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@ ProfessorOwl_PhD @hexbear.net

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  • Some other quotes from ol' Winnie:

    1902

    I think we shall have to take the Chinese in hand and regulate them. I believe that as civilized nations become more powerful they will get more ruthless, and the time will come when the world will impatiently bear the existence of great barbaric nations who may at any time arm themselves and menace civilized nations. I believe in the ultimate partition of China – I mean ultimate. I hope we shall not have to do it in our day. The Aryan stock is bound to triumph.

    1910

    "The unnatural and increasingly rapid growth of the Feeble-Minded and Insane classes […] constitutes a national and race danger which it is impossible to exaggerate. […] I feel that the source from which the stream of madness is fed should be cut off and sealed up before another year has passed."

    1920

    "This movement among the Jews is not new. From the days of Spartacus-Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, and down to Trotsky (Russia), Bela Kun (Hungary), Rosa Luxembourg (Germany), and Emma Goldman (United States)... this worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality, has been steadily growing. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th century; and now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads and have become practically the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.”

    1937

    "I do not admit that the dog in the manger has the final right to the manger, though he may have lain there for a very long time I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been to those people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race or at any rate a more worldly-wise race, to put it that way, has come in and taken their place. I do not admit it. I do not think the Red Indians had any right to say, 'American continent belongs to us and we are not going to have any of these European settlers coming in here'. They had not the right, nor had they the power."

    I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilised tribes.”

    1943

    "why be apologetic about Anglo-Saxon superiority, that we were superior, that we had the common heritage which had been worked out over the centuries in England and had been perfected by our constitution."

    1954

    I hate people with slit eyes and pigtails. I don't like the look of them or the smell of them – but I suppose it does no great harm to have a look at them.

  • municipalities do not build spots for them to stay with their mobile house even though they are required to build them by law

    Some Irish travellers recently took over a car park near me for the same reason, and someone at work was complaining about it so I had to explain that the road is literally called "G*psy Lane" because it used to be where travellers stayed.

  • Well obviously you're half joking, aluminium is the communist one, especially is AliExpress is anything to go by.

  • I know the poem that plays at White Sands isn't on the soundtrack, so if it's an extra vocal on top of another track it might not be part of the OST.

  • The bad guys have changed over time, meaning the focus of liberalism has changed over time. When it was the yoke of the Catholic Church that was denying individual freedom (say starting in the 16th and 17th centuries), liberals attacked it, favoring religious tolerance and free expression. When it was kings and queens (in say the 18th and 19th centuries), liberal attacked them, favoring democracy and representative governments and the protection of individual rights. In the 20th and 21st centuries (since the rise of the Industrial Revolution) it has been big business and oligarchs who are denying widespread individual freedoms, so liberals have focused their attacks on redistributing the economy and regulating capitalism.

  • I don't think you're entirely wrong, but to me it came across as them ignoring a non-binary partner's gender rather than the partner being a non-binary girl, especially with them only referring to the partner as "she"

  • i simply don't understand how you square this concept of ideas existing outside language when that's inexpressable without language.

    I think the easiest way to conceptualise it is when you're trying to explain something but struggling to find the right words - the idea is there fully formed in your mind, but you still have to search for the language to express it to someone else.

  • Definitely understand that perspective, but I'd say it doesn't really apply in a context like this; you can't reason people out of positions they didn't use reason to reach in the first place. They didn't come here intending any level of intellectual honesty, they were just here to abuse a disabled comrade, so even if there was study they'd only read it to find reasons to invalidate it. I definitely agree that if they intended to learn and better themselves it would be a dick move, but that wasn't the case here.

  • Human names are great for chickens, we used to have Lavinia, Hypollectrona, Stella and Pigwidgeon.

  • Sorry for catching you in the crossfire, but disabled people being less able to do things is in the name. Even if they think that an able person can "just get a job" it still follows that it wouldn't be that easy for a disabled person, even before you get into the major logistical and discriminatory aspects many disabled people actually have to deal with.

  • As long as you give them some enrichment activities like 4 or 5 bars and a football field they should be fine.

  • Discontinued in 2022, so there's probably some people still holding out to sell a few boxes at a 10,000% markup.

  • I can't promise it will happen, but I've signed up, so I'll do my best to make this article come true.

  • Part of me wonders if it's a lot stupider: did they force a (straight) romantic subplot in for story reasons?

  • Hey, look on the bright side, soon you'll be a local urban legend. You'll be walking down the corridor one day and overhear some saying "I heard someone got the wrong schedule and missed the first week of classes" to their friends.

  • Not always, but it can be a specific form of extremely legal public sabotage. Teachers have used it a few times in the UK because plenty of corners are cut in practice, and it is absolutely impossible to fire them for following their government legislated requirements to the letter, no matter how much time it wastes.

  • I gotta say, I've never seen One China sinophobia before, normally you people screech that Taiwan isn't part of China.

  • A few weeks ago I claimed I don't have train autism then the other day my sister pointed I'd identified 5 types of train carriage used at my local station, differentiated by their bike storage.

  • I think you're on to something, it feels like there's some element of normalising the fascist imagery by masking it with layers of incoherence.