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andrewducker) wrote2011-11-12 11:00 am
andrewducker) wrote2011-11-12 11:00 am
Interesting Links for 12-11-2011
- The King of Human Error - a fascinating piece on the Nobel Prize-winning psychologist who showed how irrational people are.
- Children should not be forced to eat everything on their plate. Dessert should never be used as a reward.
- More on the new sandboxing for the Mac Application Store
- EMI being split up and sold off. We're down to three major labels.
- Screaming the carrier tone - a talent only useful during a tiny fraction of history.
- Climate change scepticism is a largely Anglo-Saxon phenomenon.
- LiveJournal under DDOS again
- R.I.P. "Marvelman" Creator Mick Anglo
- Outrage as French magazine bombed by Warhammer enthusiasts
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Because from where I sit, you're a longstanding supporter of openly racist politicians, a rabid xenophobe, who uses racist slurs and defends their use, and who just said that critical thinking was a form of "intellectual rigor is found primarily in the [any White person whose native language is English and whose cultural affiliations are those common to Britain and the US | of or relating to the White Protestant culture of Britain, Australia, and the US | A member of one of the Germanic peoples, the Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes, who settled in Britain in the fifth and sixth centuries. Any of the descendants of the Anglo-Saxons] world."
If you're going to claim that ONCE AGAIN you had no idea what you were saying, and that ONCE AGAIN you didn't know what any of the words you used meant, then I really want to know what you think you were saying, and why anyone should assume it wasn't just more of your ignorant casually racist ouevre.
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In this context, 'Anglo-Saxon' is a term used in continental Europe to refer to the economic system typified by the United States and the United Kingdom - that is, a rather more liberal economic system than the more corporatist and statist models of say France.
It has nothing to do with descent from certain Germanic tribes of the second half of the first millennium AD.
You're obviously interpreting something that I can't see in gwendally's comments. Since I can't see it, and he/she can't see it, at least consider that it isn't there at all, and that you are seeing 'racism' in places where it isn't.
I don't know gwendally, and for all I know he/she might be a Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard or a Nazi war criminal in hiding. But I see no evidence of racism in front of me, so calm down before you accuse someone of being a "racist".
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Interesting concept, but it would hold more water and be more likely to provide an explanation if Gwendally wasn't from Massachusetts and didn't regularly expose the fact that she's barely aware that non-US countries have differences.
And if she didn't regularly say the most astoundingly fuckwitted racist things - and then didn't, regularly, defend them by claiming she didn't know what any of the words meant.
for all I know he/she might be a Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard or a Nazi war criminal in hiding.
Nope. Just a white American with a profound fear of the other, a crippling lack of curiousity, and a severe overestimation of her own education and intelligence.
But I see no evidence of racism in front of me
Someone with a long history of making racist statements said "only white people do critical thinking. Intellectual rigour is why white people are better."
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More seriously,
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I absolutely agree that
Also, cherry-picking meaning so that "anglo-saxon" means what the author may have it mean, but the explicit use of "climate sceptisism" totally gets stripped down to "sceptiscism" and criticised on that level? I'd consider that a bit thin in terms of intellectual honesty.
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