Agreed - reading it, I struggled to find any redeeming qualities
snoopcester Send a noteboard - 30/01/2012 07:32:58 PM
unintended humour aside.
*MySmiley*
Robert Graves "There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money, either."
Henning Mankell "We must defend the open society, because if we start locking our doors, if we let fear decide, the person who committed the act of terror will win"
Robert Graves "There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money, either."
Henning Mankell "We must defend the open society, because if we start locking our doors, if we let fear decide, the person who committed the act of terror will win"
The racist elements in Tolkien's writing
- 29/01/2012 01:31:02 PM
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She has some points, of course.
- 29/01/2012 02:25:32 PM
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Quite a few points
- 29/01/2012 02:40:45 PM
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I don't find the tone blunt; I find it leading, patronizing and often wrong or inferring too much.
- 30/01/2012 01:43:27 AM
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Agreed - reading it, I struggled to find any redeeming qualities
- 30/01/2012 07:32:58 PM
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Agreed, in general. The tremendous bad faith and sophistry turn me off, though.
- 29/01/2012 09:31:04 PM
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Mostly agreed with the article, but thought she undermined herself with her own racism.
- 29/01/2012 02:50:11 PM
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Just read your Twitter convo... nice try, but looks like wasted effort. *NM*
- 29/01/2012 10:37:08 PM
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Well, I'll be honest.
- 29/01/2012 10:34:46 PM
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Let me try to summarize some of her points with the invective filtered out, then.
- 29/01/2012 10:48:24 PM
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Thank you.
- 29/01/2012 11:10:13 PM
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What the hell, might as well go and play devil's advocate, right? 
- 30/01/2012 04:50:30 PM
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- 30/01/2012 04:50:30 PM
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I expected that. 
- 30/01/2012 05:39:59 PM
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- 30/01/2012 05:39:59 PM
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Of course you did. I'm predictable that way.
- 30/01/2012 10:28:10 PM
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Re: Of course you did. I'm predictable that way.
- 31/01/2012 12:39:46 AM
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Re: Of course you did. I'm predictable that way.
- 31/01/2012 08:38:46 PM
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I <3 you, but there are several very key things we are not going to agree on.
- 31/01/2012 10:02:22 PM
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- 31/01/2012 10:02:22 PM
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Hmm?
- 31/01/2012 10:10:22 PM
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Yeah. I got to reading Encyclopedia of Arda just now, and it told me the same thing.
- 31/01/2012 10:35:54 PM
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As a sort of group answer (I've been mostly absent from forums the past two days)
- 31/01/2012 10:45:55 PM
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I don't mind if you tell me I'm out of line here, but
- 31/01/2012 11:55:04 PM
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I'm rarely ever offended
- 01/02/2012 01:54:58 AM
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She was referring specifically to the Twitter "conversation" I had with the blogger.
- 01/02/2012 09:05:28 AM
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Yes.
- 01/02/2012 10:47:22 AM
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It makes me wonder what she thinks is happening in Zimbabwe, for example.
- 01/02/2012 11:13:11 AM
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I've been thinking about that.
- 01/02/2012 11:29:18 AM
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That blog post was mostly good, but the exception is a rather large one.
- 01/02/2012 08:35:57 PM
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What's a neckbeard? And why am I supposed to care? *NM*
- 30/01/2012 01:29:07 AM
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neckbeards are when the person (either intentionally or through misfortunate genetics)...
- 30/01/2012 03:21:09 AM
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acrackedmoon is a racist, sexist bore. And I don't even like Tolkien. *NM*
- 30/01/2012 01:14:17 PM
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