That's the best outcome. Who can say America deserves to be world leader anymore? It's a cruel arrogant country that heartily enjoys bullying the world. The best revenge would be the world passing up the hated oppressors and rendering them impotent, left to stew on their own continent. No more bombing, no more ridiculous IP patent system to lock up ideas, no more police brutality and racism. It's for the best.
It's about time we had a true multipolar world instead of the American bully telling everyone what they can and can't do. This arrogance has been pissing a lot of people off for a long time and the applause will be long and loud as we get our comeuppance. Finally the world will get to keep its smart people to benefit their own instead of having them stolen away by the evil empire.
How is this just? How on earth are these other countries ever supposed to get ahead while we rob them off their best and brightest? We cherry pick while their people suffer under tyrants because all the people capable of resisting already left for America. It's high time this robbery came to a halt.
Distrust the people! Comrades, we must place our trust in universities and institutions that we know don't have our best interests at heart. Don't believe anyone but credentialed experts! Report all suspicious citizens to the authorities. War is peace, slavery is freedom. Don't forget hate week starts next Wednesday.
"My side"? WTF? Both of those weren't Republicans and neither am I. What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone on the internet is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Hollywood is rallying behind the fugitive filmmaker. Top filmmakers are signing a pro-Polanski petition, Whoopi Goldberg says the director didn't really commit rape, and Debra Winger complains "the whole art world suffers" in such arrests.
More than 100 industry leaders and prominent authors -- including directors Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Michael Mann, Mike Nichols, Woody Allen and Neil Jordan -- have signed a petition asking that Polanski be released from Swiss custody. "Filmmakers in France, in Europe, in the United States and around the world are dismayed by this decision," the petition says.
Random scumbags on the right always represent everybody you disagree with, but when an asshole from Black Lives Matters murders five cops or a Muslim blows somebody up, they are anomalies and we shouldn't paint with a broad brush.
The Bernie Sanders supporter who attempted to murder a dozen or so Republican Senators and Congressman left us no possible doubt about his motivation. In a March 12th post on his Facebook page, he wrote.
"Trump is a Traitor. Trump Has Destroyed Our Democracy. It's Time To Destroy Trump & Co."
Now, it must be admitted that his reasoning isn't actually all that bad. If the President really is a traitor and, if he is literally destroying our democracy, then it's not unreasonable to think that violent action might be warranted. So, his inference isn't really what's crazy here. It's, rather, the ideas from which he derived it that are the problem.
So, where did he get these crazy ideas? Well, let's see. Here's a March 7th Newsweek headline from a piece by President Clinton's Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich: Is Trump a Traitor or a Paranoid? Former MSNBC commentator Keith Olbermann, Democratic propogandist Michael Moore, and venerable Democratic wise man Bill Moyers have all explicitly called the President a traitor. And, of course, the list of Democratic celebrities and politicians who have accused the President of serving Russian interests without necessarily using the word "traitor" would be very long indeed.
There can be no real debate about where exactly James Hodgkinson got the ideas that made trying to murder a dozen Republican politicians seem not totally unreasonable. He got them from perfectly mainstream political and intellectual leaders of the Democratic party. Anyone with half a brain knew all along that it was only a matter of time before someone started taking their manipulative nonsense seriously, as well as the horrific results that would ensue.
Why hasn't Twitter taken away these people's blue checkmarks?
I can see where he would feel vindicated," K. C. Johnson said. "His basic take on the case proved to be correct, and he was right in a way that the establishment media was not. It took a lot of guts to do what he did."
It's not like people weren't warning about this decades ago.
"What the commission is concerned about are the unskilled workers in our society in an age in which unskilled workers have far too few opportunities open to them. When immigrants are less well-educated and less-skilled, they may pose economic hardships to the most vulnerable of Americans, particularly those who are unemployed or under-employed."
Academic philosophers have finally found a line they're willing to hold against the discipline's social justice contingent.
They hadn't reached the line yet when bloggers started brigading against conferences where only male invitees had accepted invitations.
They hadn't reached the line yet when critical theorists derided top programs as "hostile to women" while making excuses for covering up sexual harassment in purportedly more progressive departments.
They hadn't reached the line yet when the American Philosophical Association advised professors at the University of Colorado not to criticize feminist philosophy on campus or at off-campus department events.
They hadn't reached the line yet when academic "advocates" cowed prominent philosophers into writing struggle-session apologies or including phrases like "I think I am a good ally" â" in papers about fundamental metaphysics.
But now Hypatia, a journal of feminist philosophy with explicitly activist goals, has seemingly disavowed a paper comparing claims about racial identity to claims about gender identity, and philosophers seem to have had enough.
1.We have compelling reasons to accept the identity claims of transgender individuals.
Transracial identification is relevantly similar or analogous to transgender identification.
The reasons commonly given for not accepting transracial identification are either not compelling or not relevant.
From 1, 2, and 3, the balance of reasons compels us to accept the identity claims of transracial individuals.
If the balance of reasons compels us to accept something, we should accept it.
From 4 and 5, we should accept the identity claims of transracial individuals.
Trans-exclusionary positions are actually quite popular among the reigning generation of feminist philosophers, who often hew to Simone de Beauvoir's dictum that "gender is the social meaning of sex." Sally Haslanger, the most notorious feminist metaphysician and a leader of several online mobs in her own right, gives an account of gender that both explicitly analogizes it to race and seems to have trans-exclusionary implications. (Tuvel adapts her theory in one part of the paper.) One wonders why the purported opponents of power would attack a young assistant professor at a small school in Tennessee rather than the most prominent writer in the field and a fixture on the faculty at MIT. Tuvel's article does not just jeopardize someone's career, but entire industries.
The utter reasonableness of race self-identification highlights the insanity of gender self-identity and thus simultaneously destroys both the race industry and the gender industry. This is why the reaction was so strong, and why no argument may be permitted.
It's not imaginary - WTF? It's mainstream. It's everywhere. Reason is Eurocentric and has been used to dominate other people, so we must go away from reason in a more subjective direction.
Criticizing Enlightenment thought has become fashionable across the political spectrum. For the past several decades, more and more academics have called reason into question, especially the sort of rationalist worldview that emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
This is especially true among left-leaning, postmodern, and post-structuralist thinkers.
"Historically, white supremacy has venerated the idea of objectivity, and wielded a dichotomy of 'subjectivity vs. objectivity' as a means of silencing oppressed peoples," the writers opined. "The idea that there is a single truth - 'the Truth' - is a construct of the Euro-West that is deeply rooted in the Enlightenment, which was a movement that also described Black and Brown people as both subhuman and impervious to pain."
"This construction is a myth fand white supremacy, imperialism, colonization, capitalism, and the United States of America are all of its progeny," the students maintained. "The idea that the truth is an entity for which we must search, in matters that endanger our abilities to exist in open spaces, is an attempt to silence oppressed peoples."
You don't know the arguments, do you? You call yourself educated? The Enlightenment legacy can be seen all around us: individualism, international commerce and trade, moral cosmopolitanism, freedom of the press and a culture of publicity, technological modernity, the valorization of expertise, and on and on. All of these are bogeymen to the Left and they wish to free our society from their oppression.
The concept of "race" was birthed by the Enlightenment. Before that, there wasn't any racism, just Christians and heathens. But the white man came up with the idea there is "objective truth" and used it to oppress peoples of color. The Enlightenment's ontology, rooted in the new science of the 17th century, created a vision of human beings in nature which provided weapons to a new race-based ideology which would have been impossible without the Enlightenment.
The entire idea behind today's Left-wing thought is that there is no objective truth, only differing points of view, all equally valid. For example, there is no valid genetic basis for human intelligence, there are merely different kinds of intelligence. Native Americans do poorly at intelligence tests designed for whites, but excel at tests designed to measure storytelling intelligence.
White supremacy as enabled by the Enlightenment is most commonly conceptualized as a way for lower-class whites to feel socially superior to people from other ethnic backgrounds. More important, though, white supremacy is a tried-and-tested means for upper class whites to grow their wealth and power. This thought is all over the place on the Left and I am astonished that you are not familiar with it.
Truth is a social construction, a function of the power and position - or lack thereof - of persons or groups in society. Not some white male-invented "science".
Sure, and the fact that they're newsworthy proves my point. We used to eat maggoty bread, rotten meat, and drink brackish water all the time. The idea that food must be squeaky clean before eating is simply wrong. In fact, if food is too clean, our awesome immune system doesn't have anything to fight against, so we develop allergies. A toddler in New York City just died because someone gave him half a grilled cheese sandwich.
Sure it is! I used to believe humans could get sick from almost anything. But then, I went overseas and discovered a new life. In Eastern Europe, they take dinner, cover it on the table, and keep it overnight without any refrigeration. The next day, they heat it up and eat it again, and don't get sick. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes. In Asia, they do the same thing, keep food out for 12 hours unrefrigerated and then eat it the next day. They don't get sick, I watched them. And even a few times ate the food myself (they didn't tell me, I found out afterwards).
Our immune systems are fantastic things and do an outstanding job of keeping us free of illness. It's just today's ridiculous fear-mongering and paranoia that tells us we must have squeaky-clean food, all the time every day. Honestly it's a problem to live in too-clean environment, our immune systems were developed to constantly fight off infection and without an enemy to fight they find one, which makes us allergic. 20 years ago no kids at my school were allergic to peanuts, not a single one. But today, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich will get your kid expelled because it is a deadly peril to all the other children.
OK Grandpa. Time for your medication, the nurse will be around soon. Those bad kids won't bother you any more and you can stop telling stories where you beat them up. All the staff believes you, Grandpa!
Well, that's pretty damn useless without a definition of "business English". If you're not "in business", and most people aren't, you'll never use it. How useful is it to describe an obscure dialect used only in an international context, something that only a tiny minority of people will ever experience?
So, so wrong. Humans are omnivores, we can eat just about anything without getting sick. Our immune systems are voracious monsters, capable of beating back just about anything. Even vegetables cut on the same cutting board as raw chicken, just like my grandmother did her whole life. Speaking of vegetables, they are better than they've ever been today, hundreds of years ago they were tiny and almost flavorless. Apples were the size of today's plums. A serious case of silly looking backwards and assuming anything that came before today must have been horribly wrong.
Way to totally miss the point of what I was saying. Butt out of other countries' racial problems, foreigner. You can't read minds and you're lying if you say you can. If you're going to spout alt-right bullshit like ". I'm not smart because I'm white, I'm smart because I actually thought about things and planned ahead" then go ahead and jump off a bridge, the human race will be improved by your absence.
I'm pretty certain he meant uninformed tight-arses, not a specific race.
Wow, your telepathy is amazing. Tell us how you can read minds like that! Judging by your weird nonstandard spelling, you come from a country without the legacy of Jim Crow, and thus have no idea what you're talking about. Pro TIP: shut the fuck up when you want to say anything about racial issues you have no idea about.
WOW. What's it like, being that well off? Damn, people I know are begging for extra shifts just to pay off Obamacare. Or they just break the law and do without. I lack the ability to imagine what it must be like to have everything you want and lack for nothing. This is what Dickensian London must have been like for the upper classes.
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That's the best outcome. Who can say America deserves to be world leader anymore? It's a cruel arrogant country that heartily enjoys bullying the world. The best revenge would be the world passing up the hated oppressors and rendering them impotent, left to stew on their own continent. No more bombing, no more ridiculous IP patent system to lock up ideas, no more police brutality and racism. It's for the best.
It's about time we had a true multipolar world instead of the American bully telling everyone what they can and can't do. This arrogance has been pissing a lot of people off for a long time and the applause will be long and loud as we get our comeuppance. Finally the world will get to keep its smart people to benefit their own instead of having them stolen away by the evil empire.
How is this just? How on earth are these other countries ever supposed to get ahead while we rob them off their best and brightest? We cherry pick while their people suffer under tyrants because all the people capable of resisting already left for America. It's high time this robbery came to a halt.
Distrust the people! Comrades, we must place our trust in universities and institutions that we know don't have our best interests at heart. Don't believe anyone but credentialed experts! Report all suspicious citizens to the authorities. War is peace, slavery is freedom. Don't forget hate week starts next Wednesday.
"My side"? WTF? Both of those weren't Republicans and neither am I. What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone on the internet is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
"This perception became worse when we opened up verification for public submissions and verified people who we in no way endorse"
It literally means that Twitter thinks that verification means endorsing the person. Literally.
Random scumbags on the right always represent everybody you disagree with, but when an asshole from Black Lives Matters murders five cops or a Muslim blows somebody up, they are anomalies and we shouldn't paint with a broad brush.
The Bernie Sanders supporter who attempted to murder a dozen or so Republican Senators and Congressman left us no possible doubt about his motivation. In a March 12th post on his Facebook page, he wrote.
"Trump is a Traitor. Trump Has Destroyed Our Democracy. It's Time To Destroy Trump & Co."
Now, it must be admitted that his reasoning isn't actually all that bad. If the President really is a traitor and, if he is literally destroying our democracy, then it's not unreasonable to think that violent action might be warranted. So, his inference isn't really what's crazy here. It's, rather, the ideas from which he derived it that are the problem.
So, where did he get these crazy ideas? Well, let's see. Here's a March 7th Newsweek headline from a piece by President Clinton's Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich: Is Trump a Traitor or a Paranoid? Former MSNBC commentator Keith Olbermann, Democratic propogandist Michael Moore, and venerable Democratic wise man Bill Moyers have all explicitly called the President a traitor. And, of course, the list of Democratic celebrities and politicians who have accused the President of serving Russian interests without necessarily using the word "traitor" would be very long indeed.
There can be no real debate about where exactly James Hodgkinson got the ideas that made trying to murder a dozen Republican politicians seem not totally unreasonable. He got them from perfectly mainstream political and intellectual leaders of the Democratic party. Anyone with half a brain knew all along that it was only a matter of time before someone started taking their manipulative nonsense seriously, as well as the horrific results that would ensue.
Why hasn't Twitter taken away these people's blue checkmarks?
"This perception became worse when we opened up verification for public submissions and verified people who we in no way endorse"
The verified status literally means Twitter endorses them.
By the way, as long as we're talking about it, I ran across this story the other day that explained where Richard Spencer got his start. It was the Duke Lacrosse non-rape case that was made up and never happened. The Left literally created the alt-right movement. In 2014 Rolling Stoneâ(TM)s false rape story at UVA didn't help either.
It's not like people weren't warning about this decades ago.
"What the commission is concerned about are the unskilled workers in our society in an age in which unskilled workers have far too few opportunities open to them. When immigrants are less well-educated and less-skilled, they may pose economic hardships to the most vulnerable of Americans, particularly those who are unemployed or under-employed."
Barbara Jordan, civil rights icon and first black woman elected to Congress from the South.
Academic philosophers have finally found a line they're willing to hold against the discipline's social justice contingent.
They hadn't reached the line yet when bloggers started brigading against conferences where only male invitees had accepted invitations.
They hadn't reached the line yet when critical theorists derided top programs as "hostile to women" while making excuses for covering up sexual harassment in purportedly more progressive departments.
They hadn't reached the line yet when the American Philosophical Association advised professors at the University of Colorado not to criticize feminist philosophy on campus or at off-campus department events. They hadn't reached the line yet when academic "advocates" cowed prominent philosophers into writing struggle-session apologies or including phrases like "I think I am a good ally" â" in papers about fundamental metaphysics.
But now Hypatia, a journal of feminist philosophy with explicitly activist goals, has seemingly disavowed a paper comparing claims about racial identity to claims about gender identity, and philosophers seem to have had enough.
http://quillette.com/2017/05/09/line-sand-academic-philosophy/
1.We have compelling reasons to accept the identity claims of transgender individuals.
Transracial identification is relevantly similar or analogous to transgender identification.
The reasons commonly given for not accepting transracial identification are either not compelling or not relevant.
From 1, 2, and 3, the balance of reasons compels us to accept the identity claims of transracial individuals.
If the balance of reasons compels us to accept something, we should accept it.
From 4 and 5, we should accept the identity claims of transracial individuals.
Trans-exclusionary positions are actually quite popular among the reigning generation of feminist philosophers, who often hew to Simone de Beauvoir's dictum that "gender is the social meaning of sex." Sally Haslanger, the most notorious feminist metaphysician and a leader of several online mobs in her own right, gives an account of gender that both explicitly analogizes it to race and seems to have trans-exclusionary implications. (Tuvel adapts her theory in one part of the paper.) One wonders why the purported opponents of power would attack a young assistant professor at a small school in Tennessee rather than the most prominent writer in the field and a fixture on the faculty at MIT. Tuvel's article does not just jeopardize someone's career, but entire industries.
The utter reasonableness of race self-identification highlights the insanity of gender self-identity and thus simultaneously destroys both the race industry and the gender industry. This is why the reaction was so strong, and why no argument may be permitted.
It's not imaginary - WTF? It's mainstream. It's everywhere. Reason is Eurocentric and has been used to dominate other people, so we must go away from reason in a more subjective direction.
Criticizing Enlightenment thought has become fashionable across the political spectrum. For the past several decades, more and more academics have called reason into question, especially the sort of rationalist worldview that emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
This is especially true among left-leaning, postmodern, and post-structuralist thinkers.
An essay you need to read to be brought up to date: Exiting the Vampire Castle.
You don't know the arguments, do you? You call yourself educated? The Enlightenment legacy can be seen all around us: individualism, international commerce and trade, moral cosmopolitanism, freedom of the press and a culture of publicity, technological modernity, the valorization of expertise, and on and on. All of these are bogeymen to the Left and they wish to free our society from their oppression.
The concept of "race" was birthed by the Enlightenment. Before that, there wasn't any racism, just Christians and heathens. But the white man came up with the idea there is "objective truth" and used it to oppress peoples of color. The Enlightenment's ontology, rooted in the new science of the 17th century, created a vision of human beings in nature which provided weapons to a new race-based ideology which would have been impossible without the Enlightenment.
The entire idea behind today's Left-wing thought is that there is no objective truth, only differing points of view, all equally valid. For example, there is no valid genetic basis for human intelligence, there are merely different kinds of intelligence. Native Americans do poorly at intelligence tests designed for whites, but excel at tests designed to measure storytelling intelligence. White supremacy as enabled by the Enlightenment is most commonly conceptualized as a way for lower-class whites to feel socially superior to people from other ethnic backgrounds. More important, though, white supremacy is a tried-and-tested means for upper class whites to grow their wealth and power. This thought is all over the place on the Left and I am astonished that you are not familiar with it.
Truth is a social construction, a function of the power and position - or lack thereof - of persons or groups in society. Not some white male-invented "science".
Sure, and the fact that they're newsworthy proves my point. We used to eat maggoty bread, rotten meat, and drink brackish water all the time. The idea that food must be squeaky clean before eating is simply wrong. In fact, if food is too clean, our awesome immune system doesn't have anything to fight against, so we develop allergies. A toddler in New York City just died because someone gave him half a grilled cheese sandwich.
Sure it is! I used to believe humans could get sick from almost anything. But then, I went overseas and discovered a new life. In Eastern Europe, they take dinner, cover it on the table, and keep it overnight without any refrigeration. The next day, they heat it up and eat it again, and don't get sick. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes. In Asia, they do the same thing, keep food out for 12 hours unrefrigerated and then eat it the next day. They don't get sick, I watched them. And even a few times ate the food myself (they didn't tell me, I found out afterwards).
Our immune systems are fantastic things and do an outstanding job of keeping us free of illness. It's just today's ridiculous fear-mongering and paranoia that tells us we must have squeaky-clean food, all the time every day. Honestly it's a problem to live in too-clean environment, our immune systems were developed to constantly fight off infection and without an enemy to fight they find one, which makes us allergic. 20 years ago no kids at my school were allergic to peanuts, not a single one. But today, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich will get your kid expelled because it is a deadly peril to all the other children.
OK Grandpa. Time for your medication, the nurse will be around soon. Those bad kids won't bother you any more and you can stop telling stories where you beat them up. All the staff believes you, Grandpa!
Well, that's pretty damn useless without a definition of "business English". If you're not "in business", and most people aren't, you'll never use it. How useful is it to describe an obscure dialect used only in an international context, something that only a tiny minority of people will ever experience?
Socialism is government control of the means of production. That's what socialism means. Anything else is, by definition, not socialism.
How's that a bad thing? Instead of private companies hogging the benefits for themselves, all of society will benefit instead? I don't get it.
So, so wrong. Humans are omnivores, we can eat just about anything without getting sick. Our immune systems are voracious monsters, capable of beating back just about anything. Even vegetables cut on the same cutting board as raw chicken, just like my grandmother did her whole life. Speaking of vegetables, they are better than they've ever been today, hundreds of years ago they were tiny and almost flavorless. Apples were the size of today's plums. A serious case of silly looking backwards and assuming anything that came before today must have been horribly wrong.
LOL suddenly because it's "one of us" an accusation isn't enough? WTF? An accusation is all that's needed, otherwise you're victim-blaming. Have you been asleep for the last 30 years? Did you miss Rolling Stone's "A Rape on Campus" story? Or Mattress Girl's accusation that she was raped by German immigrant Jean-Paul Nungesser?
Way to totally miss the point of what I was saying. Butt out of other countries' racial problems, foreigner. You can't read minds and you're lying if you say you can. If you're going to spout alt-right bullshit like ". I'm not smart because I'm white, I'm smart because I actually thought about things and planned ahead" then go ahead and jump off a bridge, the human race will be improved by your absence.
Wow, sure is great that everyone has the expertise to do that! Firefox, the browser for everyone!
I'm pretty certain he meant uninformed tight-arses, not a specific race.
Wow, your telepathy is amazing. Tell us how you can read minds like that! Judging by your weird nonstandard spelling, you come from a country without the legacy of Jim Crow, and thus have no idea what you're talking about. Pro TIP: shut the fuck up when you want to say anything about racial issues you have no idea about.
we have everything we could reasonably want
WOW. What's it like, being that well off? Damn, people I know are begging for extra shifts just to pay off Obamacare. Or they just break the law and do without. I lack the ability to imagine what it must be like to have everything you want and lack for nothing. This is what Dickensian London must have been like for the upper classes.