Is anyone else getting scared of where society is going?

ILoveYourVibes

collywobble7 wrote: »

Misuse of the word literal/literally constantly. Yes I'm worried about the way the world is going. The dumbing down of society is real.

No I am correct. Literal is an adjective. Literally is an adverb. Literally would be incorrect here.

An adjective is an attribute of a noun or person. Nazi is a noun.

A 'literal Nazi' is correct.

You could also say he is literally a nazi. Both would be correct.

And ..he IS.

I don't mean figuratively. He is actually one. To be more specific a neo nazi.

In fact NEO NAZIS in germany described Youth defense as 'an important part of our network'.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/neo-nazis-affirm-links-with-youth-defence-1.1098966

Justin Barrett ran youth defense.

A leading far-right politician in Germany has described the anti-abortion group Youth Defence as "an important part of our international network". Youth Defence is the backbone of the No to Nice Campaign, whose chief spokesman is Mr Justin Barrett.

Mr Sascha Rossmüller, leader of the Young National Democrats (JN), youth wing of the extremist National Democratic Party (NPD), told The Irish Times: " share many important interests." The German authorities say the JN began to take on neo-nazi characteristics in 1996.

Since 1994 the JN has held an annual "European Youth Congress". Mr Barrett attended two of these conferences in 1999 and 2000 and spoke at one of them.

Overheal

Hannibal36 wrote: »

2 groups both pulled guns on each other.Terrible she's dead and all and doesn't deserve it in the least,but she made some choices that put herself there with people that put her life at risk,this is the reason she is dead more than anything she said about race.

But i do agree with you in general there is a double standard with Black on White violence ,just this one here isn't the best example imo.

Reportedly the 2 groups had already drawn down and disengaged from one another, fist bumps and all, when the murder occurred. Shocking if it went down like that I suspect there might be a little more to the story, either way it sounds like she was shot in a premeditated way. Awful.

Odd pique though: her funeral crowdfunding is asking for $1 million, which is far more than the costs of any funeral are likely to be.

Hector Savage

RasTa wrote: »

Yeah completely normal reaction to cock the gun and point it at someone during an argument.

Even in America you can't do that, hence the charge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skGh_5tVJZg

Missing the point, look how the media reported on this , I saw the BBC headline ...
"WHITE COUPLE CHARGED WITH THREATENING BLACK COUPLE WITH GUN"

How disingenuous!
Who are the aggressors here ? clearly the black couple - funny the way they shout racist at them after so articulately saying "I'll beat your white ass bitch"


All media are using the same spin on this - poor innocent black people walking along and racist white couple accost them .. its disgraceful, dishonest , and is just fueling the likes of BLM to get bolder and bolder ... this is nothing about equality, it's about supremacy.

I would hate to be white and living in the US right now

Hector Savage

Overheal wrote: »

Reportedly the 2 groups had already drawn down and disengaged from one another, fist bumps and all, when the murder occurred. Shocking if it went down like that I suspect there might be a little more to the story, either way it sounds like she was shot in a premeditated way. Awful.

Odd pique though: her funeral crowdfunding is asking for $1 million, which is far more than the costs of any funeral are likely to be.

She has left children ...

Hector Savage

Hector Savage wrote: »

She has left children ...

So?

The rise of crowdfunding has introduced a lot of greed for all manner of situations. 1 Million? It's doubtful she would have earned 1 million throughout her lifetime. If they'd asked for 100k to cover the costs and provide for the children, it would have been far more reasonable

Invidious

GarIT wrote: »

I already feel that sometimes things are decided to be racist because a black person doesn't like it whether it actually is racist or not. If the black person doesn't win in every situation then it's labelled as racist.

A black PhD student at Rutgers named Brittany Marshall recently Tweeted that 2+2=4 is a cultural product of Western imperialism.



This Tweet was widely and rightly ridiculed, but now we see academics coming out of the woodwork and demanding that we respect "minority viewpoints" and "support Brittany Marshall." They're too afraid of being labeled racist to say that she is wrong.

DelaneyIn

Math is axiomatic. It is a set of rules, not a way to "know" something. For arithmetic the Peano axioms are the foundation of the ruleset and they work pretty well. Scary thing is, this person is a teacher.

I wonder what nonsense she is teaching kids.

Feisar

Invidious wrote: »

A black PhD student at Rutgers named Brittany Marshall recently Tweeted that 2+2=4 is a cultural product of Western imperialism.

She'd want to give the Mesopotamians a shout.

Invidious

DelaneyIn wrote: »

I wonder what nonsense she is teaching kids.

"Ethnomathematics" is what they call this kind of claptrap, I believe.

Das Reich

Went on Wicklow yesterday and got surprised on the amount of two wifes families full of children and the women with all black and clothes covering the face. I think they are from Pakistan or somewhere like that this religion will take over and the most annoying thing is that Irish people can't look at Belgium or France and see what is already happening there.

DelaneyIn

DelaneyIn wrote: »

I wonder what nonsense she is teaching kids.

An American woman teaches in my school. She had 12-year-old Vietnamese kids doing presentations on BLM and was lecturing them about racism and apparently won't shut up about Trump all year.

Complete and utter bell ends these people. Leave your politics at the door.

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

An American woman teaches in my school. She had 12-year-old Vietnamese kids doing presentations on BLM and was lecturing them about racism and apparently won't shut up about Trump all year.

Complete and utter bell ends these people. Leave your politics at the door.

I've seen similar in China. Many Americans (mostly Mormons) get imported as cheap labor for university teaching of English. Many of them hold political type presentations, which are tolerated since it shows just how divided US culture is.

Tell me how

Deleted User wrote: »

An American woman teaches in my school. She had 12-year-old Vietnamese kids doing presentations on BLM and was lecturing them about racism and apparently won't shut up about Trump all year.

Complete and utter bell ends these people. Leave your politics at the door.

Sounds like that teacher is giving students an introduction to current affairs. Is that a bad thing?

No doubt you're balancing the narrative.

Quantum Erasure

Invidious wrote: »

A black PhD student at Rutgers named Brittany Marshall recently Tweeted that 2+2=4 is a cultural product of Western imperialism.



This Tweet was widely and rightly ridiculed, but now we see academics coming out of the woodwork and demanding that we respect "minority viewpoints" and "support Brittany Marshall." They're too afraid of being labeled racist to say that she is wrong.

I presume her tweet was in response to something non mathematical related, and not just out of the blue?

Tell me how

Tell me how wrote: »

Sounds like that teacher is giving students an introduction to current affairs. Is that a bad thing?

No doubt you're balancing the narrative.

I can talk about current affairs in class and frequently have to, but I can do it without parents complaining and the school having to step in to stop it. You're there as a teacher to facilitate discussion, not lecture.

Danzy

Invidious wrote: »

A black PhD student at Rutgers named Brittany Marshall recently Tweeted that 2+2=4 is a cultural product of Western imperialism.



This Tweet was widely and rightly ridiculed, but now we see academics coming out of the woodwork and demanding that we respect "minority viewpoints" and "support Brittany Marshall." They're too afraid of being labeled racist to say that she is wrong.

The wider left has been taken over by religious cultists.

It's like they go for the most bizarre take and push that line purely so they can screech at the heretics and sinners who do not comply.

nofiller69

Is anyone else laughing at the scared impotent old men grumbling about a world thats left them behind?

Its been happening since the dawn of time. Just be quiet and coexist.

Hector Savage

Invidious wrote: »

A black PhD student at Rutgers named Brittany Marshall recently Tweeted that 2+2=4 is a cultural product of Western imperialism.



This Tweet was widely and rightly ridiculed, but now we see academics coming out of the woodwork and demanding that we respect "minority viewpoints" and "support Brittany Marshall." They're too afraid of being labeled racist to say that she is wrong.

The real scary thing here is that she is a maths teacher, and has some PhD in maths from Rutgers!!!

They are so terrified of these people they entertain this utter nonsense
Here is her pHd title ... (from Rutgers a very respectable school)

An Analysis of Racialized and Gendered Logics in Black Women's Interpretations of Instructional Events in Undergraduate Pre-calculus and Calculus Classrooms

Lillyfae

Hector Savage wrote: »

An Analysis of Racialized and Gendered Logics in Black Women's Interpretations of Instructional Events in Undergraduate Pre-calculus and Calculus Classrooms

Who the hell funded that rubbish??

Hector Savage

Lillyfae wrote: »

Who the hell funded that rubbish??

https://gse.rutgers.edu/content/canceled-gse-poster-session

Was cancelled, I guess because of covid..
But I think the description of all this as a religion makes the most sense, you cannot question it, just gotta believe and accept the dogma otherwise you are a heretic.

Clarence Boddiker

Absolutely devastating analysis on where we are and where we're going in Ireland by one of our best Socialist writers, Angela Nagle.
Don't be put off by the Socialist tag, she's a real Socialist unlike the multitude of pseudo American Capitalist whores in Ireland who fraudulently call themselves 'the left'
Please read and share.

https://unherd.com/2020/07/will-ireland-survive-the-woke-wave/

Lillyfae

Hector Savage wrote: »

https://gse.rutgers.edu/content/canceled-gse-poster-session

Was cancelled, I guess because of covid..
But I think the description of all this as a religion makes the most sense, you cannot question it, just gotta believe and accept the dogma otherwise you are a heretic.

Every pandemic has a silver lining!!

Although I see there it's just a presentation that was cancelled, not the entire thing...

Hector Savage

exactly, sorry the presentation, no doubt it will be accepted for pure fear that if it's not, they will be excused of "racism", "sexism" .. any other "ism" .... such a shame.

Meanwhile real actual PhD students doing good research are grilled in their defense - and rightly so, the whole idea of Science is to have any paper as bullet proof as possible, this utter garbage is degrading to the institution and proper real papers written there.

Or, maybe thats my bigoted white privilege talking

Tell me how

Deleted User wrote: »

I can talk about current affairs in class and frequently have to, but I can do it without parents complaining and the school having to step in to stop it. You're there as a teacher to facilitate discussion, not lecture.

So, if I am reading you correctly, the school already spoke to this teacher about what she was doing with her students. That sounds like something relevant to your original post but you left it out.

Invidious

Hector Savage wrote: »

The real scary thing here is that she is a maths teacher, and has some PhD in maths from Rutgers!!!

Looks like her PhD is in Education, not Maths:

https://gse.rutgers.edu/content/phd-student-directory

She has an undergrad degree and Masters in architecture. (Presumably in how architecture is imperialist and racist.)

Mr. Karate

Danzy wrote: »

The wider left has been taken over by religious cultists.

It's like they go for the most bizarre take and push that line purely so they can screech at the heretics and sinners who do not comply.

Their identities and their ideologies have become their religion.

Tell me how

Clarence Boddiker wrote: »

Absolutely devastating analysis on where we are and where we're going in Ireland by one of our best Socialist writers, Angela Nagle.
Don't be put off by the Socialist tag, she's a real Socialist unlike the multitude of pseudo American Capitalist whores in Ireland who fraudulently call themselves 'the left'
Please read and share.

I'm not sure if some of the people posting in the multiculturalism doesn't work thread would agree with the statement 'our Republicans today are economically left-leaning and pro-immigration'.

In relation to the author referring to the 'woke cultural revolution sweeping Irish society'. I would ask, what does that mean? Can you give examples of how/where this has had serious or significant impacts on life in Ireland.

Also, use of the term 'the left' seems to be limited to people who are fearful that any improvement in life quality for others will impact them negatively. They couch it in concerns about freedom of speech, excessive political correctness etc but it always seems to originate from a desire for things to stay as they have been irrespective of the fairness of that towards certain people or groups in society.

joseywhales

The major thing that worries me about society is the amplification of extreme opinions on every side, the idea that there can only be two sides to a subject and the fact that the majority of people are moderate but their voice is not proportionally represented in debate(media and social media).
Discussion is less informative and more competitive(and not positively competitive). The etiquette of respecting the integrity of your opponent in politics has completely dissipated. People would rather win than be just, fair, correct, fulfill their potential, leave the world a better place etc. People have always made a tonne of mistakes but now leaders knowingly do the wrong thing. It's bizarre, their lives have no purpose beyond that of any mammal(consume, replicate and die)

Squeaky wheel gets the grease never was more true.

Junkyard Tom

People in Churches, Synagogues and Mosques aren't worried about 'left-wing' terrorists bursting through the door and murdering them one-by-one because they've been reading 'The Conquest of Bread'

Clarence Boddiker

Tell me how wrote: »

I'm not sure if some of the people posting in the multiculturalism doesn't work thread would agree with the statement 'our Republicans today are economically left-leaning and pro-immigration'.

Sinn Fein are the Party of the Republican movement and they are certainly left leaning and very much pro immigration.