Things I Hate

[shells075]

Christopher Hitchens summed it up pretty well.

We are born into a losing struggle. We are fighting a war which has already been lost.

 

[YoNoSe]

Was that from his Rise of Skywalker review?

 

[devilof76]

I hate that the progressive melodrama over imaginary oppression has given real bigots the impression that they occupy the moral high ground. It's also given them cover to openly express themselves under the aegis of fighting socialism.

Not sure how the world got so backwards and senseless. Dirt is not the high ground. Dirt is just dirt.

 

[Otomofan]

I've seen the word "bigot" used so many times lately I'm not sure what it's supposed to mean anymore.

I'm not trying to be a snarky guy baiting you into an argument.

I'm genuinely curious what you mean by "real bigots."

 

[devilof76]

That perfectly illustrates my point. The concept has been abused into meaninglessness, and no one knows what a bigot is now.

A bigot is person who classifies other people according to the threats they represent to the bigot’s self-image (as opposed to a rational standard of character judgement). Their rationalizations hinge upon being able to associate evil behavior with non-essential character traits (race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, etc.) and grouping people accordingly, and then defining their own value by contrast. So...”all black people are thieves...all women are whores...all gays are pedophiles...all Jews are shysters...but I’m white, male, Christian so I am good.” It belies an inability to see themselves as independent from whatever demographics they can be categorized, as well as a belief that moral character has something to do with traits that are not relevant to moral judgement. (It has usually not occurred to such a person that without the groups they’ve judged evil, they would be valueless, so they actually depend upon that which they hold in contempt to feel special.)

Does that help?

 

[Otomofan]

First of all, your example implies that only white Christian males can be bigots.

Why didn't you say ”all black people are thieves...all women are whores...all gays are pedophiles...all Jews are shysters...but I’m Asian, female, Buddhist so I am good.”

If some kid (you choose the race of the kid) got the hell beaten out of him and all his money stolen from him by an Indian kid at his school, and the rest of his life, he avoids Indian people cause he's afraid of them....is he a bigot?

If people don't "like" people of other races or religions or nationalities...but they keep it to themselves, they don't go out beating people up, they don't have protests in the streets.....what's so "evil" about being a bigot?

Archie Bunker was a bigot, no? All he ever did was sit in his lazy boy and complain. He never hurt anybody. I don't see why people having opinions is so dangerous.

Why is it OK to not like an individual, but if you don't like a particular group, you are "evil?"

I wasn't alive in the 60s, but I can say I've never witnessed such an obsession on people's identity politics as I have in the last 5 years or so. And I've also never seen such a widespread movement to try to control what people are "allowed" to say, feel, and even think. It's weird.

 

[pixletwin]

First of all, your example implies that only white Christian males can be bigots.

Why didn't you say ?all black people are thieves...all women are whores...all gays are pedophiles...all Jews are shysters...but I?m Asian, female, Buddhist so I am good.?

If some kid (you choose the race of the kid) got the hell beaten out of him and all his money stolen from him by an Indian kid at his school, and the rest of his life, he avoids Indian people cause he's afraid of them....is he a bigot?

If people don't "like" people of other races or religions or nationalities...but they keep it to themselves, they don't go out beating people up, they don't have protests in the streets.....what's so "evil" about being a bigot?

Archie Bunker was a bigot, no? All he ever did was sit in his lazy boy and complain. He never hurt anybody. I don't see why people having opinions is so dangerous.

Why is it OK to not like an individual, but if you don't like a particular group, you are "evil?"

I wasn't alive in the 60s, but I can say I've never witnessed such an obsession on people's identity politics as I have in the last 5 years or so. And I've also never seen such a widespread movement to try to control what people are "allowed" to say, feel, and even think. It's weird.

As long as that bigot doesn?t have the right to vote or run for office or be a teacher or be somebody?s boss or in any position of trust or authority, I guess they should be left alone.

 

[Otomofan]

I guess that's the crux of what I was saying.

As long as you leave people alone, and people leave you alone, then shouldn't you be allowed to think any goofy thing you want?

I find it terribly tedious when people try to convert me to their religion or ideologies. I certainly don't try to foist my beliefs on other people.

I think in the past that was just called being civil. Being polite. Respecting other people. Not making a big deal out of things.

Now everyone seems to want to destroy anyone that thinks differently than they do.


I'm an immigrant. I follow the laws of the country that havs been gracious enough to let me in. The last thing I'd ever do is run around and try to change the way people think and act just cause it's not the same as mine. You know what? Japanese people don't like Chinese people. They really just do NOT like each other. Imagine me going up to random Japanese people and commanding them to like Chinese people, cause I said so.

The internet has turned everyone in to Marge Simpson. DON'T DO THAT!! DON'T DO THAT!!!!

 

[devilof76]

None of what I said implied that only white, male Christians can be bigots.

Sadly, before they ruined the concept of bigotry, they ruined the concept of logic.

Groups don’t exist. Only individuals, and free will means that no one’s actions are determined by their group identity (chosen or imposed). Anyone can think what they like. If they tell me what they think, they’ll find out what I think. If I think they’re a bigoted moron, that’s my business. I could have kept it to myself, but so could they. Civility should be the default setting for social interaction, but that doesn’t mean you get it for nothing.

 

[Otomofan]

Civility should be the default setting for social interaction, but that doesn’t mean you get it for nothing.

In other words, walk around being a loudmouthed, opinionated *******, and expect to be called out on it. Sounds fair to me.

But that's all subjective isn't it? What one person thinks is just being normal and friendly another person finds "offensive" and "problematic."

Maybe nobody should talk to anybody, ever, in the real world OR online. Especially online!

I love the internet. Easily one of the most impressive feats of technology imaginable. But I thank my lucky stars I got to experience a good part of my life before it was 100% ubiquitous. Can't imagine what life must be like for people in their mid 20s or later that never knew a world without it.

 

[devilof76]

Are trying to convince me that there’s objectively no such thing as a bigot?

 

[Otomofan]

Not at all. Bigots are real.

I just don't let them bother me. On the grand scale of "bad people" I think murderers and rapists and child molesters are a lot worse than some dumb guy sitting in front of his TV saying "Man I don't like that person cause he's a XXXXX."

Now obviously I've been blessed enough in my life to never have been chased by a mob of people with hoods over their heads looking to hang me from a tree, so yes, there's levels of bigotry that are far worse than others.

But what I consider "petty" bigotry...the name calling and nonsense like that on twitter and social media? That wouldn't bother me cause I avoid social media.

People are *******s online. I once had a total stranger say he wanted to slowly slide a knife into my mother's eye and brain because I said something he disagreed with on a rock music forum. WTF??? I'm very glad that interaction was just text on a screen and not anything in real life. I'm glad computers can just be turned off.

 

[devilof76]

Ok. Bigotry is innocuous. I’m convinced. It’s just Archie Bunker jerking off his low-watt hatred in the comfort of his own living room.

That’s exactly what I think every time some retard blames the Joos. Won’t nothing come of it. No suh. ‘At’s what em librells wantcha t’think.

It’s all petty. Bigotry is petty. Namecalling is not petty bigotry. It’s bigotry that’s in no position to do more. It’s powerless bigotry. It doesn’t get any less petty when it’s stuffing trains and ovens.

 

[Otomofan]

And there it is. Godwin's Law has been invoked.

Some ******* 13 year old calling people racial slurs while playing Call of Duty, feeling safe behind his wall of anonymity, is now suddenly stuffing Jews into trains to take away to burn alive in ovens.

I'm sorry devilof76....I shouldn't have got you riled up. I was (and is) just confused by what you were trying to say back in post #26903. I'm even more confused now. I don't want to start a fight or make anyone mad though, so I'll just see myself out of this conversation.

Hope there's no ill will; I just get the feeling we're not even talking about the same thing and that just makes for a garbled mess of communication that makes people angry. I'm not trying to make anyone angry!

 

[devilof76]

What makes you think there was something special about the bigotry of everyday Germans? There wasn’t.

If you thought a conversation about bigotry was not going to end at the Nazis, I’m sorry you think it’s the same thing as 13 year olds acting tough inline, and I’m sorry you thought that’s what I was talking about.

 

[fantasy toys]

sponges.

wierd, i know. but the feeling.... ugh!

 

[devilof76]

I only hate em when they stink.

I'm sorry devilof76....I shouldn't have got you riled up. I was (and is) just confused by what you were trying to say back in post #26903. I'm even more confused now. I don't want to start a fight or make anyone mad though, so I'll just see myself out of this conversation.

My apologies for not following through on this. I received a private message here recently, solely to inform me that I’m an abomination, on account of my sexual orientation. And yeah, I took it personally, given the **** I endured back before I was banned. Pretty sick of people sticking their moral dicks in my face, and then calling me the ******.

Hope there's no ill will; I just get the feeling we're not even talking about the same thing and that just makes for a garbled mess of communication that makes people angry. I'm not trying to make anyone angry!

No ill will. No anger. I get heated, but that’s because the engine gets running harder for some topics than others.

 

[Lejuan]

I only hate em when they stink.



My apologies for not following through on this. I received a private message here recently, solely to inform me that I?m an abomination, on account of my sexual orientation. And yeah, I took it personally, given the **** I endured back before I was banned. Pretty sick of people sticking their moral dicks in my face, and then calling me the ******.

No ill will. No anger. I get heated, but that?s because the engine gets running harder for some topics than others.

If only there were a gentlemen?s club or something on this board, a place where hyper-masculine, homophobic, misogynyist, racist, classist, anti-intellectual bigots could feel safe from bullies like you.

 

[pixletwin]

If only there were a gentlemen?s club or something on this board, a place where hyper-masculine, homophobic, misogynyist, racist, classist, anti-intellectual bigots could feel safe from bullies like you.

I genuinely lol?d.

 

[DioramaMaker]

If only there were a gentlemen?s club or something on this board, a place where hyper-masculine, homophobic, misogynyist, racist, classist, anti-intellectual bigots could feel safe from bullies like you.

Well that just sounds like the Sandbox with extra step, silly.