mothra wrote on May 25
th, 2017 at 8:31pm:
Frank wrote on May 25
th, 2017 at 8:26pm:
Because your idea of objective is that of the SMH and the Granuiad.
And of course you would be hard pressed to articulate what you actually mean by 'objective' because you have never though about any of the nonsense you parrot and regurgitate.
None of your posts, threads are remotely about empirical science where you could be objective. You are always talking about things about which it is impossible to be objective: ethics, politics, society. Human encounters and political and social ideas are not like scientific experiments that can be reproduced under controlled circumstances.
You are just a mouthy, refractory git with very limited ability to self-examine.
As always, you use too many words to say what you mean. Verbose, indeed.
In a nutshell, i am not a bigot. And you hold that in contempt.
In a nutshell, you are a bigot. This is why: you, like Brian et al, you would never ever examine your own views and their source and logic. You never argue, you emote. Your outlook is hopelessly confused and self-contradictory. You, like Brian, value Political And Emotional Correctness above all else and you would never pause to examine the reasons for this. You pull the notion of 'hate' out of thin air and then call anyone a bigot if they don't go along with PC and EC.
And you then claim that you are a critical thinker!!!!
Here's a characterisation that fits you and Brian et al perfectly:
After the terror, the platitudes. And the hashtags. And the candlelit vigils. And they always have the same message: ‘Be unified. Feel love. Don’t give in to hate.’ The banalities roll off the national tongue. Vapidity abounds.
A shallow fetishisation of ‘togetherness’ takes the place of any articulation of what we should be together for – and against.And so it has been after the barbarism in Manchester. In response to the deaths of more than 20 people at an Ariana Grande gig, in response to the massacre of children enjoying pop music, people effectively say: ‘All you need is love.’
The disparity between these horrors and our response to them, between what happened and what we say, is vast. This has to change.