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Opera Foundation Removes Trustee Over Offensive Comments
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| July 22, 2020
| Sarah Bahr
Posted on 07/22/2020 6:29:30 AM PDT by Stravinsky
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To: Stravinsky
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is, indeed, a revolutionary act.
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posted on
07/22/2020 6:32:13 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(You are in far greater danger from authoritarian government than you are from a seasonal virus.)
To: Stravinsky
The comments are only “racially charged” if you assume that blacks exhibit higher than population average criminality.
Which, everyone knows they do, especially in the looting outbreaks. But, as George Carlin said, it’s one of those things everyone knows but you can’t say.
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
There is scarcely a more "white adjacent" thing than opera.
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posted on
07/22/2020 6:36:20 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Stravinsky
I believe it was Voltaire who said something like "To understand who rules you, ask yourself whom you are not allowed to criticize."
How much longer are we going to allow ourselves to be ruled by this PC lynch mob?
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posted on
07/22/2020 6:36:41 AM PDT
by
IronJack
To: Stravinsky
There was no "race" in the comment. Also. I was under the impression that most of the violence in Washington and Oregon was Antifa, "maybe with BLM, but still, mostly white. So the singer was black...what a stretch to make the Trump comment about the singer.🙄
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posted on
07/22/2020 6:37:46 AM PDT
by
madison10
To: Stravinsky
The statements were not racist nor were they racially charged.
He should sue for this libel against him.
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posted on
07/22/2020 6:37:50 AM PDT
by
Skywise
To: Stravinsky
No dissent. Resistance is futile.
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posted on
07/22/2020 6:39:03 AM PDT
by
joshua c
To: Stravinsky
If you resist the revolution (which can hardly wait to change opera into a dreary tool of propaganda), you will be labeled racist.
The Left is over-playing its hand. People will not stand for much more of this.
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posted on
07/22/2020 6:41:43 AM PDT
by
Romulus
To: Stravinsky
Here are the offensive words that got him fired: “Bravo to Trump to send in Federal troops.”
Saying anything positive about Trump is now a crime, and it gets you fired.
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posted on
07/22/2020 6:43:41 AM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(BLM is a violent marxist movement designed to overthrow the US constitutional form of government.)
To: Stravinsky
Anybody notice that the NYT style book now apparently requires an upper case B when referring to a black person?
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posted on
07/22/2020 6:43:58 AM PDT
by
clintonh8r
(Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth.)
To: clintonh8r
upper case B when referring to a black person?
Black with a capital B!
How white of them.
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posted on
07/22/2020 6:47:46 AM PDT
by
DUMBGRUNT
("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
To: clintonh8r
That’s changing all over. Capitalize black, but not white. Their agenda is obvious.
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posted on
07/22/2020 6:49:20 AM PDT
by
Stravinsky
(Politeness will not defeat the Marxist revolutionaries)
To: IronJack
“How much longer are we going to allow ourselves to be ruled by this PC lynch mob?”
I think this is entirely up to the individual. If you fear saying what you feel, that is on you. When people take a stand and push back it will stop but if we allow it it will continue and worsen.
What this man said was absolutely factual and in no way racist. I only hope he does not see fit to apologize.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is, indeed, a revolutionary act. As truthful a pithy maxim as has ever been uttered. Furthermore, telling the truth, today, will get you fired from your job.
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posted on
07/22/2020 6:58:41 AM PDT
by
Thommas
To: clintonh8r
an upper case B when referring to a black person and a lower case "w" when referring to White people.
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posted on
07/22/2020 7:01:55 AM PDT
by
Thommas
To: Thommas
The great analysts of truth and language in politics---writes McGill University political philosophy professor Jacob T. Levy---including George Orwell, Hannah Arendt, Vaclav Havelcan help us recognize this kind of lie for what it is....
Saying something obviously untrue, and making your subordinates repeat it with a straight face in their own voice, is a particularly startling display of power over them. Its something that was endemic to totalitarianism.
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posted on
07/22/2020 7:07:44 AM PDT
by
cgbg
(Masters don't want slaves talking about masters and slaves.)
To: Stravinsky
Truth is the stake through the Heart of the Left
To: Stravinsky
To: Stravinsky
More obvious is the spoken support for Trump. Certainly that is grounds for banishment.
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posted on
07/22/2020 7:40:05 AM PDT
by
Sir Bangaz Cracka
(Slamming dat white cracka'a head into dat sidewalk causin he be scared)
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