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George Floyd and Dostoevsky

Just an afterthought: I can't help asking myself, why do people hate George Floyd so much that they get themselves blocked in order to besmirch his reputation ? Maybe the answer has been given by Dostoevsky in his The Brothers Karamazov, when he has the old Karamazov say: "I played such a foul trick on a certain man that I started to hate him." If the roots of old racism were economic interests, maybe today's racism is rooted in bad conscience. Rsk6400 (talk) 07:17, 27 April 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Michele Clark

I learned about her when I was reading The Boys on the Bus, where the (iirc) one and only mention of her is the author introducing some random thing she said with "Michelle [sic] Clark, a young, extremely beautiful black reporter from CBS's Chicago Bureau had said [...]" and then in a footnote he says "On December 8, 1972, she was killed in a plane crash at Chicago's Midway Airport". I was like, dang, what a way to memorialize someone: I thought she was hot, then she died. Astrophobe (talk) 04:03, 27 May 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi Generalrelative :) I'm looking to interview people here. Feel free to pass if you're not interested. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 21:46, 3 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thanks for the invite, Clovermoss :) I'll give it some thought. Generalrelative (talk) 04:55, 4 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Noticeboard#POV_claims regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. RBut (talk) 20:26, 6 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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--Lajmmoore (talk) 20:17, 28 December 2023 (UTC) via MassMessagingReply[reply]

Hi Generalrelative. You recently implemented an edit request for Jo Boaler. I thanked you on Talk:Jo Boaler in the context of an additional edit request. I would appreciate if you could go have a look at that request, found here: Talk:Jo Boaler#2021 California Math Framework 2. Thanks in advance, MeanderingWalrus (talk) 17:39, 9 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Heya, looks like STEMinfo got to this first. Best wishes, Generalrelative (talk) 05:32, 10 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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--Lajmmoore (talk 20:09, 28 January 2024 (UTC) via MassMessagingReply[reply]

I'll inflict it on you anyway, here it is:

Never heard of either (guessing you meant to link American Renaissance (magazine)), but according to WP, they are not very similar to Quillette. Unz does say "blog" btw. Fwiw, I wouldn't add either, assuming they're not blacklisted so I could, so maybe our common sense does have some overlap after all. To me, those articles do look awful for this purpose. The Q is just, long, dull, and me-me-me-whiny. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 19:14, 7 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I understand how it might look that way at first glance, but this is why WP is not considered a reliable source. Magazines like American Renaissance just say the quiet part out loud, and editorial oversight at Quillette is clearly well-nigh nonexistent so long as the content fits the right ideological message (they are certainly not doing any fact checking). Generalrelative (talk) 19:47, 7 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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--Lajmmoore (talk 20:22, 25 February 2024 (UTC) via MassMessagingReply[reply]