Urban v's the Commentariat

[Ax^]

So lazy furries basically

 

[TruXta]

So lazy furries basically

 

[Idris2002]

 

[chilango]

But it's bollocks though.

In fairness I bet they suffer from a fair bit of prejudice.

Cos the thoughts that immediately went through my mind upon reading about "otherkin" were not particularly understanding or tolerant ones .

 

[Frances Lengel]

It's not prejudice to think that a person who believes him/herself to be a dragon is a dickhead who deserves to be laughed out of town. Nor would it be discriminatory to refuse to employ them - From a health and safety POV their very presence represents a fire hazard.

 

[andysays]

It's not prejudice to think that a person who believes him/herself to be a dragon is a dickhead who deserves to be laughed out of town. Nor would it be discriminatory to refuse to employ them - From a health and safety POV their very presence represents a fire hazard.

Only if you believe them to be correct...

 

[Theisticle]

Piece on Rennard. Waits 8 paragraphs to slip in the SWP (who deserve it) and homogeneous Left bashing. The most Penny article written by Penny. http://www.newstatesman.com/2014/01...-shows-westminster-is-dangerously-out-of-step

 

[fogbat]

Not really IMVHO.

Imaginary friend either way, innit?

 

[TruXta]

Imaginary friend either way, innit?

I dunno about other people, but the fact that I'm a Liverpool supporter doesn't mean I imagine myself a mate of the players.

 

[revol68]

This Rennard case sums up bullshit culture perfectly. How can he apologise if he has insisted he never did anything wrong, for him to apologise would logically mean he did do something wrong and has been lying about it the whole time, something you would imagine mean that would make his return even more untenable.

Except apologies no longer actually mean shit, you don't do it because you mean it, you do it because it's the easiest way out, indeed if you do it right you can milk the redemption angle and talk up how it has helped you grow as a person. Even better remarket your transgression as a "demon" or some other bullshit that removes responsibility and then give yourself some pats on the back for your "battle" to overcome it.

Ughh

 

[Ax^]

It's not prejudice to think that a person who believes him/herself to be a dragon is a dickhead who deserves to be laughed out of town. Nor would it be discriminatory to refuse to employ them - From a health and safety POV their very presence represents a fire hazard.

 

[DotCommunist]

how is it different from having a totem animal?is it cos theres crappy DeviantArt pics as well?

 

[TruXta]

how is it different from having a totem animal?is it cos theres crappy DeviantArt pics as well?

A totem animal is separate from yourself, like a spirit. These guys think they ARE animals. Or fictive beings from Nintendo games.

 

[el-ahrairah]

that's exactly right though isn't it, most of the shitty identity politics crap that goes on is Special Snowflake Syndrome.

our battlkecry needs to be "YOU'RE NOT SPECIAL". once we accept that we aren't special, we can start empathising with everyone else, and showing solidarity - because you help each other to help yourself.

 

[butchersapron]

Nobody is special as someone once sang.

 

[TruXta]

that's exactly right though isn't it, most of the shitty identity politics crap that goes on is Special Snowflake Syndrome.

our battlkecry needs to be "YOU'RE NOT SPECIAL". once we accept that we aren't special, we can start empathising with everyone else, and showing solidarity - because you help each other to help yourself.

Do you empathise with the poor downtrodden Otherkin?

 

[Frances Lengel]

that's exactly right though isn't it, most of the shitty identity politics crap that goes on is Special Snowflake Syndrome.

our battlkecry needs to be "YOU'RE NOT SPECIAL". once we accept that we aren't special, we can start empathising with everyone else, and showing solidarity - because you help each other to help yourself.

That's pretty much spot on. Nice one.

 

[el-ahrairah]

Do you empathise with the poor downtrodden Otherkin?

hell no. as Marx would have said "fuck those people"

 

[Frances Lengel]

hell no. as Marx would have said "fuck those people"

They're not people though. They're fucking dragons.

 

[TruXta]

hell no. as Marx would have said "fuck those people"

But but but SOLIDARITY!

 

[DotCommunist]

This Rennard case sums up bullshit culture perfectly. How can he apologise if he has insisted he never did anything wrong, for him to apologise would logically mean he did do something wrong and has been lying about it the whole time, something you would imagine mean that would make his return even more untenable.

Except apologies no longer actually mean shit, you don't do it because you mean it, you do it because it's the easiest way out, indeed if you do it right you can milk the redemption angle and talk up how it has helped you grow as a person. Even better remarket your transgression as a "demon" or some other bullshit that removes responsibility and then give yourself some pats on the back for your "battle" to overcome it.

Ughh

nobody resigns for the good of the party anymore either. I swear people used to resign when I was younger. Now its all fuck you I'll take you all down with me. ..

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

They're not people though. They're fucking dragons.

Funny how no-ones really a tapeworm isn't it?

 

[Idris2002]

A totem animal is separate from yourself, like a spirit. These guys think they ARE animals. Or fictive beings from Nintendo games.

The English word "totem" comes from the Ojibway word "oteteman", meaning "he is a brother of mine".

 

[Idris2002]

that's exactly right though isn't it, most of the shitty identity politics crap that goes on is Special Snowflake Syndrome.

our battlkecry needs to be "YOU'RE NOT SPECIAL". once we accept that we aren't special, we can start empathising with everyone else, and showing solidarity - because you help each other to help yourself.

 

[Idris2002]

Nobody is special as someone once sang.

Whatever happened to the heroes?

 

[Ax^]

Funny how no-ones really a tapeworm isn't it?

 

[Pickman's model]

The English word "totem" comes from the Ojibway word "oteteman", meaning "he is a brother of mine".

from the oed:

Etymology: < Ojibwa, or some kindred Algonquin dialect. Mentioned (apparently) in 1609 by Lescarbot as aoutem (in Acadia); by Long 1791 as totam, by Henry a1776, Cooper 1826, Catlin 1841, as totem, by Rev. P. Jones (a member of the Ojibwa) 1861, as toodaim, by Francis Assikinak (an Ottawa Indian) as Ododam, while the Abbé Thavenel gives the simple form as ote, ‘the possessive of which is otem’. The initial tis explained by some as the final letter of a preceding possessive pronoun. The meaning given by most of these is ‘mark’; by the younger Henry ‘tribe’; Thavenel gives ‘mark’ and ‘family or tribe’, apparently meaning ‘that which marks the family or tribe’. Lescarbot and Long explain it as applied to a familiar spirit

 

[chilango]

Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.

 

[TruXta]

The English word "totem" comes from the Ojibway word "oteteman", meaning "he is a brother of mine".

And?

 

[MellySingsDoom]

Pob strikes again!