Might be a radical concept in online discourse but I try to do my best to understand alternative opinions before I can decide if I agree or disagree with them. If you consider this an effort to evolve then well done me, I guess.
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Yet you've been taking sly digs at my choice of wording in describing exactly what it is you're claiming that you're trying to do. Maybe you could have tried a bit harder to understand what I was getting at?
You seem to think evolving involves other people coming around to your point of view. So you shouldn’t be too surprised when people with differing opinions find this hard to take seriously, as this puts you on a pedestal - “more evolved than thou”
Or Maori? New Zealand is the antipode of Italy.
Calling the holocaust controversial. Understatement level over 9000.
Here's the relevant bit:
The bit in bold is key here. Understanding does not equal agreement. I believe my subsequent posts have also all centered on understanding. What prompted this was several posters coming in, after black posters had explained the issue in depth, and dismissing it out of hand, the most egregious of which displayed complete ignorance of the issue in doing so. As I've said, I consider someone setting aside any pre-conceived notions they might have about an issue, acknowledging their own ignorance, and trying to understand as evolving. Maybe that makes it sound much grander than it is, perhaps I could have referred to it as "being open-minded" or "not being a fecking asshole", but regardless, I never suggested that they had to agree with me or anyone else.
Tbh I think we will have to bring her over to b&q and get a dulux paint match done. Tuscan-terracotta is my guess.
Aotearoa shirley?
I'm assuming that I'm one of those who may have come across as dismissive. If so, I'm sorry, that's not my intention.
I speak English, so if I call New Zealand that, am I appropriating their language?
Spain, I'm afraid.
When has speaking a native's language as a foreigner ever been an insult? Unless you are attempting to ask a Gendarme how to find the Gare du Nord in schoolboy French.
Well, I don't even know schoolboy Maori, so I'd probably feck up the pronunciation
Mexican?
Ao TeaRoa I gathered from Wiki. People usually appreciate the effort. Unless they are a Paris Gendarme being a cnut.
Google says : Sounds like au·tay·uh·row·uh
I'll use the Wiki one and you use the Google one. It's an effort well made either way.
Unless one of our pronunciations translates to cussing someone's mother. Those Maori dudes are big.
Stereotyping Maori now? I don't know but I feel confident I'm not going to insult anyone
Dammit, racist by accident again. I need to evolve more.Stereotyping Maori now? I don't know but I feel confident I'm not going to insult anyone
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That's actually pretty crazy, a random guy from Jamaica ending up hosting SNL and just happens to have the same name as a pretty big actor.
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Wow… when did he do this?
For too long, People Of Land have been demonised and marginalised by society.
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Nothing gone mad. That's a valid sexual harassment (assault if they grabbed him?) charge.
Particularly grim that this kid will be and presumably has already been mocked for being sexually harassed and assaulted by two people quite a lot older than him whilst he was trying to do his job.
Yes, hence my first sentence. Didn't seem thread worthy and #metoo allegations are for celebs..they're facing jailtime.
It's a strange case. The truth is it would've been a lot of men's dream, but I guess if you go grabbing people's bits without consent you're crossing a line.
Apparantly the kid had been molested before. He was absolutely devestated by this.
