Thorongil

Ooh, now a red herring? I think we can declare victory. Going to bed.

What the word white refers to. :-O

Oh? So stop equivocating, then.

But then postmodernists conveniently claim that simply being white is to be in the wrong, the very point of dispute here. This is have one's cake and ...

Once again, the lack of melanin in the skin of Europeans was a fact about them before there was a society to allegedly construct it. There's nothing t...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism

Like Wayfarer says, for a being to have intrinsic value, it would have to be an end in itself. I think it's a very fine thing to treat others as if th...

I tired watching that movie recently and couldn't finish it. Was left wondering why it's considered a classic, given how tedious it was.

Yes. You're catching on. Not much. It's just a very generalized descriptive fact. I'm with Morgan Freeman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeixtYS-P3s...

Nonsense. Are you honestly going to tell me that ancient Europeans failed to notice their own skin tone? If not, then by "white" you mean something ot...

Here we see the motte and bailey technique of the postmodernist on display. Make provocative claims when skirmishing at first, such as "being white is...

Postmodernism alert! *ducks*

Think what you like, but wait for the facts to come out regarding those things before you start gluing your tin foil hat firmly on your head.

Just look at the smug condescension of those Berkeley hipsters, haha. I encounter that soft bigotry of low expectations in academia too.

Nailed it.

This isn't entirely true. Corporations don't like him. They didn't give much to his campaign (whereas loads of them donated to Hillary) and they hate ...

Respect, Baden.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vx3_2ks5qQ&t

There were good guys in this race?!

You're saying I'm a very smart, well informed professional? Anyway, we already know Trump is going to make other people do all the work. This was leak...

Nah.

He's going to delegate all the work to other people. Nothing much will happen, I suspect. Though the left will act like it's the apocalypse.

Yeah, looks like it could be Trump. A Brexit type scenario was always possible in this election, so I wouldn't be surprised. I didn't vote, as I think...

Of course not. For one thing, it would be illegal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3xZDdVq2kQ Absolutely amazing.

I'm rather surprised at your being surprised. I will bow out, for I can see you're not the type who will facilitate productive conversation on these t...

To hell with intellectuals. You honestly think they're the standard bearers of facts and evidence? Get a grip, man. Anti-intellectualism =//= anti-int...

That's what the Dems have been doing for a long time too. Two of the results of this are Trump and the alt-right.

I don't quite buy it. Yes, the word "religion" is of Western origin, but that doesn't mean it can't still pick out non-Western (or non-Abrahamic) syst...

I don't have a lawn.

Large portions of which don't like him, so go figure. No, the left created the monster that is Trump.

He's actually a creation of the social justice progressive left.

Only a very small fraction of the American people made Trump the party nominee. The same is true for Hillary. Most Americans don't like either of them...

Oh, I see now. You're telling me you're a fatty.

Tell me Arkady, how do you make it through the day with such a large stick up your rear end?

Because they're based on American comic books written by American authors for an American audience?

Fair enough.

This is actually close to what he considers the noumenon to be, as I see it. Think of the noumenon as a necessary limiting concept. We have to admit i...

You think voting for someone who shares your principles is wack? Okay.

Still naive.

So? They don't speak for "conservatism."

There's your problem! Yes. You mean the noumenon here. Noumena is plural. Kant ambiguously tends to conflate the noumenon with the thing-in-itself. If...

He was talking about conservatives in general.

There are no "authorities" in Western philosophy, either. There's no official church of Plato, church of Kant, etc. There are simply individuals who r...

Naive.

Doing evil in order to achieve the good is not justified in Christianity and Islam, generally speaking. They are not consequentialist religions.

This isn't an "atheistic notion" of death. Atheism is the denial of the existence of any god. One could therefore be an atheist and hold to belief in ...

The sheer arrogance here! As Wayfarer points out, there are no Eastern "theologies." Secondly, I doubt you've read more than a page about them, becaus...

No, no, no, yes.

Just what I said.