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Main Forums => Politics => Topic started by: Ben on September 26, 2019, 09:15:21 AM
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I might be mixing them up with another Jewish organization, but I thought the ADL had a bit more common sense than this. They are officially listing the 4Chan "OK" hoax as a hate symbol.
As I have mentioned here before ad nauseam, this thing with the "OK" sign really grinds my gears. It's a primary sign of how absolutely crazy things are getting. And yes, I continue to use it as often as I always have. I don't care who is in the room, I will never stop to think, "Wait, is it okay to OK?"
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/26/us/adl-new-hate-symbols/index.html
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(https://secure.i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01822/obama_1822024c.jpg)
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I keep asking older people:
Did the years from 1980-2000 seem as different and just plain INSANE of a change as the years from 2000-2020?
Because I feel like I'm living in a completely different world that I have no desire to be a part of. ("Through the looking glass")
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I keep asking older people:
Did the years from 1980-2000 seem as different and just plain INSANE of a change as the years from 2000-2020?
Because I feel like I'm living in a completely different world that I have no desire to be a part of. ("Through the looking glass")
There really wasn't the online echo chamber before 2000. Prior to that, they were more likely to interact with more normal people around them.
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I keep asking older people:
Did the years from 1980-2000 seem as different and just plain INSANE of a change as the years from 2000-2020?
Because I feel like I'm living in a completely different world that I have no desire to be a part of. ("Through the looking glass")
The country from 1980-2000 was a bit wacky but still comprehensible and decent.
From 2000 onwards we have absolutly gone stark raving batsh|t cr@Zee. As of September 2019 we are officially living in Clown World.
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The country from 1980-2000 was a bit wacky but still comprehensible and decent.
From 2000 onwards we have absolutly gone stark raving batsh|t cr@Zee. As of September 2019 we are officially living in Clown World.
I guess that's the point of a "slippery slope", it implies things will not only get worse, but get worse faster as time goes on.
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Probably a lot of virtual high fiving and celebration on 4 Chan today. ;)
The power of a determined force and today's connected world producing results, intended or not.
:)
bob
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Add bowl haircuts to the list:
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2019/09/26/rolling-stone-is-on-top-of-that-story-of-the-bowl-cut-being-a-symbol-of-white-supremacy/
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Add bowl haircuts to the list:
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2019/09/26/rolling-stone-is-on-top-of-that-story-of-the-bowl-cut-being-a-symbol-of-white-supremacy/
Hey Moe!
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Why do surfacing divers hate the Jews anyway?
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There really wasn't the online echo chamber before 2000. Prior to that, they were more likely to interact with more normal people around them.
The dates are subject to some slippage, but that's the way I see it. Pre-"stark raving batsh|t cr@Zeeness", the most sophisticated electronics in small retail stores and the like were fax machines and a TV set in the back room.
Personal communication with the whole world was pretty much limited to dial-up Bulletin Boards at 300-1200 baud, and chances were only one or two people at a time could participate in the board.
{I remember exerting great effort to set up my TI-99 4a* so I could type out stuff, store it on a 5-1/4" floppy (instead of cassette tape storage) and dump it to a bulletin board in one fell swoop, "when I got in." Apple's donation of the 2e to thousands of schools all over the country had a large influence in the proliferation of computer savvy. I also remember several sitcom episodes of the time where the main premise was "getting a computer," or dealing with the home computer's quirks.}
The widening of those channels and the proliferation of individual computer setups resulted, in my opinion, of "too much of a good thing," especially since anonymity was possible. It wasn't like sitting around the wood stove in the general store and espousing some stupidity, or voicing that stupidity in a town meeting.
So. Yes. But without any sharp cutofff with respect to actual years.
Terry, 230RN
* The "4a" indicated that the Texas Instruments machine could handle upper and lower case text. Whoopie !
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I keep asking older people:
Did the years from 1980-2000 seem as different and just plain INSANE of a change as the years from 2000-2020?
Because I feel like I'm living in a completely different world that I have no desire to be a part of. ("Through the looking glass")
No, they did not. It seems to be ramping up.
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I'm sure there could be discussion of the timing and "slope" of the craziness phenomenon, probably due to the timing of when the arguer entered the computer scene. I don't see it as a cliff, but rather as a slippery slope that got more or less slippery from time to time.
I suppose one could even argue that the Macintosh attracted more "liberal" users than the PC, and the Mac, therefore, was the cause of all the contention and polarization. If one were so inclined to so argue. :rofl:
So.
Terry, 230RN
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The dates are subject to some slippage, but that's the way I see it. Pre-"stark raving batsh|t cr@Zeeness", the most sophisticated electronics in small retail stores and the like were fax machines and a TV set in the back room.
Personal communication with the whole world was pretty much limited to dial-up Bulletin Boards at 300-1200 baud, and chances were only one or two people at a time could participate in the board.
{I remember exerting great effort to set up my TI-99 4a* so I could type out stuff, store it on a 5-1/4" floppy (instead of cassette tape storage) and dump it to a bulletin board in one fell swoop, "when I got in." Apple's donation of the 2e to thousands of schools all over the country had a large influence in the proliferation of computer savvy. I also remember several sitcom episodes of the time where the main premise was "getting a computer," or dealing with the home computer's quirks.}
The widening of those channels and the proliferation of individual computer setups resulted, in my opinion, of "too much of a good thing," especially since anonymity was possible. It wasn't like sitting around the wood stove in the general store and espousing some stupidity, or voicing that stupidity in a town meeting.
So. Yes. But without any sharp cutofff with respect to actual years.
Terry, 230RN
* The "4a" indicated that the Texas Instruments machine could handle upper and lower case text. Whoopie !
I don't know if I really think anonymity was a driving factor. I was thinking about the ability to find corners of the internet where you can voice ideas without allowing reality to intrude. And moderators can kick out anyone who voices disagreement.
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Add bowl haircuts to the list:
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2019/09/26/rolling-stone-is-on-top-of-that-story-of-the-bowl-cut-being-a-symbol-of-white-supremacy/
Finally went through all the responses on that. :laugh:
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^^
"And moderators can kick out anyone who voices disagreement."
A good point, thanks.
Terry
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This racist hatred is FAR more pervasive than most people realize . . .
HATER!
(https://media.breitbart.com/media/cdn/mediaserver/Breitbart/Big-Hollywood/2014/11/12/bill-clinton-ok-ap.jpg)
WHITE SUPREMACIST!
(https://i.pinimg.com/236x/2a/1f/48/2a1f482bcde95f66af3dbbcfec72d6c8--music-covers-album-covers.jpg)
DOUBLE HATER RACIST!
(https://cdn1.considerable.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/16174514/oprah.jpg)
DEPLORABLE HATER!
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSWEAGJBC_KTSUuK3c6c9h30TzcopJsbFJa9eqYwcAw4vQb0LR_)
FOREIGN HATER!
(https://thedevilthedecieverofthewholeworld.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/666_ha13.jpg?w=260&h=156)
HALF WHITE SUPREMACIST!
(https://compote.slate.com/images/5e297143-f1a9-4f95-ad26-2349eada8bf0.jpg)
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This racist hatred is FAR more pervasive than most people realize . . .
HALF WHITE SUPREMACIST!
(https://compote.slate.com/images/5e297143-f1a9-4f95-ad26-2349eada8bf0.jpg)
If he's half white, does that make him a half supremicist? So would that be a white (or half white) mediocritist?
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^ Very grinnable, Hawkmoon. =D
TNX.
Threadwin?
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If he's half white, does that make him a half supremicist? So would that be a white (or half white) mediocritist?
His white half enslaves his black half. Duh.
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A Universal Orlando actor who dressed as "Gru" from the “Despicable Me” animated movie franchise has been fired after allegedly making a hand gesture associated with white supremacists in a photo with a biracial girl.
The photo with the girl, now 7, who is autistic, shows her posing with the actor during a character breakfast at Loews Royal Pacific Resort, a Universal hotel, in March.
The photo shows the actor making an upside-down "OK" symbol with his hand on the girl's shoulder. The gesture is widely associated with white supremacy and far-right groups.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/universal-orlando-actor-fired-for-making-symbol-associated-with-white-supremacy
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https://www.foxnews.com/us/universal-orlando-actor-fired-for-making-symbol-associated-with-white-supremacy
The way they describe it, it sounds like it was not intentional.
And from the quotes, I have to wonder if they are just setting up for a lawsuit or settlement.