It's worth adding that "Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies" fits in with the understanding our epistemology is driven by our va...
I'd go further, removing such forces is impossible without a myth that drives everything else down. "Family" is itself a social myth that drives doxa....
The trouble is the mature arguments of the "SJWs" are descriptive of social relations, which people like yourself steadfastly deny. There something el...
The trouble is people begin a the rejection of universality and difference in the first instance. Both become lost in an attempt to define each other ...
That's wrong. "May be" is a reflection of might or might be actual. It is possible they would (or wouldn't) fall. Possibility isn't actuality. An even...
Nothing. That's the problem with law. It doesn't allow freedom. If everything is destined to follow the law and there is no possibility. Without law, ...
Exactly. That's what it means to be material. Since imagination is not enough to amount to existence, the whims of imagination can never amount to the...
Possibility is not actuality. There is no problem for the Humeans. They never claimed radical difference has occurred or must occur, only that it migh...
But that gets it backwards. A perpetual motion machine is entirely possible-- all it would take is a machine that kept moving itself. Sure, it impossi...
That's a category error. Possibility is not an empirical state. One does not observe it to confirm or falsify it's presence. It's not a state. In this...
No one claimed the future must be radically different, only that it's always possible: there are no "laws" which govern what occurs. The world only wo...
I think the question of continuing identity is a red-herring. To fear to to be worried about what is to come. We run or eliminate a threat to avoid da...
Parts of Islam as it's currently practiced? For sure. Islamic identity and history? No. Muslims can disavow those parts (even if they are big) of Isla...
Absolutely. Muslims being "westerners" is effectively where the argument ends up: we are demanding changes to Islam which make it, in practice, more o...
In the sense that a neo-nazi or KKK member might change their culture, sure. Like a muslims (or anyone else), they are no less capable of devloping an...
Yikes indeed-- but it's true. I mean there are different levels. If follow you about repeating what you are saying back to you, you'll find me annoyin...
Clearly not. Let's give you an example. If I say: "Radical Islam is the greatest philosophy ever. All other beliefs are nonsense and we ought to aband...
For sure. We, a society and culture previously prejudiced against gay people, changed to one that was not (or at least so much). A question of our beh...
That was never the point though. You are only speaking of the (classical) liberal utopian myth, where every person gets whatever they want, whenever t...
I wasn't saying white people couldn't be muslims. My point was that many muslims aren't "white," and so acting like Islam is just savagery amounts to ...
In terms of how it usually manifests within the West, yes. Islam is the "The Other," a people with a history and culture considered outside anything w...
It's more to do with recognising the "oppressive" impact the West has on other cultures. Not so much a question of creating monolithic enemy, but bein...
It would be, but are other people going to agree with it? To open with a policy of: "I'll pay you to free your slaves" is a great, but will people agr...
I know... but that's not going to happen if everyone else behaves if they ought to own slaves. Even if you start privately and small, if it going to h...
For sure, the point is to describe what is lost for a point of view "oppressed" with secular liberal democracies. If he were "neutral" (whatever that ...
I doubt that he has. Indeed, I think it's the critical mind that saw him make the argument. A description of secular democracy's "oppression" of a soc...
Descriptively, it's right. In the secular liberal democracy, who is more "oppressed" (here this means "has their values, ideas rejected and organisati...
They would not end it at all. Such a conservative free their slaves and... everyone else's would keep doing what tradition and power dictated. Now the...
The lack of worldly difference and so anything "to know about" in that sense is the point. The Real is the infinite. God which is the same regardless ...
Not at all, for the alt right only expesses the very values of oppression and ideology that feminism took out (and is taking out). The post-modernist ...
Logically, God cannot exist if they are Real. To exist is to be an illusion, only a finite state. It would take away what makes God God. For us to sug...
Well, he's sort of right to say that. The point of these social analysis is they are descriptive of a social relations between people. Does the West g...
It's just a different usage than a lot of people would use when referring to themselves of describing the skin colour of their ancestors. I'm not talk...
No, they don't. They describe horrors and wrongs which "white (the ethnic identity of the last few hundred years, as opposed to someone skin color)" p...
We are "post-enlightment" in the sense we worked out the Enlightenment was telling us a great big lie with regards to "common intellectual faculty"; i...
Absolutely. It's tied up in our culture and desire for superiority. The principles of knowledge, technology and domination which drove the Enlightenme...
Clearly not. People would, as you say think differently about dark people. They would not have the ethnic identity of "black" they do now. A different...
But the point here is it doesn't. In the situation I was pointing out, "European heritage" or "white" is a social identity category. The one of the va...
Yeah... that's the falsehood we are trying to get past here. Identity is not a constraint (e.g. tick these boxes and you count as X) but an expression...
No... just the identity of "white" or "European heritage" (social identity category). European descent (i.e. having ancestors who lived in Europe) is ...
Missing the point. I didn't say to would make black people white (i.e. change the colour of their skin). Nor did I say that "white" meant "black." I m...
Yes, it does. Particular experiences, to be entirely accurate. Ethnic identity is only our thoughts and words. If people, for example, thought of blac...
I suspect not, at least in the sense you're thinking. In terms of identity though, yes. Race and ethnicity are both categories or discourse, as oppose...
For sure. Do you think that makes it any better? Are native americans meant to take solace that they were disposed of their lands, had their cultures ...
It views everyone without identity. Everyone is invisible, which is how the myth functions. It doesn't matter if you are black, white, rich, poor, gay...
But we know it doesn't make sense by the nature of God. If God were the cause or presence behind the curtain, an existing state of some realm, they wo...
We aren't doing that. The "evilness" of white people is a description of how social relations have been expressed in our societies more or less since ...
If my suspicion of what you mean is correct (upper-class narcissists), no. Otherwise, I'm not really familiar with its history or cultural usage. My u...
That's what I said. What we wouldn't have, if we didn't talk, think or understand it, is the ethnic category. If everyone looked at a white person and...
Yes... if we are talking in terms of understanding and categorisation. That we put people of a certain body in a particular category is always our dis...
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