that make the right-wing electable?

???

The problem is, they’re doing all the hard work of making the Left unelectable.  Anyone who questions a word they say is branded a “fascist” or a “racist” and is liable to have their career ended.

Who is branding the left wing as right wingers? The people who attack left-wing progressives are right-wing dingbats. Why does that make the right-wing…[Read more]

I agree with their stated aims, but the way they do it can be so very tiresome, not to mention hilarious once they start arguing.

where the hell did you pull out this nonsense that people looking for social justice are all post-modern relativists? Did you just make that up or is it some assumption of yours?

Jordan Peterson.

you should be a lot…

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Social justice warriors one and only aim are: to bring the world more social justice. Which is not a particularly bad thing consider rights and treatment of women, black people and LGTBQ+ are barely barely tolerable. Yes its all portrayed well on television and cinema and most of the media, yes there are bubbles of high tollerance and black or gay…[Read more]

So, what do YOU think? Do SJW’s act on a motivating principle that nothing makes a difference or not?

No, I don’t.  They really act like they give a shit about a lot of things.

Simon Paynton wrote:
I’m not saying they really do say that, but it can be their reputation, as parodied in the cartoon.  Helen Pluckrose, who has contributed to TA, seems to think that it’s pretty close to the mark.

So, what do YOU think? Do SJW’s act on a motivating principle that nothing makes a difference or not? I’m not interested in what…[Read more]

are said to say things like “everything is as true as everything else”

I’m not saying they really do say that, but it can be their reputation, as parodied in the cartoon.  Helen Pluckrose, who has contributed to TA, seems to think that it’s pretty close to the mark.

Simon Paynton wrote:

Davis wrote:
Nobody was talking about social justice warriors.

Social justice warriors are said to say things like “everything is as true as everything else”, and really do say things like “free thinking is just white supremacist bullshit”. The people in the cartoon, referred to as “post modern neo-Marxists”, are social just…

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From this article, it sounds like post-modern neo-Marxism is a real thing.

Davis wrote:
Nobody was talking about social justice warriors.

Social justice warriors are said to say things like “everything is as true as everything else”, and really do say things like “free thinking is just white supremacist bullshit”.

The people in the cartoon, referred to as “post modern neo-Marxists”, are social justice warriors.

Simon I cannot make sense out of what you just said. Nobody was talking about social justice warriors. It has absolutely and literally NOTHING to do with the cartoon or the conversation.

Davis wrote:
You put it in “quotes” but then talked about it like it was a real thing. So what did you actually mean?

The concept “post-modern neo-Marxism” is said not to exist, but I’m not too sure actually.  Post-modernism seems to go on about Marx quite a lot.

I put it in quotes because even though the label may or may not be an accurate one,…[Read more]

Thoughts?

Very common of people to buy into the supernatural and then quibble over ridiculous details. Religion has conditioned the masses to this way of thinking. It is a challenge for me to have too many woo peddlers in my circle. They are exhausting.

Speaking of ghost stories, I do like them, here is my favorite from an unknown…[Read more]

Davis wrote:
That doesn’t make sense. You put it in “quotes” but then talked about it like it was a real thing. So what did you actually mean?

In quotes because I find many of those who claim to be so offended are only so because they jump upon the bandwagon of manufactured outrage. They did not really care about the issue until their peer group…

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Was telling a friend a story about the film “the ring” where in the climax it pretty much scares the shit out of anyone who was told ghost stories as a kid. I saw it with friends in the cinema and everyone yelled out loud at the climax. My friend (there aren’t so many ghost story telling culture in Spain). He thought it was ridiculous that anyone…[Read more]

That doesn’t make sense. You put it in “quotes” but then talked about it like it was a real thing. So what did you actually mean?

So many Irish Catholics were “offended” by this comedy show that it was first broadcast on British TV (Channel 4). Some (but very few) find almost every scene offensive. I love to hear them ranting about it. Some were even more offended the second time they watched it!! Here.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
I overheard a comment once that “the singer” did “kinda look Japanese-ey enough to play the part so that nobody could really take offense” with the production. It happened at the interval here. I just bit my lip. I was taught by people from India to cook Indian food. I wonder (not) if its OK for for me to continu…

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