David BeazleyDeleted my Chuck Norris comment from yesterday--hadn't paid close enough attention to him lately. Ugh. Apologies.
Thomas Svensson 🖖Same here. Had no idea he went of the chart that bad either.
cobratbq - cranky-by-design@tsvenson @dabeaz "off the chart"? I didn't see his movies, I think. I know of the many jokes representing him as some ultimate force. (Which seems to always come with positive connotation.) I know he died recently. I didn't hear from him otherwise, or his activities in last decade or so. What am I missing?
@tsvenson @dabeaz hmm.. didn't hear about that. Without an explanation in his own words, I wouldn't judge. Considering how extreme the left got with ideas such as the (contemporary) wokeness, which I think fails to hit the goal they long for, you don't quite know which underlying principles are guiding his motivation.
You can find a few example in the Political Views section here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Norris#Political_views
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neoludditeThat's more than me then, since until after he died I wasn't aware my childhood favorite hade developed a different map at older age. So got a bit stunned learning about that.
@neoluddite @tsvenson @dabeaz nope, that's short-sighted conclusion.
I criticize current "woke climate" because their insistence on rules seem to fail to hit the goals they seem to strive for.
I did not say that I did not want to judge the far right. I said I do not have a good impression on his political views in onder to know whether to consider it far right, because with the extremity of the left, a lot of right views are now considered "extreme". I would want to hear it in his words.
I criticize current "woke climate" because their insistence on rules seem to fail to hit the goals they seem to strive for.
I did not say that I did not want to judge the far right. I said I do not have a good impression on his political views in onder to know whether to consider it far right, because with the extremity of the left, a lot of right views are now considered "extreme". I would want to hear it in his words.
@cobratbq @tsvenson @dabeaz he wrote a large number of pro-conservative, pro-religious opinion columns railing against Obama, gay people, black people, abortion, atheists, agnostics and anyone else who didn't agree with conservative values.
http://www.ammoland.com/2012/06/is-obama-creating-a-pro-gay-boy-scouts-of-america/
https://web.archive.org/web/20151130020824/http://www.ammoland.com/authors/chuck-norris/
@neoluddite @tsvenson @dabeaz the page is (now) unavailable. If that's true about black people, gay people, obama, etc. That is indeed rather extreme. I would be curious to know where that rationale is coming from, but I find it hard to imagine he would be able to justify all that with mild rationale.