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Originally Posted by 5ive
Yeah, champ, you command diversity of thought so well you can't even go here, http://www.thesaurus.com/, and pick a more apt word to describe a person intolerant of those with different opinions, a word without the doublespeak baggage.
Monster ****ing irony, dude? You're part of a troupe of clowns who scream "racist" and "homophobe" repeatedly at the slightest provocation, like obsessive mental patients - yet look at how broad those terms are. Here is what I said earlier:
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The trouble with "racist" is its imprecision. Racist covers all meanings from:
- Thinks the evidence suggests that (e.g.) black people are less intelligent on average, but is as against discrimination as a leftist.
- Thinks less of other races, and is not discriminatory
- Thinks less of other races, discriminates
- Wants other races to be gone from the US
- Wants to do hate crimes against other races
That's a huge umbrella of vastly different mental, moral and intellectual states included under one term. "Racist" lumps people in with all those, with no discrimination.
To the above - what normal, non insane people people call "racist", the left has added the following as "racist"
- Doesn't agree that the reason (e.g.) black people are where they are is entirely whitey's fault
- Doesn't take the minority side in a minority/majority issue (even where, if we were color blind, we probably wouldn't take the minority's side)
- Lots more
I realize some guys like Wookie are so far down the rabbit hole of crazy that they think the above is 100% racist, and that's that. But most people aren't. Language is about communication and shared meaning, and "racist" is such a horribly imprecise term there is never a good reason to use it except when someone fits the definitions that normal people ascribe to.
In my view it's used, where not justified, knowing it means the top set of definitions to most people, to bash people over the head into agreeing with your stance. That's little more than cowardly and anti-intellectual.
Yet here you are complaining about "doublespeak baggage" of fraction of the degree even if I grant you everything you believe? Are you ****ing serious? Physician, heal thyself, and then come preaching. The use of "bigot" here is perfectly normal.
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Or, wait...
Maybe the doublespeak baggage is the entire game, the parlor trick obfuscation needed to even have a point.
No, not at all. It's not my fault you have a poor education and are not aware what words mean, or more importantly, what concepts mean. The concept of a "bigot" far predates its modern alternative usage as "someone not liking minorities". It used to be an ugly word - someone intolerant of different opinions - which used to be (and still is, in polite circles) considered an ugly thing when taken to the kind of extreme that regular P posters do, apparently in their daily lives.
You've always been glowing cinder hot.
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You know what's so offensive about people like yourself? That some small part of you actually believes your simple bull**** will work on half-way intelligent people. I know your schtick is to play pied-piper for the derprats, but somewhere in the back of your little mind you think you're gonna sock a few dingers out of the park.
I'm more right about what I post than you are about what you post. You're not even in the game, most of the thing, yet you think you're getting checkmates left and right. It's...I don't even have a word.
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Like, somebody with a functioning frontal lobe is gonna have their eureka moment and go, "Hey, TS is right, SuperUberBob really is The Real Bigot!"
SuperUberBob's statement above is a classic bigot statement/worldview. You and your leftist pals in P are so far down the bigot hole you don't even know what normal is.
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Somebody in some factory somewhere slaved away to build the electronic device you're wasting your life on. That's a modern tragedy.
Weren't you the mod of BBV? Isn't that a tad ironic?