Nom de Plume wrote on May 6^th, 2017 at 3:56pm:


Are you worth noticing?   

Brian Ross wrote on May 6^th, 2017 at 6:52pm:


There was once a time, be it as Sappho or as Nom De Plume, when you would honour me with a considered response.

Moreover, the questions are valid, relevant and on topic, as is my habit.

Nom de Plume wrote on May 7^th, 2017 at 5:42am:



Sorry.  Are you suffering from Attention Deficit Disorder?   I answer the posts I chose to, not because some person demands I answer them.   So, run along and annoy someone else for a change.   If you do post something interesting, I'm sure I will read it, somewhere.   

Nom de Plume wrote on May 7^th, 2017 at 5:42am:


So....why the sock, Sappho?  I nailed you within a few posts.

I see you are up to your usual game of patting yourself on the back.

The PC barbarians are at it again:

Magazine editor quits after outrage over column saying he doesn’t believe in cultural appropriation

Sebastian Leck, Thursday, May 11, 2017

The editor of the Writers’ Union of Canada’s magazine has resigned after complaints over an article he wrote in which he said he doesn’t believe in cultural appropriation.

Hal Niedzviecki, editor of Write — a publication for the union’s members — published an opinion piece in the spring 2017 issue titled “Writer’s Prompt.” In the article, in an issue dedicated to indigenous writing, Niedzviecki wrote: “In my opinion, anyone, anywhere, should be encouraged to imagine other peoples, other cultures, other identities.

“I’d go so far as to say there should even be an award for doing so — the Appropriation Prize for best book by an author who writes about people who aren’t even remotely like her or him.”

He went on to argue that Canadian literature remains “exhaustingly white and middle class” because writers are discouraged from writing about people and places they don’t know.

A sociological term, cultural appropriation is used to describe the adoption of elements or practices of one cultural group by members of another.

On Wednesday, the Writer’s Union of Canada issued an apology for the piece, announcing Niedzviecki’s resignation and pledging to review the magazine’s policies.

“The Writer’s Prompt piece offended and hurt readers, contributors to the magazine and members of the editorial board,” said the statement. “We apologize unequivocally. We are in the process of contacting all contributors individually.

“The intention behind the magazine is to offer space for honest and challenging discussion and to be sincerely encouraging to all voices. The Union recognizes that intention is not enough, and that we failed in execution in this instance.

“We offer the magazine itself as a space to examine the pain this article has caused, and to take this conversation forward with honesty and respect,” the statement concluded.

Neither Niedzviecki nor John Degen, the executive director of the Writers’ Union of Canada, responded to repeated requests for comment Wednesday.

Social media backlash against the piece began Tuesday from Write contributors and members of the Writer’s Union. Alicia Elliott, an indigenous Tuscarora author of a piece published in the same issue, tweeted out photos of Niedzviecki’s op-ed and said she was happy to receive her copy of the magazine “until I saw this.”

“It felt like an intimate betrayal,” she said. Niedzvieki had edited her own piece about cultural appropriation, which Elliott said made it “especially hurtful.”
http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/arts/blog.html?b=news.nationalpost.com/arts/mag...




The lunacy of this is unbelievable - they SAY they offer space for honest honest discussion and encourage all voices - but of course they mean all PC voices.

Cultural appropriation - what a load of mindless (or is it deliberate?) sh!t.  Can people really be so stupid s to honestly believe in 'cultural appropriation' as a bad and 'hurtful' thing?? The mind boggles.

70-year-old woman prosecuted for hate speech
Published May 12, 2017 at 10:12
A 70 year old woman in Dalarna prosecuted for hate speech since on Facebook she objected to immigrants defecating on the streets, writes DT.se.


According to the prosecution, the woman via Facebook has written disparagingly of people with a foreign background.

In a post from 2015, she wrote that immigrants 'burn cars and urinate and defecate on the streets."  This violates the law on incitement to racial hatred, according to the prosecutor.  The accused woman admitted that she wrote the post but denied that she committed a criminal act.

The penalty for incitement to racial hatred is imprisonment not exceeding two years or, for petty offenses, fines. If the offense is considered to be grave sentenced the defendants to prison terms of between six months and four years.

Brian Ross wrote on May 15^th, 2017 at 5:48pm:



Where is the ad hominem, Brian, other than from you?

Your bandying of 'Islamophobia' is ad hominem of the worst kind, Brian.

Accusing critics of Islam of a mental disorder is very Stalinist and you are very Stalinist. You are simply unable to counter any and all criticism of Islam so you simply yawn and declare it all 'Islamophobia'.