please temp-ban Mordy from the Thatcher Is Dead thread

at swm two birds, lol

I don't want to get too deeply into this conversation but can I throw a conversational bomb into the mix about how "passing" is a two-way street, one direction involving people taking on a cultural identity based on their looks and the other involving how people assign default cultures to people based on their perceptions of them and that you don't have to actively participate in part A to benefit from or be hurt by part B, and then run away?

too late, you're in the tractor beam now

single white neanderthal

should we really consider neanderthals white tho lets break this down

Area Man's Intelligence Probably Just Too Intimidating For Most Women

that photo is tremendous

friends get into stuff all the time that i can't get on their wavelength with - not just re race. i could probably be more decent about it and live + let live but that's about tact/etiquette. i'm still going to regret the shift in emphasis privately

― Mordy , Thursday, September 19, 2013 12:15 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark

hey man it's not like i joined the klan or the church of scientology! reading that actually makes me feel a little... sad, that this is something you spend time genuinely regretting tbh.

Naenderthals are definitely white and I have cred on both fronts

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1191669!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/neanderthal25n-1-web.jpg

by science

surely saying "Neanderthals were white" is like saying "Homo sapiens are white"

hey man it's not like i joined the klan or the church of scientology! reading that actually makes me feel a little... sad, that this is something you spend time genuinely regretting tbh.

― 乒乓, Thursday, September 19, 2013 1:59 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

didn't mordy think contenderizer was the best poster on ilx like a year ago? i wouldn't sweat it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmb41PcarVY

oh god i forgot that vid

unfrozen swm

i appreciate your username v much, k3v

Words and language are powerful tools by which an individual can express ideas, whether abstract, actionable, or concrete. As a writer and editor, I know firsthand that language and the meanings we attach to words very much impact, influence, develop, and change the attitudes that we have toward the subjects of discussion. That is why people are easily insulted or upset by word choices. Changing a phrase — even if it holds the same literal meaning — alters the subtle connotations and nuances of the speech, and communicates a different meaning and context than the original phrasing.

feel like this indicates some of the areas that could be debated separately from arguments about privilege

https://twitter.com/nathanjurgenson/status/381124219498553344

my WBM book has arrived and i can already tell it's going to be great - it has a picture of sheeple on the cover!

http://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/2013-on-being-offended

Feel like you would appreciate this article Mordy

friend of mine posted that on fb and got destroyed for it

And judging from Google search results,...

http://media.giphy.com/media/6RoUMn34pqvcs/giphy.gif

it was ok, gets a little smarmy at the end, 'It also risks reducing audiences’ own interpretive possibilities' say it ain't so. probably bc he wanted to be controversial but didn't want to go to the logical conclusion which is internet bros love being offended bc in capitalism-ravaged 2013 america it is the only way we can feel alive.

internet bros love being offended bc in capitalism-ravaged 2013 america it is the only way we can feel alive.

new board description?

Hi Mordy. What is your favourite situation comedy?

ever, or currently airing?

ever

seinfeld maybe?

good answer, that's one of my favourite american situation comedies

its good ive heard meaning to check it out thx

Its shit check out reginald perrin instead srsly

please temp-ban Thatcher from the Reagan Is Dead thread

happy 30th birthday mordy

I'll echo that if u rescind yr scurrilous attempts to slander me across the boards this past week

i'm sorry, you're alright deems :)

mordyfied

inshallah deems

nakh shared this quote w/ me about thatcher:

There had never been a cabinet with so many Jewish men - me, Michael Howard, Leon Brittan. I wondered why, and the conclusion I came to is not that she had a thing for Jews, but that she was one of those rare politicians without the faintest whiff of antisemitism.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 14:45 (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Nakh being in Thatcher's cabinet does explain a lot

― Neil S, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 14:46 (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and i think , tbh, that the majority of the anti-thatcher sentiment on ilx might well have its root there as opposed to the policies that so many of them apologise for under nu-labour

― rust in pieces (darraghmac), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 14:47 (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Well you're the expert on British politics after all

― Tom D (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 14:47 (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i've got critical distance tbftm

― rust in pieces (darraghmac), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 14:49 (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Nowhere near enough distance if you ask me

― Tom D (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 14:49 (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

jealous cos we managed the break in 1921 imo

― rust in pieces (darraghmac), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 14:50 (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You'd never guess

― Tom D (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 14:50 (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well we have a functioning labour party, it's true

― rust in pieces (darraghmac), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 14:51 (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

quality exchange tom d is a high value poster imo

xp i used to work on a donations/charity hotline collecting for the Gujarat drought appeal and they insisted we answer the phone asalaam alai kum and the person on to their end would immediately panic and through the phone to their grandad who would then crankily reprimand me in their own tongue because I had started it then hand back to the kid who could work the phone and organise the donation then I had to finish with waali kum salaam even after all the trouble and they'd be like write whatever bro

lol

haha

just unfollowed every identity politics thread on ilx. on the minus side i imagine i'll miss 90% of ilx clusterfucks now. on the plus side maybe i'll stop feeling gross every day about the website i long-ago chose to make my browser home page.

well just wait til it's called the Branwell Board

heaven forfend

mexicanstandoff.jpg

following threads on ilx boggles my mind tho

U don't use bookmarks?

Perish the thought

... though I have done it by accident and thought, wtf is that link that shitty thread doing at the top of my page?

i too long for the days when ilx was called fields of salmon board