Students wear white pins to remind them of white privilege - The College Fix


i think the best comment so far is:

Klingons? What a racist.

I'm starting to tire of hearing the word "destroyed" used as a substitute for "made a good argument against" or "said mean things about."

And people on both ends of the political spectrum (but almost always towards one end or the other, and rarely from the middle) are guilty of it.

Getting "destroyed" is what happens to someone when they try to pursue James Bond through an old warehouse being used to traffic cocaine and they fall into the giant shredding machine at the end of the conveyor belt, or when they happen to be standing at the exact spot where a missile launched from a drone is targeted to hit.

Being proven wrong in an argument, or just having your argument silenced / suppressed outright, isn't quite the same thing as being transformed into chum.

I love the term "decimate" at least historically.

We use it to as a synonym for destroy when the historical truth is so much worse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_(Roman_army)

Another bit of trivia that has fascinated me was the amount of life snuffed out during the age of Genghis Khan.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...s-dropped.html

So Stalin was an environmentalist? An absolute model leader of the left.

The mongol empire is fascinating, but holy shit.
Dude killed 5% of the earth's population.

he was trying to solve diversity issues...

Unfortunately the free period for these episodes of Hardcore History by Dan Carlin has passed, but if you are interested in history and a fucking fantastic history podcast I highly recommend listening (and in this case buying).

Hardcore History ? Wrath of the Khans Series
(almost eight and a half hours of history)

For the episodes that are still free:
Hardcore History 59 The Destroyer of Worlds

You can subscribe via your favorite Podcast player.

Also when people say "completely destroyed."

Because they don't understand the difference between damaged and destroyed.

And everything Genghis Kahn didn't kill, he banged. You have something like a 0.5% chance of being related to him.

Dan Carlin is absolutely fantastic, but those podcasts are insanely long. Like I don't have 25 fucking hours to listen to blueprint for Armageddon.

Actually, the same goes for the phrase "shut down," as in "This lady absolutely shut down a group of trolls."

Invariably, it goes like this: A person who is fat posts a picture of herself wearing a bikini or skimpy outfit. Some trolls come along and reply that she really should not be wearing these clothes in public. The original poster then responds with more, similar pictures of herself stuffed into a bikini, with something about how she's proud of her body and nobody can tell her what to wear, followed by a bunch of other people saying "Right on," and "You're beautiful, girl!"

Now, I have no problem with someone responding to their critics. And it's not my place to judge what you're proud of or how you express that. Your body, your speech, your business. But this hardly constitutes "shutting them down." To claim as much crosses a certain logical line.

An example of someone being (verbally) Shut Down would be as follows:


Person A posts something on the internet about how immigrants are a danger to American society, and want to rape all of our women.

Person B does a bit of light googling, and then responds with "Wait a minute, you were born in the US, and didn't you serve 9 years in prison for raping a 15 year old girl who went to your church?"


-or-


Person A posts something inflammatory about how all [members of political party they oppose] are corrupt, thieves, liars, etc.

Person B, who knows person A, replies "Dude, you declared bankruptcy in order to get out from under your upside-down mortgage for the third home you bought for $450,000 as a speculative investment with a zero-down, interest-only mortgage during the height of the bubble despite only earning $60,000 a year and having zero liquid assets (a fact which you tried to conceal from your wife, without whose knowledge you bought the house), then, after she divorced you when she caught you sleeping with another man, you declared bankruptcy again to try to avoid paying alimony, except when you found out it doesn't work that way, you then proceeded to embezzle nearly $100,000 from your father's company, and only plead guilty to that in order to avoid indictment for fraud resulting from the pyramid scheme you tried to get people to buy into. You're hardly one to be making accusations."

Those are shut-downs.

"I can wear what I want" is the sort of thing that a defiant 8 year old says to their beleaguered parent.

Imaginary + :likecat:.

Yeah, I heard Genghis Kahn literally destroyed a shitload of pussy.

:bowrofl:

+ 1 imaginary :likecat:

UC San Diego Students Protest 'Oppressive' Dalai Lama Visit | Heat Street

Sometimes, I wish I had a time machine.

I'd love to go back to UC Berkeley in 1964 or 65, pick up a bunch of students, and bring them forward to UC Berkeley in the present day.

I could sell tickets to that event.

This is pretty much an advertisement for western liberal democracy...
They're against this because they believe in an authoritarian regime. But good lord is that hilarious.

It's funny, I'm going to school right now in San Jose. My General Pathology teacher graduated UC Berkeley in...1971, I think? He proudly describes it, at that time, as, "The birth of the free speech movement." He still lives in Berkeley.

He is a crotchety old contrarian, and he decided to "attend" the recent riots. He wanted to see it for himself. He described it in class - the vandalism, the assaults. He said that three masked youths were running by holding clubs, and they spotted him, stopped, pointed, and said, "We know who you voted for." He believed that they were going to beat him, but something scared them and they ran on. This is a little bald Jewish man in his late sixties.

I asked him what his takeaway from the event was. He just shrugged and said, "It was the death of free speech." I'm not sure if he was referring to the movement on campus, or in general.