laughing dog
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I believe it could have happened as you do. Does that mean your naivete would be touching to a 9 year old as well?
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No. You believe it did happen and there's no good reason for people to be skeptical.
Honestly, the post so obviously ticked the obvious propaganda boxes that I am almost uncomfortable in the knowledge that so many people swallow such things hook, line (or 'like'), and sinker.
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No, I don't believe you ought to believe the story.
I think your imputement of intent is exactly what you bemoan about others doing whenever they impute intent on YOU for your use of misleading articles, your statements around the actions of Republican politicians, and most of your threads on trans people.
Yet here you are imputing intent.
You say there are reasons why people pass these laws beyond backhanded ways to discriminate and prevent education that our incredulity at your intent is misplaced. Yet you take the path of incredulity when a child apparently complains.
Must be difficult lugging all those extra standards around.
laughing dog
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Sorry, you cannot read minds. You do not know what I believe. It is fucking arrogant or delusional to claim otherwise. I think it could happen. I find your rationale for disbelief to be pathetic.
Your responses obviously ticked the obvious horsehit conservative propaganda boxes that I am almost sick in the knowledge that so many people will publicly spout them.
Perhaps in a more appropriate subforum I'd like to do an against-the-text, critical reading of this post. I'm frightened that this appealed so easily to the leftists on this board that they thought what the child allegedly said was 'insightful'. Holy shit: what the child said was not insightful: it is downright evil.
I am saying the laws do not say what people think they say, and a plain reading of the law confirms that. Then, to foment their own outrage at the law, people conjure imagined scenarios where well okay, the law doesn't actually say that but Republicans are so litigious and emotionally frail it's as if the law actually does say that.
laughing dog
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Logically, there is nothing preventing an insight from being evil. Of course, thinking her insight is evil is pretty effed up.
It wasn't an 'insight' in any laudatory sense.
It was fucking evil nonsense. That the only reason a white person would feel 'bad', or 'mad', or 'uncomfortable' reading about past injustices are the people who want to inflict the injustice again.
Like, holy shit, what? The people who feel bad that people were enslaved are the ones who want to do it again? Does it not seem more obvious that the people who see nothing wrong with slavery at all would be far more likely to want to do it again?
It's not an 'insight', it's an inversion. I'd believe this child to be morally stunted if I believed for a second she ever said anything like it at all.
Can I ask the people who 'liked' the first post where this was posted: do you actually believe what the child (allegedly) said to be true?
laughing dog
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She did not say anything that even remotely resembles your characterization that "the only reason would feel"bad", or "mad" or "uncomfortable" reading about past injustices are the people who want to inflict the injustice again". It is obvious that comment refers to those who are complaining.
Unsurprisingly, your interpretation is incredibly effed up.
Do you believe the post happened as written?
Elixir
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Judgmental, much?
* I totally doubt that a 9yo actually said that.
* it triggered at least one RW extremist to jump to the usual righteous condemnations, so whether or not the kid said it, the meme works.
I would change “the only white people who feel…” to “the white people who most feel”.
Other than that … preach on about evil.
I think it is charming and childlike that you doubt that the evil resides with Trump, his ilk and his supplicants.
* I totally doubt that a 9yo actually said that.
* it triggered at least one RW extremist to jump to the usual righteous condemnations, so whether or not the kid said it, the meme works.
I would change “the only white people who feel…” to “the white people who most feel”.
Other than that … preach on about evil.
I think it is charming and childlike that you doubt that the evil resides with Trump, his ilk and his supplicants.
What? How is that obvious? She says nothing about people 'complaining'. She said (allegedly)
"I think the only white people who feel bad or mad or uncomfortable reading about the stuff that white people did in history are the people who want to do it again".
She has said it very obviously: if you feel uncomfortable reading about the evil stuff that white people did, you want to do the same evil stuff.
It's a plain reading of her words. That you think her words mean something other than they obviously mean is a sign of your political feelings but not your English comprehension skills.
Yes, but when I doubted the story, I was ridiculed for disbelieving it.
That is still an illogical inference. Feeling bad about past injustice usually means you would not want it to happen again.
laughing dog
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Your interpretation is inconsistent with your contention that this "insight" is the work of left-leaning parents. I wonder if you are resorting to pedantry to hide this flip-flop. I have read that the inability to read in context is a sign of autism.
Your explanation is inconsistent with your belief that left-leaning parents composed that comment, but it is a sign of your effed up feelings and lack of intellectual consistency.
Elixir
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Current Nazis don’t feel bad about past atrocities (what RW Nazi apologists call injustices)
They feel afraid of people finding out what they did last time before they can do it again.
That’s why they are banning books, period.
Stop deflecting. The plain meaning of the words are the plain meaning of the words. The fact that leftists like you have to introduce ideas outside the text (the child did not mean people who read about it and feel bad about it, the child meant people who complain about reading about it) is a problem with the leftists who staged this, not a problem with me.
Oh, by the way, nice ableist coda you have there. Apparently it's a sign of autism to 'not share the leftist mindset of interpreting leftist propaganda in the most generous way possible, inferring as granted attitudes from outside the text and ignoring the unsavoury implications of the plain and unmmistakeable words of the text'.
It's like hearing bible stories when you are outside the faith and saying, in response, 'that sounds unbelievable', and the Christians calling you autistic for not understanding.
I'm not a RW Nazi apologist, but your continued defense of an idiotic meme that you don't even believe happened, that spouts an evil 'insight', is noted.
The plain reading of the words is not inconsistent that the child's parents concocted the propaganda and used their daughter as a prop on their sleazy social media stage. It is consistent with her parents preaching to a closed coterie of like-minded believers who will take away the intended message (and like and share) without parsing the actual meaning of the words as written, borne aloft as they are on a gentle current of their own smugness.
I already explained in post #188