Re: Smokers are smarter, I say.

From	Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy, sci.physics, alt.privacy.anon-server, comp.sys.mac.system, alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.cellular-phone-tech
Subject	Re: Smokers are smarter, I say.
Date	2017-04-19 11:03 -0700
Message-ID	<D51CF48B.A0528%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> (permalink)
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On 4/19/17, 10:53 AM, in article op.yyyen9o8js98qf@red.lan, "James Wilkinson
Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 15 Apr 2017 19:10:39 +0100, Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 4/15/17, 7:46 AM, in article op.yyqrbqgmjs98qf@red.lan, "James Wilkinson
>> Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sun, 09 Apr 2017 20:14:53 +0100, Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 4/9/17, 12:10 PM, in article oce0va$joa$13@dont-email.me, "Sprang"
>>>> <spring@sprung.invalid> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>>> I have tried Ethiopian food... which I already noted. The question was if
>>>>>> you had tried it. You did not answer.
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Fuck no.
>>>>> I eat food that taste good.
>>>> 
>>>> So you have never tried it but decided it is not good. Ties into your
>>>> ignorance leading toward disliking thing we see with your bigoted views.
>>> 
>>> You keep saying that like it's a bad thing.  We are all free to hate wogs.
>> 
>> You have a right to demand special entitlements... but others are not
>> obligated to give them to you.
> 
> Now apply that to wogs.

Now apply it to EVERYONE.

Where things do get a bit complex is in trying to find some level of balance
for those who have clear obstacles in front of them that those in control do
not. We know, for example, that just having a name that sounds "black" leads
to resumes being less successful. Do we create a preference system to try to
balance that... something like affirmative action? Some on the left are very
strongly for that but I do not see it as being effective and in practice
when do you deem it no longer worth it, how do you balance it fairly, etc.

Those on the right just want to pretend the issue of discrimination does not
exist (or they focus on absurd things like claims of a war on Christmas).
That is also not going to really move things forward in a useful way.

No good answers for some of those things... and plenty of room for reasoned
debate. But the general principle of equal rights over special entitlements
is, to me, a no-brainer.

-- 
Personal attacks from those who troll show their own insecurity. They cannot
use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel somehow
superior by attacking the messenger.

They cling to their attacks and ignore the message time and time again.

<https://youtu.be/H4NW-Cqh308>

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Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-15 15:46 +0100
  Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-15 11:10 -0700
    Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-19 18:53 +0100
      Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-19 11:03 -0700
        Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-19 19:46 +0100
          Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-19 12:00 -0700
            Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Fakey's Puppy Whistle Holder Emeritus 🐶笛 <root@127.0.0.1> - 2017-04-19 17:06 -0500
              Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-19 15:10 -0700
              Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2017-04-19 16:45 -0700

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