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sadmanbarty said:

this is what i mean about the monkey wanking in the zoo thing.

those threads weren't just stupid provocations, the multicultural one in particular was incredibly nuanced and could have been really interesting, but they were shit because everyone decided it was just childish contrarianism and didn't engage with them at all.

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I liked this. You can poke holes in it, but I liked the distinction between a question/problem and an interrogation;



It's only about ten minutes but, if you can't be arsed to watch it, he basically says most of what you get on TV, say, political programming, is interrogation. It's someone being asked their opinion. Someone being asked whether they believe in God is an interrogation and not very interesting. A question/problem would be "Will you be judged after dying? Is God a judge?".