lefrancais
Well-Known Member
Society isn’t homogenous. You can be intelligent and racist. Intelligent and sexist. Stupid and racist. Stupid and sexist. Stupid and non-sexist, stupid and non-racist, intelligent and non-racist, intelligent and non-sexist. They are all pervasive in society and they all overlap to different degrees at different levels of society. You’re simplifying the issue by thinking only certain groups can hold certain biases, just as I probably oversimplified things by making a broad generalization about the attitudes of the average Australian. Women can hold sexist attitudes about women and belonging to a marginalized race doesn’t make you immune to holding racist beliefs. Bringing this back to the original point I made about Priya, I’ve seen people serve her hatred based on varying degrees of all three of these things, so the point I made point still stands.
Yes, please. Continue to SCHOOL with such undeniable TRUTHS.
You conveniently omitted the “relatively” part. That’s kind of important. Yes, people get hurt, but if you think a reality TV show in any way shape or form is of real world consequence in the grand scheme of things, you’re kidding yourself. You keep trying to dismiss me by calling out so called “logical fallacies”, yet here you are doing the exact same thing with an ad hominem attack, attempting to dismiss my intelligence and discredit the validity of the things I say by attempting to stick me with labels such as “shallow” and bringing into question my empathy. You did the same thing in your last post by subtly dismissing me based on my age. "Perhaps those of a younger demographic, (than I) find her appealing. *shrug*"
So WISE, so much more LIFE EXPERIENCE than me. Silly young me, so shallow and naïve! Don’t go thinking the patronising tone of your posts is lost on me. You’re finding random things I say to take out of context to start new arguments where there are none so as to derail the argument from what it originally was about. STRAW MAN FALLACY.
I’m not trying to convince you to buy into the hype. I don’t really care about your opinion of Priya. I’m defending myself. I have that right when you choose to take things I say out of context and make negative assumptions about my intent.
Except I haven’t personally insulted you in anything I’ve previously written, nor did I intend to and I’ve made that abundantly clear. You assumed I was, and so I defended myself and tried to clarify things. I didn’t want you to assume things, which you HAVE A TENDENCY TO DO.
I could say the same for you. You have deliberately misconstrued several of the points I’ve made to try and dismiss my position. Read my post, I’ve pointed it out for you. You don’t break it down point-by-point, you pick out things that you can spin to suit your agenda so you can distract people from the fact you’re ignoring/dismissing the actual points I do make.
This whole entire argument started with YOU making assumptions about my post. You invited me to defend my position. Of course it’s defensive. Don’t try and dismiss my arguments by brushing them off as being “defensive”. If sticking up for yourself is called defence, then I’m defensive as hell.
PRIFENCE PRIFENCE PRIFENCE.
The LATIN, the PRIGNITY of PROSE, the GOSPEL TRUTH.
Your intellect is second to none. RAVISH ME
