“ The vast majority of people weren't engaging in thoughtful discourse 50yrs ago or 100yrs ago. ”Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Fri Nov 26, 2021 10:16 amWoke, cancel culture. It's all stupid. So is accusing every single republican evil, uncaring, unempathetic, etc. Unfortunately the vast majority suck it up and respond in kind. Not like that's changed much in hundreds of years however, so it's not the reason in itself for the increasing division. The vast majority of people weren't engaging in thoughtful discourse 50yrs ago or 100yrs ago. We had presidents challenging dudes to duels, though at least people we're willing to give their lives for their beliefs rather than this victimization we see among almost all people these days. Probably has something to do with the nature of a binary option democracy I presume.jhu72 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 26, 2021 9:55 am More Trumpnista - republican hypocrisy and non-sense. Goldberg faults the parents of two black kids. Fair enough, there is something to be said for that, although there is more that could be said, that jackasses like Goldberg never want to discuss. Where is the faulting of the parents of Kyle Rittenhouse? Where is the right-wing commentator willing to state the obvious that says a 17 year old has no business carrying a semi-automatic rifle into a protest zone occupied by the police and under police curfew, a kid looking for trouble and finding it. A kid looking for trouble being aided and abetted by the moronic actions of the police themselves.
I also love the right's misuse of the term "woke". At one time the word may have actually had meaning in the black liberation movement. But the right's (Goldberg's) usage of the term is meaningless, just as is cancel culture. It does not serve to define, it serves to obfuscate. It is an attempt at meaningless insult, and a rallying cry for their know nothing base.
To wit, I can handle conversations with Dislaxxic or some others all day and night when they want to but I'm not sure how I'd respond to some bomb tossing by Omar or AOC who doesn't know the first thing about me but I could see lobbing allegations and accusations at the first attempt to present a position different than theirs.
Or ever? That normal distribution is a cold, hard reality.
Most humans have been and will be not too bright.
“Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise.”