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Simon:

--- Quote from: magic on July 24, 2020, 06:54:29 am ---

"Centrism" is an ideology of people who have it "good enough" and just want to be left alone and follow the path of least resistance. Strict avoidance of confrontation and "waiting it out". It's a very appealing ideology when you have it good enough and expect to have it good enough for any foreseeable future, even more so if you don't know or care about that many people who don't have it good enough. That's the reason it used to be highly popular in the post-war 20th century (the West really had it good enough) and also the reason why it's quickly losing popularity today (you screwed yourselves up).

It permits "moderate radicals" to gain a lot of ground completely unopposed ("oh come on, there is no way anything bad will come out of that if only they will stop at that, just let them have it, live and let live") while completely failing to promise anything by themselves besides "just don't do anything, things will work out, trust the plan", so it's kinda self-defeating in the long run. It's the politics of no politics, which in practice reduces to outsourcing politics to others whom you don't even know and then being surprised by the outcome. "OMG, TV told me we are all one human race, how come somebody has a different opinion than mine???".


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You are very wrong. You have obviously missed what most of this thread is about and are advocating extreme polarization. So I have to either be a narcissistic right wing fanatic or a lefty woke fanatic. I am sorry I don't like either and both are the problem. I won't read a "left leaning" newspaper any more than I would read right wing diatribe because they too don't care for the truth and reality and just push an agenda. Without a centre you get this stupid environment we are in where you are either for or against something and have to try and figure out what else you don't mind being vehemently for in order to "pick a side". This does not make for debate and the emergence of new better ideas, it just starts wars!

SerieZ:
Being against censorship does not make you a "centrist".
That is just one of the typical slander of the extremist.

What is funny to me how sure of yourself you are when typing so much bollocks all the time.  :-//

Ed.Kloonk:

--- Quote from: magic on July 24, 2020, 06:54:29 am ---


--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on July 23, 2020, 08:49:45 am ---Can I suggest that we all agree that it's the seemingly invisible, insidious movement that instigated the M/S discussion in the first place is the thing that should receive all our collective venom?

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Of course it's the white people who just refuse to stop insulting people of color.

You see, the funniest thing about America is that they all believe exactly this. The only disagreement is on who exactly is the bad guys. That's why they are having riots and terrorism basically on a monthly schedule for the last few years.
 :popcorn:

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God bless you for having the courage to offer publicly an analysis of what is happening in the U.S. Further, it warms my cold, dead, black heart that you summarized the whole situation so concisely.

Siwastaja:
If you want to be sensible and good to others, that doesn't put you at any specific place on the axis defined by nutjob extremes. You don't need to be "at center".

You don't need to amplify the division by highlighting the existence of such made-up axis by placing yourself in the "middle". You are just participating in identity politics that way, and thus part of the problem.

By announcing yourself as "middle", what you really are doing is desperately trying to get acceptance from both the people more "left" and "right" to you. You are not getting such acceptance from either far end, though.

The solution is: you don't need to identify as a political group, at all, not even some imaginary "middle ground"! Just have a set of good principles you follow. If someone identifies you as a nazi racist because of that, it's their problem.

Simon:

--- Quote from: SerieZ on July 24, 2020, 07:03:44 am ---Being against censorship does not make you a "centrist".
That is just one of the typical slander of the extremist.

What is funny to me how sure of yourself you are when typing so much bollocks all the time.  :-//

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Who are you talking about? who is against censorship? I thought that was the point of this topic? So if i am against censorship of the words that the woke left want me to not use does that make me right wing? Or a living breathing human with a brain of my own?

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