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| paulca:
--- Quote from: Nominal Animal on June 30, 2020, 09:33:50 am ---- We are the anti-authoritarian Good People™. - ? - Here is the list of words you are not allowed to use, or you will be Excised from All Good Communities™. - Wha..? Why? That makes no sense at all! - Racist! Racist! We will burn you at the stake, you nonbeliever offensive racist you! (Gets burned to the death on the stake) - Okay, who's next? Is it time for lunch yet? --- End quote --- Zero tolerance to intolerance. They see no irony. They see no injustice. They see no fault. I mentioned this to a bunch of them online on FB and they retorted I should read the "Paradox of tolerance". However, ironically (recursive irony), the concept they are referring to is a miss-contexted reading of an old book where the original author was actually suggesting that social justice has no place in a democracy and showing intolerance to intolerance has no place outside of the law of the state or the courts and "the law of the people" should have no say. "Love thy neighbour." "What about them over there? They once hated something." "Did I stutter? LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR" "But, but, but, we don't want to love them, or them, and they say things we don't like, so we don't love them...." Although personally I draw the line at flat Earthers. Anyway, it's a long held suspicion that the emerging culture of "inclusiveness" has slowly turned into fascism. They create little circles of like minded folks and when someone shows up and counters their "beliefs" and culture, they ostrasize them out into the cold, banishing them. The irony is so thick you could choke on it. |
| coppice:
--- Quote from: paulca on June 30, 2020, 09:49:21 am ---Zero tolerance to intolerance. --- End quote --- The term "zero tolerance" was only created because even intolerant people knew the word "intolerance" sounds bad. |
| MadTux:
I found two of my male BNC connectors next to each other. Are they GAY???? |
| bitwelder:
--- Quote from: GeorgeOfTheJungle on June 29, 2020, 05:14:47 pm --- Yeah, thanks, take note guys: --- Quote ---Endorsements Individuals and companies welcome (Email info@oshwa.org to be added to the list below) Adam Benzion, Hackster.io bunnie, bunniestudios Glenn Samala, Sparkfun Harris Kenny, OSHdata Jason Huggins, Tapster Robotics Jonathan Georgino, Binho LLC Joshua Lifton, Crowd Supply Libi Striegl, Media Archaeology Lab Limor Fried, Adafruit Industries Matthias Tarasiewicz, RIAT Institute Nathan Seidle, SparkFun Electronics Phil Torrone, Adafruit Industries Shawn Hymel, Hello Blink Show Steven Abadie, OSHdata Tod Kurt, ThingM Tom Igoe, NYU ITP Joel Murphy, Pulse Sensor Yury Gitman, Pulse Sensor --- End quote --- --- End quote --- Even though OSHWA aims to be international, it's interesting (but not surprising) how the list of endorsers is made of only US persons/companies. |
| retrolefty:
--- Quote from: Zero999 on June 30, 2020, 09:43:24 am --- --- Quote from: madires on June 29, 2020, 07:11:57 pm ---Another tidbit about the OSHWA's resolution is that they associate slaves with black people which can be seen as racist. Oopsie! Are words racist or people? Maybe the OSHWA should ban itself. >:D --- End quote --- The so-called Black Lives Matter movement do the same, perhaps we should ban them too? The odd thing is I used to support them, until the way they showed a blatant disregard for human life, by forming huge crowds in the middle of a pandemic. I now call them No Lives Matter and if people think that's racist, I don't give a fuck. Most of those involved in the protestes are students who are fed up with staying in, as the colleges, universitys and clubs are closed and need an excuse to get out. They don't really care about the lives of blacks, or anyone else's. --- Quote from: nuclearcat on June 29, 2020, 07:15:06 pm ---Oh well, this stupidity hit hackaday as well. https://hackaday.com/2020/06/29/updating-the-language-of-spi-pin-labels-to-remove-casual-references-to-slavery/ Someone coined very well in comments: "This is what psychologists call “displacement activity”. When you can’t directly change something, people change something else that they can, even if it is not relevant." And worst part, those who push those changes often belongs to ancestors of enslavers. Either they feel guilt, but dont want to do something real, either just trying to close our eyes to the shameful past of their ancestry. --- End quote --- Don't get me started on white guilt, which is just nonense. No one should be made to feel guilty for the actions of their ancestors, which they have no control over. Making someone feel bad about themselves because of their race/ancestory is racist and biggoted. I'm in favour of banning the term white guilt. --- End quote --- Might call it being guilty while white? |
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