What the actual fuck
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wrote on 19 Jun 2020, 03:11 last edited by
"Join Twitter to get the full story. . ."
No thanks.
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wrote on 19 Jun 2020, 08:12 last edited by
What was the original post? It seems to be deleted.
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wrote on 19 Jun 2020, 09:32 last edited by
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wrote on 19 Jun 2020, 10:11 last edited by
I completely fail to understand this.
What's wrong with fried chicken and watermelon? Is that also political these days?
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wrote on 19 Jun 2020, 10:28 last edited by 89th
There's a stereotype that black people like to eat fried chicken and watermelon. Unfortunately we're in a society now that recoils at any black generalization? I don't even know any more.
It seems fine to talk about cultures, holidays, and associated foods enjoyed on that day...such as talking about eating tacos on a mexican-related holiday, or talking about eating pho during a Vietnamese-related event. Heck, Americans eating hot dogs and hamburgers on July 4th!
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wrote on 19 Jun 2020, 10:44 last edited by
Thanks for the explanation. I still don't understand in what sense the post from Hanson can be conceived to be racist, even when I put my "woke" goggles on. Cultural appropriation? Or the post is considered to somehow make fun of black culture?
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wrote on 19 Jun 2020, 11:13 last edited by Doctor Phibes
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wrote on 19 Jun 2020, 11:31 last edited by
I get there's historical baggage with some of this, but the sooner we move away from it and into the present, the better off we'll all be. Maybe I'm naive.
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wrote on 19 Jun 2020, 11:34 last edited by
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wrote on 19 Jun 2020, 12:04 last edited by
TBH, I can't believe he'd be dumb enough to post that Tweet.
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TBH, I can't believe he'd be dumb enough to post that Tweet.
wrote on 19 Jun 2020, 12:06 last edited by@Doctor-Phibes said in What the actual fuck:
TBH, I can't believe he'd be dumb enough to post that Tweet.
+1
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wrote on 19 Jun 2020, 12:06 last edited by
I’m not shocked, he’s totally on the spectrum, almost off it in fact. It’s part of what makes him interesting.
Maybe there’s some ableist woke defense for the neuro-atypical professor.
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I’m not shocked, he’s totally on the spectrum, almost off it in fact. It’s part of what makes him interesting.
Maybe there’s some ableist woke defense for the neuro-atypical professor.
wrote on 19 Jun 2020, 12:14 last edited by@jon-nyc said in What the actual fuck:
I’m not shocked, he’s totally on the spectrum, almost off it in fact. It’s part of what makes him interesting.
Okay, that makes more sense.
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wrote on 19 Jun 2020, 12:18 last edited by
He was the guy behind prediction markets, he even had a contract with the DoD to build one predicting terrorist events which was canceled once people framed it as ‘giving people the ability to profit off of death’ or whatever.
More recently he was the most prominent proponent of “variolation”, or intentional infection of volunteers with low levels of virus to move us to herd immunity.
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You know the great conceling is upon us when GMU professors aren’t safe.
Robin Hanson?
Seriously Horace?
wrote on 19 Jun 2020, 12:28 last edited by Loki@jon-nyc said in What the actual fuck:
You know the great conceling is upon us when GMU professors aren’t safe.
Seriously Horace?
Getting back to this, I don’t think we could find a finer Concelebrant than Horace.
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wrote on 19 Jun 2020, 12:39 last edited by
Yes, it was a foolish thing to tweet and should. Yes, we need to GROW A THICKER SKIN.
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wrote on 19 Jun 2020, 13:04 last edited by
Times are too good...
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wrote on 19 Jun 2020, 14:16 last edited by
@Rainman said in What the actual fuck:
"Join Twitter to get the full story. . ."
No thanks.
Twitter is what you get when you allow an infinite amount of comments on 'news items'.
Give me the non-commented news sites any day.
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@Rainman said in What the actual fuck:
"Join Twitter to get the full story. . ."
No thanks.
Twitter is what you get when you allow an infinite amount of comments on 'news items'.
Give me the non-commented news sites any day.
wrote on 19 Jun 2020, 14:25 last edited by Catseye3@Doctor-Phibes said in What the actual fuck:
Give me the non-commented news sites any day.
If for no other reason than the source seems better to understand that their job is to present the news and not solicit their readers' opinion of it.
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wrote on 19 Jun 2020, 14:48 last edited by
@Mik Agree. We should invite all these people to participate in this forum board!! LOL