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.RC.:
We left analogue years ago.   It is all digital now.

While I did initially post this as a bit of a joke.  If you stop and seriously think about it.  It is probably not far off the mark.

tggzzz:

--- Quote from: james_s on May 13, 2023, 01:38:08 am ---
--- Quote from: tggzzz on May 13, 2023, 12:38:40 am ---Agreed to some extent. It isn't black and white; it is all shades of grey.

Nonetheless I don't like seeing preachers (religious, political, and otherwise) encouraging other people to have extremist views that harm third parties. Unsocial media makes that too easy.

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I don't either, but again it's very hard to have a view that somebody somewhere doesn't think is extremist and harmful to third parties. As someone that is all over the place politically and overall somewhere close to the center, both the far left AND the far right thinks that some of my views are extremist and harmful to third parties. Not only is it all shades of gray, it's all relative. It's a lot like voltage, the reading you get all depends on which point you decide to call "ground" and you can have two completely different readings that are both valid and correct.

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There is very little difference between far-left and far-right: both want to impose their views on other people regardless of the harm. And worse: too often the harm is the objective of their views.

Both Stalin and Goebbels knew that, both saying they could turn a far-left/right fanatic into a far-right/left fanatic within a week.

Unfortunately nowadays it is too easy for nutcases to publish their nuttery. There will always be some other nuts that believe it and and malefactors that amplify it for their own ends.
Zero999:

--- Quote from: tggzzz on May 13, 2023, 08:23:17 am ---
--- Quote from: james_s on May 13, 2023, 01:38:08 am ---
--- Quote from: tggzzz on May 13, 2023, 12:38:40 am ---Agreed to some extent. It isn't black and white; it is all shades of grey.

Nonetheless I don't like seeing preachers (religious, political, and otherwise) encouraging other people to have extremist views that harm third parties. Unsocial media makes that too easy.

--- End quote ---

I don't either, but again it's very hard to have a view that somebody somewhere doesn't think is extremist and harmful to third parties. As someone that is all over the place politically and overall somewhere close to the center, both the far left AND the far right thinks that some of my views are extremist and harmful to third parties. Not only is it all shades of gray, it's all relative. It's a lot like voltage, the reading you get all depends on which point you decide to call "ground" and you can have two completely different readings that are both valid and correct.

--- End quote ---

There is very little difference between far-left and far-right: both want to impose their views on other people regardless of the harm. And worse: too often the harm is the objective of their views.

Both Stalin and Goebbels knew that, both saying they could turn a far-left/right fanatic into a far-right/left fanatic within a week.

Unfortunately nowadays it is too easy for nutcases to publish their nuttery. There will always be some other nuts that believe it and and malefactors that amplify it for their own ends.

--- End quote ---
The problem is it only works one way. That black woman who lamented at the terribly white balcony at the coronation, hasn't been cancelled, like Scott Adams.
EPAIII:
"The U.S. remains a society where racism and misogyny is deeply ingrained."

Interesting statement about a society where over 350,000 WHITE men and women DIED to end the slavery of black people in the country. Many more suffered life-long injuries.

On top of that, the WHITE (and Christian) nations and peoples of Europe are the one ones who were principally responsible for the END of slavery in most of the world. White, Christian Europe was ENDING slavery when most of the rest of the world was still embracing it and profiting from it. That includes NATIVES of Africa who were the ones mostly responsible for capturing and enslaving most, if not all of their fellow Africans who were sold in the slave markets.

But present day blacks are no more responsible for slavery than present day whites. None of us are responsible for the wrong-doings of those who are long dead.

Are there racists? YES, there are. I have met them. I have worked with them. But they are a MINORITY! A  SMALL MINORITY! I live in a mixed neighborhood, white (whatever that is), black, Hispanic, Asian, Muslim, and more and no one here cares. Over 30 years here and the neighborhood has only become more mixed. SO WHAT? People are just people.

The real villains are the ones who are turning us against each other with accusations of racism. They use hatred to gain power for themselves.




--- Quote from: Sal Ammoniac on February 28, 2023, 04:19:19 pm ---No matter what tint of glasses you look through, the U.S. remains a society where racism and misogyny is deeply ingrained. Adams seems to be someone who wears his opinions on his sleeve and amplifies it with his podcast.

--- End quote ---
coppice:

--- Quote from: EPAIII on May 13, 2023, 11:15:00 pm ---"The U.S. remains a society where racism and misogyny is deeply ingrained."

Interesting statement about a society where over 350,000 WHITE men and women DIED to end the slavery of black people in the country. Many more suffered life-long injuries.

--- End quote ---
We are getting even worse garbage pushed in the UK. Like people complaining the UK never apologised for North Atlantic slavery. Instead of a meaningless "sorry" the UK committed thousands of sailors lives and huge resources to stamping out sea borne slavery routes. Unfortunately, even when the UK ruled a large chunk of the planet it couldn't stamp out all the land borne slavery routes, Some of which still flourish today. I notice that none of the people who complain about slavery from the past seem to think slavery is so awful they should be doing anything about the slavery we still see today.

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