XPost: rec.food.cooking, can.politics   
   From: cc@invalid.cc   
      
   On 11/23/2024 1:49 PM, D wrote:   
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   > On Sat, 23 Nov 2024, Cindy Hamilton wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2024-11-23, Dave Smith  wrote:   
   >>> On 2024-11-23 10:09 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:   
   >>>> On 2024-11-23, Dave Smith  wrote:   
   >>>>> On 2024-11-23 4:46 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:   
   >>>>>> On 2024-11-23, Dave Smith  wrote:   
   >>>>>>> On 2024-11-22 5:38 p.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> Over the past 20 or 30 years, college-educated people have   
   >>>>>>>> increasingly   
   >>>>>>>> become more liberal.   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Really? I thought they had gone from liberal to ridiculous.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> You really shouldn't judge everyone on the basis of the noisy ones.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> One of the factors in the noise is the number of people making it.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> How many would that be?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I understand that you think gender is discrete rather than a continuum,   
   >>>> despite all the evidence.  You're sensitized to be annoyed whenever   
   >>>> you hear _anything_ about it.   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> That is an interesting assumption because I did not mention anything   
   >>> about gender.   
   >>   
   >> I know that transgender people are a bête noire of yours.   
   >>   
   >>> I have a decent education, an Honours BA.  My DiL is in   
   >>> academia and she is not thrilled with some of the nonsense that is going   
   >>> on at universities these days.   
   >>   
   >> As if universities are the entire world.  As we know, the conflicts   
   >> in academia are so bitter because the stakes are so small.   
   >>   
   >>> There were always a few radicals around   
   >>> and they provided some entertainment for themselves over the years, but   
   >>> these days there are a ton of issues that they like to be concerned   
   >>> with. It's all about being offended these days. They go out of their way   
   >>> to be offended.  I look forward to the day when being offended by   
   >>> something will again be seen as their problem, not ours.   
   >>   
   >> So you're offended by people being offended.   
   >>   
   >   
   > That is the noble art of meta-offense!   
      
   Which just a few miles farther into the "great" white north masquerades   
   as the always actionable "micro-aggression"...   
      
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