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#478 PARIS TERRORIST ATTACK in Off Topic
SpaceCadet[I am referring to any terrorist entering this country and causing us harm as "these people".They come here for free and have done nothing to build this country to what it is today. They leech off our schools and financial programs then go back "home" to their countries

you're pretty explicitly referring to immigration, no matter how hard you try to push it otherwise. that's a race thing. heavy profiling off of someone's race-and-culture-created looks and nothing else is a pretty hardcore race thing, even

posted about 9 years ago
#474 PARIS TERRORIST ATTACK in Off Topic

"these people"

you can say the word "muslim" out loud, you know. that's what you're explicitly referring to, trying to mildly cover it isn't helping you

posted about 9 years ago
#465 PARIS TERRORIST ATTACK in Off Topic

as a side-note, I've noticed a lot of ppl from non-western countries refer to IS as "daesh", and I ended up finding this:

https://www.freewordcentre.com/blog/2015/02/daesh-isis-media-alice-guthrie/

And so if the word is basically 'ISIS', but in Arabic, why are the people it describes in such a fury about it? Because they hear it, quite rightly, as a challenge to their legitimacy: a dismissal of their aspirations to define Islamic practice, to be 'a state for all Muslims’ and – crucially – as a refusal to acknowledge and address them as such. They want to be addressed as exactly what they claim to be, by people so in awe of them that they use the pompous, long and delusional name created by the group, not some funny-sounding made-up word. And here is the very simple key point that has been overlooked in all the anglophone press coverage I’ve seen: in Arabic, acronyms are not anything like as widely used as they are in English, and so arabophones are not as used to hearing them as anglophones are. Thus, the creation and use of a title that stands out as a nonsense neologism for an organisation like this one is inherently funny, disrespectful, and ultimately threatening of the organisation’s status. Khaled al-Haj Salih, the Syrian activist who coined the term back in 2013, says that initially even many of his fellow activists, resisting Daesh alongside him, were shocked by the idea of an Arabic acronym, and he had to justify it to them by referencing the tradition of acronyms being used as names by Palestinian organisations (such as Fatah). So saturated in acronyms are we in English that we struggle to imagine this, but it’s true.

All of this means that the name lends itself well to satire, and for the arabophones trying to resist Daesh, humour and satire are essential weapons in their nightmarish struggle. But the satirical weight of the word as a weapon, in the hands of the Syrian activists who have hewn it from the rock of their nightmare reality, does not just consist of the weirdness of acronyms. As well as being an acronym, it is also only one letter different from the word 'daes داعس' , meaning someone or something that crushes or tramples. Of course that doesn’t mean, as many articles have claimed, that 'daesh' is 'another conjugation' of the verb ‘to crush or trample’, nor that that is 'a rough translation of one of the words in the acronym' – it’s simply one letter different from this other word. Imagine if the acronym of 'Islamic State in Iraq and Syria' spelt out ‘S.H.I.D’ in English: activists and critics would certainly seize the opportunity to refer to the organisation as ‘shit’ – but I think it’s safe to say that no serious foreign media outlet would claim that 'shit' was another conjugation of the verb 'shid', nor a rough translation of it. Of course, that analogy is an unfair one, given the hegemonic global linguistic position of English, not to mention the heightened currency of scatological words; but there is a serious point to be made here about the anglophone media’s tendency to give up before it’s begun understanding non-European languages.

And obviously understanding things outside of English, and explaining them to each other via our (social)media hive mind is hugely important on many levels: in the broadest sense, it allows us to attempt to take our place as global citizens, and feeds our connection to other humans on planet Earth. Sadly, the story of the word 'Daesh' is neither the only nor even the worst example of anglophone media failing us in this regard. But there’s something specifically important in this particular story which is being overlooked as a result of all the lazy journalism around it: the use of this word is part of a multi-pronged, diverse range of efforts by Arabs and Muslims to reject the terrorists’ linguistic posturing, their pseudo-classical use of Arabic, their claims to Quranic authority and an absolute foundation in sacred scripture, as reflected in their pompous name. This ridiculous claim has of course been masterfully and witheringly deconstructed at the Islamic level, but at the secular level, satire is a crucial weapon in the fight against these maniacs: there is a fertile tradition of Syrian and satire as not only defiance but coping strategy, and which has been quite under-reported. In satirical Arabic media (and conversation) various diminutives of the word have also gone viral – elegantly diminishing their subject, belittling them, patronising and relegating them to a zone beyond any formal naming in a single sweep.

in a quick TL;DR: acronyms aren't common in arabic, the terrorist org it refers to specifically wants its fancy long name in arabic as a form of sounding powerful, and thus an acronym like "daesh" ends up both taking the piss and taking a shot at their power over islam at the same time

posted about 9 years ago
#427 PARIS TERRORIST ATTACK in Off Topic
SheepylolBonafideSheepy is the opposite of a tough guy, more like fluffy ball full of strong opinions
I don't think I really have strong opinions lol. My only opinion here is that I dislike Islam as a religion and what it stands for and I know that a lot of other people feel this way as well. Apparently nowadays disliking a religion is "racist" as people here have let me know. Which is actually kinda funny cause i'm not even hating a race, Islam is not a race its not like I hate the people who follow it, I just don't like the religion itself but people here are so stupid they interpret that as racist because the SJWs on tumblr have told them to.

alright then, let's shoot. from only a few pages back:

SheepylolSpaceCadet has a point. Everytime something like this happens it makes me more and more weary when I see a muslim. You can never know who the extremists are. The more this happens the more people are gonna be scared when they see a muslim walking down the street. Also I feel now like we should really tighten up on who we let into our countries, maybe start doing background checks and interviews more ect. The truth is a lot of people from these countries aren't as civilized as we are and this is why we are seeing so many people from these countries raping our children, in the UK at least. People need to understand that the lifestyle in some of these middle eastern places are a lot different from what its like over here.

how do you think you can interpret a "muslim", solely on looks, without them potentially being of another religion entirely

posted about 9 years ago
#423 PARIS TERRORIST ATTACK in Off Topic

I could probably create the exact same conclusion on christian morals in the US, should I focus solely on a heavy right-wing state, but that wouldn't be very indicative of american society as a whole, would it

posted about 9 years ago
#11 class configs in Q/A Help

just as a quick tip, also: copy all of the bind commands from config.cfg, in your cfg folder, and make a cfg out of them to exec in every class config. if you ever intend to script more heavily (not for rocket-jumping tho, that won't end well) this'll be much easier long-term than trying to remember what key you put on what class, because it'll just always go back to your default keys if you don't have any set up on that class

posted about 9 years ago
#421 PARIS TERRORIST ATTACK in Off Topic
hooli84% of egyptians believe that death is the appropriate punishment for leaving islam

http://www.pewglobal.org/files/2010/12/Pew-Global-Attitudes-Muslim-Report-FINAL-December-2-2010.pdf
When asked about the death penalty for those who leave the Muslim religion, at least
three-quarters of Muslims in Jordan (86%), Egypt (84%) and Pakistan (76%) say they
would favor making it the law; in Nigeria, 51% of Muslims favor and 46% oppose it.
In contrast, Muslims in Lebanon, Turkey and Indonesia largely reject the notion that
harsh punishments should be the law in their countries. About three-quarters of Turkish
and Lebanese Muslims oppose the stoning of people who commit adultery (77% and
76%, respectively), as does a narrower majority (55%) of Muslims in Indonesia.

why did you ignore the several countries which heavily rejected it shown from the exact same paragraph?

posted about 9 years ago
#415 PARIS TERRORIST ATTACK in Off Topic

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/mosque-peterborough-fire-1.3320013

...jesus fucking christ, this was right near where I used to live

just as a reminder: this is precisely what IS wants out of reactions. they want to easily justify what they're doing, and this plays flawlessly into that. don't let them have this

posted about 9 years ago
#412 PARIS TERRORIST ATTACK in Off Topic
HildrethI like how this thread has just got everyone latching on to their political agenda, how about some sympathy for the victims?

World is a pretty fucked up place, events like this remind us of how different we all are, we need to celebrate how much alike we all are, for example talk about our love of TF2. After all, that is why we're here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYrnAaNW5ow

posted about 9 years ago
#354 PARIS TERRORIST ATTACK in Off Topic
pothttp://d35brb9zkkbdsd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/terrorism-EU-2-638x599.png

directly lifted from the source:

https://i.imgur.com/UPs1L49.png

I suppose the point can still technically stand on its own disconnected from the UK, but the vagueness on the UK's part is a bit of a nuisance

e: actually looking into this, a lot of data is weird. for example, despite europol still being able to know which crimes are and aren't right-wing extremism upon arrest, no country is actually willing to properly classify the attacks as such, even though they still do so for left-wing extremism, which gives a similar amount of arrests. these statistics are odd

posted about 9 years ago
#350 PARIS TERRORIST ATTACK in Off Topic
sacdid you forgot about 9/11

...I thought I put "in canada" at the end of that, but forgot. yeah, I meant in context of canada's domestic terrorism. my bad

DanceNumberhttp://globalnews.ca/news/2339859/trump-says-paris-massacre-would-have-been-different-if-people-had-guns/

oh man, thats quite the opinion.

maybe if we dump oil onto the forest fire, it'll douse itself out

posted about 9 years ago
#344 PARIS TERRORIST ATTACK in Off Topic

yeah, I'm down for that. my apologies for the argument

posted about 9 years ago
#341 PARIS TERRORIST ATTACK in Off Topic

I should point out that, in this scenario, there has been no form of "islamic terrorism" in canada, under the legal definition, that involved as many deaths as the ecole polytechnique massacre in quebec.

again, the definition of terrorism is intentionally arbitrary, but for logical comparison they can absolutely be classified as ideological when they explicitly have a learned, harmful ideology, shared through others wanting to hold power, behind their killings

posted about 9 years ago
#338 PARIS TERRORIST ATTACK in Off Topic
BonafideTmost people who commit these mass shootings have mental health issues, severe depression, are lonely outcasts etc.

this is flat-out incorrect, as statistics people have been regularly posting have shown. likewise, mental health as an excuse is mostly used in america as another scapegoat, as any genuine problem in mental health is immediately brushed aside once people cease talking about the shooter

on top of this, a good number of the shooters are well-known to hold ideology, as I was specifically referring to the militant atheist who shot and killed his muslim neighbors, or the men's rights activist who made a youtube video of his motto a day before killing . it's simply not referred to under the american semantics of "terrorism", because the american definition is intentionally set to only refer to anti-state killers

posted about 9 years ago
#336 PARIS TERRORIST ATTACK in Off Topic

the sheer fact that a not-small number of american shootings in recent years has come from rather militant atheists kinda points out how little religion really has to do with it in the long run. it's just a middle man for their moral justifications at most, and the actual consistency comes in their need to enforce a power structure in their favor long-term

canada is one of the most heavily multi-cultured first-world countries out there, a pretty wide mixture of atheists, muslims and catholic christians from city-to-city... and the only times heavy islamist terrorism came about was in very edge-case scenarios that were either prevented, or quickly contained. on the flip-side, the 60s had a bunch of quebecois nationalist terrorists, who weren't very religious at all

posted about 9 years ago
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