A day without stupid?

[TomC]

That you don’t understand seems par for the course. Who called Cosby “doctor” before his infamy?

I don't remember anybody calling him "doctor".
Perhaps you just pay more attention to celebrities than I do.
Tom

Right. No one called him doctor. That’s the point Tom.

Did Cosby ever demand it the way Hovind did? Or is this just vague whataboutism?
I don't see your point in bringing up Cosby.

I brought up Hovind because I know he demanded the honorific. Without having accomplished much of anything but bilking Christians.
Demanding the honorific without having accomplished much of anything is when it gets tacky.

Jill Biden has accomplished some impressive things. Hovind, not so much. Why did you bring up Cosby? I don't see the point. It looks entirely like whataboutism, feel free to enlighten me.
Tom

 

[crazyfingers]

Must be a slow news day. 3 pages of this?

 

[ZiprHead]

Thank you for reaffirming the average IQ of a typical Trumptard.

It’s kinda tacky when someone with a Ph.d in Ed insists you call them doctor. It might be more realistic to call her Nurse Biden. All lawyers have doctorates; but how silly if people referred to us as doctors. Anyway, it is very progressive to use titles like "Dr" because it reminds other people that they are less educated and haven't achieved as much as you. Maintaining status hierarchies has always been a central aim of progressivism, as noted by all egalitarian philosophers. That noting this triggers the Biden cultists here is amusing.

Can you cite some time when Dr. Biden insisted she be called doctor? If you can't then your post is just a strawman.

 

[ZiprHead]

It’s kinda tacky when someone with a Ph.d in Ed insists you call them doctor. It might be more realistic to call her Nurse Biden. All lawyers have doctorates; but how silly if people referred to us as doctors. Anyway, it is very progressive to use titles like "Dr" because it reminds other people that they are less educated and haven't achieved as much as you. Maintaining status hierarchies has always been a central aim of progressivism, as noted by all egalitarian philosophers. That noting this triggers the Biden cultists here is amusing.

Which lawyer writes a dissertation for their JD? Maybe if they get an JSD, but not all lawyers no

No, lawyers use Esquire.

 

[ZiprHead]

I can understand why someone who has gone through the usually arduous process of completing graduate studies and writing a dissertation would refer to themselves as "Dr". Given the common understanding of the title "DR' to mean a physician, even though I have a Ph.D., I don't use the term because I am not a physician nor do I care about titles.

I do think given the common understanding, the use of "Dr" for academics can be misleading. But in terms of pressing issues in the USA, I think this ranks behind whether blue or black ink should be used to endorse checks.

The fact someone felt the need to write an OP-ED piece means someone's life is pretty boring and easy. Why any reputable newspaper would print such a waste of time indicates a complete lack of more available and interesting OP-ED pieces.

When you are in professional circles are you referred to as Dr. Dog?

It wasn't meant to be funny but I chuckled a little after I wrote it.

 

[ZiprHead]

Bill and Jill actually have Ed.D, not Ph.D. Whatever, if everyone with a Doctor degree in this or that insisted on being called doctor, “doctor” would be meaningless. Issac Asimov also had a Doctor degree (in Philosophy). But he wasn’t so narcissistic and worrying about his social status to demand the appellation “Doctor.”

Again, I ask, when has Jill Biden demanded to be called doctor?

 

[laughing dog]

I can understand why someone who has gone through the usually arduous process of completing graduate studies and writing a dissertation would refer to themselves as "Dr". Given the common understanding of the title "DR' to mean a physician, even though I have a Ph.D., I don't use the term because I am not a physician nor do I care about titles.

I do think given the common understanding, the use of "Dr" for academics can be misleading. But in terms of pressing issues in the USA, I think this ranks behind whether blue or black ink should be used to endorse checks.

The fact someone felt the need to write an OP-ED piece means someone's life is pretty boring and easy. Why any reputable newspaper would print such a waste of time indicates a complete lack of more available and interesting OP-ED pieces.

When you are in professional circles are you referred to as Dr. Dog?

It wasn't meant to be funny but I chuckled a little after I wrote it.

Only by other dogs.

 

[Trausti]

It’s kinda tacky when someone with a Ph.d in Ed insists you call them doctor. It might be more realistic to call her Nurse Biden. All lawyers have doctorates; but how silly if people referred to us as doctors. Anyway, it is very progressive to use titles like "Dr" because it reminds other people that they are less educated and haven't achieved as much as you. Maintaining status hierarchies has always been a central aim of progressivism, as noted by all egalitarian philosophers. That noting this triggers the Biden cultists here is amusing.

Which lawyer writes a dissertation for their JD? Maybe if they get an JSD, but not all lawyers no

No, lawyers use Esquire.

As a lawyer of 20 years, it is very rare.

 

[Trausti]

Bill and Jill actually have Ed.D, not Ph.D. Whatever, if everyone with a Doctor degree in this or that insisted on being called doctor, “doctor” would be meaningless. Issac Asimov also had a Doctor degree (in Philosophy). But he wasn’t so narcissistic and worrying about his social status to demand the appellation “Doctor.”

Again, I ask, when has Jill Biden demanded to be called doctor?

Why did you post the link that started this discussion?

 

[Ford]

Well this is truly a day with stupid.

Trausti is saying that it's "tacky" for people to refer to the incoming First Lady as a doctor, while the fact that the outgoing First Lady showed off her tits in a photo shoot is apparently not tacky at all.

What a time to be alive.

 

[Trausti]

Well this is truly a day with stupid.

Trausti is saying that it's "tacky" for people to refer to the incoming First Lady as a doctor, while the fact that the outgoing First Lady showed off her tits in a photo shoot is apparently not tacky at all.

What a time to be alive.

Oh, Ford is a pearl-clutching prude. Learn something new everyday.

 

[Angry Floof]

Well this is truly a day with stupid.

Trausti is saying that it's "tacky" for people to refer to the incoming First Lady as a doctor, while the fact that the outgoing First Lady showed off her tits in a photo shoot is apparently not tacky at all.

What a time to be alive.

Oh, Ford is a pearl-clutching prude. Learn something new everyday.

Right wing shitgibbons are the most pearl clutching prudes in history... EXCEPT when their worshiped authority figure's wife is precisely the kind of woman they have vilified for centuries. My god, you guys are hilarious in your hypocrisy. There are no standards there whatsoever. It's all bullshit lip service meant to punish women unless she's a right wing mannequin. (But the rest of us knew that already.)

 

[ZiprHead]

Bill and Jill actually have Ed.D, not Ph.D. Whatever, if everyone with a Doctor degree in this or that insisted on being called doctor, “doctor” would be meaningless. Issac Asimov also had a Doctor degree (in Philosophy). But he wasn’t so narcissistic and worrying about his social status to demand the appellation “Doctor.”

Again, I ask, when has Jill Biden demanded to be called doctor?

Why did you post the link that started this discussion?

Because it was incredibly offensive.

Again, I ask, when has Jill Biden demanded to be called doctor?

 

[Ford]

Well this is truly a day with stupid.

Trausti is saying that it's "tacky" for people to refer to the incoming First Lady as a doctor, while the fact that the outgoing First Lady showed off her tits in a photo shoot is apparently not tacky at all.

What a time to be alive.

Oh, Ford is a pearl-clutching prude. Learn something new everyday.

Right wing shitgibbons are the most pearl clutching prudes in history... EXCEPT when their worshiped authority figure's wife is precisely the kind of woman they have vilified for centuries. My god, you guys are hilarious in your hypocrisy. There are no standards there whatsoever. It's all bullshit lip service meant to punish women unless she's a right wing mannequin. (But the rest of us knew that already.)

I am endlessly fascinated by the right wing's "morality."

In the 90's the Republican Party rebranded themselves as the "party of family values" as a contrast to the Democrat in the White House who (gasp) cheated on his wife. They started before Clinton even won the election, and continued right up until they claimed that before George W. Bush "restored honor and integrity" to the White House, they'd have to fumigate the Oval Office in order to remove the "stain" of infidelity.

Now, the same party and in many cases the same people are pulling out all the stops to keep a man in that same office who cheated on his first wife with his second, his second wife with his third, and his third wife with a porn star.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave.

 

[Angry Floof]

Right wing shitgibbons are the most pearl clutching prudes in history... EXCEPT when their worshiped authority figure's wife is precisely the kind of woman they have vilified for centuries. My god, you guys are hilarious in your hypocrisy. There are no standards there whatsoever. It's all bullshit lip service meant to punish women unless she's a right wing mannequin. (But the rest of us knew that already.)

I am endlessly fascinated by the right wing's "morality."

In the 90's the Republican Party rebranded themselves as the "party of family values" as a contrast to the Democrat in the White House who (gasp) cheated on his wife. They started before Clinton even won the election, and continued right up until they claimed that before George W. Bush "restored honor and integrity" to the White House, they'd have to fumigate the Oval Office in order to remove the "stain" of infidelity.

Now, the same party and in many cases the same people are pulling out all the stops to keep a man in that same office who cheated on his first wife with his second, his second wife with his third, and his third wife with a porn star.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave.

Relevant side note: 70% of women who get abortions in the U.S. are Christians. They never seem to address this (except for a tiny fraction of honest Christians who actually did the research and published the findings), but then self reflection and willingness to change or admit fault are NOT strong traits of right wing authoritarian followers. They have no choice but to keep pushing ahead on the "No, YOU r teh bad ppl" response to every criticism.

Now that I think about it, though, self reflection does tend to be difficult for people who hate themselves. This is no joke. The worse a person feels about themselves, the more painful it is to self reflect with any honesty. This is a sad fact that is true among people of all walks of life. But self hatred is crucial to right wing indoctrination. Then on top of that self loathing comes even more "teachings" about how admitting wrong or doubt or fault is a serious violation of the groupthink, making it near impossible for a strongly steeped right wing mind to ever grow.

 

[Trausti]

Why did you post the link that started this discussion?

Because it was incredibly offensive.

Again, I ask, when has Jill Biden demanded to be called doctor?

 

[Angry Floof]

Such testeria! And from the same people who think Melania is "classy."

 

[Shadowy Man]

Why did you post the link that started this discussion?

Because it was incredibly offensive.

Again, I ask, when has Jill Biden demanded to be called doctor?

That’s a “demand”?

She has the credentials to call herself “doctor”. That hasn’t been disproven, so what’s the problem with her using the honorific for herself? That’s the question here. Medical doctors aren’t the only kinds of doctors. The only people who seem to have a problem with this are the ones who are ignorant of the term’s applications. Or jealous misogynists with Bachelors degrees.

 

[ZiprHead]

Why did you post the link that started this discussion?

Because it was incredibly offensive.

Again, I ask, when has Jill Biden demanded to be called doctor?

Well, I see you've posted to the right thread.

 

[Ford]

Or jealous misogynists with Bachelors degrees.

That's gonna leave a mark.