Race blind casting is bad unless Supernatural does it

Race blind casting is bad unless Supernatural does it (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/am36kj/race_blind_casting_is_bad_unless_supernatural/)

posted on February 01, 2019 03:33 PM by u/FormerRationalist35

Link. I will never understand these people. SPN is probably the most inclusive and least racist show on TV, and somehow they bring it into the culture war. RIP Sam and Dean. Rationalists are analyzing your show.

But to be serious for a second. How the hell can these idiots read the same books and same nerdy stuff and come to these opinions? That is what pisses me off the most about these people. Like, how are you going to read Wheel of Time and become a Nazi?

u/G0ldunDrak0n 18 points at 1549051601.000000

But to be serious for a second. How the hell can these idiots read the same books and same nerdy stuff and come to these opinions? That is what pisses me off the most about these people. Like, how are you going to read Wheel of Time and become a Nazi?

This is something I think about probably way too much. As far as I can tell, in terms of lived experience, I have more in common with those guys than with most of the people who have the same opinions as me. So where did our paths fork?

For now, it remains a mystery to me.

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u/PTI_brabanson 12 points at 1549084009.000000

>As far as I can tell, in terms of lived experience, I have more in common with those guys than with most of the people who have the same opinions as me. What lived experience? Being a middle class white nerd? There are shitload of us in almost every ideology. There are leftists, liberals, libertarians, you name it, with the same stereotypical nerdy interests.

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u/veronicastraszh 10 points at 1549053329.000000

Decency and character?

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u/Snugglerific 15 points at 1549046901.000000

You have to remember these are all the same people that read Douglas Hofstadter and then became singularitarians.

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u/noactuallyitspoptart 11 points at 1549057674.000000

Aside: there's a great comment from somebody in cog sci or something in a thread on Hofstadter on /r/askphilosophy. Speaking to some friends/colleagues who know the guy personally, they ask them, "so what *do* you think of his stuff"? The reply is glorious, even paraphrased: "He's not bad, but on the other hand yeah I also had ideas for breakfast"

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u/noactuallyitspoptart 6 points at 1549036376.000000

You abbreviated the word “Supernatural” to “SPN”?

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u/chimaeraUndying 16 points at 1549039896.000000

That's been the de-facto abbreviation for it for years now, I believe.

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u/noactuallyitspoptart -13 points at 1549039979.000000

> [Actual Serial Killer type shit](https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/am36kj/race_blind_casting_is_bad_unless_supernatural/efj3p97/?context=2)

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u/chimaeraUndying 10 points at 1549040059.000000

I'm honestly not sure what you mean by/are referencing with that (or why you linked to a comment you made that's, like, directly above mine...)

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u/noactuallyitspoptart -10 points at 1549041011.000000

I mean that the abbreviation is Actual Serial Killer type shit, not sure what's supposed to be unclear about any part of this conversation

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u/chimaeraUndying 19 points at 1549041444.000000

I can't tell if you're referring to some piece of media/information that's named Actual Serial Killer, associating the abbreviation of Supernatural to SPN as the behavior of someone who's an "actual serial killer" and using capitalization for emphasis, or anything else that could fly over my head but I can't identify.

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u/DELETED -4 points at 1549041917.000000

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u/LaoTzusGymShoes 41 points at 1549054872.000000

> and continuing to prosecute the other end of this surreal conversation. Well, it's worth pointing out that the shit you're saying doesn't make any fuckin' sense.

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u/Action_Bronzong 11 points at 1549153194.000000

Get some rest dude

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u/chimaeraUndying 6 points at 1549043138.000000

Thank you for clarifying.

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u/chopsaver 4 points at 1549235218.000000

lel how do you feel about physicists abbreviating supersymmetry as SUSY? I guess if Actual Serial Killers came up with the abbreviation it would be SPSM, which... oh boy

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u/dgerard 4 points at 1549125419.000000

it's been the abbreviation the fans have used for many years

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u/noactuallyitspoptart 3 points at 1549126130.000000

I'm standing by my principles as expressed elsewhere in this thread

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u/ughmaybedont 12 points at 1549134063.000000

I respect your principles though I don't understand them.

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u/rnykal 3 points at 1549039359.000000

they did it in the linked thread too, weird.

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