You're equivocating "the right to be heard" with "the privilege to speak at Berkely", and you're also equivocating "not having the right to speak at B...
Maybe, but I contend it's also an unfortunate ramification of progressive excess. For example, when you make the argument that all white people/men ar...
Can't our society be even a teensy bit merit based? What if there is more than one reason for the rise of Shapiro, and among are his quick thinking an...
Trump is a bit of a unique case because he is impossibly low brow, and outright name-calling is the game he excels at. And to be sure, Spencer does ha...
I italicized "hard work" in to imply ambiguity. I'm not trying to rally behind him, I'm just describing the fact that he is skilled (and dedicated) at...
You-tube seems like the perfect microcosm of the broader political scene. Those obscure Youtube pundits actually seem to get more play than almost any...
Aside from getting people to stop using the word in a hate filled sense (applies to everyone), I want people to scream less at each-other in general (...
It's just unique. I can't really explain it. The trouble with it is its historical meaning, and the hate that its use can stand for, but it has come t...
Would that our arbitrary visual differences could be marginalized so easily... (Would indeed be grand). I'll hazard the field and say that on the one ...
I think this holds true for hardened figures within the alt right who care more about growing their following than they do about being right (Richard ...
I think Shapiro was the youngest ever syndicated columnist, and he's been a political pundit for over a decade (he's written 10 books since age 17). S...
So how do we leave the vampire castle and move away from this virtual-real-politik? How can we mature while trapped in the fun-house? It seems like a ...
Sorry for the late response. I had some kind of food poisoning yesterday (but the threat has since been evacuated!) Which specific institutions enable...
While it's true that we don't all have the means to platform ourselves, and it's also true in a capitalist system those with more wealth will always b...
But how do we convince our political opposition to abandon their unethical beliefs? Half the time they too feel that the other side holds unethical an...
That worm deep inside of us is in desperate need of catharsis, as its enduring frustration turns it into the self-consuming Ouroboros that I fear. Thi...
I've found that a direct approach is often not feasible when it comes to very controversial subjects, although I do put in a lot of effort into doing ...
I'm most vulnerable to allegorical limericks! I do apologize for the excesses of my rhetoric, but without color this subject is a real downer. If I'm ...
It's not really a bad thing so far as I can tell, but we're approaching the line. Who gets to be in government ought to be democratically influenced. ...
Of course, in the red and brown misty heat of cultural warfare, the tits and the tats all seem above board, but in the long run our unwritten rules of...
This makes perfect sense in theory, but things tend to play out a bit differently on campus. It's not so much qualifications that are being debated, i...
I was pretty much blown away by the overall quality of it all, especially Castillo. While I am not a fan of Buckley's political views, I'm a big fan o...
This is a great question. My answer is yes and no. Is the platform government funded? If so, then it has no business wasting time on outlandish conspi...
Personally, I want a diverse landscape; the tallest peaks, the flattest fields, and free-to-travel foot paths linking them all together. But it feels ...
I 100% support moderated medical usage. It's so gratifying to see social mores about it change right before our eyes. Also true about the impact on pr...
This is a 1979 episode of William F. Buckley Junior's "Firing Line" titled: "The Problem of Illegal Aliens" (a title which would itself be controversi...
I agree that it's the way we use the tool of social media that is the problem (because of what we are), and not the existence of social media itself, ...
But that's the rub isn't it? We're divided and conquered into these groups which are emotionally focused on the most trivial aspects of ourselves and ...
This is terrifying. You're suggesting that by trying to stand firm against the constant septic flow, I'm creating as much foam and turbulence as anyon...
My apologies. But I think we only seem to disagree about whether or not Scruton's statements were actually sexist? (thankfully that's irrelevant to ou...
I think Christina H Sommers is too tame to be whack-a-mole'd. It would just backfire, as she has no spinnable laundry (as far as I know). I do think h...
I should have been a bit more clear: the statements that were presented as evidence of sexism were not fundamentally sexist in nature. He may indeed b...
I think teenagers are most vulnerable to the paranoia. (maybe it magnifies angst for them). But generally it just chills people out (especially "indic...
But what sexism or racism have I turned my blind eye to? Do you really think that Scruton is the crocodile in this situation? That I'm just defending ...
And then when congress asked Barr if Mueller supported his summary of the principal conclusions, Barr lied and said he had no idea. That's the crime P...
Pelosi is accusing Barr if a crime. Apparently Mueller wrote to him prior to his testimony to Congress, informing him that his summary-not-summary was...
This is 110% correct. Not only do we have evolutionary endowed cognitive biases to contend with (e.g: our penchant to only care about apparently immed...
Get into the philosophy behind artificial neural networks, although it will require you to adventure into computer science. We're on the lookout for "...
I tend to agree. Maybe a section for featured threads (chosen somehow) could do something to up our quality game without ostracizing others, but I'm f...
I know you're a very reasonable guy, and I'm not trying to accuse anyone here as a culprit (though all of us have contributed to these problems in par...
Should we find him guilty of being conservative or wanton opinion-having? Being sexually conservative isn't the same as being sexist, though there is ...
As far as I can tell what has been quoted so far isn't clearly sexist. It's crass, puritan, and insensitive (or over-sensitive?) but it's not sexist. ...
I agree, but quote mining 30 year old literature isn't exactly the front-line of social justice. When it comes to countering the effect of Scruton's w...
Harm to someone of a sex? So if I harm another male, for whatever reason, I'm being sexist against men, even if their being male had nothing to do wit...
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