I've tried to tell Karlyn that her pleas fall on deaf ears, because when CRT is applied in meat space, it is belligerently anti-Jew. Why? The people teaching CRT have lost the nuance that academic CRT has, which is that "Jew" is not referring to a demographic group, but is more a set of behavioral norms. CRT uses all kinds of words that have the definitions changed, like all Marxists do, every time, without fail, and jewishness is one of those altered words.
Yeah, sure. But if you change "white" to the name of any other race or ethnic group, it's unambiguously racist. But no, it's just that "whiteness" is an abstract concept unrelated to race.
Don't get me wrong, I think that it was a terrible episode, and the cast definitely deserved better. It's a shame that Enterprise was cancelled, when it hit its stride. Enterprise wasn't the best Star Trek show, but I enjoy all pre-Discovery Star Trek.
I have serious respect for Berman and Braga for having the humility to admit that they messed up.
The ending rendition of "Space...the final froniter," from the last episode is pretty poignant, too. It really felt like the end of an era, especially in hindsight.
I was born in the early 90s and feel very similarly to you. It was only after I became an adult that things seemed to really go off the rails.
Think that will create a controversy among the left, since they would be blackwashing a Jewish character?
That's actually not entirely true. St. Thomas Aquinas taught that slavery was a sin in the 13th century. Several Medieval and Renaissance popes condemned slavery, as well. On the Eastern side of Christianity, slavery was mostly phased out by the 11th century in the Byzantine Empire.
So in short, the institutional powers of the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church were greatly responsible for the end of slavery in Europe. (Serfdom wasn't much better, but it was progress.) I suspect that anti-Christian bias is a big reason why pre-Enlightment abolitionism is swept under the rug.
It shows the fear that cancel culture instills. They're terrified of saying the wrong thing and being ostracized socially, and even professionally. It's a taste of what life is like under a totalitarian regime.
Not necessarily. Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, the most accepted of the Hadith, are bizarrely insistent on Muhammad's whiteness.
Think she'll ever get canceled for her idiotic Evelyn Evelyn project? Pretty sure it would be considered pretty ableist these days.
From what I heard, the film was an absolute disgrace to the franchise, so you didn't miss much.
There's an argument to be has regarding whether it was worth it for the U.S. to be involved, but I have little doubt that we were on the right side.
Leftists have always hated Vietnam Vets for daring to fight Communists.
Sigh. So is Rumble the one we should go with?
Self-insert boyfriend? Weren't they kindergarteners?
I was a full-blown Marxist in my early teens, and a fiscal conservative by the time I left high school. I actually credit that early "infection" with mostly inoculating me from most leftist nonsense.
If you read anti-socialist books from that time period, such as, The Road to Serfdom and The God That Failed, you'll find that leftist tactics have not changed in the last 100 years.
He volunteered for The Force Awakens, which did the same thing to Han Solo.
That's disgusting. I guess it finally happened; Zack Snyder went full SJW. I guess the Snyder Cut will be last Zack Snyder film that I watch, unless things drastically change.
I'm not typically one to moralize about whether a piece of art conforms to my values. I enjoy many things that are contrary to my personal values. But this is just so blatant and evil. It's one thing to portray a character, even a protagonist, that is evil. But for a movie to wholeheartedly take the side of evil, sadistic actions like this? That's a hard no.
This is the same guy that had protesters with posters that said "Superman = Illegal Alien" in Batman v Superman, so it doesn't surprise me.
I genuinely like Zack Snyder's work, and he's far from the wokest director in Hollywood, or even superhero movies. But this is just so damn tedious. I just don't have the patience for seeing a bunch of ignoramuses iterate the same political talking points over and over without a semblance of an individual thought in the bunch. It's the same reason that I outgrew the punk scene.
There's so much good film out there, over 100 years of it, to be precise. Life's just too short to bother with stuff like this.
Christopher Hitchens was a Marxist. Sam Harris has full-blown TDS, as does Penn Jillette. Richard Dawkins is in full support of draconian Covid measures.
I'm not saying that these men are stupid; they're not. But they have their own set of moral and intellectual blindspots.
Nietzsche warned about this. That's what he meant when talked God being dead, and us being His murderers. He hoped that human beings could create their own, transcendent morality, becoming Ubermenschen.
I think that it was one of his Dr. Who videos.
Crazy that they came out with something as good as Chernobyl a couple of years ago.
I would make it "adult female human," just to be precise.