OT Play by play guy suspended for "racist language"

Context and intent. Simple. Seems lost in today’s society. All that matters today is what was said and what somebody wants it to be rather than how it was said and how the person intended it to be. Unfortunate

 

I respectfully disagree. The issue isn't an unwillingness to listen and debate. It's an inability for the other side to marshall any decent/new/compelling facts and arguments. Same ol, same ol. B.O.R.I.N.G.

I'll listen, but not to @MARIS61 for instance throw gibberish out there in an intent to rile the others posters up.

 

In part, and no disrespectto him, he would be one of the members i was refering to. More often then not there is no back and forth but merely...the next topic of statement.
When a rebuttal is tossed out he rarely comments back. On it.

With that said it shouldnt stop you from reading his posts. To say you wont ever learn anything is also incredibly ignorant.

The key is, being able to voice one’s opinion without fear of Backlash of a personal nature and only have rebuttals based on the topic of the opinion. Then the op is responsible for responding to the rebuttals in kind.

It takes two to converse in a productive manner, but this type of productive discussion is rarer and rarer. When either side resorts to personal attacks or the plugging of ears, then there will not be any progress made.

 

I don't believe Maris believes half of what he says and posts, so if he doesn't, I won't either. He hasn't earned that respect. He's just a shit stirrer, and a disingenuous one at that.

@MarAzul on the other hand is at least a true believer. I respect that, albeit I disagree with his take.

 

Fair enough.

 

The very definition of politics used to be the ability to compromise. Now it's, attack, attack, attack.
In Congress they still refer to each other as 'gentleman' and 'lady'. That's one of the last vestiges of the ability to discuss issues with each other in a civil manner.

 

Thank goodness they open each session with prayer!

 

Those three words are among the greatest problems in American political discourse today, IMO. Both major parties play with them and use THE OTHER SIDE as a bogey person (no sexism allowed). There are many racists among Trump's supporters, but Democrats love painting with a mighty big RACIST brush when describing Republicans. Certainly, there are no racists among Democrats (unless you go poking around a little bit). Republicans love to play the SOCIALIST bogey card on AOC (Bernie too, but everybody knows he's doty [ah, crap, ageism creeps in]). One thing that people who buy into the other side world view might want to consider is that the last poll I saw listed Democrats at 29% of the electorate, Republicans at 27%, and Independents at 42%. I n other words, the largest percentage of voters think both "sides" are full of crap.

 

I have faith that one day white people will stop fucking complaining, own their shit, and finally just... Get it....

Watch what the fuck you say and stop referring to us as monkeys...

Or else you'll get suspended from your job.

 

Monoracial rural, segragatory urban.

Most openly racist country I've been in.

 

Untrue, also irrational.

"Racists" in America TODAY primarily exist in the black activist community, so why would they call themselves something they considered an insult?

Why would the few remaining Caucasian racists claim to be descendants of "Black" people?

Utterly nonsensical.

 

Please explain how Black Panther is complimentary but King Kong, Ape, Monkey Chimpanzee, Baboon are not.

Any biologist will confirm that the panther is the less intelligent one of that group. It's not even close.

Hypocrites are so obvious in everything they say or do.

 

You refuse to believe something I post because you believe I might not believe it.

You refuse to believe something MarAzul posts because you believe he believes it.

Seems the conclusion here is you refuse to believe anything you don't already believe, regardless of the source.

 

Precisely true. In fact, it's so obvious that I'm going to assume that you're trying to get some of us riled up. Nice try, won't work.

 

It's a mixed up world and your sort leads the pack.

 

Sure, lol.

 

Gallup has it different.
Republicans - 25%;
Independents - 39%;
Democratic - 34%.
This is undoubtedly shifting more and more to the Democrats. Why? Donald Trump.

Edit: https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx

 

Half true.

Most independents lean one way on some things, another way on other things, and rarely support any party platform.

When faced with the choice of only 2 candidates with any realistic chance of winning they will vote for the least offensive choice, even though it's not someone who they support.

Hilary got 20-30 million votes from people who despise her and oppose her stand on most issues.

 

Those Hillary voters you speak of must have found the other candidate really offensive. I applaud them.