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Re: Chuck Norris has died

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Post by SilverElfin »

lich_king wrote: post #47
bovermyer wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He had some pretty awful views that he was pretty loud about, especially later in life. He also cheated on his wife at one point. However, so as not to speak (purely) ill of the dead, I will say that he was an accomplished martial artist with a prolific film career.

> He had some pretty awful views that he was pretty loud about, especially later in life. He also cheated on his wife at one point. In 1961, in his early 20s. You get ~80 years on this planet to make mistakes and have views that some other people will dislike. If these are the worst things we can accuse him of, while acknowledging all his charitable work, I'd say he fared OK compared to many other role models we have…

Apparently much more recently too:

https://www.thepinknews.com/2021/01/13/chuck-norris-homophob...

Turns out he was a MAGA Christian homophobe. That’s … disappointing. But I guess I was naive to expect something different.

Re: Chuck Norris has died

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Post by RIMR »

bovermyer wrote: post #17
philipallstar wrote: post #2

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He had some pretty awful views that he was pretty loud about, especially later in life. He also cheated on his wife at one point. However, so as not to speak (purely) ill of the dead, I will say that he was an accomplished martial artist with a prolific film career.

"Don't speak ill of the dead"?

How about "Don't be a bad person when you're alive"?

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Post by alias_neo »

willio58 wrote: post #31

There was a period of like 2 years when I was a kid where chuck Norris jokes were all the rage on the playground and I made an iPhone app that listed them all. Jokes like “Chuck Norris is able to slam a revolving door.” Anyway, I “built” this stupid app when I was like 13, copy-pasted like 300 jokes in there and a random one would show every time you tapped the screen. Chuck Norris’s estate blocked the app from going…

I'm pretty sure they were all the rage when _I_ was at school, but that was long before the iPhone.

I'm curious on what grounds they blocked the app.

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Post by Insanity »

Oh wow, coincidentally I watched a Chuck Norris film recently with my (90 year old) grandmother, which resulted in me diving down a bunch of Chuck Norris memes for the first time in more than a decade.

RIP

Re: Chuck Norris has died

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Post by krapp »

markus_zhang wrote: post #36

Oh this guy is a legend. Did he do anything with tech peripherally? I hope we can put up a dark top for him as an exception.

Not even every important influential person in tech gets the black bar. You think an actor who is mostly known for low-effort internet memes and pretending to be a cowboy on tv deserves it?

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Post by claytongulick »

praptak wrote: post #50
sys32768 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair, you probably have some views some people think are pretty awful.

I don't see how this matters. Whoever thinks I'm horrible is 100% allowed to say this after I'm dead.

Or, another option is that we could all give grace to others, even (especially) if they disagree with us.

Re: Chuck Norris has died

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Post by bovermyer »

RIMR wrote: post #52
bovermyer wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He had some pretty awful views that he was pretty loud about, especially later in life. He also cheated on his wife at one point. However, so as not to speak (purely) ill of the dead, I will say that he was an accomplished martial artist with a prolific film career.

"Don't speak ill of the dead"? How about "Don't be a bad person when you're alive"?

Something I was brought up to believe was that you shouldn't speak ill of the recently deceased. A courtesy to those in mourning.

I struggle with that rule sometimes.

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