You most certainly were talking about the data (enrollment going up or down).
That was with Neph. Nobody said anything about data concerning what you wrote. The graph was the discussion.
Its common sense that if Fox was falsifying the data they'd do so in a way that favored their politics. The data doesn't, and they're trying to hide that fact, so its likely the data is indeed accurate.
The thing that's common sense is that Fox News is falsifying data in a way that favored their politics. That doesn't necessarily mean the actual data is the opposite of what they want you to believe. "Numbers going up" isn't the only logical conclusion. "Numbers staying constant" is just as logical.
Oh Kevin Spacey. I was going to buy this game anyways, but you've convinced me to buy 10 copies just because.
Originally posted by psmith81992
So you're assuming it was a simple request for critical thinking about one's life as opposed to just flat out animosity? Explain why your assertion makes more sense? It seems to me the question came out of nowhere. And yes, the kid definitely bitched about it, I agree there.
1.)
Such a request does not come "out of nowhere". If I simple want to be hostile against somebody, because I view him as privileged (the notion alone being quite moronic), telling him to "check his privilege" would be the last way of doing it. Because that isn't even close to being an insulting comment and I seriously don't get how one can perceive it that way.
2.)
I did just read this.
"Common sentiment on campus is a sincere desire that Fortgang open his eyes to reality, not only his own but that of the people around him. This lack of touch with reality was probably evident in the comments he made about welfare that prompted one of our classmates to suggest that he check his privilege in the first place."
Emphasis mine.
If you look at who teaches at our "elite" universities, you wouldn't be surprised.
I'm not that familiar with the personal at Princeton.
I'm afraid I don't. If someone has had a privileged upbringing and is generally humble, and then DEMANDED recognition of his own upbringing, I think that's a little retarded. There's a nice way to ask of things. To demand something like that without any cause (douchebaggery/arrogance/entitlement) is flat out stupid and wreaks of misplaced animosity.
See above.
I'd like to know the point of the last 3 paragraphs other than an emotional appeal, because they say the same things. You have not stated a single good reason for someone to demand recognition from someone else who is privileged. All you've stated is the prime definition of "privileged". I get it. We get it. I'm lucky, some of us are very lucky. If you didn't know anything about me except that I came from a good home, and then demanded that I recognize that publicly, I'd call you bitter.
I seriously don't get, why you always assume, that someone was asked to do somethinc "publicly". If I tell you to "check your privilege", I'm certainly not expecting from you, that you'll crawl through the dirt at my feet while apologizing for having enjoyed a nice upbringing. Instead, that would be "demanding" that you check your personal views with regard of that very topic and, once you did so, encorporate possible new insights into your way of thinking / acting. Nothing else.
It's amazing how you can call me ignorant while citing one study from one site coming from one professor using unknown (how many participants were involved in this study exactly) parameters. I mean good lord, for someone who constructs well thought out arguments in support of his views regarding star wars, you sure jump at anything that even remotely looks like something that agrees with you, without giving it much thought.
I provided you with a source for a rather specific sets of information you asked for. D'uh. Which had pretty much nothing to do with my arguments. But, good god:
Global overview
Being unconciously racist can be bad...
...not as bad as racist schools, though.
And welcome to anti-semitic Europe
Seriously. Pretty much all studies one can find on the topic of racism point into the very same direction. Maybe one should simple accept, that something that has been written down as part of the law just 50 years past won't simply vanish from the face of the earth in mere decades.
I'm sorry Nai, I wasn't aware that being privileged requires one to recognize said fact. I didn't know we were doing that now? Perhaps we should make the "privileged" wear a gold star on their right side to symbolize their privilege?
If you are privileged and don't recognize said fact (for yourself), you're a moron. And we don't need a gold star - the privileged beings can be recognized easily: they are white and male. Remember?
It sounded like a demand to me, it may have sounded like a plea to you. If that is the case, then this argument is one of different implied meanings of a single word. To me it seemed like a demand because it came out of nowhere.
See above.
Ok Nai. I'm privileged. There. Now please explain how this is a step towards correcting certain social imbalances.
Do you recognize, that being privileged means, that you had chances that other people did never have in their lives? And if you do, would you support politics to change that kind of injustice? Just asking. Do you support equal pay for women? Equality regardless of ethnic background, skin colour, religion, sexual preferences? If yes, you can just do this because you have recognized, that those people are less privileged than you are and, therefor, need support. If not, you probably haven't even grasped how much advantages you enjoyed compared to them.
Should my parents also admit that they're privileged, having come into this country with $250 and nothing else?
And nothing else?
So they didn't pocess any kind of education, that allowed them to start a new life in the USA? They didn't have any kind of help from relatives or a jewish community once they arrived? Did they have a choice to leave their country and were they capable of chosing were they wanted to travel? Was that travel relatively save, with means of transport not life-threatening? Were they greeted with rassistic sentiments, once they arrived?
If the answer to most of that questions is a positive one, your parents were among the very previleged in the group of emigrants worldwide. And even if we just take your statement: $250 means, they were rather wealthy if you want to take a look at this. $250 is more than the average annual income in the Republic of Congo. Not that bad, is it?
See. I don't want to talk down the hardship your parents may have suffered or the success of their live in the USA. The point is, that if they were - let's say - black and fleeing from Africa, they wouldn't have had the same chances that they had.
Or since we're on the topic of privilege, why don't we throw out all personal responsibility, since you haven't mentioned it once. Nobody is responsible for his or her actions because they're a product of their upbringing/society/anything that absolves them of any blame. I mean, you are so far on the other side of the spectrum, it's hard to get any middle ground from you.
It's nice, that you presume to know my thoughts on the issue.
Of course people are responsible for their own actions. But that responsibility only goes so far. You need a choice in order to make the right one, don't you?
And there are many people on this planet, and yes - even in your country or mine - who don't have the same chances we have. Or even the same chances that your parents had. Not because they are lazy but because of the bad luck to be born at the wrong place.
You see: When a human being is born, just 25 percent of its brain is developed. The rest is shaped by the enviroment, the people, the situation that child grows up in and that process end around the sixth birthday. You carry that influence with you for the rest of your life and while it is possible to shake some of it, you want get rid of it all - and it requires a lot of effort.
There is a reason, why something called the Cycle of Poverty exists.
I have a bad experience with intro to philosophy. Those idiots spent a few weeks trying to disprove the notion of god (and failing). "Can god create a rock that he can't lift!!!""God doesn't exist but if he does, let me be arrogant enough to describe him in human terms".
"God doesn't exist because of all the human suffering. If he did, there wouldn't be any, because I'm apparently attaching my own mortal beliefs to an omniscient, omnipresent being".
Apparently, you failed to get the point.
Which wasn't to disprove the existance of god, but to cultivate certain methods of reasoning and thinking. You see: The only thing that you apparently found to critizise those statements, was the fact, that they describe god in human terms. Which is, frankly said, a rather stupid move, given that humans can only think in human terms, with one of them being the term "god" in the first place.
Yet, both the "omnipotence paradox" (or "paradox of the stone"😉 and the one labeled "problem of evil" have spawned a huge variety of explanations / solutions by people who have actually thought about them.
I know, that you have frequently refered to philosophy as "mental masturbation", but most of your world today wouldn't work without it and it's rather helpful in making decissions and solving problems (even in the field of economics). You may want to check Rolf Dobellis "The art of thinking clearly" for details.
I have never played a game with so many goddamn options.
I don't know if I can agree to that. Depends on what you view as "options".
Originally posted by NephthysOh Fox, again? ❌
Originally posted by psmith81992
Is it because fox disagrees with your views or...What?
Originally posted by ares834
No. It's that they create intentionally misleading graphs like that.
Originally posted by Nephthys
No, retard, because the numbers on the side of the graph go from 4,000,000 to 8, 000,000. Except reversed.
Originally posted by ares834
Here is one of my favorites.
Originally posted by psmith81992
Why focus on fox news(not that I like it)? I could show you misleading stats/polls/graphs from cnn and msnbc as well. At least be consistent.
Here, just to **** with you, Dave:
Originally posted by Nai
'check his privilege"
Homestuck has utterly destroyed my ability to read that phrase without cracking up.
Originally posted by psmith81992
Also, I just hooked up with Liara and Janus said Asari are mono gendered so does that make my Shephard...Technically gay?
Does your Shepard have a dick? If so, no.
Does your Shepard have a vag? If so, yes.
Originally posted by psmith81992
God damn it Nai, must you start a debate and then respond 2 weeks later?
Given that I have work to do, the answer is "Yes".
Options as in so many missions, I guess.
Well. I liked the different mission objectives and the way Bioware did orchestrate the missions. But then, I missed the exploring that was possible in ME1 and they could have made a lot of the Citadel-Quests more interesting, if they had featured some real missions instead of just flying to planet X, scan for artefact and be gone.
So in terms of possible exploration, they could have done a better job. And I found many of the mission enviroments rather limited. A Cerberus Reaper Technology Laboratory with four rooms in it? Come on.
Also, I just hooked up with Liara and Janus said Asari are mono gendered so does that make my Shephard...Technically gay? [/B]
All Asari are female...
Originally posted by Nai
All Asari are female...
Originally posted by psmith81992
Uh Janus told me they were mono gendered. But ok good to know!
The amount of "LOL" here is rather extraordinary.
"Mono" is a latin prefix standing for "one" / "single" / "alone" - so "monogendered" means, that all members of one species are of the same gender (female, in case of the Asari). 😉
The humor is very well written too.
I have to admit, that there were some scenes that made me laugh. But again, they could have shipped much more humor into the (rather rare) in-mission-dialogue for example.
Hilarious stuff: