Subtle Acts of Exclusion - How to Understand, Identify, and Stop Microaggressions - Tiffany Jana, Michael Baran
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This practical, accessible, nonjudgmental book is the first to help individuals and organizations recognize and prevent microaggressions so that all employees can feel a sense of belonging in their workplace.
Our workplace and society are growing more diverse, but are we supporting inclusive cultures? While overt racism, sexism, ableism, and other forms of discrimination are relatively easy to spot, we cannot neglect the subtler everyday actions that normalize exclusion. Many have heard the term microaggression, but not everyone fully understands what they are or how to recognize them and stop them from happening.
In this book, Tiffany Jana and Michael Baran offer a clearer, more accessible term, subtle acts of exclusion, or SAEs, to emphasize the purpose and effects of these actions. After all, people generally aren’t trying to be aggressive. Usually, they’re trying to say something nice, learn more about a person, be funny, or build closeness. But whether in the form of exaggerated stereotypes, backhanded compliments, unfounded assumptions, or objectification, SAE are damaging to our coworkers, friends, and acquaintances.
Jana and Baran give simple and clear tools to identify and address such acts, offering scripts and action plans for everybody involved: the subject, initiator, and observer. Knowing how to have these conversations in an open-minded, honest way will help us build trust and create stronger workplaces and healthier, happier people and communities.
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This post has 84 comments with rating of 2.5/5
July 23rd, 2021
I’m not certain, but I feel as if I am offended by this book. My feelings being paramount, this book should be excluded everywhere until I know that it is safe being around it.
July 23rd, 2021
Just think, these people probably received 50-100k dollars in university and government money to fund the writing of this book.
July 23rd, 2021
I don’t need this book, I stopped asking POC if I could touch their hair 2 years ago.
July 23rd, 2021
Covid was a godsend to many people.
I remember being called an, “arrogant wanker”, the once. I complained to the boss, and said, “I don’t disagree with statement, I just feel that it was inappropriate to be said in the work place”. Maybe that was the start of the slippery slope into what people can and can’t say without upsetting people? Either way, not having physical interaction is so much better, so, thank you, Covid.
July 23rd, 2021
> Subtle Acts of Exclusion: How to Understand, Identify, and Stop Microaggressions
God save us all, the progressives are now imagining things! Worse yet, they want everybody else to imagine them too… I used to think that the statement “Liberalism is a mental disorder” was meant to be figurative, and not literal. Well, I guess I won’t make such a mistake anymore.
July 23rd, 2021
Snowflakes on parade
What a waste of paper and effort!
Why do people keep calling the “progressives”??
They’re anything but progressive. More like Regressive candy asses that can’t face life’s ups and downs.
July 23rd, 2021
What is a “liberal”? What is a “progressive”? Why should this book be assigned to those categories? What are the enlightenment and counter-enlightenment?
What is ingroup favouritism? Are you exhibiting it now?
Surety might very well lead to poor decisions.
July 23rd, 2021
> This practical, accessible, nonjudgmental book is the first to help individuals and organizations recognize and prevent microaggressions so that all employees can feel a sense of belonging in their workplace.
The trouble is that such a delusional self-deprecating activity goes counter to any private business usual activities and practices (like providing goods and services to customers, and making profit). Something tells me that any sane (i.e. morally and mentally healthy) individuals and organizations do not require any “help” of that nature in the first place.
July 23rd, 2021
I just inhaled deeply from by brother’s cat’s litter tray. Don’t need to read this book now.
July 23rd, 2021
What did I just hear? The whole book is a bunch of absolute inane garbage. I feel pity for the authors who have deluded themselves into thinking that they have produced content to write a book. This book is everything wrong with the hyper sensitive, snowflake societies today.
If I could give it negative stars, I would rate it -5; unfortunately I cant.
July 23rd, 2021
Better title: “How to be Offended by Everything”
July 23rd, 2021
Don’t like the reviews on this page? Dial 1-800-WaWa
And this is not a microaggression; it’s at least a milli-aggression, if not a whole one. Heads up! That’s a full-blown one-million microaggressions!
July 23rd, 2021
Jesus conservatives are really pissy about books just existing that they don’t plan on reading. Cope. Please. For the sake of your family.
July 23rd, 2021
toadmanga , you seem a bit triggered… Triggered liberal is a good liberal
July 24th, 2021
@eyeballs not what triggered means, dumbass.
July 24th, 2021
Jack_Milad
Nobody asked for some steamers opinion
July 24th, 2021
big tech who loves this stuff is perfectly happy to implement the mega aggressions of communism and its 10 point plan, that led to 250 million slaughtered in the 21st century alone. Because the world needs another “how to be polite” on the deck of the titanic, and in the meantime big tech and far left cementing total power and control into centralized global communist oligarchy….
July 24th, 2021
This is seriously a generation of complete p*ss*es!
July 24th, 2021
Can all of you trolls please just p**s off?
I’m getting so tired of the atmosphere on this site. You’re not going to convert anyone. Seriously, just read through these comments - what is the point??
Are there any moderators here? Can you do something about this? Why do we have to be confronted with this utter garbage on every political or historical post?
Please, just go and find something else to do. Maybe get a job?
July 24th, 2021
@eyeballs and yet you chimed in anyhow.
July 24th, 2021
I love how just because someone post a comment they need to get a job… I guess it takes an unemployed miserable to know an unemployed miserable?
July 24th, 2021
@wheresmycannon how do you know they’re an unemployed miserable? Unless… oh dear.
July 24th, 2021
@wheresmycannon
It’s not just someone posting a comment is it. It’s the same handful of people posting the same toxic garbage on literally every post where they feel it’s relevant, and plenty that aren’t.
Are you always this obtuse? It must be exhausting.
July 24th, 2021
Micro aggressions aren’t to be ignored. However, the macro-aggressions, as evidenced by the loud and proud racists and loony right wingers here are more urgent.
July 24th, 2021
@Gweilo
> Micro aggressions aren’t to be ignored
Taking the book seriously, try as I might, I cannot even fathom what the heck it is, let alone the rest of the mantras and dances on my knees and bowing my head down in submission. But something tells me that I was right about not taking it seriously in the first place, as the true meaning and purpose of this book (to deliver the message I KNOW THE RIGHT WAY, AND SO YOU MUST OBEY, OR ELSE) is a bit too obvious.
> However, the macro-aggressions, as evidenced by the loud and proud racists and loony right wingers here are more urgent.
Sure thing, anything can be evidenced and made up by the fact those “loud and proud racists” and “loony right wingers” even exist, let alone speak their minds in comments.
Incidentally, many of those you call “loud and proud racists” and “loony right wingers” can also be “people who genuinely disagree with your views” — apparently, adherence to moral relativism makes it ok to put your thumb on the scales to skew the playing field here and there to favor your political camp, to present things in any distorted way you like.
Good thing some of your comrades in arms are considerably less subtle, and incidentally more honest about their true thoughts and heart’s desires towards the opponents:
> apnea
> July 24th, 2021
>
> Once the neo communist revolutionaries are victorious they will use the internet to identify & track down every single person who bad mouthed them & communism (the faith). We all know what they’ll do once they have you in cuffs. Make trouble & they’ll do your family too. Every comment you’ve ever made is sitting in a data centre(s) somewhere waiting to implicate you.
https://audiobookbay.lu/audio-books/the-communist-manifesto-penguin-classics-friedrich-engels-karl-marx
July 24th, 2021
@alnilam There you go again using quotes that have zero matches on the internet. Either you’re quoting the most obscure bottom-feeders, or you’re misquoting them so abhorrently that even Google is like “sorry, I’ve got nothing”.
As for the loud and proud racists being “people who simply disagree with your views”, you’re right. Just so happens that view tends to be “skin colour, nationality, sex, gender, and age shouldn’t be a factor in how you treat a person”.
I do commend you though. It takes a big person to admit they don’t have enough intelligence to understand a rather simple concept. So you’ve got that going for you at least.
July 24th, 2021
all bullies disturbed by this book, one wonders why
July 24th, 2021
@allnilam asking not to be disrespected is not the same as demanding you bow your head in submission.
July 24th, 2021
I’m not a bully, this book is madness and bad for all humanity…
July 24th, 2021
Pe your quote of apnea, whoever he is, he’s obviously one of the aforesaid RWNJs making up some fantasy to justify his victimhood.
If he is anyone’s “comrade in arms”, he’s yours, I’m afraid.
July 24th, 2021
You know the right are wrong when the message “try being a bit more considerate of people when you speak” is met with more vehemence than Mein Kampf.
July 24th, 2021
@Gweilo
> asking not to be disrespected is not the same as demanding you bow your head in submission
I would say “doing something sensible for others to earn respect” and “demanding respect from others for the sole reason of perceiving yourself more important than them” is not the same.
And “asking not to be disrespected” and “demanding you bow your head in submission” IMO is exactly the same.
There’s no particular need for anyone to “ask for respect” in the first place, when one can simply earn it. Naturally, such a novel concept is not very attractive for the individuals, who intend to get there by other means, skipping the part where real work and respect for others are involved.
July 24th, 2021
The worst of offenders are so delightfully sensitive. Thanks for the download!
July 24th, 2021
Jdestroyer…
Where did you go wrong?
Why are you so lost?
July 24th, 2021
@Gweilo
> Re your quote of apnea, whoever he is, he’s obviously one of the aforesaid RWNJs making up some fantasy to justify his victimhood. If he is anyone’s “comrade in arms”, he’s yours, I’m afraid.
So the individual in question is not your “comrade in arms”, I stand corrected.
To address your counter-claim: I do not have any “comrades” willing to go that far, or joking about it, or doing it for any other reason.
It is more likely that the individual in question is just another troll.
It is not important where the troll belongs to, or claims, or hints at that, meaning the political camp.
All that matters is that he crossed the line, and if I were a mod, I would ban that account immediately and irrevocably for the blatant violation of the perfectly clear forum rules. If you or another mod would be willing to exercise his executive power to establish some semblance of order and deter other trolls, I could hardly think of a better opportunity.
BTW, calling some book “garbage” or worse is not a violation of the forum rules, it’s just an opinion.
July 24th, 2021
> Good thing some of your comrades in arms are considerably less subtle, and incidentally more honest about their true thoughts and heart’s desires towards the opponents
Correction:
Good thing some of your comrades in arms — *assuming they are, based on what they claim, or hint at, or otherwise make clear* — are considerably less subtle, and incidentally more honest about their true thoughts and heart’s desires towards the opponents
July 24th, 2021
> Once the neo communist revolutionaries
Oops I got that part wrong, the troll seems to claim the opposite adherence to what I first thought
July 24th, 2021
Nope, re: claimed adherence I was right in the first place (plus the owner of same account established himself as a hardcore leftist in many other comments earlier)
July 24th, 2021
@alnilam when are you going to start posting books on UFOs?
July 24th, 2021
@alnilam you do realise nobody actually reads the essays you type on here, right?
July 24th, 2021
As I mentioned earlier on the forum (slightly edited version here):
“Unfortunately, the overall ABB books/forum design is rather very confusing, as there are two places to conduct conversations with other forum members, namely BOOK COMMENTS and FORUM, instead of just one, no one really knows what is supposed to be where and why, not to mention the absence of any transition mechanism between the two places — if somebody intentionally designed it to be this way, very confusing and inconvenient and not condicive for meaningful conversations, I have to admit they have succeeded”.
Usually forums allow members to correct their own typos and delete their own comments, should that be necessary. ABB is rather different in that regard, the mods argue along the lines that it can’t be done, or they have no control, or the whole site is barely hanging together, or some other BS of that nature. Hence some occasional user mistakes and self-corrections.
July 24th, 2021
Oh god, you really never do stop do you? 450+ words when 20 would have sufficed.
July 24th, 2021
> Oh god, you really never do stop do you? 450+ words when 20 would have sufficed.
Good thing it’s not up to trolls to decide, how many words would have sufficed, in which case and for what reason.
July 24th, 2021
“A load of dingo’s kidneys.” Douglas Adams
July 24th, 2021
@alnilam it’s not upto you which comments on here are offensive enough to warrant a ban either, but that didn’t stop you waffling on about it at length.
July 24th, 2021
As if society doesn’t have enough problems … Do we really need another book on how to search for imagined slights?
Wearisome folly …
July 24th, 2021
This is trash! The idea of “applicable to everyone” is bullsh!t excuse to make money out of selling to broader pool of audience. Whoever buying in to the idea of this book is turning into an insecure individual. Just because you can’t think of anything good idea to write, doesn’t mean you you should stir up problems and selling solutions.
July 24th, 2021
> it’s not upto you which comments on here are offensive enough to warrant a ban either
Wrong again, while it’s certainly up to the mods to uphold the forum rules (the ABB constitution of sorts), also I believe it is perfectly appropriate for ABB members to participate in the process, to indicate likely ABB rules violations and expect the reaction from the mods, whatever that reaction might be.
July 25th, 2021
@alnilam you really don’t get it, do you? The forum and the site are two different entities. You can use either one without ever having visited the other. You’d need to sign up twice and create an account on each because they’re different sites. Mods on the forum don’t get the ability to edit comments on the main site.
This site doesn’t have a rules section. The forum does. But since I’m not a member of the forum, presumably the rules wouldn’t apply to me.
But putting all that aside, the whole point of this site is to bypass certain legalities. Don’t like people being unpleasant? Perhaps reconsider your choice to frequent the same sites as the rest of us criminals.
July 25th, 2021
@alnilam: ‘“Unfortunately, the overall ABB books/forum design is rather very confusing, as there are two places to conduct conversations with other forum members, namely BOOK COMMENTS and FORUM, instead of just one, no one really knows what is supposed to be where and why”
We have a “forum” for discussion and “comments on torrents” to comment on torrents. Not to “converse”. There is no “transition” or integration and we have very limited tools to moderate. So trolls and obsessive loonies post their streams of repetitive crap here and we only remove the worst since frankly it’s a hassle to do so.
If you paste essays here you are wasting your time and either being ignored or annoying others who just want to know is it worth reading the book, or if there are any files missing.
July 25th, 2021
@Gweilo
Any chance you can do something about the trolls?
You know the ones I mean, there’s no need for me to name them. The ones that no intention of checking out any of the books, the ones that are here every single day trolling on every book about politics and history that don’t push a right-wing agenda. If they had actually read some of them, it would be different, but they clearly don’t read/listen to any of them and are clearly only here to spout garbage and insult people. Enough’s enough.
July 25th, 2021
@tedbenson pm me in the forum.
July 25th, 2021
lol not sure who is more triggered by this? the conservative types who feel it necessary to post their stupid opinions and call ppl snowflakes all the while whining about how their god-jesus-emperor man-baby trump lost his wittle election or the ppl who actually come up with this nonsense. Seems like everyone should just die.
July 25th, 2021
@Gweilo
> We have a “forum” for discussion and “comments on torrents” to comment on torrents. Not to “converse”.
And yet, contrary to what was initially intended, this is what you have — a spontaneous active unofficial forum of sorts under “book comments”, which many people obviously prefer to the official “forum for discussion” — because it’s where the actual books related discussions and conversations tend to occur naturally, for whatever reasons.
I’m not saying it is right or wrong, I only describe the situation as it is, as of this moment.
And, speaking of the “book comments” section, what did you actually expect (meaning collective “you” behind ABB, not personal) — that book readers would somehow restrict themselves to speaking only about torrents, and refrain from voicing their opinions, mentioning similar books, talking about what they like and dislike, agree and disagree, starting cultural and political and other debates etc, plus many other books related things, seriously?
Facing that objective reality, the question is what ABB owners-maintainers-mods are going to do about it, for example (i) leave the “book comments” section as it is, (ii) try to improve it in some ways. Assuming it would be (ii) — and I can’t see why not, as contrary to popular beliefs the ABB maintainers do not strike me as incompetent, and I don’t buy various related explanations and excuses — I personally would only ask for a bit of added functionality like “users can now edit and delete their own comments”.
> There is no “transition” or integration…
If there absolutely must be two places under the ABB umbrella where people can talk, and the mods think that certain discussions are better suited for “forum for discussion”, surely there must be some mechanism for that, no?
Assuming the answer is “No”, I can’t see how the current pretty strange situation may improve (technically ill-suited active de-facto forum under “book comments”, and technically very good “forum for discussion” which seemingly not many users like and attend).
July 25th, 2021
@tenbenson Jesus, you cant handle someone disagreeing with you so bad, you want to have the banned. Nice you know what everyone’s personal reading history is, because I’m sure you listen to and read TOOOONNNNNNNNs of conservative works. Here’s is a novel idea, if the comment section is just so tiring and annoying… Why not just, you know… not scroll down to the comment section? It’s bullsh@t like this that makes everyone laugh at leftist as frail, weak, little beta boys. Toughen up buttercup.
July 26th, 2021
@alnilam “a spontaneous active unofficial forum of sorts under “book comments”, which many people obviously prefer to the official “forum for discussion” ”
They “prefer” this exactly because it’s mostly uncontrolled. So they can spew their repetitive toxic stupidity and prejudices without consequences.
If there are any changes in “functionality” as a result, it is likely to disabling all comments as many uploaders have requested after seeing the abuse they get from these jerks.
Go to Parler or 4Chan if you want something more.
July 26th, 2021
@wheresmycannon
I wish I’d known you at school so I could bully you.
July 26th, 2021
@Gweilo
Happened today, I tried to access the forum to check the requested books section, and I got this error message:
“An Error Has Occurred!
Sorry alnilam, you are banned from using this forum!
Russian spammer”
I do not recollect violating the forum rules, or doing anything that could be associated with spamming, or Russian ethnicity, or both.
So much for “forum for discussion”, not that I was much surprised.
July 26th, 2021
Forum is down for everyone at the moment due to an anti-spam measure that misfired.
Admin should have it back online soon.
July 26th, 2021
@Gweilo
Thanks for letting me know, and sorry about jumping to conclusions a bit prematurely (although there’s some previous history involved, recently one of my posts was locked seemingly out of the blue, with the most vague explanation “because it was random” — eh? — i.e. no idea why the post was locked, and prior to that I did not even write anything on the forum for weeks).
July 26th, 2021
Forum is fixed. Try not to assume everything ithat goes wrong is a conspiracy directed at you.
July 26th, 2021
> Forum is fixed. Try not to assume everything that goes wrong is a conspiracy directed at you
I hope I can be forgiven in the current seriously skewed and rapidly deteriorating political atmosphere, where one side is always right and occupies moral high ground, and the other side is always wrong, and as such must be brought to their knees or pushed out of existence by any means necessary, to the great relief and celebration of the former.
July 27th, 2021
@alnilam: and you are again doing exactly what I asked you not to.
The US right has a megaphone, through which they shout all day how they are being silenced. It’s exhausting.
July 27th, 2021
@tenbenson actually, sadly I would have likely bullied you. Not proud of it.
July 27th, 2021
@alnilam
But you are, as you say, “always wrong”.
Sorry to be blunt, but it will improve your life in the long run.
July 27th, 2021
@Gweilo
> and you are again doing exactly what I asked you not to.
I was not aware I was doing anything illegal except briefly replying your remark.
July 27th, 2021
Oh shut up alnilam. Give it a god damn rest already for gods sake. Everyone is sick of your sh1t.
July 28th, 2021
@alnilam “illegal”??????
You’re “replying” to stuff you made up out of whole cloth.
July 28th, 2021
> “illegal”?????? You’re “replying” to stuff you made up out of whole cloth.
I was under impression that participants can write in book comments pretty much anything, closely or loosely related to the subject at hand, including “stuff made up out of whole cloth”, whatever that means, and still remain within the legal boundaries (based on the forum rules, civility and common sense).
I understand that the words “law, legal, boundaries, rules” can be anathema for the Left, when the concepts and traditions behind them create serious obstacles, but that’s another story.
July 28th, 2021
alnilam don’t worry you don’t agree with them so you must die. You cannot and will never be woke enough for them so you are an enemy no matter what.
July 29th, 2021
@alnilam you’re arguing with a completely illusory straw man now, totally unrelated to anything I said or think.
July 29th, 2021
@Gweilo
> you’re arguing with a completely illusory straw man now, totally unrelated to anything I said
I beg to differ. Let me try and reiterate my point:
I was under impression that participants can write in book comments pretty much anything — closely or loosely related to the subject at hand, including “stuff made up out of whole cloth”, whatever that means, and “arguing with a completely illusory straw man”, whatever that means — and still remain within the legal boundaries (based on the forum rules, civility and common sense).
July 30th, 2021
@alnilam: you’re reiterating an argument with yourself. You aren’t referencing anything I said.
July 30th, 2021
@Gweilo
> you’re reiterating an argument with yourself
Not true. Should that be the case, you wouldn’t be back, making or repeating your earlier statement.
> You aren’t referencing anything I said
Correct. I have referenced enough of what you said earlier, there’s hardly anything left to reference.
If you want to steer the conversation in any particular direction, you need to be more specific about it.
July 30th, 2021
I’ve tried for a month to make a few simple points.
You insist on seeing the world as a conspiracy directed at you and find ways to make everything fit that narrative.
It’s pointless to keep repeating myself.
July 30th, 2021
> You insist on seeing the world as a conspiracy directed at you and find ways to make everything fit that narrative
That may, or not be the case — but I’m pretty sure it’s still within my rights, and I’m still not doing anything illegal regardless, no matter how one may perceive it. If you intend to misrepresent my activities as rules violations, you will need to work harder than that. Also it may backfire, i.e. I may not be seen as rules breaker, and you may be seen as a progressive mod engaging in a politically motivated censorship.
July 31st, 2021
@alnilam: you keep complaining about “censorship”. When were you ever censored here? Never. Who said you were doing anything “illegal”? No one. This persection fantasy is wearisome.
I did ask you not to abuse this torrent comment section as a platform for your rants.
I am concerned not with the political slant, but the volume and off topic nature of so many comments here. But they are, except in the most extreme cases, tolerated.
You are also wrong about being “within your rights”. You have no rights here. This is a privately owned web page, currently hosted in Finland. Send any complaints to Helsinki.
July 31st, 2021
@Gweilo
> you keep complaining about “censorship”
Not true. Me assuming or speculating that censorship is likely not too far ahead, based on your previous statements and constant unjust pressure, is not the same as “you keep complaining about censorship for no reason”.
> When were you ever censored here? Never.
Locking my post on “forum for discussion” for no reason, subsequent out of the blue ban “alnilam, you are banned from using this forum, Russian spammer”, threats to close the book comments section and general hostile attitude towards non-members of liberal-progressive tribe come close enough.
> Who said you were doing anything “illegal”? No one. This persecution fantasy is wearisome.
(i) Putting statements in opponent’s mouth, (ii) hinting at his mental state, (iii) feigning suffering, and (iv) implying opponent’s guilt — all lumped together in one short sentence, impressive.
> I did ask you not to abuse this torrent comment section as a platform for your rants. I am concerned not with the political slant, but the volume and off topic nature of so many comments here. But they are, except in the most extreme cases, tolerated.
“I did ask you” in what capacity, precisely? — (i) site mod, or (ii) political ideologue? What exactly qualifies as RANTS and ABUSE here? Surely it must be the same for all members, regardless of their political affiliations, no? Can you PROVE that the actual ABUSE took place, and not some other activity you have chosen to falsely portray as such? How exactly my comments are different from those of your political buddies on the Left? You never seem to have a problem with them, with any of those unhinged leftist lunatics, trained trolls and aspiring storm-troopers on the wings, no matter how lengthy, off-topic, false, vile, vicious or plain evil their writings might be at any given moment.
> You are also wrong about being “within your rights”. You have no rights here.
My sentiment exactly. It surely feels like I have no rights here, only responsibilities (good thing the latter is voluntary). And in a sane world those things are supposed to come paired together, no?
> This is a privately owned web page, currently hosted in Finland. Send any complaints to Helsinki.
Sending site policy related complaints to a hosting company, and thus confusing it with the actual site owners and policy makers can hardly be qualified other than nonsense. Unless and until the site owners will make it crystal clear for everybody “This is a segregated liberal-progressive site, outsiders need not apply” — I will keep relying on the forum rules, civility and common sense.
August 1st, 2021
@alnilam: you seem basically a good person, which is why I have spent so much time trying to communicate with you, but it’s hopeless. Your mind has been poisoned by a conspiracy mindset.
August 3rd, 2021
@Gweilo
> you seem basically a good person, which is why I have spent so much time trying to communicate with you, but it’s hopeless.
Let’s reiterate what you said earlier, more or less: “I don’t care about your politics, but I want you to stop doing rants, because they are so irritating-tiresome-wearisome and abuse”.
Should I agree, what exactly that would mean in practice: each and every time I would want to write about something, I would need to second-guess myself first “Can this be perceived or portrayed as RANT or ABUSE? Do I need to tone it down? Do I need to write about it at all?” etc.
And now you tell me how exactly that would be different from subjugation.
> Your mind has been poisoned by a conspiracy mindset.
The results of applying your own notion of “conspiracy mindset” to other individuals can only be highly subjective, widely fluctuating between “you are such a naive baby” and “you are such a crazy conspiracy theorist”. Not to mention the proverbial “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.”
More to the point, the current sad state of affairs, which I can briefly summarize as “moral relativism run amok”, is not exactly a conspiracy theory.
Moral relativists, yourself included, use a special mental device, similar to powerful binoculars on a swivel, which allows them to see or “see” everything around them (culture, politics, people) arbitrarily, through opposite sets of lens. So, they can easily blow out of proportion things they happen to like and dislike, by magnifying and diminishing them accordingly (plus “turning blind eye” and “imagining things”). With help of such a magical device, the political allies and opponents can be seen and portrayed pretty much like this (less civil version of the same can be found in the political book comments section):
Our blessed homeland — Their barbaric wastes
Our glorious leader — Their wicked despot
Our great religion — Their primitive superstition
Our noble populace — Their backward savages
Our heroic adventurers — Their brutish invaders
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DJHp6BUW0AATYF9.jpg
August 4th, 2021
@alnilam YIou sdaynbf this: “out of the blue ban “alnilam, you are banned from using this forum, Russian spammer””
after I explained it was general problem that blocked everyone, myself included, means 1) you are calling me a liar and 2) you believe you are the target of a conspiracy.
“Moral relativists, yourself included” - more insults.
So, you have made civil debate impossible.
August 9th, 2021
@Gweilo
> “Moral relativists, yourself included” - more insults
Last time I checked, you identified as liberal-progressive, and moral relativism happens to be the cornerstone of liberal-progressivism. You (collective “you”, as well as personal “you”) do it all the time, while pretending not to.
> So, you have made civil debate impossible
As if you ever attempted a civil debate in the first place (hint: asking me to start policing myself in book comments does not qualify as such).
November 23rd, 2021
seed pls
December 24th, 2021
can someone please seed this?
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