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https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/11/10/u-of-t-profs-proposed-website-would-target-professors-teaching-womens-and-ethnic-studies.html The term "po...

SSU, you have misrepresentated my position. I do think people should talk about PC issues because I think that there are some problems with PC extremi...

From the OP You've got plenty of pundits out there shouting down political correctness. Social Justice has become a pejorative, thanks to their effort...

Cheers.

How is it enforced? A few frowns, scowls, even a finger now an again, a cop you pissed off using it as an excuse to arrest you on a bogus charge?

And declining until 2016 - but it's been rising since Trump - actually since 2015. Forgive me for stating the obvious, but I think Maw's cartoon was m...

In case you didn't copy, yes, agreed.

Indeed! _______________ Now, some stats since Trump was elected: "On Wednesday, the Anti-Defamation League released a report finding that attackers wi...

WP - Right Wing Violence is on the Rise The Rise of Right Wing Extremism in the US Economist: Right Wing Terrorism on the Rise in the West Right Wing ...

I didn't "deduce" - I read about the history of Pepe and listened to JP's interview with Wendy Mesley where he justifies his association with the imag...

So in summary: Presumably on the right it would mean scapegoating. You might think that pundits are merely trying to temper a "heavy PC tilt" - perhap...

Yeah, so did I. What of it? AND I don't think it's fundamentally the PC that are pushing the right, regardless of whether they "push the narrative int...

I didn't say it was extreme political correctness that feeds the beast, it's the pundits' endlessly complaining how PC is a threat to freedom that ina...

You did say that extreme PC is what gives rise to the right wing as I quoted you in my last reply. You might have changed your mind, or your initial s...

There's where we disagree. The rise of the right is not precipitated by political correctness but by scapegoating. Resentment of PC - and PC has been ...

Sushi, I think we still disagree on the reasons for the rise of the alt right internationally and the extent to which extreme pc is a threat to freedo...

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/06/trump-racism-comments/588067/

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Well Sushi, I don't think extreme PC gives rise to rightwing extremism because I don't think it's that common outside of a university campus, Rowan At...

The concerns you raise are real within the university. Pundits can inadvertently fuel the distrust of PC and feed into the power agenda of less wholes...

Maw, I agree with your points. Sorry sushi, you're not really making much sense in terms of explaining the rise of the right as a reaction against pol...

DeMorgan's laws are used by electricians to plan your household switches. That's useful, no?

What complicates matters is that these real concerns blend in so well with reactionary apologetics for the rule of the parasitic plutocrats. I haven't...

Is this thread reaction baiting or are you for real? (and if so I despair - note the inclusive V).

OK, fair enough, yes, social media is bound to be polarizing, yes, people have a choice on how they respond to things (up to a point talk of a culture...

Well, looking at things uncharacteristically optimistically, we know that cognition and culture coevolve, so if there's nothing to be gained from corr...

Makes use of technology to rid the world of mind numbing jobs. We've found a healthy alternative to fossil fuels or any kind of fuel that disrupts the...

@ghost said Surprised no one has mentioned Dennett on "Chmess" yet as far as I could see. I linked a short account if you're interested. It seems he h...

I was interested in Ian Morris's claim (Foragers, Farmers and Fossil Fuels) that in conditions where inequality is optimal (or even necessary) for the...

Yes, I've already read Thomas Kuhn, Joshs and I'm aware that no one operates in a cultural vacuum, in case you missed that.

Some random responses 1. There is no such thing as acting via reason alone because: a. we are not brains in boxes - cognition and culture coevolve b. ...

Earthlycohort, I don't understand the idea of deserving in this context. An expectation - or a sense of entitlement - that the attraction would be mut...

I don't think you can answer these questions without disentangling cognition, culture, and physical chemistry. And I don't think these can be disentan...

Joshs, Yes we all know our Thomas Kuhn. But consider the history of culture is cumulative (recently read a fascinating piece on the precursory element...

Joshs, no. Not really. There may be various tribes in science - reductionists, emergentists, various schools of thought influenced by the ideologies o...

Here is a list of counter examples.

I don't know how "independent" they are. Seem to be very closely related in geography and in time and in culture. How about the Aztecs, Taoism, Buddhi...

Humans' cognitive capacity co-evolved with human culture, as it is culture that allows the brain to fully realize its capabilities. Culture is like th...

I was considering the typical cases made for the existence of God that involve a prime mover or intelligent cosmic design/governance. Extra-cosmic, if...

Certain beliefs are culturally functional given certain social organizations, which differ through history and with geography depending on the nature ...