What the Fuck is Going On with Perceptions of Racism by the Left These Days?

[Ideologue]

Is that why she hasn't posted in a while?  If true, what an asshole.

Most of you are worse than right wing: you're centrists.

[Malthus]

Is that why she hasn't posted in a while?  If true, what an asshole.

Most of you are worse than right wing: you're centrists.

We are true believers; but we don't know what we truly believe in. 

[Jacob]

Hans disagrees.  However Buddha left us for being a right wing American forum though right?

That was Sask. I don't think Buddha ever said while she left, she just drifted off. Personally I think it was the background - sometimes foreground - trans hostility that got expressed here fairly frequently; I imagine that would've gotten pretty tedious pretty quick.

[Valmy]

Is that why she hasn't posted in a while?  If true, what an asshole.

Most of you are worse than right wing: you're centrists.

I remember that was the explanation she gave on facebook.  But I don't want you harboring a deep anger towards Buddha just based on my recollections

I used to classify myself as centrist but I seem to be being pulled in a lefterly direction as I get older.

[derspiess]

However Buddha left us for being a right wing American forum though right?

Really?  I know he left a while ago but never knew why.  We're still FB friends so she obviously doesn't seem to take offense to my rightwingedness.

[Syt]

I like to think I'm a left leaning libertarian adherent of realpolitik. But that's just, like, my Weltanschauung or something.

[Valmy]

Personally I think it was the background - sometimes foreground - trans hostility that got expressed here fairly frequently; I imagine that would've gotten pretty tedious pretty quick.

Seriously?  Huh I thought we liked that part of Buddha.  People might have just been busting on her. 

[Valmy]

However Buddha left us for being a right wing American forum though right?

Really?  I know she left a while ago but never knew why.  We're still FB friends so she obviously doesn't seem to take offense to my rightwingedness.

Ok I don't want to tar Buddha with this.  Maybe it was Sask.  Either way though.

[Malthus]

I think what characterizes this forum overall is skepticism and sacrasm. Both are somewhat corrosive to deeply-held political, social or religious beliefs, of whatever stripe.

[derspiess]

Now I will admit to being a little hostile towards Sask and his views on hygiene.

[Ideologue]

Hans disagrees.  However Buddha left us for being a right wing American forum though right?

That was Sask. I don't think Buddha ever said while she left, she just drifted off. Personally I think it was the background - sometimes foreground - trans hostility that got expressed here fairly frequently; I imagine that would've gotten pretty tedious pretty quick.

I did find the transphobia more than a little off-putting, especially when we had a t-woman on the board.  It probably would've been better if we'd had more than one--I think part of the reason we get away with the (usually) joking homophobia is because like half of us are gay.  And thanks to Meri and Brazen, we narrowly get away with the misogyny.

Val, I'm not really mad.  I just miss Buddha's perspective and I also very much hope I didn't have anything to with it.  It's narrowly possible that she might've interpreted some things I said, not directly to her, as transphobia (actually more like agism, really), though I was only talking about practical concerns.

[Duque de Bragança]

I now await in fear of the crappy French translation of "Check your privilege". Past horrors of "perspective de genre" have been used quite liberally for the past decade.

[Ideologue]

Is that why she hasn't posted in a while?  If true, what an asshole.

Most of you are worse than right wing: you're centrists.

We are true believers; but we don't know what we truly believe in. 

C.R.E.A.M.

[Malthus]

Hans disagrees.  However Buddha left us for being a right wing American forum though right?

That was Sask. I don't think Buddha ever said while she left, she just drifted off. Personally I think it was the background - sometimes foreground - trans hostility that got expressed here fairly frequently; I imagine that would've gotten pretty tedious pretty quick.

I did find the transphobia more than a little off-putting, especially when we had a t-woman on the board.  It probably would've been better if we'd had more than one--I think part of the reason we get away with the (usually) joking homophobia is because like half of us are gay.  And thanks to Meri and Brazen, we narrowly get away with the misogyny.

Val, I'm not really mad.  I just miss Buddha's perspective and I also very much hope I didn't have anything to with it.  It's narrowly possible that she might've interpreted some things I said, not directly to her, as transphobia (actually more like agism, really), though I was only talking about practical concerns.

You guys will never get away with the anti-Semitism though. I'm taking names. 

Anti-lawyerism, too. 

[Valmy]

And thanks to Meri and Brazen, we narrowly get away with the misogyny.

That is what you think mr. thinspiration.