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The Real problem with cancel culture

Started by viper37, July 12, 2020, 10:24:36 AM

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Barrister

Quote from: Razgovory on November 18, 2021, 01:06:49 PM
Quote from: garbon on November 18, 2021, 11:17:04 AM
Also, who doesn't experiment in college?

Most people here would be fired if they experimented being Indian while in college.

And that is cancel culture, and it would be wrong.
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Grey Fox

Quote from: Barrister on November 18, 2021, 01:15:55 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on November 18, 2021, 01:06:49 PM
Quote from: garbon on November 18, 2021, 11:17:04 AM
Also, who doesn't experiment in college?

Most people here would be fired if they experimented being Indian while in college.

And that is cancel culture, and it would be wrong.

And also, maybe, fraud.
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Jacob

I think Dorsey experimented with being black while in college, IIRC.

Darth Wagtaros

I think Martinus experimented with being Russian for a while.
PDH!

garbon

Quote from: Razgovory on November 18, 2021, 01:06:49 PM
Quote from: garbon on November 18, 2021, 11:17:04 AM
Also, who doesn't experiment in college?

Most people here would be fired if they experimented being Indian while in college.

I'm not sure being mistaken for Indian is really a personal failing.
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ulmont

Quote from: garbon on November 18, 2021, 02:00:10 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on November 18, 2021, 01:06:49 PM
Quote from: garbon on November 18, 2021, 11:17:04 AM
Also, who doesn't experiment in college?

Most people here would be fired if they experimented being Indian while in college.

I'm not sure being mistaken for Indian is really a personal failing.

I've assumed you were Indian for over a decade now, FYI.

garbon

Quote from: ulmont on November 18, 2021, 02:17:35 PM
Quote from: garbon on November 18, 2021, 02:00:10 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on November 18, 2021, 01:06:49 PM
Quote from: garbon on November 18, 2021, 11:17:04 AM
Also, who doesn't experiment in college?

Most people here would be fired if they experimented being Indian while in college.

I'm not sure being mistaken for Indian is really a personal failing.

I've assumed you were Indian for over a decade now, FYI.

Meowtf?
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Razgovory

Quote from: Jacob on November 18, 2021, 01:35:13 PM
I think Dorsey experimented with being black while in college, IIRC.

I experimented being sane:  It was a failure.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

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Quote from: Jacob on November 18, 2021, 01:35:13 PM
I think Dorsey experimented with being black while in college, IIRC.

Ken Dorsey experimented with being an NFL caliber QB but that ended quick.
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Quote from: The Minsky Moment on November 18, 2021, 02:47:56 PM
Quote from: Jacob on November 18, 2021, 01:35:13 PM
I think Dorsey experimented with being black while in college, IIRC.

Ken Dorsey experimented with being an NFL caliber QB but that ended quick.

But he's been aged up since then.
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Hubris must be punished. Severely.

Berkut

Quote from: Tyr on November 18, 2021, 03:41:20 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on November 18, 2021, 02:26:49 AM
I don't really care that much how the right uses the word.  Why should anyone else?

I obviously disagree about grievance and status.
Because that's the dominant usage of the word in 2021.

It is ironic that you feel you have the right to use the word yourself, and have it mean (when you use it) to mean what YOU want it to mean.

But if I or Yi use it, then it doesn't matter what we mean by the word, because the "dominant usage" provision comes into effect, and we have to defend how some other group use it.
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Barrister

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Quote from: The Minsky Moment on November 18, 2021, 02:47:56 PM
Quote from: Jacob on November 18, 2021, 01:35:13 PM
I think Dorsey experimented with being black while in college, IIRC.

Ken Dorsey experimented with being an NFL caliber QB but that ended quick.

Just so we can all feel old...

The Dorsey4Heisman account would have been created in about 2001-2002, when Ken Dorsey was QB for Miami University.

Since then Ken Dorsey (who never won the Heisman, but was a runner up twice) went on to an unremarkable 7 year NFL career, then went on to scout and coach.  He's currently the QB coach and "passing game coordinator" for the Buffalo Bills.
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DGuller

Quote from: Barrister on November 18, 2021, 03:01:32 PM
He's currently the QB coach and "assing game coordinator" for the Buffalo Bills.
I don't want to know neither that game nor what the coordination for it entails. :x

Barrister

Quote from: DGuller on November 18, 2021, 03:04:31 PM
Quote from: Barrister on November 18, 2021, 03:01:32 PM
He's currently the QB coach and "assing game coordinator" for the Buffalo Bills.
I don't want to know neither that game nor what the coordination for it entails. :x

:lol:

I'll fix it.
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