Patrick Metzger

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• Commented on A Lesson on Blackface
  I mostly just like to argue. However, my overall view is that just because something offends you (or me or my dog or Rush Limbaugh) is insufficient reason to explicitly or tacitly stop people from doing it. Let's face it;...
• Commented on A Lesson on Blackface
  I would let a dog eat off my plate, but not if he were in blackface....
• Commented on A Lesson on Blackface
  Here's my thought - be offended when something actually causes harm, not because it's vaguely reminiscent of some nasty historical oddity that only fans of early 20th century music hall comedy, nostalgic racists, and the perpetually oppressed give a damn...
• Commented on Drop Fees, End Poverty! And Also Do All These Other Things!
  I was going to use "remarkable" or "incandescent" to describe the quote but I didn't want to gush. My point is that since no reasonable person would expect this absurd, unwieldy mess of a protest to achieve any useful outcome,...
• Commented on Drop Fees, End Poverty! And Also Do All These Other Things!
  These events always remind me of PJ O'Rourke's excellent description of participants an anti-homelessness rally from Parliament of Whores (although we could make appropriate adjustments for the Canadian setting adn the 20 years since he wrote): "The demonstrators seemed to...