• porkins@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        Wagers don’t need to include money. I simply wager that you are Gen-Z. I could be wrong, but it is a strong assertion. I figured you would say otherwise if I was wrong. I’m off the the gym, but am happy to continue debating later.

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            1 year ago

            I didn’t say that I had high confidence in that assessment; just enough to roll with it and possibly get corrected. Also, my dive logs would paint a different picture than cowardice. This is more like I don’t take stupid bets. I can hypothesize though that you are likely not a millennial unless at the tail-end because you immediately went to criticize my choice of language as not being PC and/or being a form of dog whistling. I then swooped in with context. It’s a writing trick to catch the reader’s attention.

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              1 year ago

              If you wanted to get corrected and didn’t have confidence, you shouldn’t have made a declaration as if it was a fact. I doubt you’ll apologize for it though.

              Also, you pretty much admitted that when you said ‘ghetto,’ you meant ‘black,’ which is the very definition of dog whistling.

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                1 year ago

                Sowell is clearly and Uncle Tom/Ruckus by your standards because he refers to black culture as ghetto culture frequently. I was just citing an esteemed black author.

                As an aside. Does it trigger you if I appropriate things? I think I have the itis from breakfast. I’m still hung over from taco Tuesday margs. Today is winesday, so will cook Italian with obnoxious pizzeria music.

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                  1 year ago

                  Yes, again, Thomas Sowell is a self-hating black man. I’m not sure why you didn’t read that the first two times. Also, I’m not ‘triggered’ by anything you say and that word is moronic.

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                    1 year ago

                    I think that he loves black people, but hates the culture that it chose to adopt in America at present. That is not self-hating. That is being critical of a culture that was chosen in a very Stockholm syndrome sort of way. I think that he is trying to give black people agency to define a more responsible path forward. If you ever get a chance to watch the MLK comes out of a coma episode of The Boondocks, it speaks to this well. The black creators of The Boondocks must be conservatives or something.