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Am i the only one who sees a vaguely totalitarian tone to the whole 'if you see anyone say something bad about someone else because of their race/creed whatever' thing?Like it sounds similar to what you would have heard in the Soviet Union 'if you hear anyone say something bad about communism intervene'(before we do and take you in as well).
One other thing kids don't really understand nuance as easily as adults do.So a simple argument about something dumb might be interpreted by kids in an excessive way.Giving kids leeway in such matters is just asking for trouble.Then again the folks at TMS don't understand nuance either and they're presumably fully grown adults.
 
iafiv said:
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Am i the only one who sees a vaguely totalitarian tone to the whole 'if you see anyone say something bad about someone else because of their race/creed whatever' thing?Like it sounds similar to what you would have heard in the Soviet Union 'if you hear anyone say something bad about communism intervene'(before we do and take you in as well).
One other thing kids don't really understand nuance as easily as adults do.So a simple argument about something dumb might be interpreted by kids in an excessive way.Giving kids leeway in such matters is just asking for trouble.Then again the folks at TMS don't understand nuance either and they're presumably fully grown adults.
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It's very easy to take such statements out of context, especially online. There's also a strong incentive to call out someone for this kind of speech, no matter how much it strains credulity.
 
I fail to see how you can take that out of context.It doesn't get any points for subtlety.In fact i don't think the folks at TMS know the concept to begin with.
 
Yaoi Huntress Earth said:
Guess what TMS likes: Antifa.
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Amazingly only about half the comments section is on board with the article, the rest aren't having it:

In the above video, host Trevor Noah mentions that Antifa has “no defined leadership” and that there’s “no clear way to know what they’re actually meant to do.” But … it’s right there in the name. Antifa stands against fascism. That’s it. That’s the whole goal. You can cherry-pick a few individuals from any group, defined leadership or no, and find inconsistencies, as the Daily Show segment does, but that doesn’t invalidate their core purpose. No group is a monolith.



Hello, Mister Winkle? Isn't that the exact same criticism that the publication as a whole and most of the regulars here justifiably tore the blazes apart, justifiably I might add, when Gamergate tried to use it, hmm? They have no defined leadership so the movement could not be distanced from the worst, ugliest aspects of it, unlike movements that do like Occupy Wall Street and BLM? That the worst aspects of a movement without leadership are just as much a representation of that movement as the best? I am neither defending GG nor attacking Antifa, but I find myself a bit-- perturbed by the lack of consistency at play here.

Something else I noticed was how your white, privileged posterior failed to mention, along with a lotof the thin-skinned leftists on twitter, that Trevor Noah is a person of color who grew up in apartheid South Africa, and that his mixed-race parents had to hide the fact they were a couple in public, but you and are going to lecture him about resistance to fascism and authoritarianism?

Please do this entire publication you claim to care about a favor and check your privilege.
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Chaos Theorist said:
http://archive.is/LFwhH

This Puberty Handbook for Boys Is Basically Rape Culture 101
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But it's true. Breasts are a sign of puberty and they attract males. Just about every living creature more complex than a single celled blob of material has some sort of display feature that attracts the opposite sex for mating purposes. Maybe the wording is a little weird. But you aren't writing this for college students. It has to be simple enough for a child to understand.

Elwood P. Dowd said:
Nice of Superman to put his arm around Arthur Chu that way. Dude's been having a rough year.



I'm surprised they didn't go all "REEEE...girls can have penises and boys can have boobs, so there!"
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Me too. It's so heterocisnormative and triggering. They just went and assumed the gender of every assigned gender at birth child reading this book.
 
Man, TMS has been wetting their panties over the Pennywise and Babadook pairing. This is the second article they've had on the subject in about three days.
 
Yaoi Huntress Earth said:
Man, TMS has been wetting their panties over the Pennywise and Babadook pairing. This is the second article they've had on the subject in about three days.
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The original "The Babadook is a gay man" posts were so absurd that it was kind of funny, and it peaked with that video of The Babadook on Ru Paul's Drag Race. I was hoping the joke would have run its course by now.

Now I'm just getting flashbacks to Freddy/Jason pairings and I do not like this.
 
I mentioned in another thread that by SJW standards calling pennywise a gay male would be nonbinary asexual erasure since pennywise is a shapeshifting lovecraftian horror from another dimension who probably doesn't have a gender or sexuality (and whether the babadook does is also extremely dubious). That said, at least TMS is posting something vaguely geek related instead of just whining about Trump for the billionth time.

(People looking for a gay horror icon should really check out the Hannibal TV series:tomgirl:)
 
friedshrimp said:
No, I don't want to see Freddy tumblrized, of all characters!
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One, two, Comrade Freddie's coming for you.
Three, four, post your Briggs-Meyer score.
Five, six, throw some bricks.
Seven, eight, find a tranny to date.
Nine, ten, check your privilege again.
 
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