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Old 08-04-2019, 04:55 PM
 
Location: Croatia and Worldwideweb
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Something tells me that degrasse is going to become a verb. Definition - piling on a famous person over one tweet.
Examples may include something like:
'Oh, man, I'd really like to say it as I see it, but I might be degrassed for it. So, I won't.'
'Please don't degrasse me, but I think that...'
'After he was degrassed, his career went down the toilet'

Public discourse has become downright scary. Pretty soon, people will post only cat videos.
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Old 08-04-2019, 05:13 PM
 
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He's absolutely right.

I struggle in my day to day life not losing patience with stupid people, I'm sure he does too.

Everything is relative.
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Old 08-04-2019, 05:14 PM
 
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Something tells me that degrasse is going to become a verb. Definition - piling on a famous person over one tweet.
Examples may include something like:
'Oh, man, I'd really like to say it as I see it, but I might be degrassed for it. So, I won't.'
'Please don't degrasse me, but I think that...'
'After he was degrassed, his career went down the toilet'

Public discourse has become downright scary. Pretty soon, people will post only cat videos.
The combined IQ of the people attacking him on twitter, beyond the level required to get disability....might total up to him. might.
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Old 08-04-2019, 05:17 PM
 
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He's right, but horrible timing. They should forgive him he's a logical thinker, that is how his mind works.
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Old 08-04-2019, 05:32 PM
 
Location: Suburb of Chicago
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Yes, he was stating facts, but his comment was ill-timed. By taking the focus off of the tragedy in this way, he's downplaying it.

Poor form.
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Old 08-04-2019, 05:42 PM
 
Location: Honolulu/DMV Area/NYC
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Oh come on...I am a white (albeit moderate) liberal and I have no issue with what he said. He might have waited another 24 hours but not going to quibble. He was merely pointing out facts...and we should never let data/facts upset us.
Time and place. Rosie O'Donnell and Oprah are fat. Fact. Do you think its OK to walk up to them and point that out? Islamists have been responsible for the bulk of religion-inspired terrorist attacks as of late and Muhammad married a six year old girl. But I think few people would support going into a mosque on Friday (or any other day) to point that out. Yes, two extreme examples, but we get to the extremes if we start going down that road.
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Old 08-04-2019, 05:57 PM
 
Location: Japan
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While probably not the time to tweet it, he is absolutely right. People are really undereducated on statistics and probabilities in this country.
I wonder how much education can help with that. Many just can't seem to grasp statistics, probabilities, rates, trends, etc. Maybe we need smarter people.
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Old 08-04-2019, 05:58 PM
 
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Quote exactly what he said and his whole statement.
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Old 08-04-2019, 06:00 PM
 
Location: Japan
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Quote exactly what he said and his whole statement.
Or... just click on the link provided?
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Old 08-04-2019, 06:01 PM
 
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Sjws, grab your pitch forks.

Astrophysicist Neil Tyson degrasse who was once accused for sexual misconduct. Neil Tyson crawled himself out of one hole and yet to fall on another. Neil Tyson responded to the mass shootings by adding other issues in which people die within certain times. It looks like moral sjw Twitter mob will come after him again.

https://www.nydailynews.com/entertai...ppi-story.html
How credible are the claims of sexual misconduct against him? Sometimes even if 5 people claim a person raped or sexually assaulted them, each story might not be very credible. However, it is arguably very uncommon for multiple claims of sexual misconduct to occur and each has questionable reliability.
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