The Oldiesfreak Deluge of Absurdity, Ignorance, and Bad Posts III

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Survivort is an excellent show, though, so...

In your dreams...

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I am baffled by the outrage at Shua's post, here. I'm kind of sick and tired of people being told they're not allowed to have opinions on s**t. The amount of hair-trigger outrage and strawmanning went from zero to one-hundred in a way I don't think I've ever seen happen in so short a time.

What I've basically gathered here is: White people aren't allowed to have any opinion on anything race-related. (Unless that opinion happens to be completely agreement with said people.) People of a said race who share that opinion don't matter, because a white person's opinion is always illegitimate. And I would, of course, think exactly that, because I'm white. Therefore, checkmate against me, I guess.

I too have been told that I am not allowed to form opinions on race by nature of being white (and more importantly, being a former white nationalist asshole) in the past, and ironically, it was positions like that that brought me to hatred in the first place.

Also, if the N-word is a symbol of black unity and expression (which I think is fine), why is the Confederate flag so controversial? And please don’t respond with “false equivalency.” If the N-word, a word of hate, is a symbol of pride now, I don’t see why a flag of hate can’t be the same thing.

I'll wade in and say that I don't believe use of the N-word (by anyone) or usage of the Confederate Flag (for any reason) is okay... They're both symbols of hate, and to claim otherwise is foolish, no matter the motive.

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People can be weird about these things.  There are also Christians only, Jews only, and Muslims only dating sites.  Presumably the Hindu all were married at age seven in marriages that were arranged when they were infants, so that one may not exist.  Oops.  I stand corrected.  A google search turns up a large number of Hindu dating websites as well.

Anyway, there are some people who only want to make it with someone who has a particular characteristic.  As bedstuy said, such websites are really good things, not only because they help these people with their insular tendencies, but also because they save the rest of us from awkwardness and frustration.  Doncha hate it when a hot Libertarian chick won't have anything to do with you only because you're a Mao photo-carrying member of the Communist Party? I know I do.

To be fair, people whose core values are similar have less reason to divorce later.  Also, people lead busy lives, and you can't always count on meeting Mister Right at the synagogue or the Republican National Convention or a Ku Klux Klan rally or whatever, so if that's the only sort of person you want to hook up with, then the ethno-specific dating websites do serve a valid purpose. 

What's wrong with this? Seems like a good quality, true and funny post to me.

Angus has apparently been stood up at the altar one too many times...

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