Gaz

UOW Ancient History and Archaeology, sports and music fan, reader, not a fan of extremist ideologies of the left or right.

[Gaz @GMaidman]

@Quillette @clairlemon Voltaire anyone?

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@michaeljknowles Or like 99% of the professors in the university I studied at, insisted you call them by their given name. Again, not pretentious. If I had to email them, I would call them their proper title and then when they signed out with their given name, I would then start using that.

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@Conserv84862681 @TinaBastock The fine comes from the same department as the police.

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@Conserv84862681 @TinaBastock Exactly. And people CAN curse, but there are consequences to that. You don't get cancelled, but you get a citation by the police.

[Dan Crenshaw @DanCrenshawTX]

The final relief bill should include the Restaurants Act. These are our hardest hit business. Our bars, restaurants, food trucks, and catering services have been decimated by foolish lockdowns. We need to help them.

Retweet if you agree. Show that this is bipartisan.

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@Conserv84862681 @bones_neon @alangrai Yes, I am a believer in freedom of speech. I believe everyone has a right to say what they want. They have to bear those consequences, but they still have the right to say it. If you don't like what someone is saying, it isn't intended for you in the first place, imo.

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@Conserv84862681 @damegus @ATimLong No, I'm talking to the person who said there are studies and papers, without cited the studies or papers.

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@TinaBastock @Conserv84862681 I'm sorry, I don't know what part of Australia you are from, but where I'm from, that is not the case at all. There is absolutely such a thing as freedom of speech here. The fact that we can criticise our politicians, which we do, shows that there is freedom of speech.

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@bones_neon @Conserv84862681 @alangrai That statement is everything except the last bit. Everyone should have the right to say anything they like, wherever and whenever they like. They should be responsible for their comments and bear the consequences. However, not by the cancel culture mob.

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@damegus @Conserv84862681 @ATimLong What papers are these? Are they peer-reviewed? If so, link them.

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@AfriAussie @Anthonywodillon Like you, I despise racism, but I will not apologise for past indiscretions of people hundreds of years ago that I have never met. I don't need to actively denounce racism to be against racism. I also believe that this segregation going on now is the most racist practice around.

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@AfriAussie @Anthonywodillon Yeah that is hardcore, but your grandmother is/was also a woman of her times. As an historian, one thing I can't do is judge people of the past through current times. Going back to the British, they were slave traders in one period of time, but another period were slaves.

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@Anthonywodillon I used to be one of the ignorant people and thought all Aboriginal people were the same. Whenever I am in contact with an Aboriginal person, I ask what nation they are from, because how I see it, saying Aboriginal is equivalent to saying European, as there are many nations.

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@Bonza10853924 @Anthonywodillon At the end of the day, it's just another way of saying the same thing. When we say Aboriginal, we think of Australian Aboriginals, but all indigenous people are actually aboriginal. Even Ancient Romans, who are indigenous to that part of the world, are aboriginal.

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@AfriAussie @Anthonywodillon I agree mate. I'm never afraid to ask people where they are from because I believe racism is borne of ignorance and because I am genuinely interested. If they are Polynesian, I ask where they are from and then tell them my parents are English, so that makes me an Islander too.

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@MattWalshBlog Like for instance each year in the period of 541 til 549CE and then again from 1346 til 1353CE, both bubonic plague pandemics known as the Justinian Plague (541-549CE) and the Black Death (1346-1353CE), in which up to half of the population perished. Those were worst years ever.

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@WWEPPorn Wow, just wow.

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@RobSchneider I could see Deuce Bigelow doing this.

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@iheartmindy You forgot chauvinistic.

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@ToBeMiro @FCFBeasts @fcflio @MikeTyson @MoneyLynch How did Real Madrid go against Shakhtar? ;)