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Posted on 10/3/14 at 1:37 pm to FightinTigersDammit
H.L. Mencken is one of my all time favorites. He was misanthropic. He hated people in general.
BTW, if any of you are familiar with the play "Inherit the Wind" or the movie; concerning the Scopes Monkey Trial... the newspaper reporter who is the main character was modeled after H.L. Mencken.
BTW, if any of you are familiar with the play "Inherit the Wind" or the movie; concerning the Scopes Monkey Trial... the newspaper reporter who is the main character was modeled after H.L. Mencken.
Posted on 10/3/14 at 1:38 pm to Zach
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the newspaper reporter who is the main character was modeled after H.L. Mencken.
Gene Kelly's best role, by an order of magnitude, and he did no dancing in it.
Posted on 10/3/14 at 2:10 pm to Ace Midnight
Seems like he was more of a Darwinist when it came to race. Racists seem more emotional where he was objective in his personal observations. Not saying he was right or wrong but he, if it is any consequence, didn't come from a midst rooted in "hate". Hard for me to label him a "racist". Doing so gives actual racists too much credit.
Posted on 10/3/14 at 3:10 pm to FightinTigersDammit
Mencken was hilarious. Screw the haters in this thread.
And Gandhi was more racist than Mencken was, but I don't see any hatred being thrown around regarding him.
And Gandhi was more racist than Mencken was, but I don't see any hatred being thrown around regarding him.
Posted on 10/5/14 at 11:17 am to UL-SabanRival
Sunday bump.
Posted on 10/5/14 at 12:23 pm to FightinTigersDammit
He is exactly right. I suspect the looting of A to satisfy B however is much more often than one time in 10.
Posted on 10/5/14 at 12:33 pm to FT
quote:If we discount the words of all people who were racist. . .who would we have to quote pre-1980?
He was racist as frick.
FT=dumb as frick
Posted on 10/5/14 at 1:29 pm to Roaad
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If we discount the words of all people who were racist.
We could ignore everything Holder ever wrote.
Posted on 10/5/14 at 1:43 pm to Roaad
this discussion is interesting
can a great thinker have a belief that is so emotional-irrational or just plain stupid that any other belief is discredited?
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how much deference do we give the social-political landscape of a thinker's era in discounting his/her emotional, irrational, and/or dumb beliefs?
can a great thinker have a belief that is so emotional-irrational or just plain stupid that any other belief is discredited?
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how much deference do we give the social-political landscape of a thinker's era in discounting his/her emotional, irrational, and/or dumb beliefs?
Posted on 10/5/14 at 2:26 pm to OldTigahFot
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Any personal opinions of the speaker of the quote aside, I find very little in the quote itself with which to disagree .
exactly but discrediting the messenger is a tool our govt. tools can't ignore.
Posted on 10/5/14 at 3:23 pm to Jagd Tiger
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exactly but discrediting the messenger is a tool our govt. tools can't ignore.
It's usually the first option, in fact.
Posted on 10/5/14 at 3:28 pm to SlowFlowPro
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this discussion is interesting
can a great thinker have a belief that is so emotional-irrational or just plain stupid that any other belief is discredited?
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how much deference do we give the social-political landscape of a thinker's era in discounting his/her emotional, irrational, and/or dumb beliefs?
The quote I posted has zero to do with race, yet that's all some posters can talk about.
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