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Of course, the scandal has been exposed, and the official line has changed, and that is why you cannot deny that there was anything wrong with the pre...

Yes, sort of, but actually not quite. There's not much age difference between the cultures, but an environmental one. Scotland is wild more than agric...

Yes muscular Christian sound about right. But Note the similarity of the Scouts and the Hitler Youth; dib dib dib sieg heil. Healthy body, and militar...

It's what thieves share amongst them, and families kill their errant members over - the Mafia is very hot on honour. Folks here are are arguing about ...

Yes, but you have been over-enthusiastic. We have rather established that fact and science are not the most significant factors either, but rather fas...

Is psychology then a matter of opinion? Nothing much more than a reflection of the society of the time? Then my work here is done.

I'm so ignorant I don't know what the Chinese government's position on homosexuality. But with a totalitarian regime, you do what you're told, pissed ...

But what's most odd about this is that I, at least, want research to be controlled, because when psychologists are free to do whatever they like, some...

I did more than that. It's a bit silly to pick one point from a broad sweep of a picture and claim it is not enough; it is already supported by a load...

The former. I don't know enough to tell a genuine white supporter from a fake one.

I'm not sure. There was something of a cultural revolution, but there was a great deal of naivety. The suit thing actually happened, and I think it sh...

Well I say what I would do if I were a white American, but it's not the law. If others want to make another gesture, of solidarity, I think I can resp...

You have to contextualise a new symbolic gesture within the gestural tradition. What does it mean to stand for the national anthem? One stands to atte...

I don't see it as a benefit at all, but as a fact. I have almost no influence on anyone because I haven't ever lived for power or money. But I always ...

Yes I think I agree. One cannot address every issue that one becomes aware of, so If you haven't spoken or acted on the Chinese issue, well neither ha...

Yes it is wrong, and I won't defend it. The morality was not that straightforward at the time, and the extermination camps became a justification afte...

Yes. It reminds me most of the suffragettes. There was, and still probably is, a dispute between the peaceful, legal suffragists, and the militant pro...

I'm glad to hear this. But I do think the BPS should police the practice of its members, as the BMA should, as for that matter the RIBA should, come t...

This is difficult, and I urge you to caution. It was before my time that Britain declared war on Germany and plunged the world into a conflagration th...

It's not a great advert for policing though is it? "Safer than the Mafia!"

I think our disagreement here has become a matter of degree. Obviously psychology is diverse, and anything I say about it is a generalisation rather t...

I'm a follower of a facebook page that puts up art by women artists through history, and the person who runs it has been banned many times for posting...

I don't speak for boethius, obviously. But there is no question that psychiatry exercises a coercive function by incarceration and forcible treatment ...

I am truly sorry for you, I think you have been traumatised by some really bad experiences, and I don't at all mean to insult or belittle you. We are ...

It certainly did. And there was and still is a great deal of resistance, and denigration of Laing and Szasz, indeed they are more heroes of anti-psych...

That is a sad story. But not a response to what I posted. It explains but does not justify your personal racist attitudes, but does not explain the di...

Firstly, the black community in the UK is not African American but overwhelmingly either African or Afro Caribbean. Secondly, this is not the report o...

That wasn't the hypothesis I came to. :grin:

https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/JCO/Documents/judicial-college/ETBB_Ethnicity__finalised_.pdf Look what that language gone and done; look ...

Have little think about that, and you might come up with a hypothesis.

Right. So racism isn't created by a legacy of a culture of colour-based slavery justified by a racist narrative of white superiority, followed by year...

I'd like to illustrate this a little. Alan Turing was a homosexual who was arrested and faced with the choice of chemical castration or imprisonment. ...

How do you know that? Do just assume that all racists are proud enough to be open about it? It seems to me that being racist is something one might wa...

What would convince you? Not media, obviously. Statistics? Is there something short of a declaration of white supremacy?

It's not about the language. https://leejasper.blogspot.com/2020/06/lambeth-metropolitan-police-officers.html?fbclid=IwAR0OTXa5hScnS4qxVsyq2wfBrFS-6OY...

Shit man, get over yourself. You sound like a Victorian schoolmarm. You are just a joke now.

Make me, big boy.

Yes, of course. The law against murder or assault governs the whole of your life, and the whole of the country. You can of course do whatever you like...

Sorry, I missed that statute. You are not the thought police, and you are not the boss of me. There are rumours of an old boy's network. They don't ad...

Sure. It's the riot act. If I talk too loud, the police will be called to the restaurant. There are things you can do that the state allows. And the l...

We know about historical uses of mental health (Orwellian usage) diagnoses and incarceration and forcible treatment by states, that we now think illeg...

Sure. If you wonder if you are rationalising your actions, and you decide you are not, you have to wonder whether you are just rationalising in your d...

OK. I' try not to do that. Thanks for the heads up. Some institutions are banned by the state.Others are heavily regulated, and some heavily influence...

Yes, more or less. The state guarantees the law, and the law governs every aspect of social life from the voltage of electricity supplies to the allow...

I don't know exactly if this ties in with the op, but it seems as though there is a tension built in here. We have been through a century or so of unp...

Glad to hear it.

Yes. Individuals are agents of change, but institutions are agents of stability. (approximately)

So I applied to go to uni in 1969, the year after the students had occupied the chancellors' building' staged sit-ins and started their own courses. A...

Well not hatred particularly, and of course there is helpful advice out there. "don't eat the yellow snow.' I exaggerated for entertainment. but there...

Yeah, but based on what he says, it is foolish. Not just a poor example, but a negative one. And that matches the criticism I quoted of grievance stud...