Jamal

I was actually attempting to link to the YouTube playlist, not that interview in particular, which isn't the most interesting of them, in my opinion. ...

Who recognizes the music this track is based on? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy5wSU2JZ78

Yeah I'm not denying that.

Just from a Left-strategic point of view, I think liberalism is precisely now necessary. The Left antipathy to free speech only makes sense from a pos...

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In the context of the rest of your posts, yes, obviously.

This might be too obvious so maybe it's been said before, but it must be worth noting that it wasn't Leftists screaming FASCIST! who just exposed Shap...

I get the robot and bowling shoe, but Kant doesn't read like an obscurantist at all.

Scruton?

In fact, I wouldn't want the use of it against the rules either. BC used it, and I'd say he wasn't being racist, merely sort of ironically irreverent.

The terminal "r" is pronounced in some versions of British English. Not relevant but I can't stand this generalization.

I agree it's a matter of etiquette, and I agree it's not always right to insist on being able to mention it. But it might be important to insist on it...

It's worth pursuing not least because it belittles the experience of actual racism to see unwitting racism in the mention of a racist word, mentions t...

I agree with all of that except, I think, for the last sentence, which is what this is all about I guess.

Get the popcorn

I'm really happy we rose to the top so quickly, but I do worry about the quality sometimes. We didn't fulfill all of the hopes we had in the beginning...

I don't exactly see how it complicates the use/mention thing. I can see how it's complicated in the way I described above, by the sheer violence of th...

Oh yeah. Good times. I thought that was here on TPF. Otherwise yes, thanks, that's what I was thinking, that they're actually different words (which i...

I missed that discussion. I'd be interested to read the linguist's take on it. Off the top of my head and loosely speaking, if using it--as opposed to...

Generally I agree with andrewk that it's a use and mention thing. Nobody worth listening to is arguing for the use (in this sense, and also leaving as...

There was an overlap of course: some concentration camps, like Auschwitz, later became extermination centres.

It's a standard distinction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camps

In fact, there were a great many concentration camps in Germany, but the dedicated extermination camps, such as Treblinka and Auschwitz, were all outs...

Not sure. Let me think about that.

Only "their" defence of free speech? I guess you mean either the defence of free speech for the views you don't like; or, which for you comes to the s...

For super easy reading and kind of continental: Why the World Does Not Exist by Markus Gabriel. I just read it and liked it quite a lot.

Thoughtless cant is allowed here; I wouldn't class your post as low quality in the context of this discussion.

I'm not sure why you think it's appropriate to post with precisely the kind of thoughtless cant that one finds on Twitter, and which I'm trying to dra...

I'll let the staff member who did it explain before I say anything.

Note that there is no theology part of the forum. On the old PF there was a religion section but we don't have an equivalent here, only philosophy of ...

Latest privileged white academic in the firing line for having incorrect views is Camille Paglia. It was only a matter of time I guess. Art students a...

Thanks, but I wasn't aware of dodging anything. I think it was a good point. You opposed two things that seemed to me unrelated, so I pointed it out. ...

I had to use google for this, which for some reason makes me feel superior. I still like actual caviar.

This doesn't work. You're condemning a man for his views or his words, but if Scruton is condemning anything at all, it's not a person for their views...

Fair enough. My point was not particularly against you, but rather the general point that seeking to restrict women's freedom is not necessarily, obvi...

The idea that the Scruton quotation about masturbation--here repeatedly and bizarrely interpreted out of context--is sexist, but controlling women's r...

But then, you would say that. I'm not going to get into abortion, but my point is that in both your case and in Scruton's, there are other things you ...

Fair enough, although I think it's in the same ball park, and illiberal in the same way. Likewise your intemperate and uninformed rush to condemn a ph...

Maybe, but then it's just another sexist opinion to be countered with argument. Compare: at least a couple of liberal-leftish members here are in favo...

Kenan Malik in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/21/david-lammy-roger-scruton-rush-damn-our-opponents I think this is a...

I'd like to see more Leftists like To Mega Therion, photographer, and 180 Proof, and also some more conservatives to make things interesting. Personal...

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I see. Kinda feel like replying but we're off-course already.

Isn't that to be expected of an article that explicitly bashes witch hunt leftists?

Thanks, I should've linked to it. Yes, in fact I would want to extend Fisher's criticism to cover all political interventions, not only the intraleft ...

I don't think the passage is particularly sexist, unless you interpret any disgust in response to female masturbation as sexist. Scruton believes that...

Generous, I'd say.

I read that as "bananable".

Maybe you should start more.

The signal was my deletion of a new discussion that Wallows posted, though it wasn't intended as that.