• Rename the Cleveland Indians "The Cleveland Whites"?

    From BTR1701@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 24 20:38:40 2025
    The exTwitters are all in an uproar over Trump's suggestion that the Cleveland MLB team be renamed back to the Cleveland Indians. One guy who claims to be Navajo posted "This would be better, right?" And the following picture as a kind of "how would you like it if it was done to you?" gotcha toward white people:

    https://ibb.co/8DC5CgrB

    I was like, you're right, it *is* better!

    We should name the team "The Cleveland Whites" and the logo could be a guy in
    a fedora with a great credit score.

    I'd totally support that team.


    This reminds me of another such attempt to "teach" white people how horrible
    it is to have team named after them. Back in the early 2011's, some intramural basketball team made the news when they named themselves "The Fightin'
    Whities" to show white people how offensive such things are for others.
    Instead of offending them, white people loved it and started buying "Fightin' Whities" merchandise in droves. The team eventually had to start putting
    social justice disclaimers on the jerseys and t-shirts (while still selling them, of course, they wouldn't say no to the $$$) to keep white people from using them for purposes of racial pride.

    I love it when social justice stunts blow up in the faces of 'progressives' like that.

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 24 17:04:24 2025
    On 7/24/2025 4:38 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    The exTwitters are all in an uproar over Trump's suggestion that the Cleveland
    MLB team be renamed back to the Cleveland Indians. One guy who claims to be Navajo posted "This would be better, right?" And the following picture as a kind of "how would you like it if it was done to you?" gotcha toward white people:

    https://ibb.co/8DC5CgrB

    I was like, you're right, it *is* better!

    We should name the team "The Cleveland Whites" and the logo could be a guy in a fedora with a great credit score.

    I'd totally support that team.


    This reminds me of another such attempt to "teach" white people how horrible it is to have team named after them. Back in the early 2011's, some intramural
    basketball team made the news when they named themselves "The Fightin' Whities" to show white people how offensive such things are for others. Instead of offending them, white people loved it and started buying "Fightin' Whities" merchandise in droves. The team eventually had to start putting social justice disclaimers on the jerseys and t-shirts (while still selling them, of course, they wouldn't say no to the $$$) to keep white people from using them for purposes of racial pride.

    I love it when social justice stunts blow up in the faces of 'progressives' like that.

    Yes, we used to lynch (etc.) blacks ...and still haven't gotten over it.

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  • From Adam H. Kerman@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Jul 24 21:26:56 2025
    BTR1701 <[email protected]> wrote:

    The exTwitters are all in an uproar over Trump's suggestion that the Cleveland >MLB team be renamed back to the Cleveland Indians. One guy who claims to be >Navajo posted "This would be better, right?" And the following picture as a >kind of "how would you like it if it was done to you?" gotcha toward white >people:

    https://ibb.co/8DC5CgrB

    I was like, you're right, it *is* better!

    We should name the team "The Cleveland Whites" and the logo could be a guy in >a fedora with a great credit score.

    I'd totally support that team.

    This reminds me of another such attempt to "teach" white people how horrible >it is to have team named after them. Back in the early 2011's, some intramural >basketball team made the news when they named themselves "The Fightin' >Whities" to show white people how offensive such things are for others. >Instead of offending them, white people loved it and started buying "Fightin' >Whities" merchandise in droves. The team eventually had to start putting >social justice disclaimers on the jerseys and t-shirts (while still selling >them, of course, they wouldn't say no to the $$$) to keep white people from >using them for purposes of racial pride.

    I love it when social justice stunts blow up in the faces of 'progressives' >like that.

    Remember the suggestion for the New York Hebrews? Jews, not known for
    athletic prowess, were falling down laughing.

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  • From Rhino@21:1/5 to moviePig on Thu Jul 24 18:11:41 2025
    On 2025-07-24 5:04 PM, moviePig wrote:
    On 7/24/2025 4:38 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    The exTwitters are all in an uproar over Trump's suggestion that the
    Cleveland
    MLB team be renamed back to the Cleveland Indians. One guy who claims
    to be
    Navajo posted "This would be better, right?" And the following picture
    as a
    kind of "how would you like it if it was done to you?" gotcha toward
    white
    people:

    https://ibb.co/8DC5CgrB

    I was like, you're right, it *is* better!

    We should name the team "The Cleveland Whites" and the logo could be a
    guy in
    a fedora with a great credit score.

    I'd totally support that team.


    This reminds me of another such attempt to "teach" white people how
    horrible
    it is to have team named after them. Back in the early 2011's, some
    intramural
    basketball team made the news when they named themselves "The Fightin'
    Whities" to show white people how offensive such things are for others.
    Instead of offending them, white people loved it and started buying
    "Fightin'
    Whities" merchandise in droves. The team eventually had to start putting
    social justice disclaimers on the jerseys and t-shirts (while still
    selling
    them, of course, they wouldn't say no to the $$$) to keep white people
    from
    using them for purposes of racial pride.

    I love it when social justice stunts blow up in the faces of
    'progressives'
    like that.

    Yes, we used to lynch (etc.) blacks ...and still haven't gotten over it.


    Do you seriously mean to claim that blacks are still being lynched and
    that this didn't finally end with the Civil Rights legislation in the
    1960s? How about some links to prove your point?

    --
    Rhino

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  • From shawn@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 24 18:28:38 2025
    On Thu, 24 Jul 2025 18:24:36 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On 7/24/2025 6:11 PM, Rhino wrote:
    On 2025-07-24 5:04 PM, moviePig wrote:
    On 7/24/2025 4:38 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    The exTwitters are all in an uproar over Trump's suggestion that the
    Cleveland
    MLB team be renamed back to the Cleveland Indians. One guy who claims
    to be
    Navajo posted "This would be better, right?" And the following
    picture as a
    kind of "how would you like it if it was done to you?" gotcha toward
    white
    people:

    https://ibb.co/8DC5CgrB

    I was like, you're right, it *is* better!

    We should name the team "The Cleveland Whites" and the logo could be
    a guy in
    a fedora with a great credit score.

    I'd totally support that team.


    This reminds me of another such attempt to "teach" white people how
    horrible
    it is to have team named after them. Back in the early 2011's, some
    intramural
    basketball team made the news when they named themselves "The Fightin' >>>> Whities" to show white people how offensive such things are for others. >>>> Instead of offending them, white people loved it and started buying
    "Fightin'
    Whities" merchandise in droves. The team eventually had to start putting >>>> social justice disclaimers on the jerseys and t-shirts (while still
    selling
    them, of course, they wouldn't say no to the $$$) to keep white
    people from
    using them for purposes of racial pride.

    I love it when social justice stunts blow up in the faces of
    'progressives'
    like that.

    Yes, we used to lynch (etc.) blacks ...and still haven't gotten over it. >>>

    Do you seriously mean to claim that blacks are still being lynched and
    that this didn't finally end with the Civil Rights legislation in the
    1960s? How about some links to prove your point?

    I mean that it's an atrocious part of our past that lingers in memory
    even generations removed. And that's why there's no "correct" attitude
    that connects to it even distantly. The air is poisoned.


    So in that case we should only refer to African Americans and never
    use the term "blacks" because of that poisoned air.

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to Rhino on Thu Jul 24 18:24:36 2025
    On 7/24/2025 6:11 PM, Rhino wrote:
    On 2025-07-24 5:04 PM, moviePig wrote:
    On 7/24/2025 4:38 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    The exTwitters are all in an uproar over Trump's suggestion that the
    Cleveland
    MLB team be renamed back to the Cleveland Indians. One guy who claims
    to be
    Navajo posted "This would be better, right?" And the following
    picture as a
    kind of "how would you like it if it was done to you?" gotcha toward
    white
    people:

    https://ibb.co/8DC5CgrB

    I was like, you're right, it *is* better!

    We should name the team "The Cleveland Whites" and the logo could be
    a guy in
    a fedora with a great credit score.

    I'd totally support that team.


    This reminds me of another such attempt to "teach" white people how
    horrible
    it is to have team named after them. Back in the early 2011's, some
    intramural
    basketball team made the news when they named themselves "The Fightin'
    Whities" to show white people how offensive such things are for others.
    Instead of offending them, white people loved it and started buying
    "Fightin'
    Whities" merchandise in droves. The team eventually had to start putting >>> social justice disclaimers on the jerseys and t-shirts (while still
    selling
    them, of course, they wouldn't say no to the $$$) to keep white
    people from
    using them for purposes of racial pride.

    I love it when social justice stunts blow up in the faces of
    'progressives'
    like that.

    Yes, we used to lynch (etc.) blacks ...and still haven't gotten over it.


    Do you seriously mean to claim that blacks are still being lynched and
    that this didn't finally end with the Civil Rights legislation in the
    1960s? How about some links to prove your point?

    I mean that it's an atrocious part of our past that lingers in memory
    even generations removed. And that's why there's no "correct" attitude
    that connects to it even distantly. The air is poisoned.

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to shawn on Thu Jul 24 18:49:07 2025
    On 7/24/2025 6:28 PM, shawn wrote:
    On Thu, 24 Jul 2025 18:24:36 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On 7/24/2025 6:11 PM, Rhino wrote:
    On 2025-07-24 5:04 PM, moviePig wrote:
    On 7/24/2025 4:38 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    The exTwitters are all in an uproar over Trump's suggestion that the >>>>> Cleveland
    MLB team be renamed back to the Cleveland Indians. One guy who claims >>>>> to be
    Navajo posted "This would be better, right?" And the following
    picture as a
    kind of "how would you like it if it was done to you?" gotcha toward >>>>> white
    people:

    https://ibb.co/8DC5CgrB

    I was like, you're right, it *is* better!

    We should name the team "The Cleveland Whites" and the logo could be >>>>> a guy in
    a fedora with a great credit score.

    I'd totally support that team.


    This reminds me of another such attempt to "teach" white people how
    horrible
    it is to have team named after them. Back in the early 2011's, some
    intramural
    basketball team made the news when they named themselves "The Fightin' >>>>> Whities" to show white people how offensive such things are for others. >>>>> Instead of offending them, white people loved it and started buying
    "Fightin'
    Whities" merchandise in droves. The team eventually had to start putting >>>>> social justice disclaimers on the jerseys and t-shirts (while still
    selling
    them, of course, they wouldn't say no to the $$$) to keep white
    people from
    using them for purposes of racial pride.

    I love it when social justice stunts blow up in the faces of
    'progressives'
    like that.

    Yes, we used to lynch (etc.) blacks ...and still haven't gotten over it. >>>>

    Do you seriously mean to claim that blacks are still being lynched and
    that this didn't finally end with the Civil Rights legislation in the
    1960s? How about some links to prove your point?

    I mean that it's an atrocious part of our past that lingers in memory
    even generations removed. And that's why there's no "correct" attitude
    that connects to it even distantly. The air is poisoned.


    So in that case we should only refer to African Americans and never
    use the term "blacks" because of that poisoned air.

    I'm not sure there *is* a meaningful 'should'. We may just be screwed.

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  • From Adam H. Kerman@21:1/5 to Rhino on Thu Jul 24 22:52:03 2025
    Rhino <[email protected]> wrote:
    2025-07-24 5:04 PM, moviePig wrote:

    . . .

    Yes, we used to lynch (etc.) blacks ...and still haven't gotten over it.

    Do you seriously mean to claim that blacks are still being lynched and
    that this didn't finally end with the Civil Rights legislation in the
    1960s? How about some links to prove your point?

    Lemme Pigsplain. The root cause of lynchings was offensive names for
    sports teams.

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  • From Rhino@21:1/5 to moviePig on Thu Jul 24 21:55:48 2025
    On 2025-07-24 6:24 PM, moviePig wrote:
    On 7/24/2025 6:11 PM, Rhino wrote:
    On 2025-07-24 5:04 PM, moviePig wrote:
    On 7/24/2025 4:38 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    The exTwitters are all in an uproar over Trump's suggestion that the
    Cleveland
    MLB team be renamed back to the Cleveland Indians. One guy who
    claims to be
    Navajo posted "This would be better, right?" And the following
    picture as a
    kind of "how would you like it if it was done to you?" gotcha toward
    white
    people:

    https://ibb.co/8DC5CgrB

    I was like, you're right, it *is* better!

    We should name the team "The Cleveland Whites" and the logo could be
    a guy in
    a fedora with a great credit score.

    I'd totally support that team.


    This reminds me of another such attempt to "teach" white people how
    horrible
    it is to have team named after them. Back in the early 2011's, some
    intramural
    basketball team made the news when they named themselves "The Fightin' >>>> Whities" to show white people how offensive such things are for others. >>>> Instead of offending them, white people loved it and started buying
    "Fightin'
    Whities" merchandise in droves. The team eventually had to start
    putting
    social justice disclaimers on the jerseys and t-shirts (while still
    selling
    them, of course, they wouldn't say no to the $$$) to keep white
    people from
    using them for purposes of racial pride.

    I love it when social justice stunts blow up in the faces of
    'progressives'
    like that.

    Yes, we used to lynch (etc.) blacks ...and still haven't gotten over it. >>>

    Do you seriously mean to claim that blacks are still being lynched and
    that this didn't finally end with the Civil Rights legislation in the
    1960s? How about some links to prove your point?

    I mean that it's an atrocious part of our past that lingers in memory
    even generations removed.  And that's why there's no "correct" attitude
    that connects to it even distantly.  The air is poisoned.


    What rubbish you spew! Of course we remember it, the way we remember the Holocaust: because it was horrible. I like to think we remember it so
    that we'll never forget that it was wrong and won't ever do it again. I
    think that's a perfectly correct attitude to take to lynchings and
    Holocausts.


    --
    Rhino

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to Adam H. Kerman on Thu Jul 24 22:21:29 2025
    On 7/24/2025 6:52 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
    Rhino <[email protected]> wrote:
    2025-07-24 5:04 PM, moviePig wrote:

    . . .

    Yes, we used to lynch (etc.) blacks ...and still haven't gotten over it.

    Do you seriously mean to claim that blacks are still being lynched and
    that this didn't finally end with the Civil Rights legislation in the
    1960s? How about some links to prove your point?

    Lemme Pigsplain. The root cause of lynchings was offensive names for
    sports teams.

    Close. Lynchings are the cause of the offense taken at the names.

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to Rhino on Thu Jul 24 22:32:52 2025
    On 7/24/2025 9:55 PM, Rhino wrote:
    On 2025-07-24 6:24 PM, moviePig wrote:
    On 7/24/2025 6:11 PM, Rhino wrote:
    On 2025-07-24 5:04 PM, moviePig wrote:
    On 7/24/2025 4:38 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    The exTwitters are all in an uproar over Trump's suggestion that
    the Cleveland
    MLB team be renamed back to the Cleveland Indians. One guy who
    claims to be
    Navajo posted "This would be better, right?" And the following
    picture as a
    kind of "how would you like it if it was done to you?" gotcha
    toward white
    people:

    https://ibb.co/8DC5CgrB

    I was like, you're right, it *is* better!

    We should name the team "The Cleveland Whites" and the logo could
    be a guy in
    a fedora with a great credit score.

    I'd totally support that team.


    This reminds me of another such attempt to "teach" white people how
    horrible
    it is to have team named after them. Back in the early 2011's, some
    intramural
    basketball team made the news when they named themselves "The Fightin' >>>>> Whities" to show white people how offensive such things are for
    others.
    Instead of offending them, white people loved it and started buying
    "Fightin'
    Whities" merchandise in droves. The team eventually had to start
    putting
    social justice disclaimers on the jerseys and t-shirts (while still
    selling
    them, of course, they wouldn't say no to the $$$) to keep white
    people from
    using them for purposes of racial pride.

    I love it when social justice stunts blow up in the faces of
    'progressives'
    like that.

    Yes, we used to lynch (etc.) blacks ...and still haven't gotten over
    it.


    Do you seriously mean to claim that blacks are still being lynched
    and that this didn't finally end with the Civil Rights legislation in
    the 1960s? How about some links to prove your point?

    I mean that it's an atrocious part of our past that lingers in memory
    even generations removed.  And that's why there's no "correct"
    attitude that connects to it even distantly.  The air is poisoned.


    What rubbish you spew! Of course we remember it, the way we remember the Holocaust: because it was horrible. I like to think we remember it so
    that we'll never forget that it was wrong and won't ever do it again. I
    think that's a perfectly correct attitude to take to lynchings and Holocausts.

    My point is that even when we don't remember it we remember it. And it
    colors and inflames even today's most well-meant discourse.

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  • From Rhino@21:1/5 to moviePig on Fri Jul 25 07:28:58 2025
    On 2025-07-24 10:32 PM, moviePig wrote:
    On 7/24/2025 9:55 PM, Rhino wrote:
    On 2025-07-24 6:24 PM, moviePig wrote:
    On 7/24/2025 6:11 PM, Rhino wrote:
    On 2025-07-24 5:04 PM, moviePig wrote:
    On 7/24/2025 4:38 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    The exTwitters are all in an uproar over Trump's suggestion that
    the Cleveland
    MLB team be renamed back to the Cleveland Indians. One guy who
    claims to be
    Navajo posted "This would be better, right?" And the following
    picture as a
    kind of "how would you like it if it was done to you?" gotcha
    toward white
    people:

    https://ibb.co/8DC5CgrB

    I was like, you're right, it *is* better!

    We should name the team "The Cleveland Whites" and the logo could
    be a guy in
    a fedora with a great credit score.

    I'd totally support that team.


    This reminds me of another such attempt to "teach" white people
    how horrible
    it is to have team named after them. Back in the early 2011's,
    some intramural
    basketball team made the news when they named themselves "The
    Fightin'
    Whities" to show white people how offensive such things are for
    others.
    Instead of offending them, white people loved it and started
    buying "Fightin'
    Whities" merchandise in droves. The team eventually had to start
    putting
    social justice disclaimers on the jerseys and t-shirts (while
    still selling
    them, of course, they wouldn't say no to the $$$) to keep white
    people from
    using them for purposes of racial pride.

    I love it when social justice stunts blow up in the faces of
    'progressives'
    like that.

    Yes, we used to lynch (etc.) blacks ...and still haven't gotten
    over it.


    Do you seriously mean to claim that blacks are still being lynched
    and that this didn't finally end with the Civil Rights legislation
    in the 1960s? How about some links to prove your point?

    I mean that it's an atrocious part of our past that lingers in memory
    even generations removed.  And that's why there's no "correct"
    attitude that connects to it even distantly.  The air is poisoned.


    What rubbish you spew! Of course we remember it, the way we remember
    the Holocaust: because it was horrible. I like to think we remember it
    so that we'll never forget that it was wrong and won't ever do it
    again. I think that's a perfectly correct attitude to take to
    lynchings and Holocausts.

    My point is that even when we don't remember it we remember it.  And it colors and inflames even today's most well-meant discourse.



    And how is it colouring the discussion of renaming a baseball team? I'm
    not seeing a connection. It just seems like more virtue-signalling from you.

    --
    Rhino

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  • From Rhino@21:1/5 to moviePig on Fri Jul 25 07:31:32 2025
    On 2025-07-24 10:21 PM, moviePig wrote:
    On 7/24/2025 6:52 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
    Rhino <[email protected]> wrote:
    2025-07-24 5:04 PM, moviePig wrote:

    . . .

    Yes, we used to lynch (etc.) blacks ...and still haven't gotten over
    it.
    Do you seriously mean to claim that blacks are still being lynched and
    that this didn't finally end with the Civil Rights legislation in the
    1960s? How about some links to prove your point?

    Lemme Pigsplain. The root cause of lynchings was offensive names for
    sports teams.

    Close.  Lynchings are the cause of the offense taken at the names.


    Lynchings caused a tiny handful of "activists" - NOT the vast majority
    of Indians - to take offense at the name of a baseball team? Through
    what torturous logic do you come to that conclusion?


    --
    Rhino

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  • From Ubiquitous@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Jul 25 04:30:46 2025
    In article <105u5kg$qfig$[email protected]>, [email protected] wrote:

    The exTwitters are all in an uproar over Trump's suggestion that the Cleveland >MLB team be renamed back to the Cleveland Indians. One guy who claims to be >Navajo posted "This would be better, right?" And the following picture as a >kind of "how would you like it if it was done to you?" gotcha toward white >people:

    https://ibb.co/8DC5CgrB

    I was like, you're right, it *is* better!

    We should name the team "The Cleveland Whites" and the logo could be a guy in >a fedora with a great credit score.

    I'd totally support that team.

    #MeToo

    This reminds me of another such attempt to "teach" white people how horrible >it is to have team named after them. Back in the early 2011's, some intramural >basketball team made the news when they named themselves "The Fightin' >Whities" to show white people how offensive such things are for others. >Instead of offending them, white people loved it and started buying "Fightin' >Whities" merchandise in droves. The team eventually had to start putting >social justice disclaimers on the jerseys and t-shirts (while still selling >them, of course, they wouldn't say no to the $$$) to keep white people from >using them for purposes of racial pride.

    I was about to mention them!

    I love it when social justice stunts blow up in the faces of 'progressives' >like that.

    Yes, indeed!
    Heh heh heh

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  • From Ubiquitous@21:1/5 to moviepig on Fri Jul 25 04:30:47 2025
    moviepig wrote:
    On 7/24/2025 4:38 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

    The exTwitters are all in an uproar over Trump's suggestion that the Cleveland
    MLB team be renamed back to the Cleveland Indians. One guy who claims to be >> Navajo posted "This would be better, right?" And the following picture as a >> kind of "how would you like it if it was done to you?" gotcha toward white >> people:

    https://ibb.co/8DC5CgrB

    I was like, you're right, it *is* better!

    We should name the team "The Cleveland Whites" and the logo could be a guy in
    a fedora with a great credit score.

    I'd totally support that team.

    This reminds me of another such attempt to "teach" white people how horrible >> it is to have team named after them. Back in the early 2011's, some intramural
    basketball team made the news when they named themselves "The Fightin'
    Whities" to show white people how offensive such things are for others.
    Instead of offending them, white people loved it and started buying "Fightin'
    Whities" merchandise in droves. The team eventually had to start putting
    social justice disclaimers on the jerseys and t-shirts (while still selling >> them, of course, they wouldn't say no to the $$$) to keep white people from >> using them for purposes of racial pride.

    I love it when social justice stunts blow up in the faces of 'progressives' >> like that.

    Yes, we used to lynch (etc.) blacks ...and still haven't gotten over it.

    Nonresponse noted. Get back to us when you have a real argument to make.

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  • From Ubiquitous@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Jul 25 04:30:48 2025
    In article <105udej$1klco$[email protected]>, [email protected] wrote:
    Rhino <[email protected]> wrote:
    2025-07-24 5:04 PM, moviePig wrote:

    Yes, we used to lynch (etc.) blacks ...and still haven't gotten over it.

    Do you seriously mean to claim that blacks are still being lynched and
    that this didn't finally end with the Civil Rights legislation in the >>1960s? How about some links to prove your point?

    Lemme Pigsplain. The root cause of lynchings was offensive names for
    sports teams.

    Moviepig: RAT-U's very own Norm Chomsky!

    [Kerman's incorrect formatting fixed]

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  • From Ubiquitous@21:1/5 to moviepig on Fri Jul 25 10:24:42 2025
    moviepig wrote:
    On 7/24/2025 6:52 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
    Rhino <[email protected]> wrote:
    2025-07-24 5:04 PM, moviePig wrote:

    Yes, we used to lynch (etc.) blacks ...and still haven't gotten over it. >>
    Do you seriously mean to claim that blacks are still being lynched and
    that this didn't finally end with the Civil Rights legislation in the
    1960s? How about some links to prove your point?

    Lemme Pigsplain. The root cause of lynchings was offensive names for
    sports teams.

    Close. Lynchings are the cause of the offense taken at the names.


    TROLL-O-METER

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    0* -*- *catatonic
    * |\ *comatose
    * \ *clinical death
    * \ *biological death
    * _\/ *demonic apparition
    * * *damned for all eternity

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  • From Ubiquitous@21:1/5 to Rhino on Fri Jul 25 10:23:02 2025
    Rhino wrote:
    On 2025-07-24 10:32 PM, moviePig wrote:
    On 7/24/2025 9:55 PM, Rhino wrote:
    On 2025-07-24 6:24 PM, moviePig wrote:
    On 7/24/2025 6:11 PM, Rhino wrote:
    On 2025-07-24 5:04 PM, moviePig wrote:
    On 7/24/2025 4:38 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

    I love it when social justice stunts blow up in the faces of
    'progressives' like that.

    Yes, we used to lynch (etc.) blacks ...and still haven't gotten
    over it.

    Do you seriously mean to claim that blacks are still being lynched
    and that this didn't finally end with the Civil Rights legislation
    in the 1960s? How about some links to prove your point?

    I mean that it's an atrocious part of our past that lingers in memory
    even generations removed.  And that's why there's no "correct"
    attitude that connects to it even distantly.  The air is poisoned.

    What rubbish you spew! Of course we remember it, the way we remember
    the Holocaust: because it was horrible. I like to think we remember it
    so that we'll never forget that it was wrong and won't ever do it
    again. I think that's a perfectly correct attitude to take to lynchings
    and Holocausts.

    My point is that even when we don't remember it we remember it.  And it
    colors and inflames even today's most well-meant discourse.

    And how is it colouring the discussion of renaming a baseball team? I'm
    not seeing a connection. It just seems like more virtue-signalling from you.

    I'd call it "trolling", but it's too inept for that.

    --
    Not a joke! Don't jump!

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to Rhino on Fri Jul 25 12:01:18 2025
    On 7/25/2025 7:28 AM, Rhino wrote:
    On 2025-07-24 10:32 PM, moviePig wrote:
    On 7/24/2025 9:55 PM, Rhino wrote:
    On 2025-07-24 6:24 PM, moviePig wrote:
    On 7/24/2025 6:11 PM, Rhino wrote:
    On 2025-07-24 5:04 PM, moviePig wrote:
    On 7/24/2025 4:38 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    The exTwitters are all in an uproar over Trump's
    suggestion that the Cleveland MLB team be renamed back
    to the Cleveland Indians. One guy who claims to be
    Navajo posted "This would be better, right?" And the
    following picture as a kind of "how would you like it if
    it was done to you?" gotcha toward white people:

    https://ibb.co/8DC5CgrB

    I was like, you're right, it *is* better!

    We should name the team "The Cleveland Whites" and the
    logo could be a guy in a fedora with a great credit
    score.

    I'd totally support that team.


    This reminds me of another such attempt to "teach" white
    people how horrible it is to have team named after them.
    Back in the early 2011's, some intramural basketball
    team made the news when they named themselves "The
    Fightin' Whities" to show white people how offensive
    such things are for others. Instead of offending them,
    white people loved it and started buying "Fightin'
    Whities" merchandise in droves. The team eventually had
    to start putting social justice disclaimers on the
    jerseys and t-shirts (while still selling them, of
    course, they wouldn't say no to the $$$) to keep white
    people from using them for purposes of racial pride.

    I love it when social justice stunts blow up in the
    faces of 'progressives' like that.

    Yes, we used to lynch (etc.) blacks ...and still haven't
    gotten over it.


    Do you seriously mean to claim that blacks are still being
    lynched and that this didn't finally end with the Civil
    Rights legislation in the 1960s? How about some links to
    prove your point?

    I mean that it's an atrocious part of our past that lingers in
    memory even generations removed. And that's why there's no
    "correct" attitude that connects to it even distantly. The
    air is poisoned.


    What rubbish you spew! Of course we remember it, the way we
    remember the Holocaust: because it was horrible. I like to think
    we remember it so that we'll never forget that it was wrong and
    won't ever do it again. I think that's a perfectly correct
    attitude to take to lynchings and Holocausts.

    My point is that even when we don't remember it we remember it.
    And it colors and inflames even today's most well-meant discourse.



    And how is it colouring the discussion of renaming a baseball team?
    I'm not seeing a connection. It just seems like more virtue-
    signalling from you.

    With an atrocity at its foundation, polite discussion is doomed.
    Meanwhile, the only "virtue" I might claim is an abiding
    cynicism about easy answers in general.

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to Rhino on Fri Jul 25 12:08:47 2025
    On 7/25/2025 7:31 AM, Rhino wrote:
    On 2025-07-24 10:21 PM, moviePig wrote:
    On 7/24/2025 6:52 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
    Rhino <[email protected]> wrote:
    2025-07-24 5:04 PM, moviePig wrote:

    . . .

    Yes, we used to lynch (etc.) blacks ...and still haven't gotten
    over it.
    Do you seriously mean to claim that blacks are still being lynched and >>>> that this didn't finally end with the Civil Rights legislation in the
    1960s? How about some links to prove your point?

    Lemme Pigsplain. The root cause of lynchings was offensive names for
    sports teams.

    Close.  Lynchings are the cause of the offense taken at the names.


    Lynchings caused a tiny handful of "activists" - NOT the vast majority
    of Indians - to take offense at the name of a baseball team? Through
    what torturous logic do you come to that conclusion?

    'Lynchings' is emblematic of a past unforgivable outrage ...like, say, 'smallpox blankets'.

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  • From Adam H. Kerman@21:1/5 to Rhino on Fri Jul 25 17:41:39 2025
    Rhino <[email protected]> wrote:
    2025-07-24 10:21 PM, moviePig wrote:
    7/24/2025 6:52 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
    Rhino <[email protected]> wrote:
    2025-07-24 5:04 PM, moviePig wrote:

    . . .

    Yes, we used to lynch (etc.) blacks ...and still haven't gotten over >>>>>it.

    Do you seriously mean to claim that blacks are still being lynched and >>>>that this didn't finally end with the Civil Rights legislation in the >>>>1960s? How about some links to prove your point?

    Lemme Pigsplain. The root cause of lynchings was offensive names for >>>sports teams.

    Close. Lynchings are the cause of the offense taken at the names.

    Lynchings caused a tiny handful of "activists" - NOT the vast majority
    of Indians - to take offense at the name of a baseball team? Through
    what torturous logic do you come to that conclusion?

    Here is a further Pigsplanation. Lynchings weren't bad because they were literally murder for the purpose of ethnic cleansing, but because of the offensiveness that they created. The victims weren't the murder victims
    and those forced to flee their homes to avoid being murder victims in
    future, but general offensiveness. Murder was just incidental to the
    real crime of offensiveness; the murder victims weren't the real victims.

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  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 25 20:11:55 2025
    On Jul 25, 2025 at 4:31:32 AM PDT, "Rhino" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 2025-07-24 10:21 PM, moviePig wrote:
    On 7/24/2025 6:52 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
    Rhino <[email protected]> wrote:
    2025-07-24 5:04 PM, moviePig wrote:

    Yes, we used to lynch (etc.) blacks ...and still haven't gotten over >>>>> it.
    Do you seriously mean to claim that blacks are still being lynched and >>>> that this didn't finally end with the Civil Rights legislation in the >>>> 1960s? How about some links to prove your point?

    Lemme Pigsplain. The root cause of lynchings was offensive names for
    sports teams.

    Close.  Lynchings are the cause of the offense taken at the names.

    Lynchings caused a tiny handful of "activists" - NOT the vast majority
    of Indians - to take offense at the name of a baseball team? Through
    what torturous logic do you come to that conclusion?

    Whenever this sort of thing comes up, the media reports always make it sound like the dozen or so whiners behind the legal challenges represent natives as
    a whole, whereas the opposite is true.

    In poll after poll of *actual* Indians regarding team names and logos that feature them, 90-95% of them say they either don't care or actually like the name and logo and consider it positive to be so prominently featured like
    that. Most of the people who complain about it aren't even native. They're do-gooder pale-face liberal types who are offended on behalf of natives, because (due to their own racism and bigotry) they believe the natives aren't sophisticated or smart enough to be offended themselves. Or something.

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to shawn on Fri Jul 25 18:12:43 2025
    On 7/24/2025 6:28 PM, shawn wrote:
    On Thu, 24 Jul 2025 18:24:36 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On 7/24/2025 6:11 PM, Rhino wrote:
    On 2025-07-24 5:04 PM, moviePig wrote:
    On 7/24/2025 4:38 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    The exTwitters are all in an uproar over Trump's suggestion that the >>>>> Cleveland
    MLB team be renamed back to the Cleveland Indians. One guy who claims >>>>> to be
    Navajo posted "This would be better, right?" And the following
    picture as a
    kind of "how would you like it if it was done to you?" gotcha toward >>>>> white
    people:

    https://ibb.co/8DC5CgrB

    I was like, you're right, it *is* better!

    We should name the team "The Cleveland Whites" and the logo could be >>>>> a guy in
    a fedora with a great credit score.

    I'd totally support that team.


    This reminds me of another such attempt to "teach" white people how
    horrible
    it is to have team named after them. Back in the early 2011's, some
    intramural
    basketball team made the news when they named themselves "The Fightin' >>>>> Whities" to show white people how offensive such things are for others. >>>>> Instead of offending them, white people loved it and started buying
    "Fightin'
    Whities" merchandise in droves. The team eventually had to start putting >>>>> social justice disclaimers on the jerseys and t-shirts (while still
    selling
    them, of course, they wouldn't say no to the $$$) to keep white
    people from
    using them for purposes of racial pride.

    I love it when social justice stunts blow up in the faces of
    'progressives'
    like that.

    Yes, we used to lynch (etc.) blacks ...and still haven't gotten over it. >>>>

    Do you seriously mean to claim that blacks are still being lynched and
    that this didn't finally end with the Civil Rights legislation in the
    1960s? How about some links to prove your point?

    I mean that it's an atrocious part of our past that lingers in memory
    even generations removed. And that's why there's no "correct" attitude
    that connects to it even distantly. The air is poisoned.


    So in that case we should only refer to African Americans and never
    use the term "blacks" because of that poisoned air.

    It might be that referring to them at all is an uphill climb.

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  • From shawn@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 25 19:23:41 2025
    On Fri, 25 Jul 2025 18:12:43 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On 7/24/2025 6:28 PM, shawn wrote:
    On Thu, 24 Jul 2025 18:24:36 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On 7/24/2025 6:11 PM, Rhino wrote:
    On 2025-07-24 5:04 PM, moviePig wrote:
    On 7/24/2025 4:38 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    The exTwitters are all in an uproar over Trump's suggestion that the >>>>>> Cleveland
    MLB team be renamed back to the Cleveland Indians. One guy who claims >>>>>> to be
    Navajo posted "This would be better, right?" And the following
    picture as a
    kind of "how would you like it if it was done to you?" gotcha toward >>>>>> white
    people:

    https://ibb.co/8DC5CgrB

    I was like, you're right, it *is* better!

    We should name the team "The Cleveland Whites" and the logo could be >>>>>> a guy in
    a fedora with a great credit score.

    I'd totally support that team.


    This reminds me of another such attempt to "teach" white people how >>>>>> horrible
    it is to have team named after them. Back in the early 2011's, some >>>>>> intramural
    basketball team made the news when they named themselves "The Fightin' >>>>>> Whities" to show white people how offensive such things are for others. >>>>>> Instead of offending them, white people loved it and started buying >>>>>> "Fightin'
    Whities" merchandise in droves. The team eventually had to start putting >>>>>> social justice disclaimers on the jerseys and t-shirts (while still >>>>>> selling
    them, of course, they wouldn't say no to the $$$) to keep white
    people from
    using them for purposes of racial pride.

    I love it when social justice stunts blow up in the faces of
    'progressives'
    like that.

    Yes, we used to lynch (etc.) blacks ...and still haven't gotten over it. >>>>>

    Do you seriously mean to claim that blacks are still being lynched and >>>> that this didn't finally end with the Civil Rights legislation in the
    1960s? How about some links to prove your point?

    I mean that it's an atrocious part of our past that lingers in memory
    even generations removed. And that's why there's no "correct" attitude
    that connects to it even distantly. The air is poisoned.


    So in that case we should only refer to African Americans and never
    use the term "blacks" because of that poisoned air.

    It might be that referring to them at all is an uphill climb.


    So we need to ignore an entire group of Americans because their name
    has some dark associations. Or at least we can't talk about them but
    if we can't reference them then there's not a lot we can do for them,
    as a group. Seems like we are going to end up hurting them yet again.

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  • From shawn@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 25 23:12:52 2025
    On Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:53:40 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On 7/25/2025 7:23 PM, shawn wrote:
    On Fri, 25 Jul 2025 18:12:43 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On 7/24/2025 6:28 PM, shawn wrote:
    On Thu, 24 Jul 2025 18:24:36 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On 7/24/2025 6:11 PM, Rhino wrote:
    On 2025-07-24 5:04 PM, moviePig wrote:
    On 7/24/2025 4:38 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    The exTwitters are all in an uproar over Trump's suggestion that the >>>>>>>> Cleveland
    MLB team be renamed back to the Cleveland Indians. One guy who claims >>>>>>>> to be
    Navajo posted "This would be better, right?" And the following >>>>>>>> picture as a
    kind of "how would you like it if it was done to you?" gotcha toward >>>>>>>> white
    people:

    https://ibb.co/8DC5CgrB

    I was like, you're right, it *is* better!

    We should name the team "The Cleveland Whites" and the logo could be >>>>>>>> a guy in
    a fedora with a great credit score.

    I'd totally support that team.


    This reminds me of another such attempt to "teach" white people how >>>>>>>> horrible
    it is to have team named after them. Back in the early 2011's, some >>>>>>>> intramural
    basketball team made the news when they named themselves "The Fightin' >>>>>>>> Whities" to show white people how offensive such things are for others.
    Instead of offending them, white people loved it and started buying >>>>>>>> "Fightin'
    Whities" merchandise in droves. The team eventually had to start putting
    social justice disclaimers on the jerseys and t-shirts (while still >>>>>>>> selling
    them, of course, they wouldn't say no to the $$$) to keep white >>>>>>>> people from
    using them for purposes of racial pride.

    I love it when social justice stunts blow up in the faces of
    'progressives'
    like that.

    Yes, we used to lynch (etc.) blacks ...and still haven't gotten over it.


    Do you seriously mean to claim that blacks are still being lynched and >>>>>> that this didn't finally end with the Civil Rights legislation in the >>>>>> 1960s? How about some links to prove your point?

    I mean that it's an atrocious part of our past that lingers in memory >>>>> even generations removed. And that's why there's no "correct" attitude >>>>> that connects to it even distantly. The air is poisoned.


    So in that case we should only refer to African Americans and never
    use the term "blacks" because of that poisoned air.

    It might be that referring to them at all is an uphill climb.


    So we need to ignore an entire group of Americans because their name
    has some dark associations. Or at least we can't talk about them but
    if we can't reference them then there's not a lot we can do for them,
    as a group. Seems like we are going to end up hurting them yet again.

    Neither *for* them nor *to* them. The thought-experiment I have in mind
    is to rewire our brains so that we're unable to categorize people by
    their inherited characteristics...


    We would have to be blind to do that. We (humans) will always classify according to a difference. A darker skin tone is an obvious difference
    that people will pick up on even if they come from the same culture.
    Only way to avoid that would be to have one race (Aryan?)

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to shawn on Fri Jul 25 22:53:40 2025
    On 7/25/2025 7:23 PM, shawn wrote:
    On Fri, 25 Jul 2025 18:12:43 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On 7/24/2025 6:28 PM, shawn wrote:
    On Thu, 24 Jul 2025 18:24:36 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On 7/24/2025 6:11 PM, Rhino wrote:
    On 2025-07-24 5:04 PM, moviePig wrote:
    On 7/24/2025 4:38 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    The exTwitters are all in an uproar over Trump's suggestion that the >>>>>>> Cleveland
    MLB team be renamed back to the Cleveland Indians. One guy who claims >>>>>>> to be
    Navajo posted "This would be better, right?" And the following
    picture as a
    kind of "how would you like it if it was done to you?" gotcha toward >>>>>>> white
    people:

    https://ibb.co/8DC5CgrB

    I was like, you're right, it *is* better!

    We should name the team "The Cleveland Whites" and the logo could be >>>>>>> a guy in
    a fedora with a great credit score.

    I'd totally support that team.


    This reminds me of another such attempt to "teach" white people how >>>>>>> horrible
    it is to have team named after them. Back in the early 2011's, some >>>>>>> intramural
    basketball team made the news when they named themselves "The Fightin' >>>>>>> Whities" to show white people how offensive such things are for others. >>>>>>> Instead of offending them, white people loved it and started buying >>>>>>> "Fightin'
    Whities" merchandise in droves. The team eventually had to start putting
    social justice disclaimers on the jerseys and t-shirts (while still >>>>>>> selling
    them, of course, they wouldn't say no to the $$$) to keep white
    people from
    using them for purposes of racial pride.

    I love it when social justice stunts blow up in the faces of
    'progressives'
    like that.

    Yes, we used to lynch (etc.) blacks ...and still haven't gotten over it. >>>>>>

    Do you seriously mean to claim that blacks are still being lynched and >>>>> that this didn't finally end with the Civil Rights legislation in the >>>>> 1960s? How about some links to prove your point?

    I mean that it's an atrocious part of our past that lingers in memory
    even generations removed. And that's why there's no "correct" attitude >>>> that connects to it even distantly. The air is poisoned.


    So in that case we should only refer to African Americans and never
    use the term "blacks" because of that poisoned air.

    It might be that referring to them at all is an uphill climb.


    So we need to ignore an entire group of Americans because their name
    has some dark associations. Or at least we can't talk about them but
    if we can't reference them then there's not a lot we can do for them,
    as a group. Seems like we are going to end up hurting them yet again.

    Neither *for* them nor *to* them. The thought-experiment I have in mind
    is to rewire our brains so that we're unable to categorize people by
    their inherited characteristics...

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to shawn on Sat Jul 26 11:45:53 2025
    On 7/25/2025 11:12 PM, shawn wrote:
    On Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:53:40 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On 7/25/2025 7:23 PM, shawn wrote:
    On Fri, 25 Jul 2025 18:12:43 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On 7/24/2025 6:28 PM, shawn wrote:
    On Thu, 24 Jul 2025 18:24:36 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On 7/24/2025 6:11 PM, Rhino wrote:
    On 2025-07-24 5:04 PM, moviePig wrote:
    On 7/24/2025 4:38 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    The exTwitters are all in an uproar over Trump's suggestion that the >>>>>>>>> Cleveland
    MLB team be renamed back to the Cleveland Indians. One guy who claims >>>>>>>>> to be
    Navajo posted "This would be better, right?" And the following >>>>>>>>> picture as a
    kind of "how would you like it if it was done to you?" gotcha toward >>>>>>>>> white
    people:

    https://ibb.co/8DC5CgrB

    I was like, you're right, it *is* better!

    We should name the team "The Cleveland Whites" and the logo could be >>>>>>>>> a guy in
    a fedora with a great credit score.

    I'd totally support that team.


    This reminds me of another such attempt to "teach" white people how >>>>>>>>> horrible
    it is to have team named after them. Back in the early 2011's, some >>>>>>>>> intramural
    basketball team made the news when they named themselves "The Fightin'
    Whities" to show white people how offensive such things are for others.
    Instead of offending them, white people loved it and started buying >>>>>>>>> "Fightin'
    Whities" merchandise in droves. The team eventually had to start putting
    social justice disclaimers on the jerseys and t-shirts (while still >>>>>>>>> selling
    them, of course, they wouldn't say no to the $$$) to keep white >>>>>>>>> people from
    using them for purposes of racial pride.

    I love it when social justice stunts blow up in the faces of >>>>>>>>> 'progressives'
    like that.

    Yes, we used to lynch (etc.) blacks ...and still haven't gotten over it.


    Do you seriously mean to claim that blacks are still being lynched and >>>>>>> that this didn't finally end with the Civil Rights legislation in the >>>>>>> 1960s? How about some links to prove your point?

    I mean that it's an atrocious part of our past that lingers in memory >>>>>> even generations removed. And that's why there's no "correct" attitude >>>>>> that connects to it even distantly. The air is poisoned.


    So in that case we should only refer to African Americans and never
    use the term "blacks" because of that poisoned air.

    It might be that referring to them at all is an uphill climb.


    So we need to ignore an entire group of Americans because their name
    has some dark associations. Or at least we can't talk about them but
    if we can't reference them then there's not a lot we can do for them,
    as a group. Seems like we are going to end up hurting them yet again.

    Neither *for* them nor *to* them. The thought-experiment I have in mind
    is to rewire our brains so that we're unable to categorize people by
    their inherited characteristics...


    We would have to be blind to do that. We (humans) will always classify according to a difference. A darker skin tone is an obvious difference
    that people will pick up on even if they come from the same culture.
    Only way to avoid that would be to have one race (Aryan?)

    Yes, despite all our posturing to the contrary, when it comes to
    generalizing about our fellows, we're very good (or bad) at it.

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  • From Adam H. Kerman@21:1/5 to shawn on Sat Jul 26 16:18:27 2025
    shawn <[email protected]> wrote:
    Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:53:40 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>:
    7/25/2025 7:23 PM, shawn wrote:
    Fri, 25 Jul 2025 18:12:43 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>: >>>>7/24/2025 6:28 PM, shawn wrote:
    Thu, 24 Jul 2025 18:24:36 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>: >>>>>>7/24/2025 6:11 PM, Rhino wrote:
    2025-07-24 5:04 PM, moviePig wrote:

    . . .

    Yes, we used to lynch (etc.) blacks ...and still haven't gotten >>>>>>>>over it.

    Do you seriously mean to claim that blacks are still being lynched and >>>>>>>that this didn't finally end with the Civil Rights legislation in the >>>>>>>1960s? How about some links to prove your point?

    I mean that it's an atrocious part of our past that lingers in memory >>>>>>even generations removed. And that's why there's no "correct" attitude >>>>>>that connects to it even distantly. The air is poisoned.

    So in that case we should only refer to African Americans and never >>>>>use the term "blacks" because of that poisoned air.

    It might be that referring to them at all is an uphill climb.

    So we need to ignore an entire group of Americans because their name
    has some dark associations. Or at least we can't talk about them but
    if we can't reference them then there's not a lot we can do for them,
    as a group. Seems like we are going to end up hurting them yet again.

    Neither *for* them nor *to* them. The thought-experiment I have in mind
    is to rewire our brains so that we're unable to categorize people by
    their inherited characteristics...

    We would have to be blind to do that. We (humans) will always classify >according to a difference. A darker skin tone is an obvious difference
    that people will pick up on even if they come from the same culture.
    Only way to avoid that would be to have one race (Aryan?)

    Multiple people in this thread have tried, and failed, to civilize
    moviePig. In a thread begun to discuss a humorous suggestion to rename
    the baseball team to make a point, moviePig demonstrates that he cannot distinguish between speech/press and murder, and still tries to convince
    his troll-feeding audience on Usenet that speech/press that someone might
    take offense at is the far more serious issue than murder and ethnic
    cleansing.

    That we might classify people due to a perceived difference isn't
    illegal. It's not rude. It's not a crime. It's not discrimination.

    moviePig will never stop trying to convince you that black is white, up
    is down, censorship is liberty, offense is criminal, and murder
    shouldn't be taken seriously.

    Usenet needs to collectively spit the hook out. moviePig has you but
    good. moviePig cannot and will never behave in an acceptable manner.

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Jul 26 11:52:03 2025
    On Thu, 24 Jul 2025 18:28:38 -0400, shawn
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    So in that case we should only refer to African Americans and never
    use the term "blacks" because of that poisoned air.

    There have been all sorts of terms used through the years and the one
    thing they have in common is that you are consider racist if you use
    the wrong term.

    Black vs black
    African American vs Afro-American
    Negro vs negro vs ???

    You get the idea - and one of the common threads of 'wokeness' is thou
    shalt without question get the term of the day right.

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 26 12:05:39 2025
    On Thu, 24 Jul 2025 18:24:36 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    I mean that it's an atrocious part of our past that lingers in memory
    even generations removed. And that's why there's no "correct" attitude
    that connects to it even distantly. The air is poisoned.

    I still fail to see what was so bad about the "Washington Senators"

    I'm pretty sure nobody thinks the 9 men on the field are aging
    politicians...

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  • From shawn@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Jul 26 15:13:20 2025
    On Sat, 26 Jul 2025 16:18:27 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    shawn <[email protected]> wrote:
    Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:53:40 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>:
    7/25/2025 7:23 PM, shawn wrote:
    Fri, 25 Jul 2025 18:12:43 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>: >>>>>7/24/2025 6:28 PM, shawn wrote:
    Thu, 24 Jul 2025 18:24:36 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>: >>>>>>>7/24/2025 6:11 PM, Rhino wrote:
    2025-07-24 5:04 PM, moviePig wrote:

    . . .

    Yes, we used to lynch (etc.) blacks ...and still haven't gotten >>>>>>>>>over it.

    Do you seriously mean to claim that blacks are still being lynched and >>>>>>>>that this didn't finally end with the Civil Rights legislation in the >>>>>>>>1960s? How about some links to prove your point?

    I mean that it's an atrocious part of our past that lingers in memory >>>>>>>even generations removed. And that's why there's no "correct" attitude >>>>>>>that connects to it even distantly. The air is poisoned.

    So in that case we should only refer to African Americans and never >>>>>>use the term "blacks" because of that poisoned air.

    It might be that referring to them at all is an uphill climb.

    So we need to ignore an entire group of Americans because their name >>>>has some dark associations. Or at least we can't talk about them but
    if we can't reference them then there's not a lot we can do for them, >>>>as a group. Seems like we are going to end up hurting them yet again.

    Neither *for* them nor *to* them. The thought-experiment I have in mind >>>is to rewire our brains so that we're unable to categorize people by >>>their inherited characteristics...

    We would have to be blind to do that. We (humans) will always classify >>according to a difference. A darker skin tone is an obvious difference
    that people will pick up on even if they come from the same culture.
    Only way to avoid that would be to have one race (Aryan?)

    Multiple people in this thread have tried, and failed, to civilize
    moviePig. In a thread begun to discuss a humorous suggestion to rename
    the baseball team to make a point, moviePig demonstrates that he cannot >distinguish between speech/press and murder, and still tries to convince
    his troll-feeding audience on Usenet that speech/press that someone might >take offense at is the far more serious issue than murder and ethnic >cleansing.

    That we might classify people due to a perceived difference isn't
    illegal. It's not rude. It's not a crime. It's not discrimination.

    moviePig will never stop trying to convince you that black is white, up
    is down, censorship is liberty, offense is criminal, and murder
    shouldn't be taken seriously.

    Usenet needs to collectively spit the hook out. moviePig has you but
    good. moviePig cannot and will never behave in an acceptable manner.

    There's no hooks involved here as I'm just pointing out how ludicrous
    the concept is because there's no solution to trying to avoid
    offending people who are intent on finding offense.

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 26 12:44:04 2025
    On Thu, 24 Jul 2025 20:38:40 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <[email protected]>
    wrote:
    This reminds me of another such attempt to "teach" white people how horrible >it is to have team named after them. Back in the early 2011's, some intramural >basketball team made the news when they named themselves "The Fightin' >Whities" to show white people how offensive such things are for others. >Instead of offending them, white people loved it and started buying "Fightin' >Whities" merchandise in droves. The team eventually had to start putting >social justice disclaimers on the jerseys and t-shirts (while still selling >them, of course, they wouldn't say no to the $$$) to keep white people from >using them for purposes of racial pride.

    I love it when social justice stunts blow up in the faces of 'progressives' >like that.

    How is that significantly different from "The Fighting Irish"?

    I once had my very Polish (2nd generation) mother in law tell me that
    her daughter was after all "by her very nature" very stubborn. As one
    whose mother's family came from Northern Ireland I asked her (who knew
    my background) "And I'm not?" And then made it clear that while we
    definitely loved one another some of our quarrels were doozies...

    My point is that while I'm not Roman Catholic I'm well aware of the
    reputation of squads from Notre Dame - and I haven't heard any
    complaints about their nickname.

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  • From Adam H. Kerman@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Jul 26 19:34:33 2025
    shawn <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Sat, 26 Jul 2025 16:18:27 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    shawn <[email protected]> wrote:
    Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:53:40 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>: >>>>7/25/2025 7:23 PM, shawn wrote:
    Fri, 25 Jul 2025 18:12:43 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>: >>>>>>7/24/2025 6:28 PM, shawn wrote:
    Thu, 24 Jul 2025 18:24:36 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>: >>>>>>>>7/24/2025 6:11 PM, Rhino wrote:
    2025-07-24 5:04 PM, moviePig wrote:

    . . .

    Yes, we used to lynch (etc.) blacks ...and still haven't gotten >>>>>>>>>>over it.

    Do you seriously mean to claim that blacks are still being lynched and >>>>>>>>>that this didn't finally end with the Civil Rights legislation in the >>>>>>>>>1960s? How about some links to prove your point?

    I mean that it's an atrocious part of our past that lingers in memory >>>>>>>>even generations removed. And that's why there's no "correct" attitude >>>>>>>>that connects to it even distantly. The air is poisoned.

    So in that case we should only refer to African Americans and never >>>>>>>use the term "blacks" because of that poisoned air.

    It might be that referring to them at all is an uphill climb.

    So we need to ignore an entire group of Americans because their name >>>>>has some dark associations. Or at least we can't talk about them but >>>>>if we can't reference them then there's not a lot we can do for them, >>>>>as a group. Seems like we are going to end up hurting them yet again.

    Neither *for* them nor *to* them. The thought-experiment I have in mind >>>>is to rewire our brains so that we're unable to categorize people by >>>>their inherited characteristics...

    We would have to be blind to do that. We (humans) will always classify >>>according to a difference. A darker skin tone is an obvious difference >>>that people will pick up on even if they come from the same culture.
    Only way to avoid that would be to have one race (Aryan?)

    Multiple people in this thread have tried, and failed, to civilize >>moviePig. In a thread begun to discuss a humorous suggestion to rename
    the baseball team to make a point, moviePig demonstrates that he cannot >>distinguish between speech/press and murder, and still tries to convince >>his troll-feeding audience on Usenet that speech/press that someone might >>take offense at is the far more serious issue than murder and ethnic >>cleansing.

    That we might classify people due to a perceived difference isn't
    illegal. It's not rude. It's not a crime. It's not discrimination.

    moviePig will never stop trying to convince you that black is white, up
    is down, censorship is liberty, offense is criminal, and murder
    shouldn't be taken seriously.

    Usenet needs to collectively spit the hook out. moviePig has you but
    good. moviePig cannot and will never behave in an acceptable manner.

    There's no hooks involved here as I'm just pointing out how ludicrous
    the concept is because there's no solution to trying to avoid
    offending people who are intent on finding offense.

    Do you truly believe in your heart that you can civilize moviePig?

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Jul 26 12:57:44 2025
    On Thu, 24 Jul 2025 22:52:03 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    Rhino <[email protected]> wrote:
    2025-07-24 5:04 PM, moviePig wrote:

    . . .

    Yes, we used to lynch (etc.) blacks ...and still haven't gotten over it.

    Do you seriously mean to claim that blacks are still being lynched and
    that this didn't finally end with the Civil Rights legislation in the >>1960s? How about some links to prove your point?

    Lemme Pigsplain. The root cause of lynchings was offensive names for
    sports teams.

    Given lynching started (or at least was more visible) after
    Appotomotox who won the 1865 World Series?

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 26 13:03:00 2025
    On Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:53:40 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    Neither *for* them nor *to* them. The thought-experiment I have in mind
    is to rewire our brains so that we're unable to categorize people by
    their inherited characteristics...

    That would be terrible as I would regularly be confused between my son
    and his two sisters...

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Jul 26 13:04:53 2025
    On Fri, 25 Jul 2025 23:12:52 -0400, shawn
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    On Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:53:40 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On 7/25/2025 7:23 PM, shawn wrote:
    On Fri, 25 Jul 2025 18:12:43 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On 7/24/2025 6:28 PM, shawn wrote:
    On Thu, 24 Jul 2025 18:24:36 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On 7/24/2025 6:11 PM, Rhino wrote:
    On 2025-07-24 5:04 PM, moviePig wrote:
    On 7/24/2025 4:38 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    The exTwitters are all in an uproar over Trump's suggestion that the >>>>>>>>> Cleveland
    MLB team be renamed back to the Cleveland Indians. One guy who claims >>>>>>>>> to be
    Navajo posted "This would be better, right?" And the following >>>>>>>>> picture as a
    kind of "how would you like it if it was done to you?" gotcha toward >>>>>>>>> white
    people:

    https://ibb.co/8DC5CgrB

    I was like, you're right, it *is* better!

    We should name the team "The Cleveland Whites" and the logo could be >>>>>>>>> a guy in
    a fedora with a great credit score.

    I'd totally support that team.


    This reminds me of another such attempt to "teach" white people how >>>>>>>>> horrible
    it is to have team named after them. Back in the early 2011's, some >>>>>>>>> intramural
    basketball team made the news when they named themselves "The Fightin'
    Whities" to show white people how offensive such things are for others.
    Instead of offending them, white people loved it and started buying >>>>>>>>> "Fightin'
    Whities" merchandise in droves. The team eventually had to start putting
    social justice disclaimers on the jerseys and t-shirts (while still >>>>>>>>> selling
    them, of course, they wouldn't say no to the $$$) to keep white >>>>>>>>> people from
    using them for purposes of racial pride.

    I love it when social justice stunts blow up in the faces of >>>>>>>>> 'progressives'
    like that.

    Yes, we used to lynch (etc.) blacks ...and still haven't gotten over it.


    Do you seriously mean to claim that blacks are still being lynched and >>>>>>> that this didn't finally end with the Civil Rights legislation in the >>>>>>> 1960s? How about some links to prove your point?

    I mean that it's an atrocious part of our past that lingers in memory >>>>>> even generations removed. And that's why there's no "correct" attitude >>>>>> that connects to it even distantly. The air is poisoned.


    So in that case we should only refer to African Americans and never
    use the term "blacks" because of that poisoned air.

    It might be that referring to them at all is an uphill climb.


    So we need to ignore an entire group of Americans because their name
    has some dark associations. Or at least we can't talk about them but
    if we can't reference them then there's not a lot we can do for them,
    as a group. Seems like we are going to end up hurting them yet again.

    Neither *for* them nor *to* them. The thought-experiment I have in mind
    is to rewire our brains so that we're unable to categorize people by
    their inherited characteristics...


    We would have to be blind to do that. We (humans) will always classify >according to a difference. A darker skin tone is an obvious difference
    that people will pick up on even if they come from the same culture.
    Only way to avoid that would be to have one race (Aryan?)

    And then you would still have no trouble telling the difference
    between telling the difference between people with different accents.
    My sister-in-law came to Canada when she was 12 and 50+ years later
    still has her English accent.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Adam H. Kerman@21:1/5 to The Horny Goat on Sat Jul 26 20:30:43 2025
    The Horny Goat <[email protected]> wrote:
    Thu, 24 Jul 2025 22:52:03 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman <[email protected]>: >>Rhino <[email protected]> wrote:
    2025-07-24 5:04 PM, moviePig wrote:

    . . .

    Yes, we used to lynch (etc.) blacks ...and still haven't gotten over it.

    Do you seriously mean to claim that blacks are still being lynched and >>>that this didn't finally end with the Civil Rights legislation in the >>>1960s? How about some links to prove your point?

    Lemme Pigsplain. The root cause of lynchings was offensive names for
    sports teams.

    Given lynching started (or at least was more visible) after
    Appotomotox who won the 1865 World Series?

    Correlation is not causation, therefore, order is irrelevant. All that's important is that it's emblematic of a past unforgivable outrage. I hope
    that Pigsplanation suffices.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From shawn@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Jul 26 18:08:40 2025
    On Sat, 26 Jul 2025 19:34:33 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    shawn <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Sat, 26 Jul 2025 16:18:27 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    shawn <[email protected]> wrote:
    Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:53:40 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>: >>>>>7/25/2025 7:23 PM, shawn wrote:
    Fri, 25 Jul 2025 18:12:43 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>: >>>>>>>7/24/2025 6:28 PM, shawn wrote:
    Thu, 24 Jul 2025 18:24:36 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>: >>>>>>>>>7/24/2025 6:11 PM, Rhino wrote:
    2025-07-24 5:04 PM, moviePig wrote:

    . . .

    Yes, we used to lynch (etc.) blacks ...and still haven't gotten >>>>>>>>>>>over it.

    Do you seriously mean to claim that blacks are still being lynched and
    that this didn't finally end with the Civil Rights legislation in the >>>>>>>>>>1960s? How about some links to prove your point?

    I mean that it's an atrocious part of our past that lingers in memory >>>>>>>>>even generations removed. And that's why there's no "correct" attitude
    that connects to it even distantly. The air is poisoned.

    So in that case we should only refer to African Americans and never >>>>>>>>use the term "blacks" because of that poisoned air.

    It might be that referring to them at all is an uphill climb.

    So we need to ignore an entire group of Americans because their name >>>>>>has some dark associations. Or at least we can't talk about them but >>>>>>if we can't reference them then there's not a lot we can do for them, >>>>>>as a group. Seems like we are going to end up hurting them yet again.

    Neither *for* them nor *to* them. The thought-experiment I have in mind >>>>>is to rewire our brains so that we're unable to categorize people by >>>>>their inherited characteristics...

    We would have to be blind to do that. We (humans) will always classify >>>>according to a difference. A darker skin tone is an obvious difference >>>>that people will pick up on even if they come from the same culture. >>>>Only way to avoid that would be to have one race (Aryan?)

    Multiple people in this thread have tried, and failed, to civilize >>>moviePig. In a thread begun to discuss a humorous suggestion to rename >>>the baseball team to make a point, moviePig demonstrates that he cannot >>>distinguish between speech/press and murder, and still tries to convince >>>his troll-feeding audience on Usenet that speech/press that someone might >>>take offense at is the far more serious issue than murder and ethnic >>>cleansing.

    That we might classify people due to a perceived difference isn't >>>illegal. It's not rude. It's not a crime. It's not discrimination.

    moviePig will never stop trying to convince you that black is white, up >>>is down, censorship is liberty, offense is criminal, and murder
    shouldn't be taken seriously.

    Usenet needs to collectively spit the hook out. moviePig has you but >>>good. moviePig cannot and will never behave in an acceptable manner.

    There's no hooks involved here as I'm just pointing out how ludicrous
    the concept is because there's no solution to trying to avoid
    offending people who are intent on finding offense.

    Do you truly believe in your heart that you can civilize moviePig?

    No, but I can provide myself with a bit of entertainment.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to shawn on Sat Jul 26 18:31:58 2025
    On 7/26/2025 3:13 PM, shawn wrote:
    On Sat, 26 Jul 2025 16:18:27 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    shawn <[email protected]> wrote:
    Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:53:40 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>:
    7/25/2025 7:23 PM, shawn wrote:
    Fri, 25 Jul 2025 18:12:43 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>:
    7/24/2025 6:28 PM, shawn wrote:
    Thu, 24 Jul 2025 18:24:36 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>: >>>>>>>> 7/24/2025 6:11 PM, Rhino wrote:
    2025-07-24 5:04 PM, moviePig wrote:

    . . .

    Yes, we used to lynch (etc.) blacks ...and still haven't gotten >>>>>>>>>> over it.

    Do you seriously mean to claim that blacks are still being lynched and
    that this didn't finally end with the Civil Rights legislation in the >>>>>>>>> 1960s? How about some links to prove your point?

    I mean that it's an atrocious part of our past that lingers in memory >>>>>>>> even generations removed. And that's why there's no "correct" attitude
    that connects to it even distantly. The air is poisoned.

    So in that case we should only refer to African Americans and never >>>>>>> use the term "blacks" because of that poisoned air.

    It might be that referring to them at all is an uphill climb.

    So we need to ignore an entire group of Americans because their name >>>>> has some dark associations. Or at least we can't talk about them but >>>>> if we can't reference them then there's not a lot we can do for them, >>>>> as a group. Seems like we are going to end up hurting them yet again.

    Neither *for* them nor *to* them. The thought-experiment I have in mind >>>> is to rewire our brains so that we're unable to categorize people by
    their inherited characteristics...

    We would have to be blind to do that. We (humans) will always classify
    according to a difference. A darker skin tone is an obvious difference
    that people will pick up on even if they come from the same culture.
    Only way to avoid that would be to have one race (Aryan?)

    Multiple people in this thread have tried, and failed, to civilize
    moviePig. In a thread begun to discuss a humorous suggestion to rename
    the baseball team to make a point, moviePig demonstrates that he cannot
    distinguish between speech/press and murder, and still tries to convince
    his troll-feeding audience on Usenet that speech/press that someone might
    take offense at is the far more serious issue than murder and ethnic
    cleansing.

    That we might classify people due to a perceived difference isn't
    illegal. It's not rude. It's not a crime. It's not discrimination.

    moviePig will never stop trying to convince you that black is white, up
    is down, censorship is liberty, offense is criminal, and murder
    shouldn't be taken seriously.

    Usenet needs to collectively spit the hook out. moviePig has you but
    good. moviePig cannot and will never behave in an acceptable manner.

    (Always keep handy Adam's "How To Behave In An Acceptable Manner".)

    > There's no hooks involved here as I'm just pointing out how ludicrous
    the concept is because there's no solution to trying to avoid
    offending people who are intent on finding offense. I'm guessing that historical crimes abet such intentions by providing
    a charged fallback reference that overpowers logical argument.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to shawn on Sat Jul 26 19:08:50 2025
    On 7/26/2025 6:08 PM, shawn wrote:
    On Sat, 26 Jul 2025 19:34:33 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    shawn <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Sat, 26 Jul 2025 16:18:27 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    shawn <[email protected]> wrote:
    Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:53:40 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>:
    7/25/2025 7:23 PM, shawn wrote:
    Fri, 25 Jul 2025 18:12:43 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>: >>>>>>>> 7/24/2025 6:28 PM, shawn wrote:
    Thu, 24 Jul 2025 18:24:36 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>: >>>>>>>>>> 7/24/2025 6:11 PM, Rhino wrote:
    2025-07-24 5:04 PM, moviePig wrote:

    . . .

    Yes, we used to lynch (etc.) blacks ...and still haven't gotten >>>>>>>>>>>> over it.

    Do you seriously mean to claim that blacks are still being lynched and
    that this didn't finally end with the Civil Rights legislation in the
    1960s? How about some links to prove your point?

    I mean that it's an atrocious part of our past that lingers in memory
    even generations removed. And that's why there's no "correct" attitude
    that connects to it even distantly. The air is poisoned.

    So in that case we should only refer to African Americans and never >>>>>>>>> use the term "blacks" because of that poisoned air.

    It might be that referring to them at all is an uphill climb.

    So we need to ignore an entire group of Americans because their name >>>>>>> has some dark associations. Or at least we can't talk about them but >>>>>>> if we can't reference them then there's not a lot we can do for them, >>>>>>> as a group. Seems like we are going to end up hurting them yet again. >>>>
    Neither *for* them nor *to* them. The thought-experiment I have in mind >>>>>> is to rewire our brains so that we're unable to categorize people by >>>>>> their inherited characteristics...

    We would have to be blind to do that. We (humans) will always classify >>>>> according to a difference. A darker skin tone is an obvious difference >>>>> that people will pick up on even if they come from the same culture. >>>>> Only way to avoid that would be to have one race (Aryan?)

    Multiple people in this thread have tried, and failed, to civilize
    moviePig. In a thread begun to discuss a humorous suggestion to rename >>>> the baseball team to make a point, moviePig demonstrates that he cannot >>>> distinguish between speech/press and murder, and still tries to convince >>>> his troll-feeding audience on Usenet that speech/press that someone might >>>> take offense at is the far more serious issue than murder and ethnic
    cleansing.

    That we might classify people due to a perceived difference isn't
    illegal. It's not rude. It's not a crime. It's not discrimination.

    moviePig will never stop trying to convince you that black is white, up >>>> is down, censorship is liberty, offense is criminal, and murder
    shouldn't be taken seriously.

    Usenet needs to collectively spit the hook out. moviePig has you but
    good. moviePig cannot and will never behave in an acceptable manner.

    There's no hooks involved here as I'm just pointing out how ludicrous
    the concept is because there's no solution to trying to avoid
    offending people who are intent on finding offense.

    Do you truly believe in your heart that you can civilize moviePig?

    No, but I can provide myself with a bit of entertainment.

    Umm, I've been less than civil?...

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to The Horny Goat on Sun Jul 27 10:29:27 2025
    On 7/26/2025 4:03 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:53:40 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    Neither *for* them nor *to* them. The thought-experiment I have in mind
    is to rewire our brains so that we're unable to categorize people by
    their inherited characteristics...

    That would be terrible as I would regularly be confused between my son
    and his two sisters...

    The people we put into categories are usually people we haven't met...

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