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Yaoi Huntress Earth said:
It seems like you just can't admire the founding father's accomplishments any more. Yes, it was wrong to keep slaves, but now that's all people will talk about. As my sister said, that while we should acknowledge that, we shouldn't let it cancel out the good they did.
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A little :offtopic: but this is something that it seems everyone does now. Someone does a lot of good but they do a couple of morally questionable things, because, y'know, they're only human, and thus that discredits all the good they've done in the world. You can see this with MLK and Gandhi; despite all the achievements they made, there are people out there who point out that MLK cheated on his wife and Gandhi was weirdly attracted to his niece as if that somehow negates everything they ever done.

The fact people do this with the Founding Fathers is even dumber since most of the time they strip out the context; yes they owned slaves but some of them wanted to abolish it before realizing that people in the South practically needed their slaves to run their plantations properly. Does that excuse them hypocritically owning slaves? No, but the situation isn't just "Oh they owned slaves, why should we listen to them?" Because the Founding Fathers were a very smart group of individuals. It's really stupid to just dismiss everything because of a few things we morally disagree with.
 
I decided to do another experiement for fun by seeing how many Black Panther-related articles this site does in the span of a week. The result is (from the 24th to the 17th)...
Total Articles: 97
Political: 18
Black Panther: 24
Hollywood Harassment: 11
Articles that were not about this crap: 44 (less than half)
 
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Baldur's Gait said:
A little :offtopic: but this is something that it seems everyone does now. Someone does a lot of good but they do a couple of morally questionable things, because, y'know, they're only human, and thus that discredits all the good they've done in the world. You can see this with MLK and Gandhi; despite all the achievements they made, there are people out there who point out that MLK cheated on his wife and Gandhi was weirdly attracted to his niece as if that somehow negates everything they ever done.

The fact people do this with the Founding Fathers is even dumber since most of the time they strip out the context; yes they owned slaves but some of them wanted to abolish it before realizing that people in the South practically needed their slaves to run their plantations properly. Does that excuse them hypocritically owning slaves? No, but the situation isn't just "Oh they owned slaves, why should we listen to them?" Because the Founding Fathers were a very smart group of individuals. It's really stupid to just dismiss everything because of a few things we morally disagree with.
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You can either wait for a baseline of perfection, or you can work with an aggregate of decency and deal with outliers.

You can certainly do the former, but it ain't gonna happen anytime soon.
 
Yaoi Huntress Earth said:
The Mary Sue sings the praises of Terry Goodkind calling out on a "sexist" cover for his new book. Especially when his books have a history of cruelty towards women and children. The guy loves his rape.
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I get that Witcher 3 Ciri style high heeled boots aren't the most practical things on earth but can someone explain to me why marching hundreds of miles in heavy iron armor (which was hard but people actually did in real life) is alright but those are considered to be an absolute reality warping impossibility? Other than Reeeeee! sexism of course?
 
neverendingmidi said:
Yeah, wasn’t he the one with the pain causing dildos that characters used to rape each other with?
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I wouldn't be surprised if it was. Goodkind (from an interview or two I've read) comes off as a pretentious, possible sociopath.
 
Yaoi Huntress Earth said:
The Mary Sue sings the praises of Terry Goodkind calling out on a "sexist" cover for his new book. Especially when his books have a history of cruelty towards women and children. The guy loves his rape.
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This is also has to be the tamest cover to get your panties in a twist over. From all the belly-aching they were doing you'd think the cover was some Frank Frazzeta homage with the chick in a deer-skin bikini or some alleged alt-right troll recreating that fucking Manara Spiderwoman cover again just to fuck with people.

But nope. It's just a generic chick in modest armor standing in a normal pose. I didn't even notice the heels that they were bitching about until I read the article.
 
One Man Bland said:
This is also has to be the tamest cover to get your panties in a twist over. From all the belly-aching they were doing you'd think the cover was some Frank Frazzeta homage with the chick in a deer-skin bikini or some alleged alt-right troll recreating that fucking Manara Spiderwoman cover again just to fuck with people.

But nope. It's just a generic chick in modest armor standing in a normal pose. I didn't even notice the heels that they were bitching about until I read the article.
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I'm sure most of us normies would find nothing wrong with this pic. Goodkind is just virtue signaling, but a different kind from his usual ultra-objectivist, "you hate goodness if you don't agree with me and my characters" type.
 
Ruin said:
I get that Witcher 3 Ciri style high heeled boots aren't the most practical things on earth but can someone explain to me why marching hundreds of miles in heavy iron armor (which was hard but people actually did in real life) is alright but those are considered to be an absolute reality warping impossibility? Other than Reeeeee! sexism of course?
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The only reason women subject themselves to high heels is because they like the way it let's them sashay around the place. That's well and good for the social scene but why would a woman do that in a fight? Unless she's Catwoman or something.
 
This was a great comment from the resdesigned posters article: "Sally Struthers should do Save the Blacks commercials: "For just $20 a month, you can sponsor a poor black, sending him a movie poster with him photoshopped into the starring role to buoy his self-esteem, plus mock college acceptance and Fortune 500 job hiring letters. A different package each month"
 
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