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This is a great working definition for ‘hate speech.’ And it is clear enough to be an enforceable law. But when we go to enforce this law, it looks to...
September 24, 2025 at 06:11
It’s a great question. I think it gets to the heart of what is wrong with hate speech legislation. The important issue here is not the victims of hate...
September 24, 2025 at 01:26
For sure about that? Like Descartes for sure with certainty sure? Sure about what a dictator is, for some reason? Trump is clearly a dictator wannabe....
September 23, 2025 at 04:51
Dead serious. What is funny is that the same people who can’t see what wokeness is, somehow see with absolute clarity that Kirk was racist. Or Trump i...
September 22, 2025 at 21:29
I see where you are coming from about my tone. But it’s not resentment. It’s frustration. It’s tiresome convincing people that I don’t like Hitler, or...
September 22, 2025 at 21:18
Ok, my bad. I skimmed that part and must have missed it that you are glad we agree. I’m glad too. But all speech is not political speech. When Hitler ...
September 22, 2025 at 17:31
Not seeing what “woke” is, is very woke.
September 22, 2025 at 15:46
Yes, and this unwittingly puts the identity category, the ideology, first and foremost, before the individual. For example, one sees discrimination ba...
September 22, 2025 at 15:41
Then why did you ask me if I think Hitler was a bad guy? Is it because I’m a conservative republican - is that why you needed me to confess my true fe...
September 22, 2025 at 15:17
So because I am a conservative we have to clear up my relationship to Hitler. You precisely exemplify my point to @"Joshs" just above. To answer your ...
September 22, 2025 at 06:18
Not so much bombarded with views. Bombarded with condemnation maybe. It’s more annoying or tiresome than abhorrent. I’m from Philly, currently in the ...
September 22, 2025 at 05:47
Solidarity on Election Day once every four years (towing the Dem party/media line like the morally superior sheep we are told to be) but what about th...
September 21, 2025 at 22:07
That is “newspeak” for “we want smart people telling the masses who we should hate.” Anyone who supports more speech, not less, would quickly see ther...
September 21, 2025 at 15:42
Thanks. Love it. Is there such a thing as Love speech? I am always curious why he bothers with these non-responsive responses. I think he hates me. Ma...
September 21, 2025 at 15:27
I was actually going to mention loud speech, but then, that is a physical assault has nothing to do with the content of the speech. I’m glad you under...
September 21, 2025 at 15:14
I don’t know what that means. All kinds of speech is regulated - fraud, conspiracy, libel, slander, incitement. But if in a political context, and the...
September 21, 2025 at 15:07
Dude. You might want to be more precise and express in the points you are trying to make.
September 21, 2025 at 07:25
The capacity of speech to injure, or the capacity of speech to lead to injury? How can speech injure? In a political context, like on the Senate floor...
September 21, 2025 at 07:20
Sheep are all over the place for sure. The point was about the media. The shepherd. The media (when they don’t cave) will always cheerlead for the Dem...
September 21, 2025 at 06:26
No. I’m talking about people and the media not understanding how bad it is to see a guy shot for having a discussion. Probably not something to treat ...
September 20, 2025 at 16:35
Yes of course. To promote good and prevent or redress badness. But we look to the government to tell us what the law is, not what morality is. Wait, s...
September 20, 2025 at 15:09
I don’t know what you are getting at. We don’t need laws telling us what is good or bad. We need discussions and communities deciding what is good and...
September 19, 2025 at 18:51
What is happening now is, the tyranny supported by the liberal media for 40 years is being challenged. But this is no new threat to democracy. This is...
September 19, 2025 at 18:44
:up: Defenders of the notion of “hate speech” are also the best defenders of notions like “gender is a social construct”. Pick a lane. If something so...
September 19, 2025 at 17:57
What amazes me is how precise and rigorous many of us are when it comes to using terms like “knowledge” or “certainty” or “being” or “becoming” or “es...
September 15, 2025 at 22:20
That seems accurate. But so does this: I agree with Leon, but then, because of the possibility of error, what is happening when we think we know somet...
September 15, 2025 at 18:50
Maybe, but I asked if it was woke to argue these things? My point is that it might be procedurally woke to argue power, equity, identity. But it’s not...
September 15, 2025 at 18:15
That’s really helpful. I would say two things about this: 1. What it says, in itself, reflects woke methodology. Interpreting events in a particular, ...
September 15, 2025 at 16:20
What were you trying to say?
September 15, 2025 at 00:20
You’re right. It’s more like Rousseau. Went mainstream in the 1960s. Institutionalized by 2000s. You sound like you could say what woke is. Weird. Why...
September 14, 2025 at 23:36
Tried what? Do you mean, are people who voted for Trump against woke ideology (generally speaking of course)? Or is this still the question: No, it’s ...
September 12, 2025 at 18:13
Yes. Unmoored is the post-enlightenment state of affairs. And it is self-defeating: in the name of freedom, this unmooring makes us unable to be free,...
September 12, 2025 at 17:29
So are you saying: That it is: Existence: the for-itself What it is: Essence: the in-itself
September 12, 2025 at 16:54
Maybe not “certainties”? So “proof” is aspirational, or ideal. But the metaphysic outlined - namely, proof sites within epistemic practice, and so pro...
September 12, 2025 at 16:51
That is an interesting question because I believe it is frequently how people act (ignoring reasons associated with deeming something beyond the pale)...
September 12, 2025 at 14:58
How about deny a claim if the insured isn’t able to demonstrate compliance with the law? Ask your broker to get you competing quotes with a DEI office...
September 09, 2025 at 01:32
The woke don’t see the dissonance, the incoherence and the contradictions. I’ve pointed a few out to some folks I assume are sympathetic to woke ideol...
September 08, 2025 at 23:10
Perfect starting place for a woke position. Unless we are defining maga, because they are the definition of jackass bastards. Or white men. Nothing fr...
September 08, 2025 at 23:05
Go read the posts about exactly what I am maintaining. This is dumb. Let me give you an analogy of why I can’t easily answer your question with the wo...
September 08, 2025 at 18:32
No one has been “gagged”. Everyone is free to print whatever news is fit to print. Just because news media and professors are wimps and whiners doesn’...
September 08, 2025 at 13:55
Woke police 1980 - the word is “handicapped”, not retarded anymore. Woke police 1990 - the word is “disabled”, not handicapped. Woke police 2000s - th...
September 08, 2025 at 06:05
So some gagging is terrible, but gagging Athena wasn’t. It’s all baby shit. Anti-woke is often just as pathetic as woke. So what? I was trying to talk...
September 08, 2025 at 00:19
You can’t see what woke is. That’s woke. That’s impacting lives, unlike your boogieman summation of what woke is.
September 07, 2025 at 22:53
@"Mijin" there are millions of stories like that. They’ve been piling up since the 1980s. Maybe these aren’t a priority to you, and that’s fine, but t...
September 07, 2025 at 18:14
Wokeism is a type of totalitarian fascism. Can we acknowledge that first on a thread about the end of woke? Or does “wokeism” not exist? All across th...
September 07, 2025 at 17:52
It’s punching. That is the point. You can claim your own spot on whatever ladder you are climbing up or down if you want, and see your poor victims pu...
September 07, 2025 at 15:06
I agree selecting people by merit is the best way for people to select people to fulfill roles and jobs. I am a conservative. What is the ethical line...
September 06, 2025 at 22:27
That means you completely agree with the facts. The facts are, when you are racist against white men, it is poking fun, but when you are racist agains...
September 06, 2025 at 22:20
Ok, but there are all different flavors of bullshit. I’m sure you can say something of what wokeness is that makes the anti-woke, anti-woke, and not s...
September 06, 2025 at 03:58
:rofl: Who is leaning on “can’t define it” now? That was my line! I am happy to get started on a definition any time. What do you need? A definition o...
September 06, 2025 at 03:01