Jotunn Draugr

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@The Spectre, if you would ever like to get into a Military themed 1x1 RP in any era of history, modern era or Sci Fi, I am willing to accommodate you. Also, it would appear you are interested in the Golden Eye Video game which I have absolutely no experience in, but can read that is loosely based on the James Bond universe. I could come up with some sort of a MI-6 themed RP involving a Field Agent protagonist, you would portray and I could cover everyone else to include your support staff and the bad guys you encounter.

@Gunther

No matter what you say, I just hear "MMMMMMM... MY DING DING DONG!!!"

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The Unpopular Opinions Thread.

@Vilageidiotx

I know what you mean, and I understand why the Left thinks the way it does. Generally speaking, I do consider myself to be left-wing.

However, I do think that the left is fulfilling their own prophecy. The hyper anti-racism mentality in Europe, that is informing supremely lax immigration policies, is only creating more and more racial tension and disenfranchised white people, which is just fueling the fire for actual Fascists, Nazis, and white supremacists. Out of fear of the Right, they've swung so far to the Left that they're actually making Neo-Nazis look like the more reasonable choice to a lot of people.

Likewise, I genuinely believe that Trump is a monster of the Left's creation. If they didn't push so hard, and so far, with immigration, with affirmative action, with economic globalization, with race hyper-awareness, with social justice education in school, with gender quotas, with language policing, they wouldn't have alienated so many people. They wouldn't have pushed so many people into Trump's camp, simply because he's SOMEHOW become the safer, more reasonable option. If Billy-Bob wasn't homeless, because Chinese immigration and overseas housing speculation made housing prices so high that he can't even afford to rent, he wouldn't be voting for Trump. If Jenny-Jane hadn't gone 10 years without a raise, because Mexican guest-workers are willing to work just as hard for minimum wage, she wouldn't be voting for Trump. If Jamisonson Pennyworth wasn't blocked from attending the university of his dreams, because they were required to accept more women and minorities instead, even though their grades were lower than his, he wouldn't be voting for Trump. If Marko Stromboulopoulos wasn't banned from Facebook and Twitter for protesting against Islam's treatment of women, he wouldn't be voting for Trump. If Brock Logan wasn't fired from his job, simply because word got around that he was upset his daughter was dating a black man, he wouldn't be voting for Trump.

And if all these people were allowed to say what their problems were, without being called "racists", they wouldn't be voting for Trump.

I think if people really wanted to stop the rise of Nazism, and Fascism, and wanted to prevent an actual race-war, they'd stop being such giant, totalitarian pussies. I know Marxists, Racists, Sexists, Nazis, Feminists, Christian fundamentalists, Sikh fundamentalists, Jews, Buddhists, black and white South Africans, and even a Satanist, and they're all completely reasonable people... so long as nobody is stepping on their toes and getting in the way of their day-to-day life. It's when you threaten them, and vilify them, and set up systems to silence and restrain them, that they start organizing and actually hurting people.

Edit: And violence is already illegal. The policy of making the punishment significantly worse, simply because the race of the two parties is different ("hate-crimes"), only serves to make people more and more hyper-aware of racial differences. If you want people to stop paying attention to race, stop talking about race all the damn time!

The Unpopular Opinions Thread.

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I don't think the law should be "There isn't a problem if somewhere somebody else is doing worse." I mean, you don't stop a murder trial because the murder rate in Somalia is higher than it is in your western country.

The thing with SJW's is all a matter of optics. There are a lot of people in that field that are rather level headed and focus on things with some level of philosophical consistency, then there is a lot of teenagers and college freshmen who just want to yell at people. The MRA movement might be the same way, though I admit I've only ran across MRA's in the context of complaining above feminism. But if you show me an MRA who is actually focused on, like, child support reform or something like that, then I think most of us would agree that guy is cool.

So really the thing is you gotta keep in mind not to judge a movement by its most extreme example. Can't judge SJW's by the echo chamber part of tumblr. Just like you can't judge Christianity by WBC, can't judge the right by Neo-Nazi's, the left by Stalinists, or the Trump campaign by Donald Trump.

@Vilageidiotx

As far as all movements having a range, you're not wrong. There are plenty of reasonable people who consider themselves feminists, and even warriors of social justice. Heck, a good friend of mine is a die-hard Maoist communist, and he's one of the most level-headed people I know. Likewise, one of the most respectable men I've ever known, a former boss of mine, is a Pentecostal Christian who believes the Illuminati control the government. There are people in any subset of humanity, who can still be wonderful human beings either way. I'd even go so far as to say you can't judge all Neo-Nazi's, all Stalinists, all Wesboro Baptists, or all Donald Trumps XD

As such, maybe I should frame the argument in terms of popular trends. There is a popular trend among self-identified feminists and SJW's, to describe MRA's as essentially having actual debilitating disorders. For a group of people who supposedly uphold values of inclusiveness and support for the downtrodden and the socially unaccepted, it seems odd that such an insensitive trend would be so prevalent. So prevalent, in fact, that we all immediately recognize it, and get the joke. I'm not saying I personally have a problem with it, but it just seems a bit hypocritical to me.

Also, pardon me. I didn't mean that it's okay to be "X" because someone else is even more "X". Looking back, I realize I didn't articulate it that well. I was more thinking along the lines of "Chinese people are extremely racist, and even then it's hardly a problem. If it's hardly a problem, in countries that we'd consider to be extremely racist, it surely isn't a problem at all in the West".
As a non-Chinese person, living in a smaller Chinese city, you constantly have people staring at you, making off-hand comments about "foreigners", trying to overcharge you when you buy things, and occasionally wanting to befriend you simply due to the novelty of it. None of this affects the actual important aspects of your life in any meaningful way. If you are qualified, and now how to impress the locals, you can get a job without difficulty. If you speak their language and pander to their culture, you'll have no problem shopping, eating, or traveling. If you take care of yourself, and are charismatic, you can find friends, connections, and a wife. Black, white, brown, asian, hispanic, these things are true for all races in almost every country.

When there isn't actual institutional oppression like slavery, the fight against bigotry almost always comes from a certain wealthy class of people, who don't have to worry seriously about comfort, health and security. Instead of fighting for success and safety, they start fighting for petty minor comforts and peeves. You only start complaining about the old racist/sexist/homophobic men on the bus who keep staring at you, when you've got a satisfied stomach, and you're traveling from a nice home to a nice job.



Basically, my point is that no actual black people were harmed in the making of this commercial, nor will they be harmed because of it. This type of content panders to actual racists with actual bigoted opinions, and yet still, no notable harm is done. Now take the West, which is the least racist part of the world by far. Any kind of racial discrimination is already illegal, and racism is so hated, that actual racists are either in hiding, or are pushed out of society. Even still, you have certain SJW's complaining about "racism", and raising a fuss. At this point, I think their protests and complaints serve to only make movements for social justice look petty and unnecessary, rather than actually highlighting any worthwhile concerns.

The Unpopular Opinions Thread.

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@Weird Tales

They're on every corner in Toronto.

The Unpopular Opinions Thread.

SJW's are socially inept lunatics. Likewise, most people who base their lives around the internet and identify as MRA's show signs of Asperger Syndrome. This makes SJW's look even worse, in my opinion, because their only method of attack is to stereotype their opponents as having an actual disability. For a group of people who use the term "ableist" a lot, they sure are pretty fucking ableist.

Also, if you think racism and sexism are actually still problems in western society, go to any other fucking place on Earth, and talk to the people there. If you want to see real racism, go to a small city in China, into the poor parts of South Africa, or to Romania. If you want to see what real sexism and homophobia looks like, go to Saudi Arabia, or Egypt, or Afghanistan, or Iran, or fucking India. Talk to a man from Nanjing about the Japanese, a Romanian about the Turks, or a South African about white people, if you want to hear what real hatred sounds like.

When Americans freak out, because someone dares state a preference against black people, for whatever reason, Chinese people just laugh. This kind of political correctness is why many of them think of white people as simple-minded, spineless pussies.

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