Is this kind of thing still socially acceptable on the left?

[Rubashov]

Fantastic post.. I'm glad you ran out of fosters for a night so you could be lucid enough for this one. Seriously though, great post.

One thing that needs to be analyzed in this context though is the relative difference in the definition of the term "poverty". Poverty doesn't mean now what it did even 20 years ago. Prosperity by every measure is at a high point in nearly every country on the planet. I think this is one reason, albeit just one reason, that set up such a movement like this in America. When the masses don't feel the oppression they are much more likely to allow it, embrace it even. I've commented on this a lot before but we instinctually are constantly on the lookout for existential threats, it's how we evolved to be where we are now, and when there is no ready existential threat, we grasp on to any we can find. Trump and his ilk tap into that and give them a new one, the "other", and people are happy to have someone to hate. So we are in a lot of ways in an environment that is going to be increasingly challenging, because it is driven by something our species isn't used to navigating, unprecedented prosperity as a means of manipulation by the billionaire class.

No Australian with any self respect drinks Fosters.

Poverty is relative in any society but i believe 1 in 5 children in the US grows up in a house without food security. That's a pretty dire mark of poverty. the global poor have in the last 40 or so years, for the most part transitioned to a point of poverty where they can survive it, this is no small achievement.

I remember my first trip the the US, we could believe the number of homeless people we saw, you know being homeless in a New York winter where you can freeze to death compared to Australian winter where having just seen the weather report, its 31 tomorrow in Brisbane.

 

[Sardines]

No Australian with any self respect drinks Fosters.

Poverty is relative in any society but i believe 1 in 5 children in the US grows up in a house without food security. That's a pretty dire mark of poverty. the global poor have in the last 40 or so years, for the most part transitioned to a point of poverty where they can survive it, this is no small achievement.

I remember my first trip the the US, we could believe the number of homeless people we saw, you know being homeless in a New York winter where you can freeze to death compared to Australian winter where having just seen the weather report, its 31 tomorrow in Brisbane.

31C = 87.8F

 

[LogGrad98]

No Australian with any self respect drinks Fosters.

Poverty is relative in any society but i believe 1 in 5 children in the US grows up in a house without food security. That's a pretty dire mark of poverty. the global poor have in the last 40 or so years, for the most part transitioned to a point of poverty where they can survive it, this is no small achievement.

I remember my first trip the the US, we could believe the number of homeless people we saw, you know being homeless in a New York winter where you can freeze to death compared to Australian winter where having just seen the weather report, its 31 tomorrow in Brisbane.

First off, that's why we knew you were out of fosters.

But yes poverty is relative. Food insecurity now is different than it was 50 years or 100 years ago. It is still dire but relatively better.

And 31?? That's below freezing!! You're going to die!

 

[Sardines]

First off, that's why we knew you were out of fosters.

But yes poverty is relative. Food insecurity now is different than it was 50 years or 100 years ago. It is still dire but relatively better.

And 31?? That's below freezing!! You're going to die!

I strongly prefer the metric system. I work on equipment and I've mostly worked on equipment made in Germany, France, and Japan, so I mostly use metric tools. That said, Fahrenheit is the perfect scale for outdoor temperatures. If everything else went to metric I'd be cool with it as long as they kept using Fahrenheit for weather reports.

 

[fishonjazz]

I strongly prefer the metric system. I work on equipment and I've mostly worked on equipment made in Germany, France, and Japan, so I mostly use metric tools. That said, Fahrenheit is the perfect scale for outdoor temperatures. If everything else went to metric I'd be cool with it as long as they kept using Fahrenheit for weather reports.

**** celsius

 

[Sardines]

I didn’t watch the bit so I don’t know exactly what was said but in general, people look to get upset about things. Comedians being ones of those things is sort of laughable.

I kind of passed over this before.

The bit is based on the notion that there are black people and there are n-words. Chris Rock is playing the old bit that there are two types of black people. One that I suppose he is suggesting should be respected, and another that should be treated like n-words. If I hadn't heard this exact same argument about 6 times in my life before Chris Rock did that bit maybe I would find the idea interesting. Of course the people I heard this from were people like my good friend's uncle who very eloquently while on his 9th Miller Draft explained to 7 year old me what the difference between a black guy and a "******" was. From 7 years old until when this bit by Chris Rock was performed when I would have been 19 I had this distinction explained to me by several other people who were pretty adamant about their non-racism.

So Chris Rock told an old joke. One that is based on the belief that there are people in the U.S. whom we should refer to as "******." It is a term of derision and meant to demean and humiliate. The joke isn't funny unless you accept the premise. It's a bad joke. It was in 1996 when Chris Rock did that set and it is even dumber today.

@Jason the n-word singular is blocked, the n-word plural is not. fyi