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joviwan wrote:Speed Racer is a terrific film.

joviwan wrote:Speed Racer is a terrific film.

Reminds me of how in my Discrete Mathamatics textbook there was a question about complementary graphs. If you went to the answers section in the back of the book it had a little hand drawing of a anthropomorphized graph looking into a vanity mirror and complimenting itself.

Jovial Jeff wrote:

joviwan wrote:Speed Racer is a terrific film.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9tWrq0YusyM

Straha wrote:Apropos of nothing except my earlier post:

Fuck "social justice" as a concept. I hate it, I hate the way it gets trotted out, and I hate the faux-leftism of those who advocate it from behind a laptop screen without engaging in some form of real world activism or any understanding of the intense scholarship behind the words that get trotted out as conversational cornerstones ('patriarchy', 'privilege', 'hierarchy') by its crusading wing.

Let's go to the name alone, 'social justice'. What is the social for which it seeks justice? Who belongs to this social? Endless black scholars like Wilderson, Ahmed, Sexton, Yancy, and so many more going back to Fanon and beyond, deepthinkers who I respect in profoundly inarticulable ways are all clear that the black person, the black body, does not exist as social entity in the modern world. That slavery and colonialism have so radically altered and destroyed any possible understanding of the black person as to make them always and perpetually a slave, a non-entity, a zero-being, "ontologically dead." If they are not part of the society what does it matter if the society is just? Is a 'just' society even possible in that case? Or would the renumeration of the crimes of which they are victims require the destruction of society?

Let's go towards a field closer to my heart, the non-human. How can the chimpanzee be part of my society? How can the Chimp and I have an understanding? Is it even possible? How about the wolf? How about the shrew? How the cow? The chicken? The pig? There is no possibility of a social understanding that can be developed with them. I have no doubts, none at all, that they have their own social groups, their own societies and understandings, but for now at least (do not read that as a humanist exhortation to the coming technological/scientific transcendence of the abyss that separates us) they exist beyond our comprehension and if that is so how can we establish a relationship of justice? Let's set that aside, for a moment, and engage in the mindless call of the analytical school for a moment, if we were to recreate the world what would a just relationship with the pig look like? Certainly they wouldn't be eaten, but how would I alter my life to recognize them? Would I be able to run power-lines through woods they inhabit? Roads? How take water from rivers they drink from? How can I even begin to understand these questions in a way that establishes 'justice'?

(Want to see something funny? Mention our ethical dietary obligations to the non-human other in a public conversation in Social Justice circles and then wait until 'vegan privilege' gets mentioned. Clockwork.)

Maybe I'm just a bitter young man, or maybe I'm going through what the communist party must have thought of fellow-travellers. In spaces where I don't have an intense respect for most of the other possible participants in this conversation I would never air these complaints, but I just cannot stand it anymore.

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Zablorg wrote:bakustra who the fuck is bougiestomper58

Zablorg wrote:since straha posed the question to me i would say

fuck thanas, marry dalton, kill mike

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joviwan wrote:I just saw The Hobbit 2: The Paddening.

It was okay. Very good on spectacle, has virtually nothing to do with the Hobbit.