"when socialism fails, blame capitalism and demand more socialism." - A friend
"You know the difference between libs and right-wingers? Libs STFU when evidence refutes their false beliefs." - Another friend
“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.” - Paulo Coelho
"when socialism fails, blame capitalism and demand more socialism." - A friend
"You know the difference between libs and right-wingers? Libs STFU when evidence refutes their false beliefs." - Another friend
“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.” - Paulo Coelho
So by "idiot left" do you mean those who call for adherence to the Constitution and advocating for limited government? Or do you mean those who think that only uneducated and ignorant folks think it's OK to use the N-word? I could cop to those. Nevertheless I don't think you know of what you speak.
I am about as upset when someone uses the N-word as I'm upset when people think it acceptable to use "irregardless" when attempting reasoned discussion. I'm more upset that someone who claims the mantle of conservative would think that is an acceptable argument.
Sure isn't. It says plenty about those who think it OK to use it though.
"when socialism fails, blame capitalism and demand more socialism." - A friend
"You know the difference between libs and right-wingers? Libs STFU when evidence refutes their false beliefs." - Another friend
“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.” - Paulo Coelho
"when socialism fails, blame capitalism and demand more socialism." - A friend
"You know the difference between libs and right-wingers? Libs STFU when evidence refutes their false beliefs." - Another friend
“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.” - Paulo Coelho
No. And I was thinking about just that very example. Vernacular of the day. Do you think he used it to denote racism or used it in a derogatory manner?
https://www.theguardian.com/books/bo...d-unacceptableBut that is not necessarily a reason for replacing it with a gentler (bowdlerised) term. Twain was undoubtedly anti-racist. Friends with African American educator Booker T Washington, he co-chaired the 1906 Silver Jubilee fundraiser at Carnegie Hall for the Tuskegee Institute – a school run by Washington in Alabama to further "the intellectual and moral and religious life of the [African American] people". He also personally helped fund one of Yale Law School's first African American students, explaining: "We have ground the manhood out of them [African Americans], and the shame is ours, not theirs, and we should pay for it." And his repeated use of that derogatory term in Huckleberry Finn is absolutely deliberate, ringing with irony. When Huck's father, poor and drunken white trash by any standard, learns that "a free nigger ... from Ohio; a mulatter, most as white as a white man ... a p'fessor in a college" is allowed to vote, he reports: "Well, that let me out ... I says I'll never vote agin ... [A]nd the country may rot for all me." It is very clear here whose racial side Twain is on. Similarly when Aunt Sally asks if anyone was hurt in a reported riverboat explosion, and Huck himself answers "No'm. Killed a nigger," she replies, "Well, it's lucky; because sometimes people do get hurt." The whole force of the passage lies in casual acceptance of the African American's dehumanised status, even by Huck, whose socially-inherited language and way of thinking stands firm despite all he has learnt in his journey down-river of the humanity, warmth and affection of the escaped slave Jim – the person who truly acts as a father to him.
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"when socialism fails, blame capitalism and demand more socialism." - A friend
"You know the difference between libs and right-wingers? Libs STFU when evidence refutes their false beliefs." - Another friend
“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.” - Paulo Coelho
This world is full of sanctimonious people and their sickening arrogance so often knows no bounds.
As full members in the "lets appease everyffing body club" , they walk in circles trying to appear as sages imparting infinite wisdom to the ignorant masses!
I see them as jackasses, all of which reside on the left side of the fence, as no true conservative worships at the massive and cowardly, appeasement altar IMHO..-TYR
18 U.S. Code § 2381-Treason Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
"when socialism fails, blame capitalism and demand more socialism." - A friend
"You know the difference between libs and right-wingers? Libs STFU when evidence refutes their false beliefs." - Another friend
“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.” - Paulo Coelho
I think he used it as a man of his time. The stories are about the main characters, not the peripheral ones. Jim was a dumbass. Also a product of his time. I loved the character though. You could have made him purple for all I cared.
What color was Lenny in "Of Mice and Men"? Looked pretty damned Wonderbread white to me.
And which leftwingnut socialist President praised "The Birth of a Nation"? The most racist film ever created.
I prefer to look at people in the times they lived in rather than judge them by today's rules.
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edumnd Burke
I find a world of difference between PC and being civil.
I find no problem with Jim's reference to tanning beds to a black acquaintance he was interacting with. If she turned that into 'racist' that would be a PC reaction; in other words to bash someone with no ill intent, just to garner sympathy for being a minority race.
OTOH, gratuitously using words many find hateful, 'just because you can' speaks more about the user than the offended.
"The government is a child that has found their parents credit card, and spends knowing that they never have to reconcile the bill with their own money"-Shannon Churchill