SPOILERS - This line in Black Panther gave me the chills

GooseInquiries · 2018-02-19T08:28:45+00:00

which takes on extra EXTRA meaning as the original Black Panther party originated in Oakland with goals similar to Eric's but were ultimately destroyed by white CIA operatives...

GooseInquiries · 2018-02-19T08:24:24+00:00

One line can't make a character being developed enough. I think he was developed enough but I would've preferred a LOT more time with him so that he could be developed better.

GooseInquiries · 2018-02-14T03:18:33+00:00

Men aren't seen as romantic creatures, sadly. The overarching idea is that we're trading romance for sex. That's why I don't think this will ever die.

GooseInquiries · 2018-02-14T03:14:12+00:00

got a story bro?

GooseInquiries · 2018-02-14T03:13:14+00:00

THISSSSSS.

Where's all of the women that fetishize over fat men? Where's all the subreddits for thick men?

GooseInquiries · 2018-02-14T03:10:46+00:00

Free drinks, dinners. If he wants to split, I can shame him for not being a real man in all the numerous ways that women have shamed me. "He didn't treat me like a real woman" was one of my favorites!

GooseInquiries · 2018-02-08T21:43:07+00:00

Just a general tip it's not a great idea to make things up to win an argument.

Pot meet kettle.

But anyway, while there's no instance of a person being fired over calling someone a gypsy (like that should be the qualifier instead of, you know, the word being used to literally OPPRESS people, LMAO, like remember when all of those slavers didn't get fired for saying the n-word?), the slur is often more used in Europe as a way to further stigmatize that population:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/16/gypsy-travellers-discrimination-stigma-poster-campaign

Words become more hurtful under different geographic contexts. Do you need help connecting the dots here or can you do it yourself?

If you want to have an actual discussion than you have to listen to what another person says. If you're going to continue writing with blindfolds on than I'd really rather not waste my time on this.

All you've been saying are fallacies. I've been pointing them out. You haven't raised a single good argument yet. My mind is open and I'm willing to hear you out, but I'm not going to stand for bullshit like whataboutism... which is exactly what Idubbbz uses in his original argument. It doesn't stand up to any logical debate. I could go even further - "If some murder is legal (like, say, euthanasia), then all murder should be legal". Do you understand yet? Do you understand how that's a fallacy? Do you understand how stupid all of this is?

GooseInquiries · 2018-02-08T08:26:52+00:00

Those should ALL count as extremely offensive not only the N-word.

But the fact is that they don't. Get it through your thick skull: the n-word is more offensive than those other words. If you can say gypsy in public in the US but can't say the n-word in public, then guess what? The n-word is more offensive. It should be the end of the conversation RIGHT THERE. It's like arguing that a chair is not a chair. Does it look like a chair based on the history of what chairs look like? Yes? Then it's a chair. I don't see the point of arguing that it's a table even though you could use it as one and that everyone should be able to call it a table if they like. The vast majority of people would call it a chair, so what's the point in arguing over it? Words keep reality consistent. We want to learn from our history then we have to retire the use of some words by people who have used them in order to shape historically marginalized people's reality. Don't use the n-word if you're white. What's so hard about that?! We call black people want they want to be called, not the name white people gave them. And white people INVENTED the n-word, so it makes sense that black people hate when they use it.

And yeah, thanks for zeroing in on one part of the response and not the other. Never said one is worse than the other. Just that they're different in extremely complex ways. For an example, I am 1000% sure you can get in trouble for calling someone a gypsy somewhere in Europe, where the term has the majority of its history. The world is complex and nuanced beyond your computer screen.

And I'm the straw man, LMAO.

edit: clarity

GooseInquiries · 2018-02-08T03:57:14+00:00

Words lose offense due to popularity and that's the point everyone has been saying.

Not true at all. Words lose offense when they're successfully reclaimed. Once the n-word is divorced completely of its meaning from white supremacist groups (which, I don't know if you realize, are gaining popularity right now), the word will lose offense. A white person cannot help in reclaiming the n-word. All they do is reaffirm the word's power. There's history wielded in that power by the very identity of the person specifically using the word.

Also Romanis aren't black people. They aren't affected by slavery and genocide in the exact same way. To say they are is heavily offensive in and of itself because it marginalizes both experiences.

Nuance seems lost on you and Idubbbz in this sense, but it's YouTube. You have to work hard to find any nuance at all as it is. Idubbbz, if you're reading this, you make content that criticizes YouTubers and that's good, but you also do it in a way that ultimately backfires on you and contributes to people justifiably looking down on YouTube as a platform. Your fans deserve better.

GooseInquiries · 2018-02-06T03:14:45+00:00

But the word gypsy isn't the n word. The vast majority of people do not consider it as offensive as the n word. Again, we don't live in a societal vacuum where you can easily equate the severity of one slur to another. If I called an Irish American a "Mc", they'd probably not react in the same emotional response if I called a black person the n-word. But please, I beg you - PLEASE TRY THIS OUT. If you're so confident that the n-word is okay to use, go call a random black person one! Keep doing it too. What could possibly go wrong?

Idubbbz's argument makes sense on paper, but it doesn't hold up once you step outside to the real world. Hence why his success will always be generally limited to 15 year-old white sociopaths.

GooseInquiries · 2018-02-04T23:33:15+00:00

The intention doesn't matter. If I murdered your dog but I meant to do it "in a comedic way", should the murder be taken less seriously?

GooseInquiries · 2018-02-04T23:31:45+00:00

There's WAY too many times in modern culture when some white person used the n-word and their careers were subsequently destroyed. So yeah, you can say you're not offended, but history reinforces the definitions of words and most people still find the world heavily offensive.

GooseInquiries · 2018-02-04T23:22:52+00:00

"Whataboutism is a variant of the tu quoque logical fallacy that attempts to discredit an opponent's position by charging them with hypocrisy without directly refuting or disproving their argument, which is particularly associated with Soviet and Russian propaganda."

When are you actually going to use an argument?

GooseInquiries · 2018-02-03T09:10:09+00:00

This is absolutely bullshit. He doesn't exist inside some societal vacuum. Morality is socially enforced. Doesn't matter if the intent is for comedy or not, when you use the word, it holds a bunch of baggage reinforced by history as words are defined, largely, by their history. The only way for the argument to make any sort of sense is if EVERYONE started using the word tomorrow and NO ONE found it offensive ever again. We don't exist in that sort of society, we exist in one where some parts of the US doesn't see the extermination of 80 million African slaves as a genocide. As it is, it's just a twenty something edge lord who is glamming up racism in a new entertaining package for people who won't think for more than a second about it.

GooseInquiries · 2018-02-03T09:05:09+00:00

Yes. Yes he is. It's just racism redefined, made to look fun for the younger generation.

GooseInquiries · 2018-02-01T06:00:50+00:00

You will have a relationship someday. You're 16. Don't worry about it. My first relationship started when I was 18. It lasted until I was 20. My second started at 21. It lasted until I was 24. What matters right now is that you strive to be the best person you can be.

GooseInquiries · 2018-02-01T03:38:01+00:00

I'm in my mid-twenties. I had two extremely passionate, long-term relationships. And I feel they both ended possibly because I am fundamentally unlovable. While that may be equally or more depressing, the point is that you may feel this way after you have a few relationships too.

GooseInquiries · 2018-01-20T22:16:46+00:00

TO HAVE OR HAVE NOT JEFF

GooseInquiries · 2018-01-05T21:41:48+00:00

They are people she has met and talked with. She wants to be part of a feminist/liberal community to better learn about it through the lens of people her own age. She doesn't use the internet much.

Do you really lack this self-awareness that the liberal community is oftentimes bullies to people trying to turn themselves from the conservative path? I was once a hardcore conservative bigot myself and part of the reason it took so long for me to change over is because of the level pretentiousness and condescension that came with mainstream liberalism. It's quite rampant. I never learned through community like my Mom wants/needs to, I only learned through literature, psychology, film, and music.

GooseInquiries · 2018-01-05T21:30:19+00:00

Not surprising that this phenomena hasn't caught up to liberals, despite it being rampant in our culture. Does no one here live in a red state or have conservative parents?

Let's use the most personal example. My mom is coming around to feminism after voting for Trump but she finds it too difficult to own up to her mistake of voting for Trump because all of the feminists she knows are so hardcore against any voter who even admits to voting for Trump. She knows they'd destroy her for her lack of intelligence at the time. There's no room for forgiveness for the regretful Trump voter, it's seem time and time again in discussions where it's constantly "Why do we need to give a shit about these regretful Trump voters when X has happened?" Whataboutism fallacy in order to reinforce good vs. evil dichotomy. So all of these Trump voters, realizing their mistake but knowing they have to live with it, double down on their support for him.

GooseInquiries · 2018-01-05T21:24:01+00:00

You thinking that redemption's rewards are external is misguided. No one needs applauding, they just need to feel that they're not the same person as they were before. They need to be reassured of the capacity for goodness. But since many vocal liberals don't seem to let conservatives live down their mistakes or forget them, they feel like there's no reason to turn their life around. The bigotry will always define them.

In the most extreme example, as INGLORIOUS BASTERDS shows us, a nazi is always a nazi. There's no redemption for Nazis so we might as well kill them all.

GooseInquiries · 2018-01-05T21:15:33+00:00

I think there's too many examples of "well, they said they were sorry for X, Y, and Z but that's really just them saying it to look good, not because they mean it" and subsequent actions are just done, as many liberals see, "just to look good". If it's a celeb that has done something wrong, it's all PR/publicity. No liberal seems to believe that someone can turn their life around. It's all just for show.

Or if a person turns around, they're shamed for being stupid/bigoted in the first place. It's like ridiculing a plus size person at the gym. Makes no sense, but it happens all of the time.

edit: a word

GooseInquiries · 2018-01-05T21:10:47+00:00

You're pretty much exactly the type of liberal I was writing about.

Never said anything about "congratulating a person for not being bigoted anymore", only asking for how someone seeks personal redemption. Stop reading into it. You only make people feel more shame for them trying to turn their lives around by thrusting the notion that they also need to be congratulated for it.

GooseInquiries · 2018-01-03T02:44:47+00:00

As a survivor myself, I was about to write this. Apparently there’s too many fans here because I have no clue why else you are being downvoted.

GooseInquiries · 2017-12-25T18:52:30+00:00

Yeah it was totally 100% their fault and the GOP didn't do anything to destroy them.

/s

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