RIP Brenneman's Career.

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(08-21-2020, 03:50 PM)fredtoast Wrote: I don't think Hitler ever personally shot a Jew or pushed one into a gas chamber, so I am sure you have no problems with any of the speeches he made, right?

Words are the single biggest tool used to spread hatred.  To claim that they have no effect is the dumbest argument I have ever heard.

You lived most of your life during a period where straight white men did not have to worry about spreading hatred with their words.  I am glad you enjoyed it.  I am also pleased to see how much it pisses you off that that era has come to an end.

There's a helluva lot less actual evolving going on than there is fake PC.  People don't feel any differently.  They just pretend to out of fear of being ostracized.  If you think all this pc is real, then you're about as naive as it gets.

I never once condoned what he said.  He was as stupid as it gets.  In today's world, where everyone has deemed themselves worthy of judging, one must never forget to keep up the facade of correctness.   No one has to change how they feel.  They just have to watch what they say. 

It's not a cancel culture.  It's a minimum culture.  We'll just post shit on social media and think we've done something.  We'll line up to do the bare minimum, the least we can do.   Nothing actually improves.   

People are still shit, just like they always were.  Now, the wise ones are better at hiding their true feelings than the stupid ones. 

And I want to re-emphasize the ridiculousness of being so easily affected by such inanimate nothings as words and emphasize just how little I give a shit what a guy like you has to say, Fred.

Life must be a very intimidating place for those who are delicate enough to be crushed by a stranger's words.   I thought people learned that in elementary school.

But this is a world where people think they can kneel for a minute and a half and decide they have accomplished something big or put little catch phrases on the backs of jerseys and congratulate themselves for making the world better, where a problem can be talked away with platitudes or that the hearts of  men can be changed with peer pressure. 

And we'll all just sit around with our heads and our ears and eyes on a swivel to catch somebody doing something wrong and we'll pat ourselves on the back and pretend we did something and congratulate each other on how enlightened we are.