tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post7455868245505478166..comments2024-03-26T09:49:07.212-07:00Comments on The Scratching Post: Roseanne Barr Is How You Get Shocked By A Trump WinK T Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-30803699524299288652018-06-01T05:23:19.250-07:002018-06-01T05:23:19.250-07:00I'm just not willing to put emotional energy i...<i> I'm just not willing to put emotional energy into pursuing them. </i><br /><br />Totally fair. ^.^ <br /><br />Part of my energy is coming from seeing people making Really Obviously Bad Choices, and defend them with fake logic, and I can't do anything but argue.....Foxfierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10161683096247890834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-24381918959460973702018-06-01T01:55:21.025-07:002018-06-01T01:55:21.025-07:00I'm pretty sure that Louis et Al were very sur...I'm pretty sure that Louis et Al were very surprised...leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15723921072576401390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-30994082434847237472018-05-31T18:50:53.231-07:002018-05-31T18:50:53.231-07:00Foxie, your points have merit. I'm just not wi...Foxie, your points have merit. I'm just not willing to put emotional energy into pursuing them. So that means I agree with you and feel the same way, but I'm too lazy to do or say or blog anything about it.<br /><br />;-)K T Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-17793635497896009402018-05-31T16:38:36.541-07:002018-05-31T16:38:36.541-07:00Tom-
podcasts, heck, I am still trying to figure o...Tom-<br />podcasts, heck, <i>I</i> am still trying to figure out what the heck happened, without figuring on a <i>lot</i> of fraud in normal elections. Foxfierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10161683096247890834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-10946696778219716902018-05-31T16:37:35.707-07:002018-05-31T16:37:35.707-07:00I reject that pointing out double-standards is thi...I reject that pointing out double-standards is this new "whatabout" thing; they want to make rules and hold people to standards, they can <i>choke</i> on them. People not pointing out that they hold others to standards which they, themselves, will not follow is part of how we got in this mess. <br /><br />Doesn't mean the twit they're attacking-- in bad faith, as you point out-- is even an OK person, but basic respect for truth and justice means that we're going to end up defending the Devil, if he's falsely accused. <br /><br />Otherwise Joe Sixpack knows it's just a tool; when mere accusation is enough, everybody is guilty, so the only option becomes blowing the whole thing up, or joining the howling pack and hope you're eaten last. <br /><br />*****<br /><br />Still worrying that they found the Muslim Brotherhood part untroubling. <br /><br />*********<br /><br />Hm, got curious when the "whataboutism" thing came about-- it's actually a Briticism from the 90s. And it <i>is not</i> about pointing out a claimed standard not being a standard, it's attacking a claim of truth by attacking the person making the claim. <br />As the claim of "whataboutism" is thrown out in response to someone <i>not</i> accepting a proposed standard that the person proposing, the claim is based on the declared judgement of the person making a claim. Thus, evidence of that person's judgement ruling otherwise is evidence that the factual basis of their claim is questionable. <br /><br />Basically:<br />"I think that behavior is unacceptable in a public person, and they should be hounded out of the public eye."<br />"Here are times when the exact same behavior was acceptable to you, when it was <i>not</i> to your political advantage to object; this implies that your objection is not to the behavior."<br />"WHATABOUTISM!" <br /><br />vs:<br />"It is wrong to kill children, the disabled and the elderly."<br />"You support the death penalty and are against welfare! Whatabout those kids and people! You don't care about children, you want to punish women for having sex!"<br /><br />That's whataboutism.Foxfierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10161683096247890834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-71893327825501937492018-05-31T15:18:30.318-07:002018-05-31T15:18:30.318-07:00Foxie, I agree with you, but this is one case wher...Foxie, I agree with you, but this is one case where I don't like the whatabout defense. I'm not ready to defend Roseanne or compare her to the swine on either side. I guess it's that by now, the hypocrisy doesn't even faze me.K T Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-11634877512399944072018-05-31T13:34:58.951-07:002018-05-31T13:34:58.951-07:00I've mentioned this before, but it's fun t...I've mentioned this before, but it's fun to listen to podcasts leading up to the election. The "he's closing but will never make it" turns into "what the heck happened?" to amusing effect.tomnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-28442236057272017882018-05-31T12:09:22.291-07:002018-05-31T12:09:22.291-07:00There's a definite dark humor in watching folk...There's a definite dark humor in watching folks look at the folks denouncing Rosanne... and then going back a few months on their twitter accounts, and finding them saying <i>worse</i> things that are <i>explicitly</i> racist. <br />None of this funky "if you say anything about apes you basically mean the N-word" stuff. <br /><br />While it's a very rude observation, there's several examples of Jarrett next to one of the Planet of the Apes characters, the female scientist. It's at least as strong a resemblance and Bush being a "monkey" or whatever the thing with Trump and the gorilla channel is. <br /><br />My eyebrows are going up because they apparently <i>see nothing wrong with the Muslim Brotherhood part.</i>Foxfierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10161683096247890834noreply@blogger.com