The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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Yeah, but that could just be the insensitive wording of whomever wrote that, stomping all over her reality of identifying as black.
If you'd like to think that's likely, feel free. I suspect that if she thought it was at the time she would have appealed.
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A claim she was identifying as black at that time and the school treated her as if she wasn't doesn't fit well with the appellate court's wording here or in other places. TSG doesn't seem to have the original filing by her, but I can't imagine the court's ruling would have misinterpreted her that much, or that she wouldn't have made a different complaint incomaptible with that wording.
I'm not really sure that the complaint wouldn't have been about the discrimination anyway. You reckon she should have said, effectively, that it was fine to discriminate against white people, but she was unfairly treated because she's black and therefore should have had preferential treatment?
If you're illegally discriminated against for belonging to some protected class, which you don't in fact belong to, is it not still illegal discrimination to try and discriminate against $group even though they're also wrong about the fact that you belong to $group?
By way of analogy, suppose I went to a bakery and tried to order a wedding cake with rainbows on, and the baker presumed I was a lesbian and it was a gay wedding, and refused to bake it because ew gays.
I'm not a lesbian, and if I was getting married it would be to a man. But if I argue that it's unreasonable for them not to bake me a cake because I'm straight, I'm essentially trying to say they're wrong for not discriminating, and I'm not sure that gives me a legitimate grievance - even if it did, I wouldn't want to pursue it, because that would be implicitly saying I'm ok with discrimination, as long as it's not mistakenly directed against me. On the other hand, if they're refusing me service because they don't want to bake lesbian wedding cakes, I'm not sure it really matters whether I'm a lesbian or not. Incompetent discrimination against $group is still discrimination against $group.
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By way of analogy, suppose I went to a bakery and tried to order a wedding cake with rainbows on, and the baker presumed I was a lesbian and it was a gay wedding, and refused to bake it because ew gays.
I eagerly await a lesbian couple going to a Muslim baker and trying to force them to bake them a cake. Until then I want them all to shut up about it.
To return to your first part, I am not going to bother to try to parse that bullshit. When you resort to claiming "there's no proof the people who raised me are my biological parents, so the fact that they're white doesn't mean I'm not black", Occam's Razor tells us we're dealing with either a crazy person, or someone who's more dedicated that most to attempting to preserve her deception.
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Meh...I don't really care enough except to argue about it on teh Intertubes. Also:
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I eagerly await a lesbian couple going to a Muslim baker and trying to force them to bake them a cake.
"Why did they provoke him like that? Didn't they know what would happen?"
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I want to say that nobody's sorted out the victim group heirarchy yet, but I think that we can conclude it has, in fact, happened, albeit silently, from what we haven't heard happening.
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To clarify, I'm not expressing any opinion on the validity or honesty of her claim to be black.
Just that if she does sincerely believe that, I don't see that it makes it nonsensical for her to also object to alleged discrimination against her perceived whiteness on the grounds that racial discrimination is wrong rather than on the grounds that she's not white so it's not ok for it to be directed at her.
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I eagerly await a lesbian couple going to a Muslim baker and trying to force them to bake them a cake. Until then I want them all to shut up about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgWIhYAtan4
Filed Under: Flamewar on!
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Well, Crowder was trolling. I meant I wanna see someone do it for real and then sue the baker, like they're brave enough to do for non-Muslims.
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There were 9 likes, and I decided that you deserved a Mediocre poster for this find.
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I would never ban anyone for a post like that.
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@darkmatter, you're a runner in the South, right? How many times have you been hillilly hecked in a race?
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I want to say that nobody's sorted out the victim group heirarchy yet,
http://dicklist.blogspot.co.uk/2006/07/tdl-gaming-world-series-of-victimhood.html
Sadly ImageShack has kindly broken all the images...
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For example, lets say player 1 is dealt a hand of: Black (A), Transgender (10), Non-Christian (4), Christian (Jo), Muslim (Q). Black, as an Ace, has a value of 14 points, Muslim is worth 12, Transgender is worth 10, Non-Christian is worth 4, and Christian, as a Joker, is valueless. To make the winning hand, player 1 must choose between the three religion cards but will obviously choose Muslim since Non-Christain is only worth 4 points and Christian is a Joker.
Thus, the most victimized hand player 1 can assemble from the cards he's been dealt is a Transgendered Gay Black Muslim, which is worth 45 points total.
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Man, I saw that last night right before I went to bed, so you beat me to posting it here, but that was high-larious.
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Never been heckled by hillbillies, but I did hear about that race. It's very close to where I live, but I don't run in races that short very often.
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Whatever happened to @chubertdev? Didn't he like to run races?
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Whatever happened to @chubertdev? Didn't he like to run races?
Last seen Feb 5th and his long name is "fucking done with discourse"
looks like a ragequit, and since it was a quiet one.... i'm guessing he's not coming back.
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People are what they say they are. Blakey said so, so it must be true.
Filed under: TIL I'm transfinancial
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Whatever happened to @chubertdev? Didn't he like to run races?
He got heckled to death.
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is @CHUDbert just a similarly named account to @chubertdev? or alterego?
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beats me. you could ask him i guess.
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i more or less did with the @mentions, i thought.
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Assuming the notifications ever get through.
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Yeah...they are piling up again.
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@Instapundit said:
SO I WENT TO THE NEW YORK TIMES SCIENCE PAGE, and it was all about the Pope.
They told me if I voted Republican, America would wind up taking scientific dictation from religious leaders. And they were right!
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You know, wearing a pair of overalls with no shirt is just... not something anybody ever needs to see.
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is @CHUDbert just a similarly named account to @chubertdev? or alterego?
no relation
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Aren't you glad the camerawoman[1] wasn't good at focus?
[1] Commenters say it was a woman; apparently some of them were actually there for the race.
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I want to say that nobody's sorted out the victim group heirarchy yet, but I think that we can conclude it has, in fact, happened, albeit silently, from what we haven't heard happening.
I want to say that nobody's sorted out the victim group heirarchy yet, but I think that we can conclude it has, in fact, happened, albeit silently, from what we haven't heard happening.
You're barking up the wrong tree here. More likely there's an implicit assumption that westerners are better than people from other cultures, so higher standards should apply.
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It's just true.
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That theirs an
implicit assumption that westerners are better
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Nice dodge.
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I prefer Fords myself
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By maintaining my original position while you swing wild?
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But you don't get a fuck out of them
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I even quoted the same part of my post that you did.
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So what you're saying is you don't like random people on the internet casually accusing you of racism to score a cheap rhetorical point.
Let me just make a note of that.
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I don't like getting into fights I already know I'll win.
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Any time, bigamist.
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