I agree, which is why I remarked that culture doesn't necessarily gang with ethnicity. I agree once more, I would only add the caveat that some people...
Not by identity, by identity based discrimination. It's about addressing the mechanism by which identity confers merit. it amounts to proclaiming that...
That's fair, but you sent me to those posts to contextualize your position here. I'm not annoyed that you would focus on classism, or even on racism, ...
Maybe I just can't get past the term "white privilege"? If the primary or proximal force of inequality perpetuation is classism, why use the term "sys...
AFAIK, the middle class continues to shrink, and it is definitely a factor that must be addressed in general before our other half-measures and stop g...
Your argument amounts to "power comes from privilege, and privilege comes from power", where the significance of race is non-sequitir; e.g: people bor...
Not sure I know what you mean. The world will never be perfect, but we can still try to make it a better place to live. But a new coat of paint only g...
And personally I don't think affirmative action went far enough. If we're going to intervene in inter-generational or community level poverty, half-me...
I'm still trying to understand where this reaction to the idea of color-blindness really comes from. On the surface it is merely the idea that we shou...
How do you get "identity only matters as a position in a hierarchy" from my moral claim that "race should not confer societal advantages and disadvant...
But race, religion, gender, and ability should not matter, at least in some sense (they should not confer advantages and disadvantages, whether intrin...
As with most things, truth is a complicated and messy middle-ground that the polar extremes can't help but mortar and shell, which just compounds comp...
Differences, yes, but they may not be as large as you think (the reason this topic is taboo is because people are afraid of reaching conclusions that ...
I can see how people might say "just because you claim not to treat non-whites differently doesn't eliminate racism or its effects", which is a fair e...
Lindsey basically became Trump's gimp-slave as soon as he got the nomination IIRC. He thinks of himself as principled, so it will be interesting to se...
I find this to be the dubious bit. God and Not God are certainly positive and negative positions (which are exhaustive), but it only holds up when we ...
A lot of the classical works aren't going to be very useful or relevant to you, although many of them might be downright enthralling (contemporary deb...
But this is like saying that not being a tennis player is of consequence to my activities because if I was to start playing tennis then it would entai...
Where is the "I'm an atheist, and it is of no consequence in the rest of my philosophy" option? I feel like the question is posed incorrectly. Answer ...
Again, it's not the withdraw that astonishes me, it's that the fact that Trump is set to allow (or set to be unable to prevent) the murder and slaught...
But if Trump gave the nod to Erdogan, then they're actually behaving... And if we just stick to isolationism and fail to protect the Kurds, American t...
What's wrong with pointing out Trump failure? I still don't get how it is misguided. There is no order-of-priority in a Trump mega-thread. Did you imp...
The EU, for all their bluster, have a small fraction of the military might that America has. And the EU didn't start this cluster-fuck... https://uplo...
My friend, think about this for a minute (it's pretty important stuff so please take a deep breath and give it some honest focus). The Kurds fought IS...
This is a thread for general Trump conservation, I wasn't aware I should be limiting myself to "what's important". I already gave my take-away: "In on...
That's farther than I knew! I'm quite ignorant about many details of middle eastern politics, but as long as I got the gist of it right I'll be conten...
Nothing I can say will help the Kurds. You expect too much. However, the more expediently and effectively Trump is rebuked or removed, the more expedi...
What did you expect when you clicked the thread? The betrayal is so obvious and monumental that there is no need to point out why it's hideous. As @"S...
Apparently Turkey has begun bombing of the Kurds in northern Syria, after Erdogan got the go-ahead from Trump... This will probably be Trumps single g...
Drama comes, and goes, with any human community. When it's at its best TPF is a place where only ideas matter, creativity is high, and intellectual di...
I'm pretty much laissez faire when it comes to speech, so it's kind of upsetting to see such a long standing contributor fall... That said, the upkeep...
This is all Nancy Pelosi and the DNC's fault, and by now it may be entirely too late for impeachment proceedings to mean anything at all. Meanwhile, T...
It's the fallacy of division: "A fallacy of division is the error in logic that occurs when one reasons that something that is true for a whole must a...
I think what I'm saying rather amounts to: X is far more important than Y, and focus on Y obfuscates X, so lets focus less on Y and more on X. I'm not...
I like to think my position on the subject amounts to more than just mockery from conservative echo-chambers. If to log an opposing sentiment against ...
With respect to what specifically? That they forbid certain hairstyles such as dreads or cornrows? (I'm guessing wildly at what you're referencing...)...
Mostly a rubbish concept... As I ceded originally, the Redskins mascot is somewhat insensitive (it's "dickish"), but it's just not problem of comparab...
1. "It Trivializes Violent Historical Oppression, E.G: 'Redskins'"... The Redskins name might be insensitive, and in that sense they're "being a dick"...
Yes, cultural appropriation is mostly a rubbish concept. There's an argument to be made that mocking or denigrating the symbols of another culture is ...
What if she was 12 instead of 17? (not a rhetorical question) I'm not taking issue with the principle that individuals should have the right to make d...
Shirley, I would never! It's not for "me" or "us"; in this case it's for her legal guardians to determine, and also perhaps for trained and regulated ...
Complexity Sciences (chaos theory and complex systems) and machine learning are enough to ferret out the important bits of "intelligence". But there i...
Whether or not a seventeen year old is cognizant enough to make the decision for themselves is the relevant issue. "We" do need to make decisions on b...
Comprehending what's right in these kinds of edge cases necessitates looking closely at the specific details. It's messy, but making a firm judgment r...
Assuming that the brain or the mind (as yet undefined in this thread) is or is not a "computer", and whatever that might mean, is not necessary to app...
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