Comments on: Is FDL quickly becoming the Left’s answer to LGF?

By: R. Mildred

R. Mildred — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 18:49:05 +0000

LGf popularised the term “nuke mecca”.

And they weren’t joking.

By: Kyso Kisaen

Kyso Kisaen — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 18:24:24 +0000

Little Green Footballs. I highly recommend not going there. Jesus’ General talks about them sometimes, go look there first. It hurts less.

By: chasingmoksha

chasingmoksha — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 18:22:24 +0000

What is LGF?

By: shannon

shannon — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 01:07:48 +0000

I also just say south asian.

By: belledame222

belledame222 — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 00:47:30 +0000

i feel validated in my weirdoness

By: junk science

junk science — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 16:42:07 +0000

I don’t like the term Asian as it’s used here either, because it excludes people from the subcontinent, and there’s no convenient way of referring to us.

By: R. Mildred

R. Mildred — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 15:36:42 +0000

While we are educating ourselves, I’d like to point out that the term ‘Oriental’ is generally considered offensive when attached to people.

I did dither over that for a few mintues while writing the apology because I know that it is viewed as an offensive term, but I got put off the term “asian” while in london due to it being too generic (which seems offensive in another way), and there is no other word I could think of aside from “oriental” that is both specific and isn’t a far worse racial epithet.

I wanted another word basically and was pressed for time, so again, sorry.

So I’m with Chris, thanks for taking the first approach, in contrast to FDL’s lurid embrace of the second. Frankly, it seems that for many white liberals, addressing racism is less about the hard work of dismantling white supremacy from the inside-out, as much as it’s a way of feeling superior to over right-wing bigots with whom they play gotcha

I have a theory that I’ve been working on for a while now about an oppressive concept of validation that I’m pretty sure has been at the root of this entire blowup, and the sex wars too. I have LOTS of data now that supports it quite strongly, whereas I could have written it off as just me, belledame, B|L and KH being weirdos before.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 08:17:15 +0000

Oneiros, that’s a surprise. Here in the UK I think it’s the standard term, while Asian generally implies the Indian subcontinent. I wouldn’t refer to someone as “an oriental” though, because my personal opinion has always been that these sort of words seem to imply less respect when used as nouns than as adjectives. I don’t know what people actually in the groups think though.

By: Oneiros Dreaming

Oneiros Dreaming — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 03:52:49 +0000

My sincerest apologies to your wife chris and every other oriental in the world, I do not believe I did that.

While we are educating ourselves, I'd like to point out that the term 'Oriental' is generally considered offensive when attached to people. Also, as a white person, I'd like to point out that white people generally suck.

By: belledame222

belledame222 — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 23:39:13 +0000

uh, that was meant to be “path TO non-assholery.”

or something. eh, i don’t know. look, i’m an asshole, i don’t know what the fuck I’m saying…