I saw this before you posted it, I don't recall comments.
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Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2024 1:43 pm
by Leisher
It was, "They should really notify the NAACP" or something to that effect.
Goes to your point that it was not considered racist not so long ago.
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Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2024 1:52 pm
by GORDON
I just think it's shitty when a young person calls an old person racist for that word, when the old person is trying to be kind and polite in the way they were taught how.
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Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2024 2:46 pm
by Leisher
GORDON wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2024 1:52 pm
I just think it's shitty when a young person calls an old person racist for that word, when the old person is trying to be kind and polite in the way they were taught how.
I also saw The Mule.
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Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2024 4:28 pm
by GORDON
I did not. I noticed this, and maybe wrote about it? About 20 years ago when my sweet ol' gramma couldn't kick the use of the word "colored." It was about this time assholes started calling people racist over it, early cancellation/snowflake prototypes, instead of taking an ounce of consideration to think about alternative reasons they might use that word. But, that requires the ability to think and reflect, and that's where I lose most people.
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Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2024 6:48 pm
by Leisher
There's a scene where Eastwood stops to help a black couple with their car. He mentions that they're a nice looking couple and somehow he says "colored". He noticed they're taken aback, realizes his mistake, and apologizes saying it's old language used by an old man or something. They never mention it again. It's a subtle moment in the film, but I thought it had a great message that actions speak louder than words and we shouldn't make assumptions just because someone's not up to date on what's acceptable.
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Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2024 8:35 pm
by GORDON
Heard an interesting line the other day:
"DEI isn't a demand problem, it's a supply problem."
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Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2024 8:19 pm
by Leisher
Anybody remember the new Scottish FM's speech ripping his country's whiteness? Well, he championed a new "hate speech" law and guess what happened?
Great self own.
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Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2024 1:37 pm
by Leisher
How diversity just for the sake of diversity can result in an overall negative in one graph:
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Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2024 4:53 pm
by Leisher
McKinsey & Co. are the group behind four studies that prove diversity is super important in business and grows profits.
They really went top 0.01% of possible outcomes there, eh?
But yeah, that Catt guys on to something
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Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2024 8:03 am
by GORDON
Unless the natives figured out germ theory on their own prior to meeting the rest of the world, in spite of having no known record of any kind of medical science or scientific method, they were still going to be screwed.
They were lucky to have lasted as long as they did.
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Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2024 12:20 pm
by Troy
There is zero reason or catalyst for them to get to that point. They wouldn't even have horses until the Spanish brought them over.
They were effectively living at the same tech level for 20,000 years.
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Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2024 12:24 pm
by Troy
E: I've been reading:
Modern day descendents of Native Americans can't believe how harsh the colonist were to conquered/subjugated/defeated tribes.
But the NA of the day? Yeah, they would have understood - and been grateful we took it EASY on them. Their standards were worse.
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Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2024 12:28 pm
by GORDON
Their "civilizations" were absolutely screwed over by the introduction of foreign diseases... which is no ones fault, it was 300 years before anyone knew what a virus was.... but I do have sympathy for them over all the treaties that were broken with those who survived, over and over.