toldailytopic: Are stereotypes ever useful/good/valuable, etc.?
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Try to be civil in the face of incivility. This is a test.
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February 9th, 2011, 07:07 AM
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Originally Posted by Nick M
The burkha is a statement of submission. That in and of itself isn't so bad. I submit to authority. The problem is when our Speaker of the House, the second most powerful person in government puts it on to go to a foreign country, that puts us under them.
I suppose she didn't want to run the risk of offending the extremists.
They are not respectors of persons.
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It's common knowledge that the least government is the best government.
It would stand to reason that the least government is no government at all :p.
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February 9th, 2011, 07:15 AM
People are complex. They cannot be summarized for easy reference, like: "Conservatives are generally dense folks who excel at messing in other people's business."
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February 9th, 2011, 07:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Nydhogg
People are complex. They cannot be summarized for easy reference, like: "Conservatives are generally dense folks who excel at messing in other people's business."
Still, some generalizations are quite accurate.
Be careful! We are all capable of pejorative generalizations!
People are complex. They cannot be summarized for easy reference, like: "Conservatives are generally dense folks who excel at messing in other people's business."
Still, some generalizations are quite accurate.
I haven't seen you in awhile Nydhogg, how was drug rehab?
Oops, that would be stereotyping an unrepentant drug user and former meth addict.
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It's common knowledge that the least government is the best government.
It would stand to reason that the least government is no government at all :p.
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February 9th, 2011, 07:27 AM
Rehab doesn't typically last one week.
I had a frankly hard Networks exam (hard enough I had to actually study), and I was also replaying Dragon Age, with its expansions. .
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It's common knowledge that the least government is the best government.
It would stand to reason that the least government is no government at all :p.
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February 9th, 2011, 07:30 AM
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Originally Posted by bybee
Be careful! We are all capable of pejorative generalizations!
It was a joke!
Many conservatives are not dense, and there are a fair deal of conservatives with a libertarian bent.
There are also dense lib'rals, and a fair deal of liberals have an authoritarian bent.
We all know that. I was, in fact, criticizing prejudice .
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the sooner all the animals are extinct, the sooner we will know where all their money is hidden
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February 9th, 2011, 08:00 AM
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Originally Posted by genuineoriginal
The ones I know aren't Catholic.
The only one I know well is what she calls a "recovering catholic".
CIA factbook says
Roman Catholic 80.9%, Muslim 5%, Evangelical 2.8%, Iglesia ni Kristo 2.3%, Aglipayan 2%, other Christian 4.5%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.6%, none 0.1% (2000 census)
so if you bet consistently on the stereotype you will win a lot of money.
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It's common knowledge that the least government is the best government.
It would stand to reason that the least government is no government at all :p.
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February 11th, 2011, 09:24 AM
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Originally Posted by aSeattleConserv
So judging is bad, PERIOD?
At the very least, being a busybody is.
Other people's habits and vices are none of your damn business.
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Originally Posted by aSeattleConserv
So judging is bad, PERIOD?
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Originally Posted by Nydhogg
At the very least, being a busybody is.
Other people's habits and vices are none of your damn business.
Thanks for judging me doper.
Oh and by the way Nydhogg, your atheist buddy (formerly a Satanist) get's upset when you use the "d" word. Let's keep in clean in here for the sake of Granite's virgin ears.
February 9th, 2011, 07:07 AM
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