Quote (fender @ 6 Feb 2023 15:40)

of course not. he doesn't claim that systemic racism simply doesn't exist, or that teaching honest history (including the ugly parts) is "un-american". amazing how you completely whoooshed that whole post...
if he starts telling people that it's unacceptable to go by anything but the name on their birth certificate, when he tells other politicians they shouldn't go by a name that might appeal to their potential voters, THEN i see an issue with it. amazing that you thought you had a point there, lol.

she could call herself princess peach for all i care, that's not the problem here. the thing is that SHE most definitely understands that going by nikki rather than nimrata certainly made a lot of things much easier for her, ESPECIALLY considering which party she belongs to - but still she pretends like that's not an issue in america, because her voters either believe that or at the least want to pretend it's true. do you deny that?

Quote (Black XistenZ @ 6 Feb 2023 23:06)

So because Robert Francis O'Rourke claims that there is systemic racism in America, that's suddenly an excuse for him blatantly race-pandering to his latino-heavy voter base by going under the moniker "Beto"? What O'Rourke is doing here is implicitly assuming that his prospective voter base harbors racist prejudices and explicitly trying to exploit his own voters' "racism" for electoral benefit. What a brave fighter against racism and for equity he is. :rofl:

Regarding Haley: as others have pointed out, the first name "Nikki" is actually common in India too, so you have no proof that she decided to go by her middle name out of political calculus. In fact, USA Today (about as centrist a news outlet as you can find these days) once reported that she went by "Nikki" since her earliest days:
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/05/05/fact-check-haley-didnt-white-wash-her-name-nikki-punjabi/4928061001/

You're literally fabricating a nefarious, racist motive out of thin air, contrary to all evidence and logic.

Quote (Melatonina @ 6 Feb 2023 10:13)

do you deny germany war crimes, mr Von Goebbels ?

Quote (fender @ 12 Dec 2016 09:11)

FFS WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?! STOP PLAYING STUPID, I'VE EXPLAINED IT MULTIPLE TIMES NOW!
YOU'RE NOT A BIGOT FOR POINTING OUT PROBLEMS OR HAVING A DIFFERENT OPINION, YOU'RE A BIGOT FOR MAKING BIGOTED STATEMENTS!

Quote (fender @ 23 Nov 2016 16:55)

otamendi... looks like de bruyne's pathetic card waving in the 1st half payed off already... what a bunch of faggots...

Quote (fender @ 23 Nov 2016 18:36)

if you're talking to me, i used the term "faggot" to refer to players who put on a show for the ref

Quote (fender @ 4 Feb 2017 16:15)

call me heinrich, nazi, bigot, homophobe, anti-turk

Quote (fender @ 18 Feb 2018 10:59)

as a matter of fact, these days WE are being invaded by polaks searching for mostly unskilled manual labour here.

Quote (fender @ 25 Oct 2017 11:21)

"edgy" white trash teenager

Quote (fender @ 27 Oct 2019 13:39)

you have been raped for wearing that skirt, because you didn't take self-defense classes, and because you belong to a gender that enables others to physically overpower you.

Quote (fender @ 25 May 2017 19:26)

brainwashed monkeys, haha...

Quote (fender @ 4 Oct 2017 19:10)

brown ppl are just lazy and want everything done for them

Quote (bogie160 @ Feb 4 2023 01:24pm)

I didn't even realize that was what you were getting at.

Is it always wrong to climb ladders? Perhaps if you think living in a monastery of as a hermit is the only viable moral path. But I think of it as amoral behavior absent egregious circumstances.