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Peterson's 12 Rules For Life, have you heard of this?
RE: Peterson's 12 Rules For Life, have you heard of this?
(September 5, 2018 at 12:12 am)Khemikal Wrote:
Quote:That's the biggest problem I have with PC. It simply won't work. Practices which replace one dogma with another, but don't improve productivity, for example, might mean a redistribution of wealth-- but it will never mean that everyone has enough. The PC left will completely ignore the facts, and therefore demand restitution for this or that group, bigger welfare payments, higher minimum wage, and so on. That's nice, today, but what happens when 300 million people go to the market and discover that there's nothing but an old loaf of bread?

We KNOW what happens. We saw it for the entire second half of the 20th century.

.....if not hysterics........-identical- hysterics, no less?

If your ideological position flourishes and becomes the norm, then I'd say that grim outlook is more likely than not to become a reality. I don't think it WILL take hold in that way, since right-wing hysterics approximately balance those of the left-wing in the US, and since there are still plenty of moderates to keep the nutjobs from getting a foothold.

We'll see, I suppose.
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RE: Peterson's 12 Rules For Life, have you heard of this?
You're completely self unaware..aren't you?

Would you care to explain how not calling people darkies on teevee....will lead to gulags. Take your time. You'll need it.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: Peterson's 12 Rules For Life, have you heard of this?
(September 5, 2018 at 12:12 am)Khemikal Wrote: Now you're whining at me about a mutual understanding with racists, lol?
Whining? Obviously, I wouldn't use that term, but whatever.

Short answer-- yes. You call everyone under the sun who isn't either black or a SJW "racist," and there are plenty of moderates with concerns about immigration, about the economy, and so on. They might be right about some things, wrong about others, but I don't think the average person is a rabid white supremacist just because they don't match the 10 commandments of the SJW point for point.

I mean, consider honestly all the real solutions I've floated in this thread, many of which are not only not alt-right but not even vaguely right-wing, and you still pretty much have me branded as a witch. Where are you going to find room for dialogue with ANYONE, then, or find ground for making improvements that matter?

Stop with the fart-sniffing, get real, and bring some actual solutions to the table. I'd love to discuss them, but "Fucking white assholes always keeping a brother down" is not particularly useful.

You say racism is the biggest problem, rather than poor academic performance or achievement? Fine. . . how would YOU stop it? String up every white person who makes six figures from a tree? What. . . would. . . you. . . actually. .. DO?

(September 5, 2018 at 12:22 am)Khemikal Wrote: You're completely self unaware..aren't you?

Would you care to explain how not calling people darkies on teevee....will lead to gulags.  Take your time.  You'll need it.

Would you care to explain how you constantly straw-manning will lead to you having a point?  Take your time.  You'll need it.
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RE: Peterson's 12 Rules For Life, have you heard of this?
(September 5, 2018 at 12:31 am)bennyboy Wrote: Whining?  Obviously, I wouldn't use that term, but whatever.

Short answer-- yes.  You call everyone under the sun who isn't either black or a SJW "racist,"
Or I can just call racists racists?

Quote:I mean, consider honestly all the real solutions I've floated in this thread, many of which are not only alt-right but not even vaguely right-wing, and you still pretty much have me branded as a witch.
You branded yourself you fucking moron.  Don't get all woe is me about it now.

Quote:You say racism is the biggest problem,
I say racism..is the Real Problem™..of racism.

Quote:how would YOU stop it?
No one has to offer you or even possess a solution to centuries of malfeasance in order to point out that you are wrong about this or that thing. That's not how that works, at all.

Quote:String up every white person who makes six figures from a tree?  What. . . would. . . you. . . actually. .. DO?
More white anxiety.  Take some fucking pills for that, lol.

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(September 5, 2018 at 12:22 am)Khemikal Wrote: You're completely self unaware..aren't you?

Would you care to explain how not calling people darkies on teevee....will lead to gulags.  Take your time.  You'll need it.

Would you care to explain how you constantly straw-manning will lead to you having a point?  Take your time.  You'll need it.

 IOW it won't.  

So, your biggest problem with the pc left is both something it doesnt lead to, and the thing you think is objectionable in petersons alt right toe dipping about cryptomarxists.

We already knew, didn't we? Because the idea of something being pc has been around since the 70s, and by the 90s the right and it's allied white supremacists were already bitching about how it would collapse western civilization. Except that it didn't...and still hasn't. Doesn't stop nutbars from saying it will, though, does it?
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: Peterson's 12 Rules For Life, have you heard of this?
(September 5, 2018 at 12:36 am)Khemikal Wrote: So, your biggest problem with the pc left is both something it doesnt lead to, and the thing you think is objectionable in petersons alt right toe dipping.

No, my biggest problem with the pc left is unthinking ideologues like you-- all talk, all insults, nothing useful to contribute. You have no real point, even, except trying to decide who to shake your cane and and shout about "Racisttttt!!!"

I've tried to give real solutions to the problem you are talking about. You have nothing productive to say. I gotta say. . . you trolling bro? Cuz I didn't think you were that useless. I thought at some point, you'd actually attempt to support a position, ANY position, with facts, and that you'd eventually come to a point where you'd counter my suggestions with some of your own.

Stop the fucking metacommentary and tell me. What. . . would. . . you. . . actually DO? Go to the archery store and buy a fucking point. Then tell us, other than shouting "racist" and smelling your own farts. . . what would you actually DO to solve these problems?

I'll literally give you any point you want-- it's 100% racists. I'm the fucking Nazi antichrist. Everyone right of Stalin is a hateful bigot. I will accept any assertion you want to make, any name you want to call me. And then I'm gonna have the same question-- what actual action, other than shouting rhetorical bullshit, would you actually put into place to fix anything, of any type, in any place?
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RE: Peterson's 12 Rules For Life, have you heard of this?
(September 5, 2018 at 12:40 am)bennyboy Wrote:
(September 5, 2018 at 12:36 am)Khemikal Wrote: So, your biggest problem with the pc left is both something it doesnt lead to, and the thing you think is objectionable in petersons alt right toe dipping.

No, my biggest problem with the pc left is unthinking ideologues like you-- all talk, all insults, nothing useful to contribute.  You have no real point, even, except trying to decide who to shake your cane and and shout about "Racisttttt!!!"
You......called......yourself.......a.........racist.  Now, lol, people like me arethe biggest problem with pc, not that other bit of hysterical bullshit you just graced us with? 

Well, shit...gulags must be right around the corner, then.  


Quote:I've tried to give real solutions to the problem you are talking about.  You have nothing prodcutive to say.  I gotta say. . . you trolling bro?  Cuz I didn't think you were that useless.
Still talking about productivity, eh?  Some of us think it's productive to combat racial myths.  Like the racial myth..that productivity is The Real Problem™ with Those People™. If only we could solve that problem, and stop victimizing all the white folks..boy howdy, everything would be fine!

Meanwhile, theres still no requirement that I know how to solve the problems created by centuries of malfeasance. That's not how it works, and it will never be how it works...though I strongly suspect that the cessation of racial mythologizing and complaints of white victimization will invariably have to be a part of that solution..... whatever it is. Mostly, because that's part of how we got here in the first place.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: Peterson's 12 Rules For Life, have you heard of this?
(September 5, 2018 at 12:46 am)Khemikal Wrote: Still talking about productivity, eh?  Some of us think it's productive to combat racial myths.  Like the racial myth..that productivity is The Real Problem™ with Those People(m).  If only we could solve that problem, and stop victimizaing all the white folks..boy howdy, everything would be fine!
What

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RE: Peterson's 12 Rules For Life, have you heard of this?
You know those moments in a conversation where a person starts babbling to us "Oh yeah, well if gods such a dick what would you do?!?!?"

We're there.

It doesn't matter what I would do, and it doesn't matter whether or not I have a solution to the entire problem of racism in the us. It is silly for you to bitch about that as a rejoinder to having been wrong about so many silly things. It is silly for you to peddle scary dystopias in which white people are strung up, it is silly for you to imagine that we're gonna go full soviet breadline, on account of people suffering consequences for ethnic slurs and racial myths, on account of a push for greater equality in a massively disparate economic and social reality. No one is discriminating against you on account of you being white. No one is denying you your pride on account of being white. No one is abrogating your rights on account of being white. No one is harming your esteem on account of being white. No one is stigmatizing you on account of being white.

Do you understand?

All of that silly shit..is an alt-right line that derives from the normalizing language of white supremacy.

Do you understand?
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: Peterson's 12 Rules For Life, have you heard of this?
(September 5, 2018 at 12:55 am)Khemikal Wrote: You know those moments in a conversation where a person starts babbling to us "Oh yeah, well if gods such a dick what would you do?!?!?"

We're there.

Nope.

We were talking about income disparity.  You say it's due to institutional racism.  I suggested some ways of releasing black prisoners from prison, and ways to generate enough money to pay for increases in minimum wage, which would impact poor black people more than rich whites.

That's a plan.

I suggested that if some of the IQ difference in blacks comes down to health issues-- poor nutrition, disease due to parental drug use, etc. we should address those problems aggressively.  I said that any IQ improvements due to such programs would likely increase productivity, meaning the investment would pay for itself.

That's a plan.


Think I'm a racist?  Fine.  Think "we need to improve productivity" is codeword for "niggerz be lazee."  Fine.  Think addressing health issues is meant to be a substitute for combating racism in the workplace?  Fine.  I think you're fucking dumb for any of these positions, but fine.

I will literally give you ANY point you want.  And then, I will ask you the same thing-- what, other than name-calling and blaming, would you actually DO to improve anything?  How would you STOP the racism?  By shouting me down in an atheist forum?  Really?  That's the best you've got?

Come on, dude.  Let's talk solutions, here.
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RE: Peterson's 12 Rules For Life, have you heard of this?
(September 5, 2018 at 1:03 am)bennyboy Wrote: Nope.

We were talking about income disparity.  You say it's due to institutional racism.  I suggested some ways of releasing black prisoners from prison, and ways to generate enough money to pay for increases in minimum wage, which would impact poor black people more than rich whites.

That's a plan.

I suggested that if some of the IQ difference in blacks comes down to health issues-- poor nutrition, disease due to parental drug use, etc. we should address those problems aggressively.  I said that any IQ improvements due to such programs would likely increase productivity, meaning the investment would pay for itself.

That's a plan.


Think I'm a racist? 
I actually thought that you were a decent person who'd unwittingly ingested the common alt right talking points through guys like peterson.  You decided that you were a racist.  So stop whining at me about it.

Quote:Fine.  Think "we need to improve productivity" is codeword for "niggerz be lazee."  Fine. 

Think addressing health issues is meant to be a substitute for combating racism in the workplace?  Fine.  I think you're fucking dumb for any of these positions, but fine.
You think many silly things.

Quote:I will literally give you ANY point you want.  And then, I will ask you the same thing-- what, other than name-calling and blaming, would you actually DO to improve anything?  How would you STOP the racism?  By shouting me down in an atheist forum?  Really?  That's the best you've got?

Come on, dude.  Let's talk solutions, here.

There will never be a point at which there's any requirement that I be able to solve racism with a swoosh of my digital pen.  You are being silly.  I'd say that the end of racial myths and enforced inequality is a good start, though. I'd say that the refusal to entertain bullshit complaints of white victimization as a response to both of those things is a necessary endeavor to that end.

The world isn't going to end on account of pc or sj. You aren't going to be strung up in a tree. You get that...right? That's my only goal in this thread, anyway. To one day get it through your skull that somebody's been scaring the living shit out of you for very silly reasons.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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