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Zargon
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Lorca, being a powerful white man is straight. He is a manly man that likes women, an Official White Male Trait. There is noting in the show that even suggests he likes anything but women like that little security chief woman or admiral lady....or for way back in like 100th place Michele.

And Lorca liking the "childlike" Mikey is just the classic rub of "all others except white males are hapless children".

And, well, Normal White Men, don't believe in your gray mush. Lorca thinks he is "right", as any powerful, secure, intelligent, dominant, person does. All the lables for what is good and bad are on you...not people like Lorca. He is not a villain to only your peer group of liberals, but he is deluded into thinking he is the hero: that's a whole false philosophy your side made.
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Not having the easiest time following this.
I may represent an entire race of artificial lifeforms. If so there could be home planet for others of my kind. A shared history and culture I'm not presently aware of.
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Zargon wrote: Sun Sep 27, 2020 5:19 pm Lorca, being a powerful white man is straight. He is a manly man that likes women, an Official White Male Trait. There is noting in the show that even suggests he likes anything but women like that little security chief woman or admiral lady....or for way back in like 100th place Michele.

And Lorca liking the "childlike" Mikey is just the classic rub of "all others except white males are hapless children".

And, well, Normal White Men, don't believe in your gray mush. Lorca thinks he is "right", as any powerful, secure, intelligent, dominant, person does. All the lables for what is good and bad are on you...not people like Lorca. He is not a villain to only your peer group of liberals, but he is deluded into thinking he is the hero: that's a whole false philosophy your side made.
Well, if these "Normal White Men" don't believe in the "gray mush", then - I hate to break it to you - they're not normal. They might be white men, but they're deeply disturbed.

And if Lorca would've been "intelligent", he would've re-evaluated his live in the empire, once he crossed the bridge to the other universe, because he would've known, that he had gotten a second chance.

But no, he decided, that he wanted to return and overthrow the emperor, which led to him being impaled and falling into the mycelion network.
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Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: Sat Sep 26, 2020 8:11 pm
Madner Kami wrote: Sat Sep 26, 2020 11:53 am
Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: Sat Sep 26, 2020 6:41 am "Judeo-Christian" isn't a thing. Just ask a Jewish person. There's Christianity, there's Judaism, and there's the three Abrahamic faiths of Judaism, Christianty, and Islam.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messianic_Judaism#Modern-day_Messianic_Judaism_movement,_1960s_onwards
That's one syncretic sub-sect. The vast majority of Jewish People really hate the term "judeo-Christian" as it erases the long, long history of anti-semitic persecution by Christian institutions.
That's one way to look upon it. Another is its use is to focus on the commonalities of the two religions rather than their differences to help stop further antagonism.

Its a rough think for many Jews to fathom, but the Holocaust made a lot of Christian, especially in the Anglosphere, reconsider whatever latent prejudice they have facing what people with real hate for Jews could do.

There has been genuine desires to make amends. I can understand the suspicions, but I fear that window since WWII is now closing on both ends.

Regardless, there are commonalities Judaism and Christianity hold to warrant the term, just as there are between it and Islam to warrant Judeo-Islamic is anyone wants to use such a term.
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