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When Persuasion Turns Deadly
- burnitdown 10y agoWe need a reboot.
- pstuart 10y ago> But the police shootings and the recent uptick in domestic racial violence are mostly Clinton’s doings to win the election. What. The. Fuck. ???
- themartorana 10y agoI love Dilbert. Then this. Feels like that time I stumbled upon Orson Scott Card's blog.
- sushid 10y agoI grew up reading and rereading his books in middle school. What does Orson Scott Card write about in his blogs that's so distasteful?
- yolesaber 10y agohttps://www.salon.com/2013/05/07/sci_fi_icon_orson_scott_card_hates_fan_fiction_the_homosexual_agenda_partner/ https://www.salon.com/2013/05/07/sci_fi_icon_orson_scott_car... He wrote some pretty hateful thing about queer people and gay marriage in general. But I think the worst was this, which wasn't on his blog (in the same vein, tho): > In 2008, Card published his most controversial anti-gay screed yet, in the Mormon Times, where he argued that gay marriage “marks the end of democracy in America,” that homosexuality was a “tragic genetic mixup,” and that allowing courts to redefine marriage was a slippery slope towards total homosexual political rule and the classifying of anyone who disagreed as “mentally ill"
- themartorana 10y agoLook, the Ender series deserves the accolades it has received. Ender's Game remains my favorite sci-fi book of all time. But not all his writings are so great. "Card has also written... a Shakespearean fanfic of Taming of the Shrew and Hamlet, with bonus flagrant homophobia in which “Old King Hamlet was an inadequate king because he was gay, an evil person because he was gay, and, ultimately...murdered by Horatio, in revenge for molesting him as a young boy—along with Laertes, and Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern, thereby turning all of them gay.” http://www.dailydot.com/culture/10-famous-authors-fanfiction/ http://www.dailydot.com/culture/10-famous-authors-fanfiction... His blog carries many of his writings where his religion (he's Mormon, the great-great-grandson of Brigham Young) and severe right-wing politics combine to continuously make me cringe.
- Mikhail_Edoshin 10y agoHis point is that it's Clinton who tries to antagonize Americans against each other.
- pstuart 10y ago1. It reads like she orchestrated these events, which is obviously not true. 2. If there's a problem with police and "race relations" in this country (which I believe is the case) it behooves us to address it. 3. I'm not aware of how Clinton is antagonizing Americans against each other over this. 4. Trump is not exactly a uniter, if you know what I mean. Disclaimer: I'm a Berner who will vote for Clinton under duress.
- mindslight 10y ago> 2. If there's a problem with police and "race relations" in this country (which I believe is the case) it behooves us to address it. The point is that race relations are actively being made worse by media narrating the tired identity politics that Clinton represents. There undoubtedly is a problem of police unaccountability in this country, potentially affecting any of us. The incidents are inherently rare, otherwise they'd be quickly changed through democratic feedback. The media has completely derailed this issue with its racism, framing it as a problem that non-blacks do not need to worry about (but just perhaps feel bad about). I can't think of a better way to preserve the status quo.
- WaltPurvis 10y agoSomebody has hacked Scott Adams' account (and by "account" I mean brain).
- GFK_of_xmaspast 10y agoI guess those v-necked sweaters finally got to him.
- xrikt 10y agoSo he endorses clinton to stop getting harassed. Then he posts afterward that he only did it to stop getting harassed while simultaneously promoting trump. I'm sure that'll work out well for him.
- drewrv 10y agoHe's pretty open about how he's into studying the art of "persuasion" and I think this is one of the dumb tricks. By pretending to be threatened by Clinton supporters it makes her and her supporters look bad, or at least as bad as trump supporters.
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- glimps9 10y ago> (Trump has never mentioned race in a negative way) This is my absolute favorite casual-oh-by-the-way-in-parentheses-at-the-end-of-a-paragraph statement. Ever.
- lukas099 10y agoHas he mentioned race in a negative way? I don't remember him doing so.
- drewrv 10y agoHe has retweeted white supremacist propaganda on numerous occasions. http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/45291_We_Found_Where_Donald_Trumps_Black_Crimes_Graphic_Came_From http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/45291_We_Found_Where... http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2016/jul/05/donald-trumps-star-david-tweet-recap/ http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2016/jul/05/...
- hackaflocka 10y agoHe has mentioned Mexicans, Syrians, Chinese, Iraqis. Pretty sure he wasn't speaking positively of them. He also sub-tweeted about rates of violence of blacks and whites.
- yolesaber 10y agoI'm no fan of Clinton but the way people frame inane conspiracies around her is astounding. They paint her as somehow everywhere and nefarious yet at the same time totally inept and unfit to lead this country.
- gnat 10y agoI try to avoid most political writing, but I felt that this was worth it: http://m.dailykos.com/story/2016/6/11/1537582/-The-most-thorough-profound-and-moving-defense-of-Hillary-Clinton-I-have-ever-seen http://m.dailykos.com/story/2016/6/11/1537582/-The-most-thor...
- PhantomGremlin 10y agothe way people frame inane conspiracies around her is astounding She herself sees plenty of conspiracies around her. Here's her direct quote[1]: "This is — the great story here for anybody willing to find it and write about it and explain it is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president." [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vast_right-wing_conspiracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vast_right-wing_conspiracy
- perseusprime11 10y agoHe is saying Clinton will win in one paragraph and then he is saying Trump will win in a landslide in another paragraph. Which one is it? I read some other blog posts of this guy and now I am losing respect for the guy who came up with Dilbert.
- PhantomGremlin 10y agoWhich one is it? Bear with me on this one ... I loved the movie Pulp Fiction. In it, Jules and Vincent are stone cold killers. They do their job with cool nonchalance. But when something goes wrong they fall apart; they can't cope with changed circumstances. They're utterly helpless until Winston Wolfe rescues them. In summary, the domain over which they can be considered "experts" is very limited. Another example is Charles Barkley, a great basketball player of the not-too-distant past. When someone questioned him about his off-court behavior, he said: "I'm not a role model... Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids." Same with Scott Adams. I like him as a cynical observer of the contemporary American workplace. As for who he thinks will win the election, I couldn't care less. And I surely don't won't let him influence who I vote for. You can enjoy Dilbert without knowing anything about Scott Adams.
- perseusprime11 10y agoGood explanation but still can't get him out of my head Everytime I look at Dilbert.
- anonnyj 10y agoClinton is in a good spot: "Unless Trump finds a way to counter Clinton’s racial persuasion, he will lose in November." But he's confident that he will find aforementioned counter: "But as it turns out, Trump is probably the world’s greatest persuader. That’s why I predict he will win in a landslide"
- JohnMunsch 10y agoThis isn't funny, this looks like mental illness. He needs some help.
- ljw1001 10y agoJust, sad. There's nothing the pointy-haired boss could do to top Scott Adams in real life.
- Mikhail_Edoshin 10y agoJust remember: The "other side" is not dumb [1][2] [1] https://medium.com/@SeanBlanda/the-other-side-is-not-dumb-2670c1294063 https://medium.com/@SeanBlanda/the-other-side-is-not-dumb-26... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10872926 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10872926