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[purple]

I'm going to share a video in which some ladies, whom are all smarter than me, discuss a topic that's very important to me.    Censorship.   

The 'warm up' banter is a little vulgar and NSFW, and this episode of their show meanders on a few tangents but they really get to the meat of some very important social issues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZy8zlfxmus

Also Karen Straughan:

[Silas Vitalia]

I suspect discussion about these anti feminist ladies will quickly descend into catacomb territory, no thanks, but I did check the link for a few min and read up on them a bit.

[Vikarion]

As I said to Bloodbird...if you believe this stuff, why would you share it? It's only going to lead to your, well, disadvantage.

I'm against censorship, of course, but I'm also against anyone discriminating against me.

So, good luck to you, but I'm out.

[Gwen Ikiryo]

Please don't bring this kind of stuff here.

[Lyn Farel]

Not again.

[purple]

As I said to Bloodbird...if you believe this stuff, why would you share it? It's only going to lead to your, well, disadvantage.

48 Laws?

[Vikarion]

As I said to Bloodbird...if you believe this stuff, why would you share it? It's only going to lead to your, well, disadvantage.

48 Laws?

I'm saying that, if I want to get out a message about censorship, I'd prefer to be posting videos of Christopher Hitchens.

As for gender issues, I've found that I'm a far happier person if I just don't bother with them, at least in terms of gender issues in the first world. I can afford to - I won't marry, I don't intend to have kids, and my business is in a field which women rarely enter. I don't know who is right on what, and I don't care.

I think that enjoying my own life is a lot more rewarding than worrying about the pay gap or alimony or whatever.

[Silas Vitalia]

Ok seriously out of this looming shit show.

[Jace]

I came for the shit show.

[Nicoletta Mithra]

I'm saying that, if I want to get out a message about censorship, I'd prefer to be posting videos of Christopher Hitchens.

Because Christopher Hitchens is so much more neutral? He's , honestly, a demagouge using lots of polemics. I don't think he's the better choice by any stretch - it's just that you apparently happen to agree with him.

So, you seem to be guilty of just what you accuse purple to be guilty of.

[Jace]

Despite Hitchen's idiotic viewpoints, he does have one redeeming factor: he was a talented writer. He had a very respectable writing and journalism career before the silly antitheism wave. If you go back and read his essays on topics not related to politics or religion, he was very talented.

Sadly, that talent went to waste when he became very famous.

[Nicoletta Mithra]

So, he was a talented wirter, using that for his activities as polemicist and demagouge. Using rhethorical talent for that doesn't make it any better nor is it a redeeming factor in my book: In fact, it rather makes it worse.

[Jace]

So, he was a talented wirter, using that for his activities as polemicist and demagouge. Using rhethorical talent for that doesn't make it any better nor is it a redeeming factor in my book: In fact, it rather makes it worse.

I don't disagree. I meant his career has redeeming qualities when taken as a whole. Anyone interested in being an essayist would do well to read him. I am not saying it redeems his later work.

Edit: To sum it up in a pithy manner, what he was famous for was not his career -- it was the end of it.

[Nicoletta Mithra]

I don't disagree. I meant his career has redeeming qualities when taken as a whole. Anyone interested in being an essayist would do well to read him. I am not saying it redeems his later work.

Oh, yes, with that I can kind of agree. Still, with his anti-thesim he's certainly not a greater advocate of freedom of speech than anti-feminists.

[Jace]

Still, with his anti-thesim he's certainly not a greater advocate of freedom of speech than anti-feminists.

Agreed.