Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 21:59:01 -0400
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On 3/13/2024 7:25 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> moviePig <never@nothere.com> wrote:
>> On 3/13/2024 4:14 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>> In article
>>> <17bc6a65e0fefe3d$133203$1098985$c8d58268@news.newsdemon.com>,
>>> moviePig <never@nothere.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 3/12/2024 11:36 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>> In article <75r1vidlcuq3nd6lsnd4o1s254bn9khpgu@4ax.com>,
>>>>> The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, 12 Mar 2024 12:10:11 -0400, Rhino
>>>>>> <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> A bill passed earlier in Trudeau's Reign of Error made people eligible
>>>>>>> for two years in prison for "mis-gendering" (i.e. correctly identifying
>>>>>>> the gender of an individual). They got away with that so now they've
>>>>>>> upped the ante to put us in prison for life for hate speech.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I suppose I could be in trouble then since I have publicly and online
>>>>>> denounced the Gladue decision and the UNDRIP.
>>>>>
>>>>> Has anyone pointed out to Trudeau how ironic it is that a guy who has
>>>>> been caught in blackface is now proposing life sentences for hate
>>>>> speech?
>>>>>
>>>>> Has anyone suggested he lead by example and check himself into the
>>>>> nearest maximum security prison?
>>>>
>>>> Trudeau's blackface wasn't a clear expression of hate ...which 'hate
>>>> speech' presumably is.
>>>
>>> Yes, there's always an excuse for why "it's different when we do it".
>>>
>>> Ask any BLM/NAACP/black racial grievance group if they consider
>>> appearing blackface to be hate and I bet they have a different standard
>>> than you do. And the rules of political correctness say their definition
>>> controls.
>>
>> No, there isn't "always an excuse" for why it might be "different".
>> Consider, for example, the recent discussion of RuPaul's book-banning.
>>
>> Meanwhile, the question of 'hate' is determined by the offender's state
>> of mind, not the offendee's.
> 
> Not according to all the woke DEI training everyone has to go through these
> days. Your intent doesn't matter. It's the offended person's feelings that
> matter.
> 
> That's why people can get fired for using the word niggardly. Doesn't
> matter if the word has no racial meaning. Doesn't matter that the person
> who used it had no intent to offend. All that matters is that a stupid
> person with a stunted vocabulary was offended.

'Training' is presumably to let people know what things might be 
unexpectedly injurious.  'Hate' is what might be inferred of someone who 
does such things despite already knowing.

By now, we'd both bet that 'niggardly' is used primarily to taunt.