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  RIP Barry Humphries

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  comedy legend barry humphries passed away yesterday aged 89. he was the genius behind dame edna everage and sir les patterson.. humphries was also an intellectual, with a huge personal library of first prints and rare editions.

  he apparently dropped out of studying law because he found it 'boring', from what i remember reading about him.

  instead, he created a number of comedy characters - as much for his own amusement as ours.. here's to a long life, well-lived 🥂.

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  https://youtu.be/Ac0CJn0-6tE
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  The corrosive nature of CRT

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  diane abbot has been temporarily suspended from the labour party whilst they investigate her behaviour.. what's she done?.

  it was leaked that a first draft of a letter she was going to write had the claim that jews can't experience racism.. the influence of crt is obvious.

  according to this warped worldview, there are two types of people, oppressors and oppressed.

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  @Phizzy

  I don't know what point you're trying to prove but I just don't have the stomach to trawl through the statements of academics who support CRT, of whom there are many.

  Suffice to say that the following claims have CRT as their basis:

  White people can't be victims of racism because racism = racism plus power.

  Jews can't experience racism.

  White privilege is a tangible, important factor of daily life.

  BTW one academic who supports CRT, Kahinde Andrews, believes that the British Empire was worse than the Nazis because the British Empire killed more people. This isn't intellectually honest. If I wanted to compare the two honestly, here's what I'd do:

  1. Work out how many years the British Empire lasted.

  2. Work out how many people it killed.

  3. Work out the kill rate, i.e. how many people killed per year.

  4. Do the same for Nazi Germany.

  5. Make an honest comparison between the two.

  I'm fairly sure the Nazis killed more people per year than the British Empire.

  Of course, all the above is leaving out the good things the Empire brought non-British people - our rule of law, technology, science, literature, etc.
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  The corrosive nature of CRT

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  diane abbot has been temporarily suspended from the labour party whilst they investigate her behaviour.. what's she done?.

  it was leaked that a first draft of a letter she was going to write had the claim that jews can't experience racism.. the influence of crt is obvious.

  according to this warped worldview, there are two types of people, oppressors and oppressed.

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  the observation that people with African ancestry are visually more easily identified in everyday life than Jews seems like a perfectly reasonable comment to me - well, it depends what kind of Jews we're talking about. Hasidic Jews are just as visible as African-Americans.

  But, yes, Jews often look like Europeans, and often even have partial European ancestry and so 'blend in' better than others.

  But, again, it's when she said that 'Jews can't experience racism, only prejudice like red-heads' is when the insanity kicks in.

  Hitler killed millions of Jews because he believed them to be racially inferior - fact.

  Here's a thought experiment: imagine that you are Jewish, and live in a Jewish enclave of Manchester or London. The Jewish cemetery has been wrecked by vandals - some head stones have been smashed and a swastika has been daubed on one of them. The local synagogue has to have bars on the windows and security. Maybe one or two of your relatives were killed in the holocaust. Corbyn was kicked out of Labour for saying the anti-Semitism issue was blown way out of proportion. And now Diane Abbot lets slip what she thinks about Jews and racism.

  How would you feel?

  
  
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  The corrosive nature of CRT

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  diane abbot has been temporarily suspended from the labour party whilst they investigate her behaviour.. what's she done?.

  it was leaked that a first draft of a letter she was going to write had the claim that jews can't experience racism.. the influence of crt is obvious.

  according to this warped worldview, there are two types of people, oppressors and oppressed.

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  @Diogenesister

  Yes, Whoopie Goldberg made a similar claim. She claimed that, because Nazis and Jews were both white, the Holocaust wasn't a racial issue.

  Again, the influence of CRT is dripping off her.

  Of course the Holocaust had a racial aspect. The Nazis called people of other races Untermensch. My German's fairly rusty but I would translate this word as 'sub-human'.

  The Hutus and Tutsis are both black but the Rwandan massacre of 1994 was also racist because it was done along ethnic lines.
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  The corrosive nature of CRT

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  diane abbot has been temporarily suspended from the labour party whilst they investigate her behaviour.. what's she done?.

  it was leaked that a first draft of a letter she was going to write had the claim that jews can't experience racism.. the influence of crt is obvious.

  according to this warped worldview, there are two types of people, oppressors and oppressed.

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  There are 'academics' who broadly support CRT, obviously. Kahinde Andrews is one, he teaches Black Studies at the University of Birmingham.
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  The corrosive nature of CRT

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  diane abbot has been temporarily suspended from the labour party whilst they investigate her behaviour.. what's she done?.

  it was leaked that a first draft of a letter she was going to write had the claim that jews can't experience racism.. the influence of crt is obvious.

  according to this warped worldview, there are two types of people, oppressors and oppressed.

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  @SBF

  Yes, obviously you're allowed to say that, sometimes, you can't tell if people are Jewish or not, whereas you can tell who are sub-saharan African just by looking at them.

  But where CRT comes in is when you claim Jews can't experience racism.

  And, contrary to what Phizzy would like to think, this isn't an example of CRT being 'misused'. It's what it leads to with its way of thinking. According to CRT, Jews can't experience racism cos dey white
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  The corrosive nature of CRT

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  diane abbot has been temporarily suspended from the labour party whilst they investigate her behaviour.. what's she done?.

  it was leaked that a first draft of a letter she was going to write had the claim that jews can't experience racism.. the influence of crt is obvious.

  according to this warped worldview, there are two types of people, oppressors and oppressed.

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  Diane Abbot has been temporarily suspended from the Labour party whilst they investigate her behaviour.

  What's she done?

  It was leaked that a first draft of a letter she was going to write had the claim that Jews can't experience racism.

  The influence of CRT is obvious. According to this warped worldview, there are two types of people, oppressors and oppressed. Jews are typically white, or at least very light-skinned, and do well in terms of money. So, they can't be oppressed. Therefore they can't experience racism.

  This is obviously madness. A couple of generations ago, Hitler killed and brutalised millions of them.

  Abbot has issued a full apology (good), but also added that an error slipped through the net or words to that effect. I don't swallow this - a mistake is when you forget to bring an umbrella and it starts to rain, or when you take a corner too quickly and hit the kerb.

  Folks, this is the logical end result of CRT: Jews can't experience racism.

  Utter madness.
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  Interesting episode on Triggernometry

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  yeah, it's about a secret government agency spying on its own citizens.. no, not some police state such as china, but here in britain.. it was apparently used to spy on uk citizens who were critical of government on covid lockdown.. one jaw-dropping section is about government trying to have or having the power to ankle-tag people who haven't broken any law but are considered 'disruptive'.. interesting watch.. https://youtu.be/sf2vlc2j1e8.

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  Yeah, it's about a secret government agency spying on its own citizens.

  No, not some police state such as China, but here in Britain.

  It was apparently used to spy on UK citizens who were critical of government on COVID lockdown.

  One jaw-dropping section is about government trying to have or having the power to ankle-tag people who haven't broken any law but are considered 'disruptive'.

  Interesting watch.

  https://youtu.be/Sf2vLc2j1e8
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  RIP Barry Humphries

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  comedy legend barry humphries passed away yesterday aged 89. he was the genius behind dame edna everage and sir les patterson.. humphries was also an intellectual, with a huge personal library of first prints and rare editions.

  he apparently dropped out of studying law because he found it 'boring', from what i remember reading about him.

  instead, he created a number of comedy characters - as much for his own amusement as ours.. here's to a long life, well-lived 🥂.

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  LoveUniHateExams

  Comedy legend Barry Humphries passed away yesterday aged 89. He was the genius behind Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson.

  Humphries was also an intellectual, with a huge personal library of first prints and rare editions. He apparently dropped out of studying Law because he found it 'boring', from what I remember reading about him. Instead, he created a number of comedy characters - as much for his own amusement as ours.

  Here's to a long life, well-lived 🥂

  https://youtu.be/1Hw0EwWKQRY
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  My favourite female protagonists: Ellen Ripley

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  and my next favourite female protagonist is ellen ripley, played by sigourney weaver.. ripley only just survived in ridley scott's alien (1979).. the sequel, james cameron's aliens (1986), was mostly about ripley overcoming her trauma from the first film.. she also ends up seriously kicking ass.. ripley is probably my favourite protagonist of all time.. the following clip is lovely.

  newt calls her mommy 🥰.

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  @Diogenesister - repetition for emphasis! 😁