“cunt” is

Easy there with the death wishes and the slurs.

Are you referring to the “chess with a pigeon” phrase?

You really don’t get it, do you?

Write a sentence that uses a nasty racist trope but direct it to the Crips as opposed to all black people.

Write “the Crips are XYZ” and make XYZ some nasty nasty racist shit.

Go ahead, write it. Don’t post it, for fuck’s sake, nobody needs to see that shit. Then cover it with your hand, wait 10 seconds and re-read it.

Are you feeling embarrassed? If not, I honestly don’t know what else to tell you.

By this logic, using an anti-black racial trope for the Crips is fine because the Crips don’t represent Black people.

You are dead wrong.

You fundamentally misunderstand the problem of conflation between Israel and Judaism.

A subgroup that pretends to speak for all members of the supergroup can still be subjected to bigotry targeted to the supergroup even if they don’t represent everyone.

Example: The Chinese Communist Party claims there is only one China and that it speaks for it. The Taiwanese government disputes this. Ethnic Chinese people also exist in a very large diaspora all around the world. So we can say that the CCP does not represent all of Chinese civilization. Imagine if Joe Schmoe writes a text attacking the CCPs human rights record and in that text they use sinophobic stereotypes (that eg Chinese people are slavish). The fact that the CCP does not represent all Chinese people should not mean that we cannot criticize Joe Schmoe for using sinophobic language to make a valid point about human rights. In fact, Schmoe’s use or these racist slurs weakens the argument, strengthens anti-chinese rhetoric that hurts Chinese people regardless of their attachment to the CCP, and gives CCP propagandists an easy way to say that Schmoe doesn’t really care about human rights and just has an axe to grind against all Chinese people.

The mistake you’re making is the same as if you’re categorically denying that sinophobic tropes can even matter when discussing the CCP because it should not be conflated with all Chinese people and in the past the CCP has itself used this conflation as a shield.

The October Revolution in Russia famously started with the sailors taking action. Just saying.

Send the police.

Great!

I’m not making an analogy, I’m trying to explain that your definition of bigotry such as antisemism requiring a lack of basis on reality or evidence is wrong.

The mod uses ze/zir pronouns, let’s respect that.

That’s a weird/wrong definition of antisemitism. All bigotry clings to some kernel of truth, but takes it out of context, blows it out of proportion and weaponizes it. For example the Islamophobic trope of the fanatic zealot suicide bomber, does use extreme real world true occurrences (eg the 9-11 attackers) as a factual basis and applies it to a billion Muslims as if it were the norm. It is obviously true that Muslims as a group are not crazy suicidal zealots; it is also obviously true that suicidal Muslim zealots do exist (eg the 9-11 attackers). One should counter bigoted attacks on Muslims without denying historical fact and vice versa. Being able to make these distinctions is a matter of basic critical thinking.

And yet when Palestinians express hatred for Israelis it’s categorized as antisemitism.

I misinterpreted this phrase then, thinking you were addressing it to him:

Now go enjoy your £15 chippy tea and a nice swim at the sewage beach.

You’re directing this to a guy with dementia. That’s very silly.

The war version of Zizek’s “my chatbot fucks your chatbot, we get sex out of the way and we can discuss philosophy”.

In my opinion, in the long run, if they let this stand, this is a mistake. They should commute the punishment to life in prison. This is what the newly democratic Greek government did in 1975 with the fascists who overthrew democracy in 1967. By letting them rot in prison they never became martyrs and they slowly lost all credibility as relics of a violent past. Greek democracy is better for it, even though all stripes of the political Left at the time considered the commutation to be a betrayal to the victims of fascist repression. This is one of those (rare) cases where the Centre-Right was actually showing some wisdom.

Different contexts of course, and a key difference is that Assad is not held by the Syrian government, which is also yet to prove its democratic bona fides.

But there is something to be said about disavowing the slave master’s tools after taking over the slave master’s house. Syria will be a better place without the death penalty, even for vile criminals like Bashar al-Assad.

These are eminently reasonable demands.

“[Iran’s Supreme National Security Council] called for the United States to lift its naval blockade and sanctions on Iran, withdraw the U.S. military from around Iran, pay war reparations and release frozen Iranian assets, as well as end attacks on Iran’s allies in the region and threats against the country.”

What an unreasonable list of demands, how dare they complicate things.

The one Thunder Bay is on. The one that has nice beaches. The one in the south. The one Toronto is on.

Oh, yes, and the American one.