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This is a fun thread. So far the only person who has actually cited a single line of anything remotely resembling CRT has been @"ssu" - from an essay ...

The great thing about 'rights' of course, is that they are obligations. Obligations for everyone else, upon you. The audacity! The unit of analysis th...

Huh? I don't believe I said that. The state of the current discourse around CRT is definitely a red (brown and black?) scare issue, but that CRT is it...

To be clear, my comment was not directed at Toothy himself, but at the wider discourse around CRT in general.

Which I assume is indeed the situation with a great majority of people - which begs the question: why is it the case that every second political dabbl...

Here's a trick for this thread. Every time a claim is advanced in the name of CRT, quote the scholar (not blog or random twitter account or BLM activi...

All very well. I still fully encourage everyone to treat him like shit.

I feel no need to psychologize this. He has a political position and is holding to it. It is profoundly harmful and stupid and destructive and it shou...

I hope he doesn't change his opinions. He's an inspiration. Fuck him.

No fuck that little shit treat him like the trash he is.

We're a scared, petty nation.

What I don't understand is how these are not easy wins for the coalition? Like, who says 'we don't have a plan', rather than just fudge it and say 'ye...

Hah, it's as if they had an art attack and stuck a bunch of Malevich's Black Squares there at the end.

Meanwhile, our not-at-all guilty of sexually-assaulting-women-minister for industry, science, and tech: https://twitter.com/tegangeorge/status/1390573...

That fucking man ughhh Useless, corrupt, self-satisfied wanker. And yet I do not trust Australians to do anything about it.

Ah, ok, I can see how that would work for him. Cool.

Neil Davidson - How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions? An 800 page doorstop. Gonna be on this for a while. How are you finding Henry? I've ...

Sure, why not.

The tyranny of existence, apparently.

I wish it were just rhetoric. But these people really think life is a video-game where you're parachuted in, fully-formed, and you go around making 'y...

This is a meaningless statement. A grammar mistake elevated to metaphysical significance. "A fish did not choose to be a tree" makes as much sense.

This is the 'individualist' philosophy: you tether 'freedom' to a standard that cannot conceivably exist, and then whine about how everything is oppre...

But this is senseless. A 'voluntary choice' can only be made by an agent which can rationally assess options which are available to them, on the basis...

Both ownership and indebtedness are economic relationships (although I realize that some people have no other vocabulary to describe things; and let's...

But this is not true of any existing human being. It's a literal fantasy.

Hence the stilted and artificial conception of 'freedom' that individualism has: the idea that freedom is emanative from some subjective core rather t...

Trash, all of it.

Individualism is basically a ruling class ideology 'trickled down' onto the working class to stave off solidarity and class consciousness. And it is t...

It's a bit of a fine line. Speaking only for myself, I tend to let those threads fly - but not all the time - because I think they offer opportunity f...

No, but this one I do.

Nah, I don't like treating sexual abusers with kid gloves. But feel free of course.

I don't believe I did.

Well communism obviously. But barring that, literally anything else but psychology. Seriously. Want people to live good lives? Give 'em good public tr...

It's identity politics with extra steps. Now with a shiny veneer of pseudo-science to make it seem legitimate!

Oh I'm well aware. The best working to purge it ever more of any residual psychologism. Considering psychology is largely a garbage science anyway, on...

I've been mildly curious about this bloke but you should read him while keeping in mind that he is a prolific sexual abuser.

No, psychology is uniquely bad at understanding anything - especially politics - because it does not admit of a transcendental perspective. This is wh...

Philosophy is an anti-psychology and that is its essence and greatness. Politics even more so.

Would it be that it was it's only sin.

I pulled the trigger on that too quick, deleted my post, my mistake. In any case, I'm not here to argue metaphors. I'm sorry to see you on the side of...

Awesome. But holy shit people take this voodoo seriously smh. It's crystal healing for political dilettantes.

More than this too: is allows liberals and others to ignore any substantive engagement with issues. Why take seriously questions of poverty or corrupt...

Sure, but it's environments all the way down. Even the organism is an environment. If there's autonomy - and I agree there is - it's an environment wi...

You can study the mind to explain behavior but you can't study the mind to explain the ends to which that behavior will be put ('behaviour' here being...

You're welcome.

@"Maw" is entirely right and anyone who looks to psychology to explain politics is a moron.

Oh to be young and innocent.

That's super interesting! Part of what motivated the OP was discussion I had elsewhere, in which I articulated the thought that in an environment that...

I can totally dig that. I've always felt that being 'taken' by things - even when they challenge, frustrate, and grate against one's self - is sometim...

Not to mention alliteration appeals to the lizard brain in us. A lowest common denominator thing. In place of, I dunno, substance.