[ExI] need a term

[William Flynn Wallace]

It does seem to be the style these days to judge people of the past by the
ethical standards of today.  It is a form of self-righteousness in which
the Victorian nobility indulged itself as well.



spike    * Nothing is so believable to a person than that he is better than
someone else.  As for humor, puns and other word plays are sin-free.   bill
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On Tue, May 2, 2023 at 8:29 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
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> >…Spike, I think you're right. Everything seems to be classed as 'hate
> speech' now, even the most innocent things. Actually, rather than
> 'neo-Victorian', I think a better term might be 'neo-McCarthyism'.
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> I keep wondering if we will get over this, as we did with McCarthyism.
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> >…An Englishman, Irishman and a Scotsman went into a bar.... Oh, hang on,
> can't tell that one, it's hate speech….
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> That opener is still relatively safe.  I don’t think the Brits have taken
> up being offended at everything.  But since you got me started, I heard a
> good one which starts out that way.  Each of gentlemen order a pint but a
> fly comes in and lands in the English lad’s mug.  He pushes it away in
> disgust.  Then a fly lands in the Irishman’s tankard.  He picks out the
> beast, flicks it away and continues drinking as if nothing happened.  Then
> a fly lands in the Scotsman’s grail.  He angrily plucks it out by the wings
> and begins tapping on its back, shouting:  Spit it oot, ya thievin’
> bahstid!”
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> It's even funnier if you can do the accents right.
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> We can still do engineer, physicist, mathematician go to a bar jokes.  For
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> >…Probably safest to just outlaw humour altogether…
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> It’s getting that way it seems.
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> >…Now, about that Facebook post you made 15 years ago...Ben
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> It does seem to be the style these days to judge people of the past by the
> ethical standards of today.  It is a form of self-righteousness in which
> the Victorian nobility indulged itself as well.
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