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Yeah, your definition of ‘far right’ is not exactly reliable.

Calling everyone that doesn’t agree with your position an idiot is just boring. We’ve had this conversation so many times.

I’ll say that you’re ad hominem attacking her and not dealing with her points (same as you do with ...

There isn't a far right grifter alive that you're not willing to deep throat. But hey, at least she's marginally better than your previous fave, Douglas Murray.

I have listened to her repeatedly, on TV, on twitter, in the papers, which is why I know she's a fucking moron and a raging bigot ...

Ol'Birbalsingh is an absolute joke. Successful headteacher, but repeatedly shitting the bed in order to appeal to the further-right and feed her need for attention and validation is not a good look. For someone who must be quite smart, she says a lot of really dumb shit quite regularly. It's ...

Ol'Birbalsingh is an absolute joke. Successful headteacher, but repeatedly shitting the bed in order to appeal to the further-right and feed her need for attention and validation is not a good look. For someone who must be quite smart, she says a lot of really dumb shit quite regularly. It's as if ...

We should care about both. Not to labour the point but these riots started because the child of an asylum seeker murdered white children in cold blood, a week or so after a man who I understand was born in Nigeria stabbed an army officer to death in cold blood in Kent. Clearly there is an ...

Whilst there may be, that’s not what I’ve said!

It's exactly what you said

A female teacher with a passion for English lit is likely to be passionate about different areas of it to a male one.

It could be different from one person to the next, but you explicitly mentioned male and ...

Feminisation of the education sector is so blindingly obvious, it takes something akin to motivated reasoning to pretend it hasn’t happened.

The quote was

Everything from school curricula through to football has been feminised

School curricula are the subjects studied. Boyle's Law is ...

I was referring to the masculinity being deemed toxic point rather than fear of being labelled racist.

On the point about that fear of being seen as racist though, I'd expect that fear will have played some part. Clearly that is a problem. I'd suggest that it may be a little more complex ...

Can’t say I know enough about Tito. I’d say Singapore is a good example for us - English speaking, common law (to an extent) etc. Their social contract is wildly different to ours. Break the law as a foreigner and you’re out of there. Riot if you’re the ethnic majority and you’re in serious ...

Not sure I agree with that Random

I'm a straight white male. Not outwardly an ally of anything. Definitely don't go anywhere near the he/him pronoun stuff ect. I'm pretty far form the 'woke/antifa' end of the spectrum as it's painted in the online discourse.

I've never felt that my presence ...

A functional multi ethnic state requires a degree on authoritarianism we are going to find very uncomfortable, yes

You mean like a Tito, Yugoslavian type dynamic?

Can’t say I know enough about Tito. I’d say Singapore is a good example for us - English speaking, common law (to an extent ...

I think it needs a more interventionist state. Not necessarily a more authoritarian one.

The bad actors part of this is huge. As you've had two attacks resulting in murders on a demographic who have then held riots against a third demographic who weren't involved.

What sort of ...

A functional multi ethnic state requires a degree on authoritarianism we are going to find very uncomfortable, yes

You got time to expand on that? As I’m of the exact opposite view. But I’m not sure why! 😂

I think it needs a more interventionist state. Not necessarily a more ...

We should care about both. Not to labour the point but these riots started because the child of an asylum seeker murdered white children in cold blood, a week or so after a man who I understand was born in Nigeria stabbed an army officer to death in cold blood in Kent. Clearly there is an ...

PB just to add, I take your point that for whatever reason white people are disturbed by changes in demography but I can tell you all 3 of my daughters who look 100% white are anxious about the future in a country with visibly increasing xenophobia and now open racism.

Who should we care more ...

Literally just being a straight white male is offensive, unless you choose to be an active ally, even if you don’t agree that straight, white male privilege exists.

Ostracising a large chunk of the population increases the risk that a large enough number of low IQ idiots can be rallied by bad ...

epwc wrote: Tue Aug 06, 2024 9:36 am Lack of education is no excuse, I left school at 16 with 5 O levels

Big difference between low education and low IQ.

Not sure I agree with that Random

I'm a straight white male. Not outwardly an ally of anything. Definitely don't go anywhere near the he/him pronoun stuff ect. I'm pretty far form the 'woke/antifa' end of the spectrum as it's painted in the online discourse.

I've never felt that my presence is ...

It’s worth looking at the migration figures from the 1950s to realise just how mythologised the Windrush generation is compared to the reality. What has happened over the last few years is roughly tenfold larger. And yes, I’m using net migration figures

You said demographic transformation ...

By far my favourite England batsman of that era. What a shit piece of news. Best wishes to his family and friends.

Two points on this -

1) what PeteJ says is one of the things that really grates on me. ‘Oh yes it’s awful there’s so many men in x’ never means taking money and opportunities away from them and their mates, it’s about taking them away from the people below them, generally with a ‘won’t ...

Anyone one else find it grating listening to a male dominated old senior management team bullshitting on about sexism and racism while comfortably being the biggest beneficiaries of it?

Same as priests in any traditional religion - they’re repeating the dogma, regardless of the hypocrisy it ...

Oooohhhh, let’s swap individual papers!

https://academic.oup.com/icb/article/63/4/891/7157109?login=false

Yeah, my paper’s much better than yours though, and represents the majority viewpoint.

So are we saying that an effeminate gay man with low testosterone is actually more female ...

Anyone one else find it grating listening to a male dominated old senior management team bullshitting on about sexism and racism while comfortably being the biggest beneficiaries of it?

Same as priests in any traditional religion - they’re repeating the dogma, regardless of the hypocrisy it ...

Aye it is.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36543364/

Oooohhhh, let’s swap individual papers!

https://academic.oup.com/icb/article/63/4/891/7157109?login=false

Yeah, my paper’s much better than yours though, and represents the majority viewpoint.

So are we saying that an ...

Quite a significant nub lurking in this one, to effect those parties (however dishonest, venal and self serving) freely discuss matters that the more mainstream ones won't touch.

And your point will always resonate far better in a simmering febrile vacuum than one where the conversation's ...

Exactly.

The number and variety of conditions involved here automatically precludes simple black and white decisions.

This all goes back to the idea that sex is 100% binary. That’s factually untrue and some people are very uncomfortable with that.

It’s not factually untrue.

Aye it ...

This

Isn't an intersex boxer likely to do more damage to an opponent far under Olympic standard?

Exactly.

The number and variety of conditions involved here automatically precludes simple black and white decisions.

This all goes back to the idea that sex is 100% binary. That’s ...

If Genge or Marler had been fit, it would have helped, but losing Furbank really hurt us a lot.

Yeah,, I’m taking the positive approach on that; at least we have solved first choice picks at 9 and 15. Been years since we could say that.

Wings look dangerous.

Fairly deep at 10.

Baxter adds ...

Here’s Stewart talking through some of the issues.

He discusses the civil service and other aspects, and his overall thoughts are quite fucking depressing!

I agree that the crucial part of the equation that both are missing, is that a competent government would have solved this issue if they felt it was a stopping them.

I do think there’s some truth that the quangos hold a too much power, as much of the implementation of things like the equalities ...

Oh, and if you want to hear from the horse’s mouth, here’s the lady herself

https://youtu.be/fPwqsrI0L8Y?si=rbji6uMnFjwvQDLh

She starts talking about it from 10 minutes onwards.

I think she’s a cretin, but some of the stuff she talks about in terms of quangos does mirror what I see in my own ...

Reckon he’s racist, but he’s not a fuckwit. He’s smart.

I don't think you can be both racist and smart.

I have listened to plenty of his pompous utterances over the years, he knows lots of big words, speaks very clearly and comes across as super intelligent and knowledgeable. That doesn't ...

Oh, and if you want to hear from the horse’s mouth, here’s the lady herself

https://youtu.be/fPwqsrI0L8Y?si=rbji6uMnFjwvQDLh

She starts talking about it from 10 minutes onwards.

I think she’s a cretin, but some of the stuff she talks about in terms of quangos does mirror what I see in my own ...

I got 10 minutes in or so, and yes, he's making the same complaints, just being more of an ass and a bore about it.

So the poor Tories couldn't do what they want because other people didn't let them. It's all someone else's fault.

In theory then, Labour shouldn't be able to do any better ...

So being bored and wondering if it'll be a bit of a giggle, I've started to watch the PopCon conference on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/live/X5CPSZZZ6h0

First proper speaker, representing popcon, has basically just said it's not the tories fault that they didn't manage deliver the values ...

I got 10 minutes in or so, and yes, he's making the same complaints, just being more of an ass and a bore about it.

So the poor Tories couldn't do what they want because other people didn't let them. It's all someone else's fault.

In theory then, Labour shouldn't be able to do any better, and ...

epwc wrote: Tue Jul 09, 2024 2:31 pm Dr David Starkey is a racist fuckwit

Reckon he’s racist, but he’s not a fuckwit. He’s smart.

And worth a listen if you want to understand the other side of the argument.

So being bored and wondering if it'll be a bit of a giggle, I've started to watch the PopCon conference on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/live/X5CPSZZZ6h0

First proper speaker, representing popcon, has basically just said it's not the tories fault that they didn't manage deliver the values of ...

No still not getting it,

Men choose their jobs, they also choose whether to protect themselves properly at work. I can say from personal knowledge on building sites that it’s always a challenge to get blokes to wear PPE on site.

They have chosen risky career paths and then to exacerbate ...

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