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Alexis Jacobi wrote: Fri Jul 07, 2023 12:49 pm
Harbal wrote: Fri Jul 07, 2023 9:05 am
It seems to me that a "wokie" is just someone who doesn't see things exactly the same as you do.
It can be used way too loosely, unfortunately. But people always avail themselves of easy labels that they can use against opponents.

Wokeness must be defined. It refers to those deeply or shallowly influenced by Critical Theory. To understand CT requires about a day. But a week would be better.
You seem to have many concerns about the way the world is going, and obviously take a dim view of my not caring about much, but if there is one thing I do care about it is the alarming amount of right wing propaganda and disinformation that dimwits like Wizard swallow hook, line and sinker. I don't really have any political leanings, but it seems that if you don't totally accept the garbage the extreme right put out you are a raving communist. I don't have the words to express how stupid that obnoxious little man is.

I probably sound a bit angrier than I am. 🙂
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Wizard22 wrote: Fri Jul 07, 2023 12:59 pm
FlashDangerpants wrote: Fri Jul 07, 2023 12:12 pmAnd there's only one person peddling that particular theory here...
about that globohomo thing.JPG
Nice cherry-picking, moshe, maybe I'll bother myself to show a bunch of far-leftist, socialist, marxist 4chan posts tomorrow to prove how absolutely dumb you are?
You aren't helping yourself by trying to imply that I am jewish and part of the conspiracy against you.

You have spewed the globohomo conspiracy theory here already. You have told me that jews run the baking system and are impoverishing the west to create some sort of social breakdown. You also told us that Zelensky is a zionist agent, 'sacrificing' millions of slavs. There's no point trying to wriggle, just accept that you have already revealed yourself.

If it's any consolation, Alexis JAcobi likes you just fine. I'm sure he will PM you membership details for a club with a uniform you'll look just adorable in.
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FlashDangerpants wrote: Fri Jul 07, 2023 1:28 pm
Wizard22 wrote: Fri Jul 07, 2023 12:59 pm
FlashDangerpants wrote: Fri Jul 07, 2023 12:12 pmAnd there's only one person peddling that particular theory here...
about that globohomo thing.JPG
Nice cherry-picking, moshe, maybe I'll bother myself to show a bunch of far-leftist, socialist, marxist 4chan posts tomorrow to prove how absolutely dumb you are?
You aren't helping yourself by trying to imply that I am jewish and part of the conspiracy against you.
He doesn't need to believe you are something to accuse you of it. When I didn't agree with him about gays, I suddenly became gay. I am currently a member of the far left. 🙂
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Harbal wrote: Fri Jul 07, 2023 1:35 pm
FlashDangerpants wrote: Fri Jul 07, 2023 1:28 pm
Wizard22 wrote: Fri Jul 07, 2023 12:59 pm
Nice cherry-picking, moshe, maybe I'll bother myself to show a bunch of far-leftist, socialist, marxist 4chan posts tomorrow to prove how absolutely dumb you are?
You aren't helping yourself by trying to imply that I am jewish and part of the conspiracy against you.
He doesn't need to believe you are something to accuse you of it. When I didn't agree with him about gays, I suddenly became gay. I am currently a member of the far left. 🙂
What a talented man he is, he managed to paint you pink and red at the same time.
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FlashDangerpants wrote: Fri Jul 07, 2023 1:40 pm
Harbal wrote: Fri Jul 07, 2023 1:35 pm
FlashDangerpants wrote: Fri Jul 07, 2023 1:28 pm
You aren't helping yourself by trying to imply that I am jewish and part of the conspiracy against you.
He doesn't need to believe you are something to accuse you of it. When I didn't agree with him about gays, I suddenly became gay. I am currently a member of the far left. 🙂
What a talented man he is, he managed to paint you pink and red at the same time.
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Harbal wrote: Fri Jul 07, 2023 1:22 pm You seem to have many concerns about the way the world is going, and obviously take a dim view of my not caring about much, but if there is one thing I do care about it is the alarming amount of right wing propaganda and disinformation that dimwits like Wizard swallow hook, line and sinker. I don't really have any political leanings, but it seems that if you don't totally accept the garbage the extreme right put out you are a raving communist. I don't have the words to express how stupid that obnoxious little man is.

I probably sound a bit angrier than I am.
In contradistinction to you I have dedicated years (almost 10) to actually reading the written material of this you label Right Wing Propaganda. And because I have this experience, and many years previous reading Left-Progressive sources, I can fairly say that I can talk about both sides of the coin fairly and coherently. I neither condemn nor support any other person's view who writes on this forum, but what I try to do is comment when I can, where I can, to clarify things that need clarification.

I have concerns, that is true, but as I often say my primary focus is my own self. But to get clear about *what I am* I have to examine *how I was informed*, and in my case that means long processes of review (of my education, my parent's views, and the views and ideas I absorbed from my culture). It is a sociological, political, but also spiritual (or religious if you wish) but ultimately personal process. I am not an activist, I am someone who desires to understand things. Understanding is a sort of hobby then.

If you care about Right Wing Propaganda in today's world I would suggest reading carefully and first-hand those who are writing intelligently on the theme. If you rely on the typical and rather shallow Left Wing Propagandists you will not get a good picture. As you know (as I hope you know) all things get distorted and misrepresented.

If you really and truly want to understand what is going on in today's political and social world, and including if you want to understand those things portrayed as the darkest and most *wrong* and *evil* (racism and anti-Semitism and also climate denial seem to be at the top of the list) there is no way around reading widely, and also reading and listening to people that you might instinctively despise.

There are some real *pieces of work* out there in both camps of extremism, that is clear as day. How can these positions be understood and, if needed, disassembled, dismantled and rejected? Well, first one will have had to do the world of reading and understanding their positions.

A *balanced examination* and a *balanced perspective* has been made to seem deeply compromised, deeply suspect, and bordering on what is defined as *evil*. In our present, and widely, the approach I advocate for is completely shunned.
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FlashDangerpants wrote: Fri Jul 07, 2023 1:28 pm You aren't helping yourself by trying to imply that I am jewish and part of the conspiracy against you.

You have spewed the globohomo conspiracy theory here already. You have told me that jews run the baking system and are impoverishing the west to create some sort of social breakdown. You also told us that Zelensky is a zionist agent, 'sacrificing' millions of slavs. There's no point trying to wriggle, just accept that you have already revealed yourself.

If it's any consolation, Alexis JAcobi likes you just fine. I'm sure he will PM you membership details for a club with a uniform you'll look just adorable in.
You are doing what is very natural for you: working your poisons. To say "Alexis JAcobi likes you just fine" is the way that you attempt, through an association you establish, a link-of-complicity. You engage in devious means to poison what can be illuminating conversation that all can learn from.

Globohomo is an ironic term -- a meme really -- that nevertheless can be explained in clear, honest, rational terms. I can do this. Just ask! And it is no *conspiracy theory* but a late movement within American liberalism (primarily) that is being applied through Americanism to the entire world. It is global and pro-homosexual. The term is valid.
You also told us that Zelensky is a Zionist agent, 'sacrificing' millions of slavs.
Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have died -- up to 300,000 if the count I have is right -- and Ukraine cannot win this war. The war was cynically provoked by the US in a similar manner that Iraq (2) and Afghanistan were provoked. Generally, wide swaths of people in the US have turned against this jingoism and these extremely morally reprehensible adventures. American Neo-Con interests stand behind these morally corrupt adventures. And there is always a clear link between Neo-Conservatism and support for Israel's larger policies in the region. These have been investigated and exposed by Jewish scholars -- and indeed Ha'aretz articles regularly talk about these collusions (within limits). There is a wide-ranging critical conversation within Israeli society and in the Jewish diaspora (of about I assume you are completely ignorant).

Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have lost their lives in a war that OBVIOUSLY could have been avoided. These views are circulating widely -- everywhere except in the legacy media. Most Jews when they are reflexively Pro-Zionist (I grew up in this environment in the California Reform community), and without thinking much about it. Zionism of this sort is deeply problematic. But then so is Israel as a modern state. These are views explored by serious Jewish scholars.

See for example the ideas and position of (Israeli) Miko Peled, son of an important Israeli general and an anti-Zionist.

Many Jewish Neo-Cons are understood to be without question Pro-Zionist and, given their platform and influence, are part of the last 20-30 years of incursions into Arab lands. So these things can be talked through -- fairly, carefully, rationally. But doing so will quickly earn one the label Anti-Semitic. And it will be used as you use it: to invalidate sound arguments.
There's no point trying to wriggle, just accept that you have already revealed yourself.
In the rational conversation I envision as possible and necessary no wiggling is needed. Just a willingness to examine the facts and talk them through.
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Alexis Jacobi wrote: Fri Jul 07, 2023 2:43 pm

If you care about Right Wing Propaganda in today's world I would suggest reading carefully and first-hand those who are writing intelligently on the theme. If you rely on the typical and rather shallow Left Wing Propagandists you will not get a good picture. As you know (as I hope you know) all things get distorted and misrepresented.
I don't care which direction propaganda (or let's call it what it is: lies) comes from; I hate it all equally. I only refer to right wing disinformation because that is ovewhelmingly the type I have come across. I don't know whether the left or right put out the most, because I never see its origins, I only know of it by seeing it regurgitated on internet forums, by gullible idiots like Wizard. These people invariably have right wing leanings. Covid is an international conspiracy, and the vaccine is either meant to kill off the excess world population, or a means of turning us into controlable robots. 5G fries our brains, or gives us cancer, or both and more besides. Satanists have got huge undergroung cities where they keep kidnapped children for sex trafficking. Quite a number of high profile Democratic polititions are involved in that one, apparently. The preposterously blatent lying in support, and defence of, Donald Trump are far too numerous to list. There are more examples that escape me for the moment. If the extreme left put out similar crap, I don't come across it, but it wouldn't surprise me to learn that they do. I don't condemn anyone for voicing and arguing for their views as long as they do it with honesty.
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Constantine wrote: Thu Jul 06, 2023 11:27 am https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2023/07/ ... ral-video/

Most people are against the woke due to the inherent hypocritical racism. You can't cure a disease by throwing more of the same disease at it. This article about a party member in India peeing on a poor caste member in India is disgusting. What's the best way for a society to reduce racism?
But that is Breitbart.
The cast system in India is not "woke".

They are just playing you like a cheap violin.
But thanks for lining the article, now I can imagine how America is full of brain dead morons who are misinformed.

This would be funny if it were not so tragic.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi
is "WOKE"??

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Harbal wrote: Fri Jul 07, 2023 3:23 pm I only refer to right wing disinformation because that is ovewhelmingly the type I have come across. I don't know whether the left or right put out the most, because I never see its origins, I only know of it by seeing it regurgitated on internet forums, by gullible idiots like Wizard. These people invariably have right wing leanings.
Can we experiment with an example? Let’s put aside Covid. What are a couple of the most ‘lying’ RW disinformation examples you can present? I am curious what they are.

Are you sure sure sure that Wizard is “right wing”? Note that many classical centrists are now labeled Far Right.

This is what you are referring to then?
Covid is an international conspiracy, and the vaccine is either meant to kill off the excess world population, or a means of turning us into controlable robots. 5G fries our brains, or gives us cancer, or both and more besides. Satanists have got huge undergroung cities where they keep kidnapped children for sex trafficking. Quite a number of high profile Democratic polititions are involved in that one, apparently. The preposterously blatent lying in support, and defence of, Donald Trump are far too numerous to list. There are more examples that escape me for the moment.
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Alexis Jacobi wrote: Fri Jul 07, 2023 5:00 pm Are you sure sure sure that Wizard is “right wing”? Note that many classical centrists are now labeled Far Right.
I don't know what he is, to be honest, other than an idiot, anti gay, and paranoid about "the Left". I've been on quite a few forums over the last few years, and I recognise him as a type. They are all the same. Anti left, anti gay, forever coming out with scare stories intended to get people worked up over some group of other people they have it in for. Low intelligence but think they are sharp as a razor. Honestly, I'm not just saying this, they are so consistent it's like they all came off a production line.
Can we experiment with an example? Let’s put aside Covid. What are a couple of the most ‘lying’ RW disinformation examples you can present? I am curious what they are.
I don't really think I can give you what you are asking for, because I'm just spouting off based on my impressions, which is kind of what I'm accusing others of, but at least my impressions are formed from my own observation, rather than by reading rubbish on some toxic website or other. The worst of it was when Trump was in office; it was a kind of love him or hate him situation, and I despise the man in a way I've never experienced before, and it's not as if I'm even interested in politics, let alone American politics. There were things about Trump that should have been obvious to even a five year old child: He was a pathological liar, had no ethical sense whatsoever, and was totally incompetant. He's just an absolutely obnoxious person, but I admit that could just be my personal taste in people. Anyway, people used to support and defend him with the most preposterous untruthes imaginable; it was astounding. I think the whole phenomenon of organised disinformation really stepped up a gear or two during that period. If there's only one thing that's happening in the world that bothers me it's that. I hate it and it worries me what sort of society we will be living in if the lying bastards who are orchestrating all this gain real political influence.
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Alexis Jacobi wrote: Fri Jul 07, 2023 1:12 pm Globohomo is a marvellous term. It is ironic, clever and poignant. But it does require a serious definition. Happy to oblige if asked …
I would be interested to see a definiton. It needs to be good, because I'm not getting any of the above from it. It's extraordinarily ugly anyway.
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Harbal wrote: Fri Jul 07, 2023 6:32 pm
Can we experiment with an example? Let’s put aside Covid. What are a couple of the most ‘lying’ RW disinformation examples you can present? I am curious what they are.
I don't really think I can give you what you are asking for, because I'm just spouting off based on my impressions, which is kind of what I'm accusing others of, but at least my impressions are formed from my own observation, rather than by reading rubbish on some toxic website or other.
I dunno, I would say we've seen quite a few truly weird ones on this site when Walker gets going with Henry and Nick and IC in tow.
So the whole Kraken thing with Venezuelans taking over the voting system in America using Italian satellites to flip votes from trump to Biden has to be one winner in this lottery of fucknuttery.
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Harbal wrote: Fri Jul 07, 2023 6:32 pm
Alexis Jacobi wrote: Fri Jul 07, 2023 5:00 pm Are you sure sure sure that Wizard is “right wing”? Note that many classical centrists are now labeled Far Right.
I don't know what he is, to be honest, other than an idiot, anti gay, and paranoid about "the Left". I've been on quite a few forums over the last few years, and I recognise him as a type. They are all the same. Anti left, anti gay, forever coming out with scare stories intended to get people worked up over some group of other people they have it in for. Low intelligence but think they are sharp as a razor. Honestly, I'm not just saying this, they are so consistent it's like they all came off a production line.
Can we experiment with an example? Let’s put aside Covid. What are a couple of the most ‘lying’ RW disinformation examples you can present? I am curious what they are.
I don't really think I can give you what you are asking for, because I'm just spouting off based on my impressions, which is kind of what I'm accusing others of, but at least my impressions are formed from my own observation, rather than by reading rubbish on some toxic website or other. The worst of it was when Trump was in office; it was a kind of love him or hate him situation, and I despise the man in a way I've never experienced before, and it's not as if I'm even interested in politics, let alone American politics. There were things about Trump that should have been obvious to even a five year old child: He was a pathological liar, had no ethical sense whatsoever, and was totally incompetant. He's just an absolutely obnoxious person, but I admit that could just be my personal taste in people. Anyway, people used to support and defend him with the most preposterous untruthes imaginable; it was astounding. I think the whole phenomenon of organised disinformation really stepped up a gear or two during that period. If there's only one thing that's happening in the world that bothers me it's that. I hate it and it worries me what sort of society we will be living in if the lying bastards who are orchestrating all this gain real political influence.
So you despised him more than W Bush? I find that irrational. Trump is clownish and over the top, but that's because he's not a politician's arsehole. He's just being himself in an exaggerated way for entertainment value. Not evil though.
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