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Yes, I think that's a good analysis, but it doesn't identify xenophobia or anti-immigrant sentiment in particular. The transfer of allegiance to the C...

Yes. Civitas looked into it last year and concluded as follows. http://www.civitas.org.uk/content/files/hatecrimethefactsbehindtheheadlines.pdf (PDF) ...

If xenophobia or anti-immigrant sentiment really had increased in the UK, surely UKIP would have grown in popularity? In fact, their support has plumm...

I learned a lot from listening to his lectures on Heidegger. At first I was dismayed by his bumbling style--"has this guy even read the book?"--but ca...

Can anyone work out what this means? I'll have a stab at it. Maybe something like this: "Given that the human condition is unacceptable, it is contrad...

The only way to find out is by asking, as you've done. I deleted your discussion because the opening post was so badly written that it was unintelligi...

If I'd been perched on an ass I reckon I would have sold more.

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I once got a job as an un-waged door-to-door salesman, and ended up paying more in travelling expenses and buying the products than I ever managed to ...

Or an author who publishes his own books. RIP Hubert Dreyfus: http://dailynous.com/2017/04/24/hubert-dreyfus-1930-2017/

Stop oppressing Michael.

:o Looks like the tankies have got to you Mol.

No true barber would cut hair like that.

But I think you'd be sympathetic to some of his One-Dimensional Man, which I read ages ago. More sympathetic than me, probably. I got this summary fro...

All right, I'll settle for three.

Unfortunately this is more than 140 characters: In fact this does neatly encapsulate what I like about Marx.

It seems to me that the Frankfurt School, and the New Left that was inspired by them, are quite current right now. In the US they're getting the blame...

Yes. He wrote lots of other things, and it's a very varied body of work. The Communist Manifesto is a political pamphlet written at a very specific ti...

Am I right in saying this is more like "Three Things the Communist Manifesto Got Wrong"?

Indeed. I'm a big Zappa fan and I've just realized that his album Hot Rats, featuring Jean Luc Ponty, may have helped to popularize jazz-rock violin i...

Pretty cool. The problem I have with that stuff is not so much the dissonance, but all the bloody violin. The sound of the violin in jazz-rock is just...

And the pointless and irritating background music.

First place! (for "philosophy forum", with or without quotes, on .com, .co.uk, and .es)

Welcome Sam, good to see you here. Go for it. :)

The only one I can think of who changed his name is @"Michael", who used to have the official seal of awesomeness.

Welcome NC, good to see you again. Congratulations, and may your juices flow in this direction. :) Quit yer whining Q. You do realize that a large num...

It's also still on the first page of the home page: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussions

That would be good, especially when you have to scroll up or down to find the category you want in the side menu. But I don't expect it'll happen any ...

One thing I asked the developers to do is make the category name visible next to each discussion title on the main forum page. They clearly didn't thi...

There is one forum here and it is the site itself, with discussions belonging to categories. You can see categories in the side menu or on the categor...

Good point. I agree that the legality and morality of an abortion should not be determined by the cause of the pregnancy. But if abortion is not murde...

Who is this "we" you speak of?

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My understanding is that while Jewish and non-Jewish citizens have equal rights according to Israeli law, immigration into Israel and attaining citize...

It's not taboo, and being a twat is tolerated as well, so carry on.

I know all about it, Benkei. And the word I used is not "thrashing", but "trashing", and it's all you are doing, once again.

It might be that opinions among Muslims have changed since the survey I'm thinking of, which I think was from a few years ago. I may look it up later.

What do you mean by this? I take it to be an insinuation that ex-Muslims or moderate Muslims who criticize Islam or Islamism are merely Uncle Toms, bo...

Thanks, I've just sent that feature request to PlushForums support along with the other things. See the OP in this discussion for the latest list.

Yeah, I'm not a fan of Reza Aslan.

To say that it's the social context, and therefore the contemporary religious interpretation that matters, is not necessarily to say that the religiou...

Once the starboard nacelle is fixed I'll get right on that.

At least it gives the general impression I know what I'm doing. :D

Thanks for the heads-up. Chrome only just recently started showing the warnings. It's all secure now. And thanks for the donation. :)

Interesting that as your 600 year old self you naturally assume the role of lord, rather than serf.

I'm just saying that a baker ought to be able to refuse to bake a cake he finds offensive, but ought not to be able to refuse to serve someone just be...

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I suppose @"Arkady" is indirectly referring to this kind of fish taco. But no, that's not what I meant; there are lots of those in the Netherlands.