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Bloody Hell, Kristina!  What a wonderful surprise!  I’ve missed your thoughtful posts – nobody ever posted quite like you.  It no longer surprises me how much I’ve enjoyed reading your input on this thread. Still delighted, but not as surprised.

Welcome home. I’m so happy to hear from you 🙂

@kristinaf Hi and welcome to AZ.

I read your long post twice. I found it incredibly well informed and thoughtful. It’s good to be here at AZ where people don’t care about whether you are non binary or not, your sexual orientation or your skin color. Here, we are all black font on white screen (unless you’ve got some super clever formatting skill…[Read more]

Simon…the media and social media (and especially conservative forums) like to point out the truly tiny number of moments of cancel culture that are extreme or even outrageous and then paint social justice activism with that brush. That is ridiculously unfair, hyper generalising and a reaction by those who don’t want to deal with the broader…[Read more]

Either I incorporate the criticism and expand my world view, or I stick to my guns knowing I’ve been vetting my positions and I’m willing to take negative response for it.

Which is how it should be. I wrestled with the Toronto disruption to the pride event. I highly disagreed with a couple of their points but not for a second did I think that the…[Read more]

What they didn’t do is act like silly, authoritarian brats, whom nobody can listen to o’r respect.

Uhhhh…that is EXACTLY how they were characterised by people who resisted their activism. But don’t let me stop you projecting your idealised version of history onto them nor your hypergeneralising.

one of those being the toxic bitch-fest currently known as the Left

Simon…despite everything Kristina said you are still hyper and grossly overgeneralising about the “left” and cancel culture. Kristina didn’t talk about cancel culture per se nor generalised about any group of people but talked about her own frustrations in communicating the same…[Read more]

Simon, if you generalise about an ideology by the craziest people then you learn nothing. Imagine if we thought of conservationism entirely through the actions of far-right idiots or for those who supported “leave” only through the actions of Nigel Firages stupidity. That would be completely unfair to most moderates who had non-crazy reasons for…[Read more]

Yes Simon then be careful with your words. Say “woke activists who go to far are modern witch hunters” and try not to over generalise. This whole “fear of cancel culture” as though its some rampant out of control problem is a product of conservative reactionaries. They’ve been doing it forever and will keep on doing it. It takes our attention away…[Read more]

Woke people are the new witch-burners – unfortunately.

This is a ridiculous over exaggeration. Sometimes what they are opposing is entirely reasonable. It’s easy as a straight white male to see racism, homophobia and sexism as a problem that is mostly resolved requiring soft activism but that is blatantly untrue. They are still rampant and a…[Read more]

I think it shows the paucity of religious morality.

Indeed. There is no Christian society out there that doesn’t pick and choose from their “source of moral authority” book they call the bible. As they slowly reject one old rule after another to keep their rules compatible and palatable with modern secular society…their Christian morality…[Read more]

I think that this point you might as well just have a Clorox Bleach diet. God will protect you if he wants to (which he doesn’t).

A few puns make me numb, but maths puns make me number.

My eyes rolled so hard they got stuck and now I permanently look sceptical and bemused by everything.

Thanks Reg!

I’m still staggered by some of your puns. The awfulness defies description. However, I shall leave you with this:-

A few puns make me numb, but maths puns make me number.

🙂

Well now, Reg. I have a friend whose 5 year old has started to pick up on isolation swear words. Whereas ‘bammit’ is quite sweet, I am completely sold on ‘Cheese Crisis’. That is my go to expression.  With that clarified…

Cheese Crisis, Reg!  Any more puns and my head would explode. Petra is feeling a lot better since we shoveled multiple f…[Read more]

Robert, watching Fox news for two minutes is extremely nauseating. Though I have to admit, watching MSNBC can be equally aggravating. While I may agree with much of their content, I find their bias is proudly on display. One big difference is MSNBC is far less likely to outright lie, distort facts and knowing manipulate on a significant scale, but…[Read more]