The Mysteries Of A. Roper

Bit of a weirdo.

[mysharona1987]

[lannisterworshipper]

If it isn't a symbol of oppression, then please explain to me what would happen if you were to take it off in any country where Sharia Law is practised. 

[newwavefeminism]

My heart goes out to every black and brown college student right now who have to defend their intelligence and right to learn *more than they do already* thanks to Jeff Sessions & the Trump Admin rehashing this bullshit “Affirmative Action hurts white people” discussion.

Being black at a PWI is already painful enough without this issue being imposed on campuses across the country

[lannisterworshipper]

I laughed when I read this, however what is scary is that it isn’t a joke. Affirmative Action is bad. It’s not because it “harms white people”. It harms meritocracy. Black and brown students have to defend their intelligence and right to learn just like everyone else. People should be accepted into college based on their merits and not over their gender, orientation or race. 

Here’s a scenario to put it into perspective. A white student with excellent grades across the board applies to a college. A black person with good grades, but not as good as that white person’s grades, also applies and is accepted purely because he or she is black. If we reverse this, it would automatically be called racism, however that is not the point I’m trying to make. Admissions should be based on what that student will bring to their field of study, not biological factors that are out of their control. 

[lunatimelady]

See but if we did that, we ignore certain factors. Many colleges don’t want just grades they want a person. Are grades important? Yeah, but it’s also important you get someone who cares about things and has a unique view on life’s big issues. Admissions do not look at an application and think “Oh this person is black? He’s in!” They look at the grades, the essays, what they’ve done throughout high school. If it were solely by race and grades the college process wouldn’t even require an application. You’d just select which ones you want to receive your transcript and you’d be done with it. But that’s not how it works. That black kid may have lower grades but maybe his SAT/ACT scores were high and they’ve done some really good extrecurriculars. Or their essay was stellar. Or anything else to make them stand out. But the college wouldn’t except him over someone else in that situation because he’s black. If he and the white candidate were equal then they’d look at who they’ve accepted and go from there.

[lannisterworshipper]

I do see your point, to an extent. However, the issue here for me, with affirmative action, is that race should not play a role. At all. Their personality and other factors, sure. But the idea of affirmative action was to make campuses more diverse when it came to colour of skin, gender and orientation. These things should not matter as they have nothing to do with content of character or intellect or anything important in a college. I also think that it is demeaning to minorities to suggest that they need help getting into colleges in the first place, as if they could not do it on their own and need help from the government. Everything you mentioned above in terms of the selection process has nothing to do with skin colour and that’s the point I was trying to make. 

[lannisterworshipper]

Affirmative Action

One of the worst things about affirmative action is that is comes across as so patronising to women and people of colour, suggesting that they cannot achieve without governmental intervention. 

[newwavefeminism]

My heart goes out to every black and brown college student right now who have to defend their intelligence and right to learn *more than they do already* thanks to Jeff Sessions & the Trump Admin rehashing this bullshit “Affirmative Action hurts white people” discussion.

Being black at a PWI is already painful enough without this issue being imposed on campuses across the country

[lannisterworshipper]

I laughed when I read this, however what is scary is that it isn’t a joke. Affirmative Action is bad. It’s not because it “harms white people”. It harms meritocracy. Black and brown students have to defend their intelligence and right to learn just like everyone else. People should be accepted into college based on their merits and not over their gender, orientation or race. 

Here’s a scenario to put it into perspective. A white student with excellent grades across the board applies to a college. A black person with good grades, but not as good as that white person’s grades, also applies and is accepted purely because he or she is black. If we reverse this, it would automatically be called racism, however that is not the point I’m trying to make. Admissions should be based on what that student will bring to their field of study, not biological factors that are out of their control. 

[lannisterworshipper]

The Young Turks tried pretending that they held the same contempt for Fonda that they held for Barr. I saw both videos and the reactions were completely different, the ire for Barr being much more intense and the ire for Fonda being practically non-existent, blaming it all on Trump. To top it off, what Fonda said was far worse.

[beardie-fella]

Everyone should see this!

[lannisterworshipper]

What I learned this week: An 80 year old man calling for 12 year old boy to be raped by paedophiles is unacceptable and he shall be named and shamed and called all sorts of obscenities. Unless of course, that child happens to be a Trump.

[lannisterworshipper]

I love how there are virtually no posts about Peter Fonda's inexcusable tweets. You know you can't defend this one, leftists.

[machetelanding]

[lannisterworshipper]

Beautiful. 

[lannisterworshipper]

The Twitter Controversies

Whilst I agree that calling somebody by that particular vulgarity is not the same as racism, what Miss. Bee did was still wrong on a number of levels. It was a nasty slur and she should be held accountable. Not to mention the fact that it was an unprovoked attack. The woman literally just shared a post of her and her baby, something that millions of women do. It’s not like she was spewing hate at people. 

As for Roseanne, there seems to be a misconception among many on the left who assume that the right and the conservatives have defended her. They have not. No one has defended her except for a  minority of people nobody really listens to. Conservative speakers have openly condemned her. I know this because I listen to them. 

[overpricedvodka]

Today in the Fox News universe, Tucker Carlson asks “If the NFL owners are racist, why are 70% of their employees Black?”

I’m trying to think of an example of racist white men getting rich off the blood, sweat, and tears of Black men.  Can y'all help?  Let me know if you can come up with anything.  Anything at all.

[lannisterworshipper]

Under this logic, black people should not be employed by white people at all because that would automatically make them the slaves of whites, no matter how much they’re paid. 

[lannisterworshipper]

13 Reasons Why Season 2

That scene, the controversial one, was terrible. It wasn’t that it was graphic that was the problem, it was why it was graphic that that was the issue here. It was graphic for shock value. The show runner did not care about the issue he was tackling, he just wanted to create a scene more shocking than the suicide in the first scene. In defence of the suicide, it made sense in the narrative to show the scene that the whole show was based around. This scene did not make sense as part of the narrative. If season two was called 13 Reasons Why Tyler Want to Shoot Up the School, fine. There could have been a momentous buildup which culminated in his sodomy. No, he did a load of bad things and then was randomly attacked right at the end. It was as if they just randomly came up with it and slotted it in. 

There are number of problems with 13 Reasons Why. It enforces harmful messages, promotes the mass hysteria that we see on college campuses and has serious issues with stereotyping. To go into all of them would take a while. I just wanted to share this one. 

[lannisterworshipper]

Solo: A Star Wars Story

I’ve seen all the Star Wars films and have been a fan since I was four years old. I have defended the prequels, even while admitting there were numerous issues with those films. I have been to see all the Disney Star Wars films in IMAX (the only films I see in IMAX) and have left the cinema each and every time with a gleeful sense of excitement. Until last night. 

Last night I saw Solo and for the first time, I did not enjoy a Star Wars film. The one word I can think of as best to describe it is “empty”. I would write a review, but I don’t think it deserves it. 

[lannisterworshipper]

Not every black person believes in Black Lives Latter, not every gay person believes in the gay lobby, not every woman is a feminist and it is this kind of identitarian politics that crucifies people who step outside of their racial or sexual groups because they have the wrong ideology. It is the worst sort of bigotry.

Milo Yiannopoulos

[lannisterworshipper]

Your feelings are not facts. Deal with it.

[sillysymphony]

Milo Yiannopoulos on CNN, July 2016.

[lannisterworshipper]

You stand in my way With nothing to say You think you're the world I'm so lost without you I'm sorry my friend This is not the end I'll do it without you I'll do it again

October, Dolores O’ Riordan.