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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: How quickly a bug gets fixed...
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2025 10:08:03 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-01-05, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
> On 2025-01-05 08:42, RonB wrote:
>> On 2025-01-04, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
>>> On 2025-01-04 02:37, RonB wrote:
>>>> On 2025-01-03, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
>>>>> On 2025-01-03 15:41, rbowman wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, 3 Jan 2025 08:37:19 -0500, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     They didn't resist the vaccine, they
>>>>>>> didn't resist the mask, they didn't resist the pronoun garbage; why
>>>>>>> would they resist the Mark?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I skipped the vaccine and had my useless, Chinese made, N0 muzzle to get
>>>>>> me into CostCo, but how do you 'resist' the pronoun garbage?
>>>>>
>>>>> By refusing to address people who believe they are the opposite gender
>>>>> by the pronouns associated with that gender. Also, by refusing to use
>>>>> made-up pronouns like ze and zir.
>>>>>
>>>>>> What amuses me is the 'White non-Hispanic' category. Are they trying to
>>>>>> imply Hispanics aren't white?
>>>>>
>>>>> Since Hispanics include people who have no European characteristics
>>>>> whatsoever, I can imagine why they are not considered White.
>>>>
>>>> I consider white Latinos white. "Hispanic" is a language group, not a racial
>>>> group.
>>>
>>> Until they forced me to notice that they looked different in my 30s or
>>> so, I never cared what ethnicity someone was. They were either friends
>>> or they weren't. However, Obama and the media of the time were very good
>>> at separating us by sex and religion and I can no longer be as blind as
>>> I used to be. I guess that was the HOPE he kept referring to.
>> 
>> When I was a kid in school they taught us about the "melting pot" and how
>> there are no differences in the races. (Not true, but I got the point.
>> People are people.) Now it's "racist" not to "recognize" the differences in
>> race. And the "melting pot" mixing of cultures has become "appropriation."
>> But all this only seems to work only in one direction. There's no issues
>> with other races "appropriating" stuff from the white culture. I think it's
>> all stupid. People are people — we're basically all mutts. As my grandmother
>> used to say, "There's good and there's bad in all of us." By "us" she meant
>> the various races.
>
> I don't mind the other races appropriating the White culture because 
> it's their only hope of ever becoming civilized. However, I am entirely 
> against Whites appropriating anything from inferior cultures like black 
> ones. Their nutrition is terrible, their music does little other than 
> corrupt minds and their languages are always a lazy creole of something 
> that already exists. If Whites want to appropriate the excellent 
> nutrition of the Japanese or Indians, that's fine because they've 
> actually accomplished something in their respective existences. Blacks, 
> however, have done little more than destroy something that already existed.
>
> If anyone needs an excellent example of _how_ Whites are superior to 
> other civilizations, consider the creation of Venice in Italy 
><https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77omYd0JOeA&pp=ygUSY3JlYXRpb24gb2YgdmVuaWNl> 
> Meanwhile, the civilizations that we apparently stole from and which 
> take credit for building everything for us can't even erect a house.

When they talk about "cultural appropriation" they're usually talking about 
food and Halloween customs. Really stupid stuff that only vapid morons would 
worry about.

-- 
“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy 
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien