Rescuing British English

[Boru62]

It's possibly related to political culture - the laisse-faire ideology that affected us in the UK in the first half of the 19th century as the wealthy failed to comprehend the massive effects of the Industrial Revolution was exported to the US just as the Settlers were heading West and trying to make a living in very hostile conditions. As a result, their politics have never really developed from that point; too many Americans think it's still the 1840s and all their problems can be solved with firearms and hard work.

While Europe understood in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that industrialisation, the flow of people from rural areas to the cities and their consequent reliance upon rented housing and pay meant that the old certainties that those who lived in poverty were almost certainly in that situation as a result of their own failings were no longer applicable, which led to such legislation as the Public Health Act of 1875 and the State Pension in the early 20th century, the United States still holds that idea to be true. Of course, they also have been told that anyone can become vastly wealthy if only they work hard enough (a demonstrable load of guff as someone still has to collect the rubbish and clean the streets, and printing enough money to pay them a huge salary would lead to rampant inflation), so their love of the wealthy and hatred of those in poverty is understandable if regrettable.

It makes some sense, especially if you factor in the fact that Europe expelled some of it's more puritanical religious sects, where god decides your station in life.

 

[JohnnyO]

With that, I announce my resignation from political opinion on this forum!

Sooner or later ( I'm guessing sooner ) some preposterous, outrageous or quite excessively bigoted assertion will rattle your cage Chris and common decency will compel you to comment.

JohnnyO. o/

 

[Francorelli]

Is TSR really the place for homophobia?

I hope not Chris. Thankfully the offender has been quiet after his last outburst. I suspect he got a little over-excited and then realised he'd finally shot himself in the foot.

 

[chrisbell]

Sooner or later ( I'm guessing sooner ) some preposterous, outrageous or quite excessively bigoted assertion will rattle your cage Chris and common decency will compel you to comment.

JohnnyO. o/

I shall desist, Johnny. I'm unable to allow myself to join the aggressive, hate-filled zeitgeist but I'm going to try not to let myself notice it.

 

[Bogeyman]

I hope not Chris. The offender has certainly been quiet after his last outburst. I suspect he got a little over-excited and then realised he'd finally shot himself in the foot.

Hardly. It's so sad as to be comical as I watch those who belittle someone who even mentions homosexuality in any form other than glowing acceptance when they have through their own ignorance welcomed with open arms a veritable ocean of immigrants who put these people to the sword if not worse.

There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.

Proverbs 14:12

 

[chris.hale]

While I have never heard of John Maynard Keynes and am therefore unqualified to comment on his moral fibre, I would like to echo the sentiment that his sexuality is as irrelevant as his eye colour.

 

[chris.hale]

belittle someone who even mentions homosexuality in any form other than glowing acceptance

I think you'll find you were belittled for mentioning his homosexuality in what was clearly a derogatory manner. You don't have to talk in glowing acceptance just not be a bigot.

 

[Francorelli]

Hardly. It's so sad as to be comical as I watch those who belittle someone who even mentions homosexuality in any form other than glowing acceptance when they have through their own ignorance welcomed with open arms a veritable ocean of immigrants who put these people to the sword if not worse

And he doubles down...

 

[nick_s]

Thread closed, clearly way off the point, and broaching subjects that the rules and general decency forbid.