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Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

@Dynamo Frokane, the second time I had heard about James Allsup was when I saw a capture from a Reddit topic, most likely from /redacted/, where it made them out to be their typical mob. I am again, not speaking to the article. The article you presented is still news to me, as I had only seen focus on the flagpole incident and then the reference to how his opponents went looking through his personal information and what they said they found with that image. I do not make it a point to go searching for more information unless I need it. Hearing people shout in hysteria "racism" and "bigot", that crying wolf, has fallen on deaf ears at this point and I do not exactly trust the Left with any statement they put forward; consider me none too surprised I did not care one way or another what James Allsup is or isn't.

It should go without mention, but in this age being overt to the point you cannot be taken out of context has come to mean largely nothing and even something as simple as a thread is not to be trusted. I will continue to be so direct as say, "I do not affiliate with that person or their beliefs.", as with my other actions, so as to avoid issue. There is a purpose to these actions, namely that building a proof of character is one of the few ways to deflect the attacks.

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

I was not speaking to that article, @Dynamo Frokane. As I have reiterated, what little I saw or knew of him was previously described, and that itself was already limited - the attack certainly being more famous than anything else. As of recently I have seen nothing come up about him.

I am going off of the opinion that more or less getting him to admit it in person would be much more damaging than what he is going to write in terms of perception. If they wanted to actually make him out to be just as he wrote, it would have been best to approach him that way. Again, all I have seen about it was the screeching about how they "Found one." and immediately ignored it because it has no relevance to me or my affiliation. No less, they have cried wolf so many times, consider me disinterested to hear "X was outed as being a Y because of insert popular reason of the week."

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

As I had stated prior, I did not follow him in any capacity, just the same for all others. The fallout after I had seen only light of, mostly ignoring it because it has no relevance to me; the only incident that mattered was the assault. Wherever he pledges his loyalty is his own error there.

With regard to debating with him, I do not mean a literal debate, but baiting him into conversation or answer. Cornering him into speaking isn't likely to be effective as you saw. In order to do these things properly or in a way that matters, turning their own admissions against them are the best way to do so if they wisely stay out of an in-person encounter. The reason I say this is because that has become the go-to tactic and one that works exceptionally well.

All I had seen in the end was the referring to how he "Deserved to be attacked for being a racist." and how instead of capturing him in his own words, they went about it by showing his history and gloating.

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

@Dynamo Frokane

First and foremost, a person is entitled to an opinion, even if it is a bad one. Within free speech you cannot pick or choose what is or is not acceptable to say; there are some exceptions to this, such as threatening the life of someone with the perception to be that they can make good on it or in specific circumstances where forum dictates you cannot say certain words like "bomb" in an airport without consequence.

Second, the issue is, is that he has been branded the wrong thing. For example, they labeled him the usual fare instead of correctly calling him an antisemite; being against Jews isn't racism, as "Jew" isn't a race, but it certainly is prejudice. No less, they resorted to crying foul and flailing, rather than confronting and exposing what a foolish perception that is. All they have is a "Here! Here!" moment which makes observers, like myself, sigh from lack of amusement. They might have had a point but they squandered it like fools. All they did was validate him within his own mind, as they are oft to do. It would be too difficult, in their perception, to confront him and host any sort of dialogue and make him out himself as being biased; they went digging instead.

Lastly, mean words and uneducated opinions are not grounds for assault, let alone assault with a deadly weapon. They are and were more worried about his opinion than the fact he was attacked. I am sorry, but as much as I despise and want nothing to do with him personally - as I have said prior to not following or trusting any one person - he was still the victim of an attack.

In order to remain an impartial arbiter I must accept that my contrarian urge to his does not mean he is an acceptable target.

D&D 5e - Hoard of the Dragon Queen

The intent is to kill the last fleeing enemy if possible, even if it means risking disadvantage for myself. Better we have a chance at removing more possible enemies. I doubt they might be recurring, like our dragon, half dragon and purple person, but I would rather have one less enemy.

Bloody Roar [Fighting Game-Style RP - Always Accepting!]

I would say the character sheet is advanced, but not to the level of absurdity. It fits in with what I would expect for the genre. Regardless, I have no issue going forward, but I would certainly like other players around if any can be found, @Holy Soldier.

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My intent is to post tomorrow morning, just if you were wondering where I had disappeared off to, @Holy Soldier.

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

The belief in races as a concept is not inherently racist. The prejudice or discrimination, or belief in superiority of, for a particular race is defined as racism. There are other variations of this understanding, but none of them include that incarnation of it. Reasonably, as it is in reality, just because one acknowledges other races exist does not immediately make that person a racist. If you extrapolated that mindset and tried applying it elsewhere, seeing different breeds of dog would make you "breedist" against them.

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

"No one definition has satisfied all naturalists; yet every naturalist knows vaguely what he means when he speaks of a species. Generally the term includes the unknown element of a distinct act of creation."

Charles Darwin

The "species problem" is neither new or clever.

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

That is true as well that you can further break down these concepts and examine isolated pockets of human population to find more diversity in them, especially in age-old sites as with Africa. The longer a population has had time to settle into a region, the more entrenched certain genetic qualities will be - the same you most often see with genetic identifiers that help determine "race". An excellent example would be if you have ever had a genetic survey performed and you saw how they break down what your genetics are made up of. I might be entirely European, as I am, but it further denotes everything from the haplogroup to the line of descent and where those are regionally located; some even cross the species boundary and denote likely markers of relatives early Homo sapiens interbred with.

This only becomes more complicated when you start involving the fact that most people have no idea what their lineage actually is genetically and base it solely off of observation, their own folklore, and imagination. If anything it creates more illusions of what race is when it should really be a matter of what race isn't; ignoring social and psychological biases of course, because humans are anything but simple animals to study.

I suppose the best comparison I have ever heard was a dartboard, where if the board were humanity and you were to throw darts at each block labeled a different race, you are not going to hit every identifier or quality of them that makes them "that race".