I agree with you. If we take the exact meaning of "complicity," you are right. But let's look at a more elaborate definition: Systemic racism obtains ...
It is not my position. I tried to show the important flaw in your line of argument against “white privilege”. You embrace the notion of institutional ...
It is not my position. I tried to reconstruct the implied consequences of the concept of institutional (systemic) racism. Here is the exact example: "...
No, I disagree with you. I think that your position is inherently controversial and inconsistent. First, you acknowledge the existence of institutiona...
You may insist that your understanding is correct, appropriate, making sense, and you may bring the best arguments in favour of your version. However,...
Your position is based on the ultimate separation between the reality of systemic racism and the existence of white privilege. Yet, it is quite common...
Probably, what you describe is a kind of an idealized, abstract model of truth. In our contemporary socio-political reality, this model does not work....
When I wrote about Searle’s distinction between brute facts and social facts, I have already noted that any brute facts have resulted from social cons...
Yes, now you understand me much better. Probably, I could not articulate my points clear enough, so thank you for your patience! :smile: You are right...
I think you completely misunderstood or misinterpreted what I tried to outline. My intention was to prioritize impersonal, collective social processes...
There are probably various kinds of truth, ultimately different from a conventional understanding of this concept. Suppose we agree that social facts ...
How could one distinguish between 'good' and 'bad' social facts? Generally, there is a tendency of unconsciously accepting a social fact without reali...
Probably, we can agree on the existence of things external to human consciousness. Yet, we need a more comprehensive account of realism. A spherical o...
I want to point out to what looks like one of your central presuppositions: one inevitably starts with what has been objective, neutral, or natural fa...
Thank you for your OP. Can it be the effectiveness of one’s arrangement? If I understand you correctly, when one expresses her positions, views, or pe...
For some observers, there is a clash of incompatible sets of values and ideas, the situation of culture war that can involve into a real civil war. An...
It is the main point! If we answer this, it could help us to understand where is the US right now. Is there a contest of interest groups? What are the...
The stable existence or the decline of any society should not be measured just by its material resources. The decisive factor is social capital. It ca...
There were a few accounts of the riots in Sweden. Professor of political science at the University of Uppsala, Tommy Möller wrote in an op-ed: "Unless...
If this is a true report, and since the protest in Portland is going on for 60 days, most likely that it has a kind of a clear cause, differently from...
It is difficult to find out what is actually going on in Portland right now. What is your view? As far as I see, there are two major narratives in the...
It is not just a matter of cost. Since capital has become mobile and fluid, an ‘organized labor’ has become outmoded, attached to immobile ‘real econo...
" When someone talks about "political correctness", they usually cannot articulate precisely what it is. It's usually an "excessive version of (undefi...
Bari Weiss on her resignation and the transformation of the New York Times into the platform of woke culture: "a new consensus has emerged in the pres...
I understand Fishfry concerns and appreciate his opinion. As far as I see, there is a principal difficulty: we do not know how to articulate the ongoi...
I am not optimistic. I just said that our situation is different. Indeed, the current violence is not just a kind of symbolic violence. It is also act...
I agree with you. But reinterpretation of a symbol is just the first step of destroying it. In principle, I am against destroying statues or any other...
Our present situation is ultimately different from China’s state of affairs in 1966. All in all, China was primarily an agricultural country where the...
On the contrary, I do not think that this interview fully clarify the case. We still do not know if we witness the culmination of the process or it is...
I understand your points: there are a few arguments that are commonly used in the discussions about populism, and I am familiar with them. I would not...
It is not clear what are the forces that are fighting for the liberal values. The letter appeals to resist primarily just one wing. I still do not und...
I agree with you. Nobody wants to patently analyze the determining processes. Yet, are there real answers? Or, are there just the illusions that allow...
I accept your criticism. Probably, the concepts that I use look like vague, taken out of the context and the appropriate conceptual framework. For But...
I agree with you.This words have completely lost the meaningful historical connotations. And, it is not clear what they actually mean in the context o...
Who knows the actual meaning of these words today? Historians should not be counted. Probably, activists that are using this words do not know the his...
I understand your point. My position is that the traditional articulation of the political spectrum does not reflect the current state of affairs. Ide...
Could you clarify what does 'progress' mean you? Probably, your basic premises are the existence of stable 'right' and 'left', that the primary mode o...
What do you mean by "Specific policies are irrelevant, the general constitution of the power structure is what progresses"? Generally, you are right. ...
May be. In today's political environment, predictions do not matter. What matters is the instant alignment of active forces. To articulate the most po...
Good point! It is possible to frame the current situation differently. The culture, the culture war is just one dimension of the unfolding conflict. T...
I appreciate this level of formalization. Let say that one accepts your proposition about the philosophical foundations of being ‘right’ and being ‘le...
Do you think that these two groups of stereotypes and their supporters do initiate the current cultural conflict? If not, we need to find the divisive...
Your points make sense: 1)Trump 2)elections 3)pandemic 4)economic depression 5)populism I would add a few more, but even this combination is explosive...
I agree. This is just one of possible ways to frame our situation. How would you define the unfolding event in the US? Yet, one could try to apply Hun...
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