Hitler, and the National Socialist Party, gained some support at the polls, and then seized power by subterfuge. Once the party gained power, it deplo...
If I were going to make things up, I'd go for something a bit more edgy. No, broadcast speech doesn't contribute much to language development in young...
Thank you. I grew up in a rural MN county that is still about 98% white. Sightings of colored people, as they were referenced at the time, or Negroes,...
I have been avatar fidgeting. I gather you are not referencing the one that is now posted at 1:59, CST, 1/20/17. It might have been Schopenhauer. I pi...
You seem to be on a "this isn't philosophy" kick. I agree with T Clark, you should start a thread on the issue of "what is not philosophy". Is "what i...
Paying people enough to live on is a matter of ethics. Isn't one of the topics in philosophy "the good life"? Do you think a good life can be better l...
And why would we not want to improve pay and job satisfaction? Millions of people devoting the better part of their waking hours to an unrewarding job...
What is your stake in the view that "race is culturally constructed" and that "gender is culturally constructed"? There is a simpler (and I think a mo...
When the Guaranteed Basic Income was last seriously considered (during the Nixon administration) robotics wasn't a big issue. Then proposals were drop...
One of the problems of anxiety is that there are drugs which offer speedy, effective relief: benzodiazepines (Xanax, Ativan, and others; some people s...
They are both very attractive options so it's always a conundrum: Bleak despair or blazing terror? Some people seem to experience only depression OR a...
I don't think so, unenlightened. What is it about the various county, state, federal, or provincial prisons that isn't intimidating, hostile, degradin...
Imprisonment is intended to be “intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating and offensive”. EDIT: and rape isn't a requirement for prison to meet th...
The article says that "she was placed in an atmosphere that was “intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating and offensive”. Hmmm, sounds like the s...
It's not a job that appeals to me, but surprisingly, the job gets done. Question: Why do people work for civil engineering companies and municipal age...
That could very well be the case. We might be genetically conditioned to be sensitive to "in-group" and "out-group" distinctions--in-group ones being ...
Yes, hate speech is motivated by hatred, but the question is, "Where does hatred come from?" You say, "What one hate's is usually the result of ignora...
The 5 year time frame was in the 1970s. There have been a few murders of gay men since, but they did not have the same effect as the earlier ones. Aft...
Isolated violent events can be interpreted as representative of general attitudes. Over the course of 5 years Minneapolis and St. Paul witnessed sever...
Of course the social role of "white" exists; and "black" and "gay" and all others. Stereotypes and social roles exist because we are not all one big c...
A case that is dismissed "with prejudice" is over and done with, totally. "Without prejudice" might be revisited. The case against TimeLine has been d...
Speaking of which, as they say down at the gay bar, "Get off my dress, Mary!" Here's a typical Australian woman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW7HL...
When orderly protests become riots, property damage will often result and the damage is not always completely misdirected. For instance, in various Am...
That salmon camembert muffin thing of yours proves you have perverse taste, and this quote proves you can't read. I said I loathed pasta salad -- espe...
So nice to see a mention of an old friend, after all these years. If one examines Batailleist `powerful communication’, one is faced with a choice: ei...
A riot is unplanned, usually, and is ignited by unpredictable actions. A riot may become violent and also be quite unproductive because rioters are ge...
Good luck. This isn't literally true, of course. As I said, it's a cliché. It's a metaphor. Agreed. The development of the fetus is sequential, and va...
Sometimes one hears about a "post-racial society" and then something happens which pretty much obliterates the idea that we are anywhere close to bein...
No, one can not. One may wish one was a woman (when one is a man) or wish one was a man (when one is a woman); one may play the social role of the opp...
To some extent, transsexuality (especially M to F) is a "drag" performance, and great drag requires lots of practice. Most transsexuals are not well o...
I use the pronoun that matches their stated destination (he, his, him if F to M, she, her, hers if M to F, or ask. Personally, I'm not willing to use ...
it will add a small percentage. The Social Security system, for instance, has a very low overhead cost. It's low because the function of sending out c...
I have known a number of transsexuals over the last 40 years. I have respected their decision to present themselves as they have, and have used the ma...
Donald is a hypocrite, of course, which is such a rarity among people. But really, there are so many reasons to hang DT beside golfing on MLK day. The...
I am in favor of the UBI because it would achieve what I consider important humanitarian goals: 1. It would enable workers to take more risks in seeki...
It's pretty much the same situation in the U.S., though these downward trends in both lay participation in church and vocations began before the numer...
Of course it's impolitic to call Africa a shithole, especially when you consider just how large and varied Africa is. It's too blunt a shorthand term....
There was an article on the Magdalene Laundries in the New York Times today; what to do about one of the laundry buildings--tear it down or make a mem...
I take it you are demanding a general social responsibility, rather than the accounting system that reparations would require. I agree that tracing th...
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