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The Nazis were routinely censored in Weimar. Worse, Hitler himself used their own censorship to justify the Enabling act. After that Nazi Germany beca...

Could you use your words to guide me like a marionette to this or that action? Let’s give it a try.

I think it is only a matter of time before one fallen belief leads to a collapse of those that depend on it.

Censorship is a huge problem, and will continue to proliferate as the means of expression become more widespread. But I think there is hope. As soon a...

I believe argument is valuable for its own sake, that one should subject his opinions to the grindstone of debate in order to form a better understand...

There is little difference between so-called positive and negative racial discrimination, in my view. In each case, one adopts a perverted racial taxo...

Twitter and Facebook have nothing to do with American elections, so all that nonsense about Russian bots and fake news on social media was piffle. You...

It could be just that. Maybe the difference lies in the object of scorn, whether it be an actual, extant individual or an abstract generalization. If ...

All groups are composed of individuals. There is nothing connecting one individual to the next. One can try to bridge that gap with generalizations an...

No, I couldn't care less because there is no crime or evil occurring anywhere folks like yourself have been crying wolf for the past half-decade. Trum...

Yeah, I could care less if Russians bought Facebook ads. Biden employed Facebook and they censored information that might look bad for Biden. Where we...

Years of Russia conspiracy theories and where were you? It sounds like double standards but there is no evidence you have any. Is it because you have ...

A lot of good that did. What they got was a pro-American, “America-first” agenda. The KGB fell with their commie empire. Maybe Trump cultivated them a...

It is complicated, agreed. I would argue censorship is one big problem. Not only does it deny the hater’s right to speak it, but it also denies our ri...

I think removing the desire to attribute characteristics to entire groups as if the group itself was an individual is a good place to start. That way ...

Am I not PC enough? It reminds me of a Thomas Sowell quote: “If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by ...

That used to be what it was like for people across the spectrum. For Engels the state machinery would necessarily whither away. For Thomas Paine the g...

Biden’s treasure Secretary Janet Yellen made a speech to Citadel for $800,000, but hasn’t recused herself from advising old Joe regarding the GameStop...

Biden has signed 30 executive orders in his first week, which to me is dictator status. Compare that to Trump’s 6 and Obama’s 5. Whatever he’s doing h...

Is skin-color not used as a marker of race? It is, as are other biological factors. Let’s get this out of the way, then. Do you believe people should ...

Clearly I was talking about race and race-based policy and medicine. I mistakenly thought you were as well, but I guess your entire argument was a red...

I have always been speaking about race, race-based discrimination and its institutional variations, and here you provide a study about the colors of s...

I never said there is anything wrong with discrimination, so your point about bleach is a stupid one. My point is that we shouldn’t discriminate on th...

It is wrong because race, as fuzzy as it is superstitious, is no proxy for genetic susceptibility and actual biology. The use of racial discrimination...

It is racism. Racist societies have routinely set the state machinery to favor this or that racial group for no other reason than that they share the ...

You can ask them. You cannot feel what they feel because you are a different human being, but you can share, relate and empathize with another.

Perhaps this quandary exists because for so long we’ve elevated the inner invisible world at the expense of the outer physical world, instilling in ou...

Without parties we get the single-party politics of fascism and communism. In democratic countries, at least one can choose to assemble with others of...

Biden is about to set his administration to fighting systemic racism with his new executive orders. Susan Rice said this was about “racial justice and...

The Czech Republic is not socialist either. They replaced the word “socialist” in the name Czechoslovak Socialist Republic with the word “federal” bac...

Well, Canada is not a socialist country. It is a constitutional monarchy, liberal democracy with a market-orientated economy. It has no reference to s...

I never said socialism leads to emigration. In fact emigration was mostly illegal and movement was restricted. What I said was think more people try t...

Though I agree with the belief, I do not see how it is applicable to politics. Not to mention, despite the principle, scientists are often wrong. Put ...

An opposition might consist of anyone who opposes technocracy, which I wager would include some scientists.

I’m not sure how that tells the opposite story. It tells the same story. People largely run from socialism, not towards it. The list of failed sociali...

I think more people try to escape from socialist states than move to them. The Venezuelan refugee crisis and Cuban exodus give us reasons as to why th...

Where was this sentiment years ago? A little too late, in my opinion. As for me I have never once denounced partisanship, a fundamental feature of dem...

Welfare states will certainly suffer from declining birth rates. Declining birth rates imply a decline in the population, which also means a decline i...

A soft despotism is a despotism nonetheless.

Not at all. I see real kindness in individual acts, not in the advocacy of this or that policy.

Not really.

No, it’s awesome because the Democrats spent a lot of time dismissing their activity and feigned outrage whenever it was suggested to bring in the nat...

I disagree. Kind, paternalistic people such as yourself should secure the basic well-being of your fellow citizens and have the freedom to do so. Some...

At worst he held a rally told people to exercise their first amendment rights. Not quite my idea of a dictator.

That’s right. Despite the fear mongering, the comparisons to every dictator from Mao, to Mussolini, to Hitler, he never once seized dictatorial contro...

I think it’s a good argument. I’m not keen on the literature, but I’ve never heard it before. Personally I would depart from the argument at the premi...

I do not, no, and his presidency has proven that to be the case.

No. Are you?

Thanks for the clarification. I would say liberalism allows such an approach, though, to the point of it becoming institutionalized or even generally ...