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Author Topic: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread  (Read 1247375 times)

Morrigi

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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #10215 on: June 11, 2015, 09:07:00 pm »

Regardless, trying to determine "right" in a morally ill-defined area might as well be asking to draw a 100% accurate map of the political borders of the world in the year 1200.
Pretty much. And even in well-defined areas such as murder, it is still defined very differently in the United States and United Kingdom, for example. Killing a burglar armed with a knife in the U.S. would almost certainly be considered justifiable homicide, so long as the burglar was not surrendering or fleeing. In the UK, it would probably be considered murder regardless, since they don't recognize the same rights to self-defense and defense of property that the US does.

If defining something as important as murder is impossible between two developed, Western nations, than defining right from wrong on a global scale just isn't going to happen.
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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #10216 on: June 12, 2015, 09:32:11 am »

MY SIDES HAVE TRAVELED BEYOND THE SPEED OF LIGHT, AND SEEN SUCH THINGS THAT YOU AND I WOULD BE INCAPABLE OF DREAMING ABOUT

Some background as to why my sides have left for orbit and I'm dying due to, as a wise man once said, intense tummy rupture. The NAACP is the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People. Pretty self explanatory what they do. The President of the NAACP, Rachel Dolezal, has documented that she's been the target of some hate crimes in the past. Things like Swastikas stuck to the side of her building or hate mail being sent.
But then the police started getting suspicious, because they could find no evidence or suspects in regards as to who was threatening her. Most suspicious of all was that the hate mail sent had not been processed.
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Postal workers told detectives the envelope had not been canceled, time stamped or imprinted with the bar code that directs mail to the right destination. According to the police report, the postal inspector told detectives, "The only way this letter could have ended up in this P.O. box would be if it was placed there by someone with a key to that box or a USPS employee."
Now, that's not hilarious. That's not even funny. Where it gets funny is that after this story came to light, her parents made an amazing allegation.


They've said this whole time she's been a white woman pretending to be black.
Here's an interview with her claiming who her father is. Someone is cheating someone here!
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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #10217 on: June 12, 2015, 09:36:56 am »

Just going to note that she's only the NAACP's Spokane Chapter President. Also, that's some serious incompetence there: if you want to fake letters, why don't you just post them anyway?

But this is hilarious. :p Although it does make you think about what it means to be black or white, and whether those distinctions even make sense.
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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #10218 on: June 12, 2015, 09:44:37 am »

Lel, I'm assuming she must've forgotten. I do agree, this would make for an interesting discussion if my ribcage wasn't collapsing.

How did she fool anyone at all lolololololololol


IT HAS REACHED INTERNATIONAL NEWS HEADLINES NOW

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Dolezal's parents told local media the family's ancestry is Czech, Swedish and German, with some Native American heritage as well. Her parents say her African-American "son" is actually her brother, who was adopted by the family
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Spokane NAACP’s Facebook page has an image of Dolezal with an older black man, whom it describes as her father. The CDA Press, however, names the man as Albert Wilkerson, a volunteer at the Human Rights Education Institute in north Idaho, where Dolezal previously worked.
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Oh gods, it just gets better/worse, she is the crystallized embodiment of privilege checking - she checked it so hard she literally became the first recorded case of someone seriously trying to be transblack outside of tumblr

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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #10219 on: June 12, 2015, 10:15:38 am »

my sides

in orbit

took me with them

please send help
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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #10220 on: June 12, 2015, 10:15:54 am »

It's all ogre, real life is indistinguishable from trolling

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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #10221 on: June 12, 2015, 10:17:45 am »

I was thinking, y'know, it would be nice if the legal system wasn't so easily abused by money.
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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #10222 on: June 12, 2015, 10:18:22 am »

I am experiencing a feeling that I can only describe as "existential amusement".
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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #10223 on: June 12, 2015, 10:24:47 am »

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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #10224 on: June 12, 2015, 10:26:49 am »

I'm experiencing poignant sadness and despair, as opposed to mirth and laughter.

The worst part is that this affair will provide cartloads of ammo for racists and wingnuts everywhere.
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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #10225 on: June 12, 2015, 10:32:45 am »

I'm experiencing poignant sadness and despair, as opposed to mirth and laughter.
The worst part is that this affair will provide cartloads of ammo for racists and wingnuts everywhere.
Hahahaha, just enjoy the sheer utter madness of it all, and don't worry about racists and their ilk I don't think they even know how to respond to a white woman blackfacing to climb the NAACP ranks, it's utterly unprecedented, I'm feeling more for the African Americans on twitter calling her out for betraying them in less polite terms oh god it's just too bizarre, the dank memes were too strong and now they're becoming real

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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #10226 on: June 12, 2015, 10:42:57 am »

My sides have ascended into the stratosphere.
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« Reply #10227 on: June 12, 2015, 10:52:24 am »

all i have left is a dream of sides, and that too is sailing away in the void of space
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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #10228 on: June 12, 2015, 10:55:37 am »

The sides rise
#transracial and #wrongskin now trending worldwide

its all ogre

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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #10229 on: June 12, 2015, 10:57:12 am »

This was basically inevitable when ideas like race being metaphysical and inner identity being as valuable as reality started getting popular among radical leftists.
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