JRPC wrote:You read through this thread and THAT'S what jumps out to you as an objectionable use of language!?
indigoDos wrote:Bit tacky but oddly interesting image there trippy. How is it surviving? Why is the dove intent on directing its soon to be charred remains to fall on Australia??
Certainly less tacky and > interesting than the sadly very predictable and uneccessary B&B dogpiling that's occurring.
GooberTheHat wrote:I was trying to say its hardly a dog pile, but clearly failed to convey my meaning.
regmcfly wrote:I'm unsure why my post seems to be controversial, it's pointing out how people use manipulative language to dictate the conversation.
Naipaul’s writerly achievements have taken a backseat for reasons I’ve mentioned; but there’s another reason, which is so obvious that we aren’t conscious of it. Naipaul was not white. This means we must primarily view him as a representer – or misrepresenter – of the culture he came from, rather than as one who’s renewing language and radically rethinking the form he uses. After all, how can you renew something – in this case, the English language and the novel as a genre – which you don’t have cultural ownership of
Facewon wrote:JRPC wrote:I haven't read it yet, but I think we all know I'm going to agree with every word.
Careful now.
I mean, it's parody...
With identity politics off the table, it was possible to talk about all kinds of things—religion, philosophy, history, myth—in a different way. They could have a direct experience with ideas, not one mediated by ideology.
Someone can't possibly seriously write this, yet here she is.
Facewon wrote:https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/09/how-identity-became-a-weapon-against-the-left Again, preaching to the choir, I know, and us-centric, but great.
Facewon wrote:That first link also links to some great other general pieces about coates and Obama and a little 5 minute summation of some adolf Reed that's really good.
The good thing about popular dufuses is they garner interesting responses I guess.
The Nathan j Robinson Ben Shapiro take down is gold too.
dynamiteReady wrote:@JRPC - Quick question... Do you believe the Israelis have done 'all they can' for the Palestinians?
acemuzzy wrote:I don't think this has been dogpiling, everyone shouting jrpc down has given reasons, we just all think he's wrong. We're not jumping on a bandwagon for the sake of it. I mean what else are we meant to do, ignore his (to us) offensive drivel?
JRPC wrote:
OK.
Look, there's clearly just a widespread misunderstanding of what the arguments are here.
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