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14 minutes ago, mihailo said:

I agree. It is nice to hear someone sensible on TV, it has been a while.

 

Edit: :roll: Sad... I just realised this video was posted in 2014. Well, there you go, that is how long it has been.

Yeah it is old but it applies even more so today than it did back then.  I've been listening to some of her stuff.  She's really good and level headed.  A lesbian muslim indian/egyptian immigrant from Uganda who has a Canadian citizenship.

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7 minutes ago, DrPhilly said:

Yeah it is old but it applies even more so today than it did back then.  I've been listening to some of her stuff.  She's really good and level headed.  A lesbian muslim indian/egyptian immigrant from Uganda who has a Canadian citizenship.

About as diverse as it gets.

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30 minutes ago, DrPhilly said:

Yeah it is old but it applies even more so today than it did back then.  I've been listening to some of her stuff.  She's really good and level headed.  A lesbian muslim indian/egyptian immigrant from Uganda who has a Canadian citizenship.

 

Just now, Dave Moss said:

Let me guess, a Lebanese Canadian with a Swedish passport...

Here is your answer.

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1 hour ago, mihailo said:

 

Here is your answer.

Yeah, he just likes to troll me

1 hour ago, Dave Moss said:

FYI, white grievance politics IS identity politics.

How do you get that from her?

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4 hours ago, Dave Moss said:

FYI, white grievance politics IS identity politics.

I would say this is peak CVON stupidity but I'm sure you didn't even listen to 30 seconds of this woman (you racist sexist homophobe Southerner).  If you aren't even going to give her 5 minutes then just don't bother replying.

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6 hours ago, DrPhilly said:

She nails it.  Time to end identity politics and political correctness and move forward.

Meh. There hasn't been a society on earth that didn't have rules.

"Political correctness" is just one faction of society who got to make the rules on what's "correct" telling another faction of society that their rules are "politically correct", but not actually correct, because only one side gets to set the rules.    

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1 minute ago, Lloyd said:

Meh. There hasn't been a society on earth that didn't have rules.

"Political correctness" is just one faction of society who got to make the rules on what's "correct" telling another faction of society that their rules are "politically correct", but not actually correct, because only one side gets to set the rules.    

She didn't suggest there shouldn't be rules.

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40 minutes ago, DrPhilly said:

I would say this is peak CVON stupidity but I'm sure you didn't even listen to 30 seconds of this woman (you racist sexist homophobe Southerner).  If you aren't even going to give her 5 minutes then just don't bother replying.

you think you’re being edgy posting this stuff but first of all she’s Canadian and second of all this is from 2014.  She’s putting forth a tired argument that doesn’t hold up in the real world.

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2 minutes ago, Dave Moss said:

you think you’re being edgy posting this stuff but first of all she’s Canadian and second of all this is from 2014.  She’s putting forth a tired argument that doesn’t hold up in the real world.

So you listened to it and your post really was peak CVON stupidity

:roll::roll:

 

note: She's lived the US for 15 years (or something like that)

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9 minutes ago, DrPhilly said:

She didn't suggest there shouldn't be rules.

I was responding to what you wrote about it being "time to end political correctness." which kinda implies that there was some awesome generation of people at some point who didn't have parts of their society or identity that were "politically correct".  

 

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Just now, Lloyd said:

I was responding to what you wrote about it being "time to end political correctness." which kinda implies that there was some awesome generation of people at some point who didn't have parts of their society or identity that were "politically correct". 

Oh ok.  No, I simply mean we've seen enough of this intense wave of it.  I agree though that it always exists at some level, yes.

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3 hours ago, Dave Moss said:

Doc, you really didn’t remember that you wrote about political correctness in your original post?

Stop trolling Dave

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it comes down to whether people are engaging in good faith. the problem is that most are not. on all sides.

I can have a discussion with someone who thinks multiculturalism is not good if they're basing their argument on merit, and not just grievance, and they are willing to actually engage in a real discussion about it on the merits. 

I can also have a discussion with a crazy woke intersectionalist who's in their 2nd year of college and thinks they've uncovered all the flaws their parents' generation left behind, as long as they're willing to engage in a real discussion and actually give and take.

I cannot have a discussion with someone who sidesteps any argument made by me as a "cis white dude" by telling me that it's not my place to argue something. Nor can I have a debate with a white nationalist populist who thinks white men are the most aggrieved party in the country today, and whose cognitive dissonance will not allow them to see any other reality.

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Amen.  The race baiting, critical race theory and resulting cancel culture in this country has to be stopped.  My kids literally never even noticed the differences in their classmate's skin color before they started learning about "white privilege" in school.

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