Racism

[Horace]

I’ve decided that it is time to think deeply about racism. For too long, our opinion leaders have given wide berth to this topic. Is racism good? Bad?

No more. I have decided to give the issue my full attention, for a thorough examination of the topic, to come once and for all to a conclusion everybody can trust. No more will there be ambiguity about whether racism is bad, or good. I will finally decide. But I need several days to study and deliberate. Stay tuned to this thread for my answer.

Please do not post your opinions about racism in this thread. This thread is for my authoritative final answer on the topic.

[jon-nyc]

It’s about time we have a monologue about this.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Horace said in Racism:

Please do not post your opinions about racism in this thread.

OK, fair enough.

What does everybody think about quantum gravity? I listened to a podcast the other week - it was a British one hosted by Professor Brian Cox, so it was actually quite interesting, and they didn't go on about all the usual shite we have to listen to on the more popular podcasts. Prof. Cox is the professor at the University of Manchester, my old stomping ground and was also the keyboard player for the band D:Ream, who had a hit with the unrealistically optimistic song "Things can only get better" back in the 90's.

Anyway, there was quite the debate about what happened in the first 10exp-32 seconds of the universe after the big band, and the main conclusion was that we don't really know.

The podcast is called The Infinite Monkey Cage, and it's been running since 2013.

[Horace]

Please stop interrupting my deliberations. Every post in this thread only delays my final answer about racism.

[jon-nyc]

Can we have a conversation about this white man’s view that there could be a “final answer” on the scourge of racism???

[Doctor Phibes]

@jon-nyc said in Racism:

Can we have a conversation about this white man’s view that there could be a “final answer” on the scourge of racism???

No.

Golf is fucking boring, isn't it? It's bad enough when people go out and play it all the time, but the fact that they actually put it on TV begins to make me doubt the existence of a loving God.

And then one of them gets struck by lightning, and my faith is restored.

[Horace]

This thread is not about your stupid posts. It is about my thoughts about racism so SHUT UP.

[George K]

@Horace said in Racism:

This thread is not about your stupid posts. It is about my thoughts about racism so SHUT UP.

@jon-nyc

It’s about time we have a monologue about this.

@jon-nyc gets it.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Horace said in Racism:

This thread is not about your stupid posts. It is about my thoughts about racism so SHUT UP.

Horace is an anagram of Race ho, which is surely no coincidence.

There are no meaningful anagrams of Phibes.

[Mik]

@jon-nyc said in Racism:

It’s about time we have a monologue about this.

That’s what we do here. Monologues. With accompanying erudite commentary.

[jon-nyc]

I think a digression into standpoint epistemology would be appropriate right about now.

What can the Race Ho really tell us, I mean, as a white shareholder in AAPL???.

[Horace]

@jon-nyc said in Racism:

, as a white shareholder in AAPL???.

Too soon.

[Catseye3]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Racism:

It's bad enough when people go out and play it all the time, but the fact that they actually put it on TV begins to make me doubt the existence of a loving God.

Yeah, TV golf is more boring than TV bowling, and God knows that's bad enough.

[Catseye3]

@jon-nyc said in Racism:

What can the Race Ho really tell us, I mean, as a white shareholder in AAPL???.

I think we should have a referendum on whether the Race Ho is eruditely qualified to opine on racism.

[Catseye3]

writing down "standpoint epistomology".

[Copper]

Please let him have time to think.

I want to know which race is best.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Copper said in Racism:

I want to know which race is best.

That's easy, the egg and spoon race.

[Copper]

A big long list please, list them all in order.

And why don't we see race on the ballot?

How are we supposed to judge candidates without knowing the certified race of each?

[Doctor Phibes]

The worst race is definitely the Indy 500.

[jon-nyc]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Racism:

The worst race is definitely the Indy 500.

You mean the Indy 500 Supremacists.