I called out someone's comments as racist when someone decided to correct me and say that the term was incorrect. According to this person, the word racism only seems to apply when referring to another race (e.g. Sub-Saharan African, White European, East-Asian, South-Asian, Native American, etc....
See (or listen) here for: 'That's Racist!' How A Serious Accusation Became A Commonplace Quip.
> “That’s Racist” is an expression often used in jest to point out the politically incorrect or racially insensitive nature of a post or comment online.
What do you call a person who is regionally biased and has an unreasonable hatred/dislike for people from other regions of the country/world? Something like a racist, but the point of discrimination here is the geographical region and not race.
Maniacal belief that "your" race, gender, culture, religion, language, country, group, beliefs are better than everyone else's.
Which term would be more suitable: "jingoism" or "ethnocentrism"?
Can they be used interchangeably?
There is a lot of sensitivity regarding race in the United States. In my view, the topology of this sociological landscape is characterized by one factor--but I can't think of the word for it.
There is a certain "sensitivity" to race that some have that others don't, especially in politics and s...
Rag-head is racist. Boy-toy is racist. Helicopter-mom is racist. Yankee is racist. Cracker is racist. Muff-muncher is racist. Africoon is racist. Poofter is racist. Hick is racist. Mari-macho is racist. Gringo is racist. Metrosexual is racist. Camel-fucker is racist. Dago, wops, spics, beaners, Japs, Krauts, and Tommies are all racist, too. And that’s not all!!
@Robusto I mean the whole phrase, "International Fuck-With-Robusto Day", is a synonym for "day". Behold, the Brit understood it. Learn some Englishes or something.
@FX_: I vote to close when it’s noise or off-topic; I downvote when it’s any of those, or low-quality. I’m reluctant to ever flag, because I think of that as a last resort, only for very serious offensiveness (racism, etc.); though I know in .se we’re encouraged to flag a bit more liberally than on other systems.
Apropos of nothing, I see that Maine and Maryland, Colorado and Washington have voted to secede from Jesusland. Oh wait, we did that a long time ago, didn’t we?
@KitFox sensible people, when they wage a war against morons, and win, don't proceed to give said morons equal say in how to run the sensible people's country.
@RegDwighт Letting Texas secede would actually be helpful in that regard. There would be a brainless-drain to the new nation, thus raising the IQ of the rest of the US.
Well it's abstract, and thus difficult to explain. "Drawing a conclusion", "following logic" or "extending" seem to be similar... Well, it doesn't really matter.
Deductive reasoning, also called deductive logic, is the process of reasoning from one or more general statements regarding what is known to reach a logically certain conclusion. Deductive reasoning involves using given true premises to reach a conclusion that is also true. Deductive reasoning contrasts with inductive reasoning in that a specific conclusion is arrived at from a general principle. If the rules and logic of deduction are followed, this procedure ensures an accurate conclusion.
An example of a deductive argument:
#All men are mortal.
#John is a man.
#Therefore, John is mort...
At least I don't see a substantial difference between "All men are mortal" + "John is a man" = "John is mortal" and "They said to do A" + "A is bad" = "They said to do a bad thing".
Episode four was intense. It's also the one with the I Am The One Who Knocks.
But they still have lots of quiet moments where nothing at all happens for minutes on end. Which I like.
Like, he walks to the kitchen, opens a bottle of wine, drinks a glass, pours another. And they show it all start to finish with no cuts and no commentary.
@RegDwighт Wow, that sucks. No wonder it seemed like nothing was happening. Lots of shit was happening, but it was just going whoosh over your head.
On the plus side I figured out what broke my codez. Whitespace between tags in HTML was throwing off my measurements. Fucking whitespace. I need blackspace instead.
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hm...you play games, answering multiple choice questions. Here's a highlighted sentence. here are some alternatives. Which one. You get point for correct answers and more points open up 'things' (I don't know what)
gamification. I love freerice. very addictive. with wordrobe, there's too much mouse movement required. tiniest details like that that can make a big impact.
WHen you write you just type or move you pencil over paper. But with reading you have to think and understand the multitude of possibilities the writer -could- have been meaning.
Two verbs: one strong, the other weak
The answer is fairly complicated at the detail level, but the short story is that there were two different verbs, one strong (all this the alpha version) and the other weak (call this the beta version). These two verbs converged, but neither form won out ov...
Two verbs: one strong, the other weak
The answer is fairly complicated at the detail level, but the short story is that there were two different verbs, one strong (all this the alpha version) and the other weak (call this the beta version). These two verbs converged, but neither form won out ov...
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…