T1B

Carson wrote: ↑Tue Jun 30, 2020 4:29 pm Thanks.

T1B is 100% better now.

The Big Pickle wrote: ↑Tue Jun 30, 2020 4:49 pm

Carson wrote: ↑Tue Jun 30, 2020 4:29 pm Thanks.

T1B is 100% better now.

How many N-bombs have you dropped over at net today?

Carson wrote: ↑Tue Jun 30, 2020 4:29 pm Thanks.

T1B is 100% better now.

Screw_Michigan wrote: ↑Tue Jun 30, 2020 4:52 pm

Carson wrote: ↑Tue Jun 30, 2020 4:29 pm Thanks.

T1B is 100% better now.

When did this happen?

Carson wrote: ↑Tue Jun 30, 2020 4:29 pm Thanks.

T1B is 100% better now.

IB wrote:character trolling

mvscal wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 10:30 pm What did I miss?

Kierland got a timeout.

Softball Bat wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 11:37 pm

Kierland got a timeout.

Jsc810 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 11:37 pm I thought about registering my Redmond troll here but I'm too lazy to do it. I do have a pic of trump that Remond would post though :o

Softball Bat wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 9:01 am

IB wrote:character trolling

A character troll needs to be interesting.
And also, less is generally more when it comes to a character troll.

EAP may be a good person, but the posting style is not interesting.
It is detrimental to the board.


Way too much caffeine.

Screw_Michigan wrote: ↑Thu Jul 02, 2020 2:48 am

Softball Bat wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 11:37 pm

Kierland got a timeout.

88braincells hates being shown up

Patrick Bateman wrote: ↑Thu Jul 02, 2020 3:22 am On more than a dozen occasions, I have been mistaken for this dickhead, Batman.

It’s actually Bateman, you’re mistaken, there’s a slight difference.

He’s only imaginary and I’ve literally killed hundreds of prostitutes.

mvscal wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 10:30 pm What did I miss?

Neil Young wrote: ↑Thu Jul 02, 2020 10:33 pm What's a character troll?

Patrick Bateman wrote: ↑Thu Jul 02, 2020 3:22 am On more than a dozen occasions, I have been mistaken for this dickhead, Batman.

It’s actually Bateman, you’re mistaken, there’s a slight difference.

He’s only imaginary and I’ve literally killed hundreds of prostitutes.

Softball Bat wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 9:01 am

IB wrote:character trolling

A character troll needs to be interesting.
And also, less is generally more when it comes to a character troll.

EAP Softball Bat may be a good person, but the posting style is not interesting.
It is detrimental to the board.

mvscal wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 4:49 pm Poor little queerland has probably drowned in his tantrum piss by now. Has anyone called in a wellness check? Oh, right. Somebody would have to give a fuck.

The Big Pickle wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 5:33 pm And most importantly...kierfag is here to release ALL prisoners from jail and give $15 TrIllion in reparations

Innocent Bystander wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 7:06 pm

The Big Pickle wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 5:33 pm And most importantly...kierfag is here to release ALL prisoners from jail and give $15 TrIllion in reparations

Not every 'crime' deserves a jail sentence.

Reparations is complicated. What alternative do you suggest?

Innocent Bystander wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 7:06 pm Reparations is complicated. What alternative do you suggest?

mvscal wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 4:49 pm Poor little queerland has probably drowned in his tantrum piss by now. Has anyone called in a wellness check? Oh, right. Somebody would have to give a fuck.

Left Seater wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 8:32 pm

Innocent Bystander wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 7:06 pm Reparations is complicated. What alternative do you suggest?

Depends on who we are talking about. Are we talking about an 80 year old Grandmother or a 2 year old child?

Innocent Bystander wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 7:06 pm
Reparations is complicated. What alternative do you suggest?

Jsc810 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 11:37 pm

Softball Bat wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 9:01 am character troll

I thought about registering my Redmond troll here but I'm too lazy to do it. I do have a pic of trump that Remond would post though :o

The Big Pickle wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 7:17 pm

Innocent Bystander wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 7:06 pm

The Big Pickle wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 5:33 pm And most importantly...kierfag is here to release ALL prisoners from jail and give $15 TrIllion in reparations

Not every 'crime' deserves a jail sentence.

Reparations is complicated. What alternative do you suggest?

Gulags
and
One way tickets back to afreeka!

Left Seater wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 8:32 pm

Innocent Bystander wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 7:06 pm Reparations is complicated. What alternative do you suggest?

Depends on who we are talking about. Are we talking about an 80 year old Grandmother or a 2 year old child?

mvscal wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 11:33 pm

Innocent Bystander wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 7:06 pm
Reparations is complicated. What alternative do you suggest?

mvscal wrote: ↑Sat Jul 04, 2020 7:48 pm A. There are no living slaves.

B. There are no living slave owners to pay reparations.

C. Get over it.

D. Fuck off.

Can You Compare African Slave Trade to the Holocaust?
the American historian Marcus Rediker (originally published in 2007 and now available in Hebrew translation). The book recounts the history of the modern slave ship, from the moment the first captives boarded it on the coast of Africa – 12.4 million souls from the 15th to the 19th century – until the last of them disembarked on the shores of the New World. No fewer than 1.8 million of them died during the journey; their bodies were thrown to the sharks that trailed the ships across the sea. The 10.6 million who made it to the other side became slaves on the plantations of the American South or in the Caribbean....

...There are descriptions of coerced cannibalism, the hanging of innocent individuals by their toes, the amputation of limbs, feeding by means of the “speculum oris, the long, thin mechanical contraption used to force open unwilling throats to receive gruel and hence sustenance,” branding with white-hot metal rods, starvation to death, shackling with handcuffs or by chains to other captives, and rape....

...A large part of the book is devoted to the resistance that was mounted on the ships, on a daily basis, and to the captives’ attempts at suicide. Some of them leaped from the ship in mid-ocean, to be mangled by sharks, and there is testimony about one man who tried to kill himself by slashing his throat with his fingernails....

...Race and class

I meet Prof. Marcus Rediker at a hotel in Greenwich Village near New York University, where he has been invited to give a talk on revolts aboard slave ships. Even before we sit down, he tells me he is thrilled about the book’s publication in Hebrew. “My father-in-law, Laurence Goldman, was born in the Old City of Jerusalem,” Rediker relates. “He died about 18 months ago, at the age of 95. His family left Jerusalem in 1929, when he was 14. He was born into an ultra-Orthodox family, mostly rabbis, and became a rabbi himself, until one day he gave it all up and joined the Communist Party, living in New York until his death.”...

In many ways, Rediker observes, “The whole concept of race was created aboard the slave ships. The people who boarded the slave ships did not speak the same language and were often members of ethnic groups that were enemies on land. Many multi-ethnic Africans boarded the ships as Fante, Igbo, Mandinka, but were unloaded as members of the Negro race, so-called. That new entity was created under the pressure of violence and terror. I thought I could make a contribution by studying the slave ships, where this relationship was forged.”

The idea that the slave ships produced the notion of “race” is the book’s major contribution to the study of the period of slavery. “In producing workers for the plantation, the ship-factory also produced ‘race,’” Rediker writes. “At the beginning of the voyage, captains hired a motley crew of sailors, who would, on the coast of Africa, become ‘white men.’ At the beginning of the Middle Passage [across the Atlantic], captains loaded on board the vessel a multi-ethnic collection of Africans, who would, in the American port, become ‘black people’ or a ‘Negro race.’ The voyage thus transformed those who made it.”

Intricacies of memory

Before he won the Best Picture Academy Award for “12 Years a Slave,” director Steve McQueen accused Hollywood of ignoring the subject of slavery. “The Second World War lasted five years, and there are hundreds of films about [that] and the Holocaust. Slavery lasted 400 years and yet there are less than 20 films about slavery in North America,” McQueen said, in an interview with the British paper The Voice. “We have to open our eyes and look at it and other people have to acknowledge it.” The black community, he added, must remember slavery in the same way the Jews remember the Holocaust. “They believe in the saying ‘Never forget’ when it comes to the Holocaust, and I think we should be the same when it comes to slavery.”

I asked Rediker if he agrees that Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day could act as a model for remembering slavery in the United States. “I think it would be absolutely impossible in this country,” he replied, “because the majority of the white population is utterly opposed to reparations and would not like to remember slavery in any way that might lead to economic and political conclusions. The difference is that the people who want to remember in Israel are in charge in the government. John Conyers [a veteran Democratic Congressman] has for many years proposed, at the beginning of each Congress, a bill to study the effects of slavery in American history. And every year, it’s voted down.”...