And they have been paying Jews and the state of Israel - billions of Marks. Unless, of course, you extracted it from those with the most resources -- ...
I gave up on the idea of reparations as I've worked through this discussion, but within my previous theory about reparations, we don't owe people anyt...
One has to begin very early by talking to children - a lot, and nicely - so that they accumulate a big supply of words as soon as possible. Then it is...
You do and you'll be sharing a small, damp, hot, mold and vermin-infested cell with Baden. He's being charged by the Anglo-Saxon Gestapo with felony m...
Wait a minute, people aren't red and yellow black and white randomly. People inherit the characteristics of their racial group (or mixed racial group)...
You are a trouble maker. "Education" is probably one of the most contentious topics. Everybody is in favor of it, but once we start discussing the det...
You can play both ends of the court if you can run back and forth fast enough (like, faster than a speeding tennis ball) but you should probably decid...
About America becoming majority brown... Maybe not. A lot of the Mexicans count themselves as white. Two reasons, probably. A), they read the newspape...
Let's all leave it there. I will have to settle for a revolution and redistribute the wealth to everybody. So, now hear this, now hear this: I will no...
I should stick to just plain redistribution. Reparation is causing too much confusion in some quarters. Then it would apply to traits that are objecti...
True enough. One of the points I have been trying to make (with not much success, apparently) is that you don't have to look backwards. In the present...
There are many kinds of privilege which individuals, or collectivities, can do very little about, which is what makes privilege a-not-very-useful-conc...
Whether we call it "reparations" or "redistribution" is not a critical question and neither are likely to happen. The reason that I changed my mind ab...
If I were arguing for an across the board redistribution of wealth (from the absurdly rich to the broad working class (which I am in favor of), then t...
@"et al" I've changed my mind about paying reparations. I used to think it was inadvisable, impractical, unfair, and so forth. But now I think we shou...
PRIVILEGE is derived from ECONOMIC ADVANTAGE. IF blacks had not been so thoroughly and systematically economically disadvantaged since 1865, their pre...
I would mark the Watergate Hearings as the last great performance of Congress and the two parties. The hearings were a distinguished investigation int...
The last time the two-party system "worked" (but not the only time) was in the late 1950s, 1960s, and into the early 1970s. Both parties had some seri...
Nicely done exercise. I grew up in a small (white) rural county; my family was poor, but not desperately. Seven children. Three of the seven who went ...
If Rosanna Arquette were really worried about being privileged, she would liquidate her assets and send a large check to the NAACP. Just guessing, but...
It doesn't seem to be happening, as far as I can tell. Merciful god, fads die. The fads that don't die become the culture. That's why a lot of fads sh...
Good point. Where does the conscious mind enter into this process? I think I read your post, to which I think I am responding. That didn't happen in t...
Haw! There's a case of the kettle calling the pot black. I have heard of NO developments anywhere that would lead me to think that I, or anyone else, ...
This is true; zeitgeists are notoriously difficult to nail down, but none the less they are a real factor. Hitler wasn't just "whistling Dixie". A lot...
I don't object to your free-speech absolutism, but at the same time I don't agree with your rejection of the the idea that speech can cause behavior (...
It takes more than oratory, not to discount the effectiveness of well written speech. In Hitler's case (and numerous others) more was required. Hitler...
We have this feature we call consciousness. I guess that it is an emergent feature of the way the brain works. Most of the brain is outside of the con...
The British are in part the Vikings, the Danes, the Jutes, the Angles, the Saxons, the Frisians, the Normans (Vikings again, but Gaels too), and more,...
In some European countries, so I have heard, there are "dubbing stars" -- people whose dubbing performances have a following. I like to see foreign fi...
We modern Americans have become rather fussy about these little clusters of deaths brought about by armed individuals. Suppose the media stopped being...
99.9999% of Americans accommodate, tolerate, put up with, etc. this sort of violent behavior because there is nothing they can individually do about i...
Yeah... well, don't we all. State governments are redundant and only serve to further divide the nation. I don't understand your animus toward the sta...
@"Tim Wood" just said what I was going to say. Another thing that constitutional critics forget is that when the constitution was written, the USA was...
First, welcome to The Philosophy Forum. Being 17 probably has something to do with your feeling overwhelmed. That's not a put down, by the way. I was ...
Were we to figuratively burn the constitution, we would be obligated to call a constitutional convention to draft another one. Most sensible people ar...
The Afghanistan fighters are practicing "asymmetric" warfare techniques, aren't they? (Whatever it is called -- guerrilla fighting vs. typical militar...
You are quite right that the armed forces might not obey orders to suppress mass civilian uprising. It's just that even if some of them did obey, give...
Mass murders are generally not carried out by people wielding shotguns that can fire 1 or two shots before reloading. Successful killers generally use...
The obvious idea, eliminate the 200,000,000+ guns owned by 100,000,000+ Americans isn't going to happen, so forget about that idea. In fact, the numbe...
Thinking you will fight the military is what on the old left was called "infantile adventurism". No. IF we devolve to civil war between the army, navy...
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