Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Dec 15th, 2017)

[Adolfo]

Worgar is so right..... Many are so wrong...and some see clearly....

 

[Adolfo]

Yup, that's what makes him awesome:
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The future is in good hands.

Damn darn tootin right

 

[Cap'n Cook]

Can someone please tell me what 'SJW' is?

 

[Spartan Rex]

Can someone please tell me what 'SJW' is?

Social justice warrior.

 

[klwn]

This is an old vid but Grace absolutely tears apart Kennedy's approach to feminism in this one:



I bet she didn't expect it to turn that bad though.

 

[crows]

Social justice warrior.
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Spartan Rex is based

 

[Spazz]

Can someone please tell me what 'SJW' is?

SJW is an acronym for "Social Justice Warrior". It's a branch of left-wing ideology, that revolves around identity politics (gender, ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, disability etc). It's a branch of political philosophy mainly espoused among sociologists and 'gender studies' (read: feminist) branches of academia.

The focus of the SJW movement is to eliminate what they perceive to be relative disparities between groups of people within capitalist democracies, which they feel are the result of systemic bigotry. Also, there is a kind of virtue ethics involved, where the SJW movement feels that certain personality traits result in "unjust" or immoral behavior.

The movement is controversial, because often white, heterosexual men are portrayed as the benefactors of the capitalist system, and are universally criticized as being "privileged". This causes controversy among people on either end of the ideological spectrum. On the right, people feel that the system is meritocratic, rewarding people for risk taking and work ethic. The movement is controversial on the left because (among socialists) working class white men are considered to be as oppressed as working class minorities. Among anarchists, it is also controversial because left-of-center ideologies inadvertently justify obedience to authority, in the name of equality.

And then there's nihilists like myself, who don't believe in Justice. We'd argue that the entire thing is nonsense on its face. But that's a whole other, controversial topic unto itself.

 

[aa909]

im gonna burn all my star trek collectibles. i had no idea

LOL!!

 

[Wor-Gar]

But look at Kathleen's career: an assistant to the greats who rose to... assistant producer, then producer (with her husband Frank Marshall) still under the greats, then guardian of the greats work... until finally she is protector of the realm of Star Wars.

She's been at this since 1941 (the movie, not the year). And yet she has never proven herself to be a dynamic and sharp instrument in her own right. All those years since 1979 and ... nothing but other people's greatness has she guarded.

Perhaps she's just not talented? Intelligent, clever, witty even... but just not talented in a creative sense. If she was, you'd think it would show after 40 years given the people she's been surrounded by all her life.

 

[YoNoSe]

You are completely quoting her 100% wrong.

His SW “facts” are also wrong. That hasn’t stopped him.

 

[klwn]

And then there's nihilists like myself

Sorry, had to throw in a nerdy Star Wars joke in there.
Amazing explanation of SJW's.

 

[Spazz]

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Sorry, had to throw in a nerdy Star Wars joke in there.
Amazing explanation of SJW's.

No worries. I'm just grateful when not chased with torches and pitchforks...

 

[Spartan Rex]

But look at Kathleen's career: an assistant to the greats who rose to... assistant producer, then producer still under the greats, then guardian of the greats work... until finally she is protector of the realm of Star Wars.

She's been at this since 1941 (the movie, not the year). And yet she has never proven herself to be a dynamic and sharp instrument in her own right. All those years since 1979 and ... nothing but other people's greatness has she guarded.

Perhaps she's just not talented? Intelligent, clever, witty even... but just not talented in a creative sense. If she was, you'd think it would show after 40 years given the people she's been surrounded by all her life.

But.. but.. she's a woman.
That makes up for a multitude of misogynistic sins and the perfect one to usher in a new era of Disney princesses.
If only she weren't white then she'd be perfect.
(Work on that Kathleen)

 

[Spazz]

omg, you guys are all mis-interpreting the word "brown" in this use of context. she isn't calling any person or people brown in a racist way, she's using the word brown to say multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, and diverse society.

You're half-right. She's mistakenly using the word brown to represent "non-white". Where I live, "Brown" is an acceptable term used to describe people of "middle-eastern" or "east-Indian" descent. Black, Asian and Aboriginal people wouldn't self-identify as "Brown". It'd be weird, if you called them that.

Second, the context with which she uses the term is racist, because she's advocating for rule by those identified as "diverse". This is exactly the problem with the SJW movement. It's nonsense. She honestly wants to live in a world ruled by non-white, non-male, non-heterosexual people. That's idiotic from the perspective of every single person throughout the ideological spectrum, left-to-right, who doesn't subscribe to identity politics. No one, outside of sociology and gender studies departments would take this sort of nonsense seriously. It's gibberish. However, it's gibberish that has now seeped its way into popular culture, shoe-horned into popular intellectual property via a corporation that has historically catered to different branches of moralism to make money.

 

[crows]

This is an old vid but Grace absolutely tears apart Kennedy's approach to feminism in this one:



I bet she didn't expect it to turn that bad though.

what a lovely woman

 

[jye4ever]

Average flick, but one of the best endings.

I’ve never watched this movie lol

 

[crows]

I’ve never watched this movie lol

guess who Jet Li fights in this movie???

Just guess.... JUST GUESS

you wont believe your eyes

 

[YoNoSe]

White people mad.

Being white is similar to being a SW fan right now.
“Technically yes but I’m not with these guys.”

 

[ebor]

This thread is spilling into subjects what this part of the forum is NOT about...

The future of this thread is likely heavy cleansing by a MOD.

I like healthy debate, but some of this should likely be moved to the 'Sandbox'

 

[YoNoSe]

This thread is spilling into subjects what this part of the forum is NOT about...

The future of this thread is likely heavy cleansing by a MOD.

I like healthy debate, but some of this should likely be moved to the 'Sandbox'

Would you say we need a broom?