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 #1907 24 Apr 2020 at 11.13pm | |   |
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Hiya BB
I get the thing about the legislation and his opposition to that. Saying that he would decide what / who is genuine is the self important bit for me.
With regard to your examples at school, there's a process we go through for trans students if they want to be known by a new name which is more robust than just your obnoxious oik deciding on the spot for the sake of being 'funny'. Schools are places to learn and in recent years, staff have had the chance to learn about a lot of these important issues from our students. 
Not sure what you mean by far right ideology showing in 'racial superiority' - do you mean a misconception / claim of racial superiority? Hopefully.
We can TRY to reason with anyone. We won't always succeed - I accept that. And there are some people like Mengele who are so extreme that the opportunity was clearly missed before he was too far gone.
Yeah Dylan is before my time a bit technically - but he's stayed in the limelight for longer I suppose. Now Slash... there's a guitar player... 
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#1906 24 Apr 2020 at 11.13pm | | |
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Hi Jon Boy,
I'm not surprised you wouldn't HAVE twigged it. It was obvious to me. Trump was teasing them.
You're too busy pretending to be a proofreader.
To be one you have to have strong powers of constipation, so that your decree of accuracy is absolute and inflammable.
BB.
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#1905 24 Apr 2020 at 11.12pm | | |
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In reply to Post #1903
Oh he meant it , he was looking at his medical advisor , she was cringing , looking very embarrassed ! he can't help himself .
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#1904 24 Apr 2020 at 10.59pm | | |
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In reply to Post #1901
I must of missed that post !
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#1903 24 Apr 2020 at 10.50pm | | |
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In reply to Post #1900
He says he 'was being sarcastic to reporters'.
I'm surprised his supporters hadn't picked up on that before and pointed it out to the unsophisticated like me who just think he's a babbling halfwit.
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#1902 24 Apr 2020 at 10.48pm | | |
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In reply to Post #1892
Hi Mal,
Re JP, you and his detractors keep missing the point. For him, it's not about transgenders it's about Canadian government legislation to compel speech by law. Never in 700 years of English common law has any government dared to try and compel speech. It's an attack on the right to free speech that our democracies are founded on. That's why the US call it the first amendment. The first and most important one. You dare go down that road at your peril. He has never yet been asked to refer to a transperson by a specific pronoun and said he would, if he considered the request to be genuine. In your case, if a student asked you to call him Adolf Hitler would you? And if not, then it is you who has made the decision on what you consider to be acceptable.
I know that is an extreme example, but what if a rebellious butch boy who you knew not to be trans asked you to call him Zee or Zim in order to try and make you look foolish would you? And if not, then you would be making the decision on what pronoun you were prepared to use, not him.
JP said that he's had 40 letters from transpeople only one of which was critical, who told him that all the supposed compassion and attention being made of them was making their lives hell and felt they were being used for an agenda. So, as with most things, when looking for the truth, the devil's in the detail.
And if you want to see the hypocrisy of a Canadian Uni, look up the Lindsey Sheppard affair.
Re English or any other literature, I think you must be referring to his criticism of post modernism.
Re far left and far right ideology, they are not just damaging, if left to reach full potential, they are genocidal.
Yes, far right ideology is easier to spot because it shows itself in racial superiority, but far left is not so easy to spot because it doesn't have such an obvious marker.
Sorry, but you can't reason with terrorists, brutal dictators etc. They don't have a moral compass with which to understand your humanity. Do you think you could have reasoned with Josef Mengele?
Gordon Lightfoot vids are aplenty on U tube. You should check him out, and if he was before your time then so was Dylan who was even earlier. His 1972 BBC concert is him at his peak.
BB.
Edit. Sorry Sir B but I couldn't HAVE let him get away with it.
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#1901 24 Apr 2020 at 10.48pm | | |
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In reply to Post #1900
Like when he called Obama the 'founder of Isis'  j
he was just joking...
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#1900 24 Apr 2020 at 10.29pm | | |
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just watched Trump , he now says that he was joking about using disinfectant to treat Coronavirus , what a pathetic
wan*er , unbelievable ! can't imagine any that would ,but there are some out there who might !
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#1899 24 Apr 2020 at 10.06pm | | |
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#1898 24 Apr 2020 at 9.53pm | | |
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I know your writing better than that mate.
Remember you mentioning it before as a pet hate.
I’m no proofreader but did ok finding it given I left school with sweet fa 
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#1897 24 Apr 2020 at 9.39pm | | |
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oh noj....
got you on a single grain of corn in a weedy lake there mate...
not my target fish (don't take it personally) but a bite is a bite i suppose... 
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#1896 24 Apr 2020 at 9.31pm | | |
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Noj, don't tell me you're a proofreader too!
To be honest it's not difficult ..
.. just a matter of dotting the 'i's and crossing etc etc
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#1895 24 Apr 2020 at 9.26pm | | |
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In reply to Post #1894
Meh...
He was doing alright until the last paragraph.
Could of....?
C-
See me after class
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#1894 24 Apr 2020 at 9.10pm | | |
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In reply to Post #1892
One for the proofreaders there Mal ... Very good.
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#1893 24 Apr 2020 at 8.34pm | | |
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In reply to Post #1892
As I'm writing this I'm picturing Blankalot pleading for it to end
Not at all Mal. it's how people put the views forward that matters and although your conversation with BB is not my cup of tea I don't feel like hanging myself after reading it
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