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wordup  26 Sep 17 4.50pm |
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Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger
Housemaids knee? It'll go well with your White Man's Burden. alert: It's called a joke Edited by wordup (26 Sep 2017 4.51pm)
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| wordup 26 Sep 17 4.53pm |
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Originally posted by jamiemartin721
Yet they all do. The entire alt-right is almost based on this. You have actors leading the NRA, a reality tv star in the white house etc. Its the norm, people use their position for influence. The one thing you can say about these unusual times it that it shines a light on what people are all about.
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  Hrolf The Ganger 26 Sep 17 4.56pm |
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Originally posted by jamiemartin721
So you'd agree with taking Fox News off the air, along with all those radio stations and internet stations that effectively utilise someone using their position to influence politics. These are very much situations where individuals use their celebrity or fame, to pursue political agendas. News should be news and as unbiased as humanly possible. It has never been entirely unbiased, but the smell of political bias is growing stronger all the time.
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| Stirlingsays 26 Sep 17 4.57pm |
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Originally posted by wordup
It'll go well with your White Man's Burden. alert: It's called a joke Edited by wordup (26 Sep 2017 4.51pm) Yeah but....face value and all that. We have the right to decide upon your motivations....Don't we....Your later clarification....your edit....Well Wordy...We can just ignore that can't we and focus upon what we choose. We get the right to decide what you think and label you forever more. Crappy isn't it. Edited by Stirlingsays (26 Sep 2017 4.58pm)
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| hedgehog50 Croydon 26 Sep 17 4.57pm |
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Originally posted by PaddyMcPaddy
That's your opinion and that's fine. Although you may want to question why it has angered you so much. An event in a country you don't live in, in a sport you don't care for. Is slightly odd. Hasn't angered me at all. Made me laugh though.
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| wordup 26 Sep 17 4.58pm |
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Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger
News should be news and as unbiased as humanly possible. It has never been entirely unbiased, but the smell of political bias is growing stronger all the time. Out of interest, do you believe that the BBC is as biased as Fox News?
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| Hrolf The Ganger 26 Sep 17 4.58pm |
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Originally posted by wordup
It'll go well with your White Man's Burden. alert: It's called a joke Edited by wordup (26 Sep 2017 4.51pm) I don't blame others for my problems. I also don't refer to posters skin colour.
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| Hrolf The Ganger 26 Sep 17 5.00pm |
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Originally posted by wordup
Out of interest, do you believe that the BBC is as biased as Fox News? Don't know. I don't watch Fox News.
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| wordup 26 Sep 17 5.07pm |
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Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger
I don't blame others for my problems. I also don't refer to posters skin colour. No, you just have a tally chart of the number of black and whites on tv shows and make threads about it. So dignified.
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| wordup 26 Sep 17 5.12pm |
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Originally posted by Stirlingsays
Yeah but....face value and all that. We have the right to decide upon your motivations....Don't we....Your later clarification....your edit....Well Wordy...We can just ignore that can't we and focus upon what we choose. We get the right to decide what you think and label you forever more. Crappy isn't it. Edited by Stirlingsays (26 Sep 2017 4.58pm) Hahaha. You can believe what you want about my or anyone elses motivation. No doubt someone making a joke online or a black sports player on a knee is identical to someone saying that having sex with children can benefit some of them, before backtracking after massive anger from all sides. In your eyes maybe. You're so clearly emotionally dead to any horrendous stuff on the right, and in a state of perpetual panic about the left that it impacts your life above all others anyway so who cares. Stay angry.
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Kermit8  Hevon 26 Sep 17 5.15pm |
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Think it was newspaper owner Lord Rothermere who said "keep them angry, keep them scared" in relation to how many papers his company could continually shift if they did so to their readers. Daily Mail, it memory serves. Any right-wing media outlet worth its salt follows that mantra. It works.
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| DanH SW2 26 Sep 17 5.18pm |
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This column from Eric Reid, who played alongside Colin Kaepernick last year, is well worth a read. This part especially: "It baffles me that our protest is still being misconstrued as disrespectful to the country, flag and military personnel. We chose it because it’s exactly the opposite. It has always been my understanding that the brave men and women who fought and died for our country did so to ensure that we could live in a fair and free society, which includes the right to speak out in protest. It should go without saying that I love my country and I’m proud to be an American. But, to quote James Baldwin, “exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”" Also worth noting Kaepernick first did this protest in August 2016. It's only since Trump's inflammatory comments has it become a huge issue with others taking a proper stand against him. Kaepernick is also without a contract this season because of his actions.
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