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| Simon:
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on July 21, 2020, 03:16:41 pm --- --- Quote from: Simon on July 21, 2020, 12:57:36 pm ---It's a question of where you stand, if your on the extreme left you just call everyone right wing because we have lost a sense of diversity and nuance. People on the one hand think I am left wing when I defends peoples rights and right wing when I want to see accountability in the general population and law enforcement. I am neither but it's all gone black/white these days - oops who did I just offend there...... --- End quote --- Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. -- Margaret Thatcher --- End quote --- Yes because the political system in the UK is build around polarization of just two opposites that are heavily partisan. You are either one or the other with no debate in the middle, those that want to debate effectively just get run over, as politicians they will not be polarized enough to sway the masses of the left or right only the sentient few in the middle and as a voter because of the former you are wasting your time. The last count I went to I saw a much increased amount of spoiled ballots, mine will be joining them too next time. The local MP won't even come to hustings because he knows he has it in the bag and if only the poor sods that vote for him looked at his voting record. |
| paulca:
--- Quote from: MK14 on July 21, 2020, 03:55:52 pm --- --- Quote from: daqq on July 21, 2020, 03:41:04 pm ---Slovakia --- End quote --- Talking of which. That is where (Slav / Slovakia) the word SLAVE, comes from. Also, they were (I believe), WHITE. Ironically, it was actually 'people of colour' or whatever neutral word(s) I should be using. That enslaved them. Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/9chapter1.shtml --- End quote --- SJWs dealing with that one: |
| daqq:
--- Quote from: davep238 on July 21, 2020, 03:49:44 pm --- :-DD --- End quote --- Please correct me if I'm wrong. It just seems to me that way. --- Quote from: MK14 on July 21, 2020, 03:55:52 pm --- --- Quote from: daqq on July 21, 2020, 03:41:04 pm ---Slovakia --- End quote --- Talking of which. That is where (Slav / Slovakia) the word SLAVE, comes from. Also, they were (I believe), WHITE. Ironically, it was actually 'people of colour' or whatever neutral word(s) I should be using. That enslaved them. Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/9chapter1.shtml --- End quote --- Yup, I know. Sadly, if you look at history, the summary is that most every nationality, ethnicity and race has been, at some point, in some proportion on both the shitty end and the other end of that stick. Note that I am not endorsing the abhorrent concept of slavery, nor trying to downplay the suffering of any individuals/groups involved. Sadly, even in this day slavery is, in varying forms sadly alive and well, although no longer state endorsed (unofficial exceptions apply, see Qatar). |
| Simon:
--- Quote from: MK14 on July 21, 2020, 03:55:52 pm --- --- Quote from: daqq on July 21, 2020, 03:41:04 pm ---Slovakia --- End quote --- Talking of which. That is where (Slav / Slovakia) the word SLAVE, comes from. Also, they were (I believe), WHITE. Ironically, it was actually 'people of colour' or whatever neutral word(s) I should be using. That enslaved them. Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/9chapter1.shtml --- End quote --- wow how did you dig that up, looks like something out of the nineties they forgot about. |
| Simon:
--- Quote from: daqq on July 21, 2020, 04:11:20 pm --- --- Quote from: davep238 on July 21, 2020, 03:49:44 pm --- :-DD --- End quote --- Please correct me if I'm wrong. It just seems to me that way. --- Quote from: MK14 on July 21, 2020, 03:55:52 pm --- --- Quote from: daqq on July 21, 2020, 03:41:04 pm ---Slovakia --- End quote --- Talking of which. That is where (Slav / Slovakia) the word SLAVE, comes from. Also, they were (I believe), WHITE. Ironically, it was actually 'people of colour' or whatever neutral word(s) I should be using. That enslaved them. Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/9chapter1.shtml --- End quote --- Yup, I know. Sadly, if you look at history, the summary is that most every nationality, ethnicity and race has been, at some point, in some proportion on both the shitty end and the other end of that stick. Note that I am not endorsing the abhorrent concept of slavery, nor trying to downplay the suffering of any individuals/groups involved. Sadly, even in this day slavery is, in varying forms sadly alive and well, although no longer state endorsed (unofficial exceptions apply, see Qatar). --- End quote --- It's OK, we are normal here, you don't need to make a speech about how you do not condone the facts that you are talking about, that's what you have to do when talking to SJW's |
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