So you agree the article that thinks she shouldn't be allowed to dance because it's "woke" is wrong at every level. Glad we got there in the end. And no I'm not a person that accuses people of being a "fash gammon nazi". But defining people by how they look and what they believe is the very definition of Nazism.
You are making stuff up again .This does nothing for your credibility. A lie is a lie no matter how much you dress it up in #BeKind #BeNice LET. HER. DANCE . FIN.
I also am saying "let her dance'". And I thought it was already "FIN". It's Allison Pearson (and Twitter *****) who are suggesting that she shouldn't because of how she looks. I'm just saying she is wrong and that view is abhorrent. So we are on the same side. Yes?
Sorry Davy, but this isn’t fair. There is one person on this thread calling others ‘gammons’, yet you don’t call him out on it. And it’s not our ‘mob’ politicising it. We wouldn’t be having the conversation if it wasn’t for Pearson and the Mail/Telegraph readers making it an issue. Disability will always be political when people want to hide it away and call it ‘woke’ when people participate. Rejecting that is not everyone else making it political.
That’s the lowest possible bar. You may as well say that Mein Kampf created a few talking points. A turd left on your desk at work would be a talking point.
You know you could cut people like her to the quick by simply asking them why they think it is appropriate to describe Ellie is disabled, with regard to Strictly. It works wonders on people who see others as disabled, simply because they look different. They'd potentially make themselves seem very bigoted and gammon like by defending their opinion of her abilities, and by quoting 'sporting registers' that prove she's disabled. You were on to a gold mine there
Mrs D watches this sh*te so I get caught up in it whether I want to or not, (I really don't). I have no issues whoever they choose to dance, all the couples looked pretty good to me, but that judge who's overly critical of every single dancer on their early performaces bent over backwards to be nice to Ellie. It was as if to criticise her would be bad for him, which means she's being treated differently, which is quite obviously wrong. On the plus side, Tony Adams got a mauling.
If that is the case then it is definitely wrong of him. The one thing Ellie has made clear is that she doesn't want, or need anyone's pity, and she certainly doesn't need to be patronised by the judges. I'm sure that, should she win, there will be some who claim it's because she got the sympathy vote. She will want to be judged on her dancing, and nothing else, to avoid this. A judge treating her differently, however well intended, is going to damage her credibility and devalue her achievement if she does go on to win.
Stonking show tonight. Tony Adams brilliant fun, Ellie Simmonds very good, Tyler tremendous. Brilliantly diverse show.
This is the actual "Decolonising the thermodynamics curriculum" 'thing'. To me it reads as a piss-poor attempt at trying to do another "Transgressing the Boundaries..." without the skill (believe it or not, it takes a long of hard work and effort to create a constant stream of drivel) nor the wit of Sokal, that's ended up in a blog because it was too rubbish to appear in some journal's Xmas edition. FFS most of the 'wokery' comes not from the author but the author quoting his daughter.
I dunno about that. A cut price coronation is all well and good but Charles strikes me as more of a Lib Dem.
It’s just a blog though, that’s the point. If people can’t muse on problems to the point of mild discomfort in the reader what’s the point of blogs? Proper peer review would see it off at the sharp end. Without question, science can be highly shaped by culture, car safety tests that assume the average passenger is a man, facial recognition systems built on libraries of white faces etc. Physics may seem the most culturally impartial, but then Oppenheimer’s detached and objective enquries saw him, in his own words, to become Death. Japanese folk died, the South Pacific and the Outback irradiated. The last thing we need is colonised science.
In what way is the science colonised? I suspect that the reality of the general sentiment is actually, "we don't want the science colonised by free thought, we'd rather it was controlled to manage the understanding of the prolls." Evidence? Pfizer confirming, to the EU, that no understanding of the effect vaccine's effect on social dissemination of COVID was garnered before the vaccine was mandated to all people. Meaning the authoritarian, arguably extreme left wing, colonisation of COVID science meant that following the science was in fact a matter of following an idealogical whim. Very difficult to argue otherwise, so I imagine the response to anyone discussing this will be "anti-vaxxer!", rather than consideration of the reality.
A triumph for Hamza Yassin, the Sudanese-born wildlife photographer who thrilled with his truly spectacular lifts of his partner Jowita. But what’s this? Spiteful nationalists want to spoil the party by claiming it was a fix by the BBC. Despite it being a public vote. Why would nationalists claim it was a fix when a black guy won? I can’t fathom a reason. GB News contributer June Slater claims wokism. What could be the ‘woke’ element here?
Fun fact, I got asked to go on GB News a couple of weeks ago for Stephen Dixons show (not a clue who he is). Didn't even bother replying, would rather **** in my hands and clap.
Clearly with the public too, as Hamza was always their favourite, never threatened with elimination and the bookies made him odds on to win. Funny how we don’t hear cries of ‘fix’ when white contestants win. You’d think if the patronising white liberals were on their game they’d claim that, but they don’t. They just enjoyed Bill Bailey and Rose Ayling Ellis. Shame some people can’t just enjoy Hamza and Jowita’s fabulous entertainment.
