‘ “Non-Muslims telling Muslims what to wear”

So, when faced with evidence that Islam is not some uniform monolith of oppressive sexism, you totally ignore that and act as if you didn’t just see something which contradicts your view.

You then claim that ‘islamophobia’ doesn’t exist, that all Muslims necessarily support everything proscribed in every Islamic…

There was once a time when ‘Republican’ didn’t mean crazy. I think ‘traditional Republican’ and ‘Shithead Republican’ (stealing that term, I like it!) are distinct parts of the American right wing which are at war with each other. I’m not any kind of Republican, but I believe I can respect the traditional ones at…

I think you’ve lost track of what you were talking to me about. Not surprising, since you seem hell-bent on arguing with a dozen people at once in ever decreasing circles.

We started off talking about Richard Spencer, and I still am. In our conversation, that’s the first time either of us has mentioned Trump.

I…

Man, I wish I could draw what you just described.

Jack Kirby agreed with you:

Yes, I have listened to his speeches. I have watched footage of his speeches. I was directly quoting, without paraphrase, from what I saw and heard in footage of those speeches. I don’t know what information sources you’re using to inform your view, but I’m pretty confident in mine.

Oh, and there are a lot of people I…

You’re Jewish? Cool. So is my wife, her family, and by extension, my daughter.

I know what the alt-right looks like. Sometimes it looks like Stormfront. sometimes it looks like the twenty or so people that tried to march past my wife’s workplace a few weekends back, and got shouted down by a much larger group of…

‘I am a classic liberal. I am also The real Alt Right’s public enemy number one.’

Oh man. Look at this fucking guy, everyone. Any minute now he’s going to tell us the ethnicities, genders and religious affiliations of ‘some of his best friends’ with a straight face

Indeed. He has not attacked anyone. At present, he is just treading a philosophical path which has been trodden before, and which, because it was not treated seriously until it had too much momentum to stop, enabled a culture of racist atrocity. He is deliberately and explicitly invoking that ideology. He needs to be…

It does. (thumbs up).

Huh. Luke being trapped? That’s a good idea. Not sure you’re right, but it’s an interesting idea.

Umm, I don’t know about you but I do think it’s possible to have a friendship like that which isn’t based on sex. Why’s that your go-to assumption about how they have to relate?

In Jack’s first episode (the first of the ‘Are You My Mummy’ ones set in the Blitz, which Moffat wrote by the way), I think the first thing he does is flirt with a british airman, or at least cheerfully notes that he appreciates the compliment when one tries to flirt with him. Then he rescues Rose and puts the moves…

That’s an interesting reading of that line. I didn’t react to it that way, but it did strike me as odd. I saw it as the parallel to the Ben Kenobi ‘your father was murdered by Darth Vader’ speech from ANH. Something about it didn’t add up to me. I figured Han was speaking from an a Certain Point Of View, and that…

Yeah, I just have a bit of a sort of spidey sense thing going on there. Moffat does like ‘surprise! Family!’ as a story device.

Yeah, America had 20. They now have 19.

You’re not helping, Obi-Wan. ;)

‘Spencer was merely speaking while the Nazi Party was enforcing it’s beliefs violently by force.’

So his views about the racial supremacy of the whites are better than theirs because he hasn’t attacked anyone yet? Bullshit.

He is arguing for a shift in a particular direction. They are the proof that it is a fucking bad…

I liked the episode in the end. Took me a while to get into it, but the situation grew on me. I quite liked the analogy of Bill’s first adventure with the Doctor- it was about her relationship with an alien which wore multiple faces, wanted to show her the universe, and would probably put her in terrible danger by…