It's pretty racist to lie about it, which you are doing, very knowingly, and fooling no one in the process.

At a glance, it looks like a mix of safe well-established poets and representatives of key groups/issues -- which is not to say that the individual poets and collections aren't deserving, but that it fits my impression of prize culture as primarily a sort of diplomatic/political process.

I don't think most people will interpret it like that. For one, it's well-known that the majority of public expressions of Zionism come from avowed racists and Jewish supremacists. The problem is the effect on those Zionists who quietly hold a more moderate position.

Why did you never think you would say this? You'd say anything to try to maintain the status quo.

Ugh. These all sound frustratingly myopic -- each with a fair point to make that is then given far too much weight.

I was part of a fan mailing list for a British folk singer in September 2001. It was dominated by liberal Americans. After 9/11 my inbox was chock full of rants about carpet-bombing the entire Middle East for weeks.

"Don’t haul me up before a judge, boys; he’ll only try to marry me." Here's a puzzle poem from one of our Hipflasks books.

'AI in general' refers to the category of software we have now. Your hypothetical suffering humanoid robot with desires is in a different category. It's a bit like asking "If this chicken evolved into Prince Vultan from Flash Gordon, would it still be ethical to eat it?"

Yep. The OU's 'philosopher of sport' Jon Pike has hashed out entire articles about what's 'fair' in women's sport, based on selective reading, without ever reflecting on what it means to be 'fair'.

Why does this argument not extend to giving anyone, in any context, an excuse to fire a gun? Aren't police officers and soldiers also confident they are in the right when they shoot at someone?

"parroting idiotic ideologies to remain in with their mates" is practically your job description. It's just missing "stir up lynch mobs".

Ah, your true colours. So much for caring about men's mental health, eh?

I didn't say you were a racist, so this response is about as half-arsed and foolish as the previous one. Why don't you just fuck off altogether and come back when your concern for *anything* is genuine, you tedious ghoul.

If you're not willing to hold people accountable for a racist hounding, then you do not really care about men's mental health at all. You're a fraud, using a serious issue to try to have your day in the sun.