Let me get this right, Thorongil, you, a socialist, ( which is synonymous with communist for all reasonable intents and purposes) are saying that I a ...
What irks and frustrates me so much about the postmodern left ( or whatever you label you apply to that Confederacy of Dunces, be it neo- Marxist or p...
Yes, it's a classic (post)-modern era Marxist's sleight of hand; and if the "night-porter" schtick is true, you can throw in a very healthy dose of th...
It intended to depict someone who is "ever so 'umble, M'Lud", in the cunning, slippery, disingenuous way that Dicken's immortal character, Uriah Heep,...
Gender feminism is a TOTALLY different ball of wax to the so-called" first wave" of EQUITY ( or LIBERAL) FEMINISM that eventually enabled people like ...
Gender feminism is a good example of insane, postmodern utopist, Marxist critical theory run rampant (pcgm) Rarely, in American history has one perver...
Tom paine was a frothing- at- the- mouth egalitarian communist who died a penniless , alcoholic, in a dirty little hovil in England. Only six people a...
People denying each other's so-called fundamental human sright ? Ha, you must be joking. It happens all the time, 24/7/365 day a year, everywhere on p...
OK. Say ,for example, regarding Pinker's Claim #2, I wanted to provide evidence that gender feminism in the US, is, and always was - as a "celebrity" ...
If you think I am THAT stupid, that I would pay one atom of serious attention to the conclusions of any kind of "professional" research studies conduc...
Like I said, if you even bothered to read my post above, I am English and living in England, so I cannot, therefore, gather any first-hand evidence fo...
The fact that he is such an extremely popular public intellectual in the US tends to contract your view of him as "jejune" and "uninteresting", Darth ...
The dachshund photo is cool, and yes I do own a miniature, smooth red Dachshund ( called "Tory" in line with my world-view). :halo: AS for the dead di...
I live in England, so I am unable to see for myself if students on American campuses are, in fact, somehow being "radicalised" into displaying communi...
Yes, and when he does ( which is not all THAT often) his political position is typically a very measured and moderate - "centre left" -kind of liberal...
Pinker is not the only public academic to express concern at the magnitude and extent of hard (old school) left pro-communist student sentiment on Ame...
I don't know exactly, but what I do know is it has ( as Pinker suggests) become fashionable for students at many American universities to hoist Soviet...
Hi Sydasis, It is not so much Thomas Jefferson, I am criticising, but the egalitarian notion that we all hold it to be an" inalienable", and"self -evi...
There is an impressive body of more recent research that strongly suggests: (1) The "g-factor" represents a true high-order latent phenotype. (2) The ...
That's simply not true as a matter of scientific fact. Current standardised IQ tests do accurately and reliably measure general intelligence ("g-facto...
The meaning of the term widom is rather ambiguous today - it is used describe a number of different human attributes. In Victorian times it was synony...
Dear Francis,, I'm sorry, my friend, but what you are saying is simply false. Modern standardised IQ tests reliably and accurately measure what psycho...
I said, " I take it (i.e. I assume) that you voted for "Crooked Hillary, the crazy feminist ? (Question mark). That is, I asked you whether or not thi...
I take it you voted for "crooked Hillary", the crazy feminist, Sapientia ? Now that's what I call retarded ! (or was it "Red Bernie", the dotty old cl...
That's right, Mr Clark. There's no doubt that Donald Trump, for example, is a very "clever cookie" - the best President the US has, IMO, ever had ! Wh...
You aren't alone MP, Immanual Kant - the greatest of the Enlightenment era's philosophers - firmly believed that women should never be allowed to vote...
Dear Prothero, Yes, well put, and I agree. As Aristotle famously observed, "human beings desire to know". Not only this, but they are the only creatur...
Dear Mr Maw, For the past 6000 years of human history the societies of every successful civilization have been structured as pyramidal, patriarchal hi...
Dear Phil (and Mr Crank, Mr ClarK), Here is rest of my rebuttal of Jefferson's claim that "all men are created equal". (A) The notion of moral equalit...
Dear Phil, Just to recap. We are debating the veracity of Thomas Jefferson's claim that it is a "self-evident truth...all men are created equal". Firs...
Dear Mr Crank, No, I was just going to to explain to you that if it were you personally who was affirming the claim that "All men are created equal" a...
Dear Mr Crank, No enough doubts, apparently, for him to remain a slave owner for many years after 1776; and according a number of historical accounts,...
Dear Mr Crank, Let me get this straight...Am I correct in thinking you are saying, in essence, that all human beings have equal MORAL status? Am I rig...
No, I am just an average Joe - nothing special, no special talents or skills really. Politically, I am an Edmund Burke - type conservative - (maybe ev...
Dear Mr Clark, I disagree entirely. The principle of hierarchy, as opposed to equality , has existed as long as civilisation itself. Every major domai...
That was not how the ancients, Aristotle, for example, justified slavery in classical antiquity. For Aristotle, slaves were very much men (i.e. human ...
What did more to inflame revolutionary sentiment among the people after the war against the British began in 1775, was the Englishman Tom Paine's wide...
Thomas Jefferson owned around 200 negro slaves at the time he signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776, so therefore , it seems to me he knew fu...
There are lots of other passages in Nietzsche's work critical of women. He seems to have had a low opinion of them in general for whatever reason/s. S...
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