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We are all subject to zero-sum thinking, and I think this reflects in the notion of knowledge as privilege, specifically the idea that one man’s inabi...
September 03, 2020 at 17:30
Twitterati are trying to say that verifying the tabulation of your vote, re-voting if necessary, is voting twice, as if it will count as two votes. Th...
September 03, 2020 at 16:19
A nice read, thanks. Tacitus wrote of Nerva and Trajan’s rule: “I have reserved for my old age, if life is spared to me, the reigns of the sainted Ner...
September 02, 2020 at 19:57
I am opposed to abortion but do not think the state should decide.
September 02, 2020 at 16:07
Fetus’ are human beings in their earliest stages of life. We all used to be one. And we accept that there may be a conflict of rights between a person...
September 02, 2020 at 14:20
No, that’s not what I’m “implying”. No need to reach for things I never said. Wrong, it is. Opposition and exclusion occur in politics all the time. O...
September 02, 2020 at 14:00
In: Privilege  — view comment
My results suggested “a slight automatic preference for African Americans over European Americans”. Shouldn’t implicit bias force me to unknowingly fa...
September 02, 2020 at 01:01
The problem is polarization doesn’t necessarily beget, nor is it a one-to-one ratio with, violence. As you tried to show, a polarizing issue such as s...
September 01, 2020 at 22:58
I don’t understand polarization to mean violence. Maybe there is something lost in translation here.
September 01, 2020 at 20:51
Lamenting a divided government from a man who fervently hates his own president. Funny.
September 01, 2020 at 20:11
No I’m not a progressive. Politics isn’t about creating some sort of uni-party, or else you might prefer the politics of North Korea, which is about a...
September 01, 2020 at 20:02
Besides nature, it’s given me a bloated government, institutional identity politics and high taxes. Far better than a minority government who has to w...
September 01, 2020 at 20:00
I remember the feds made Ferguson a no-fly zone during the riots because they didn’t want media to film the violence. Out of sight out of mind. I take...
September 01, 2020 at 19:29
The other week Nancy Pelosi said “ We take an oath to protect and defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. And, sadly, the dome...
September 01, 2020 at 18:42
In: Privilege  — view comment
You can superficially categorize people, sure, but here we are applying zero-sum thinking to outmoded taxonomies. Perverted racialist, and I would arg...
September 01, 2020 at 16:20
I try not to make a habit of predicting the future, but no, I do not believe that. Then again Biden’s political triangulation, his wind-sock approach ...
September 01, 2020 at 16:06
An AR-15 is a civilian rifle. Video and images show he was there to protect businesses, clean up the mess, and to offer medical attention. He worked a...
August 31, 2020 at 23:19
I’m not sure Trump’s comments are so outrageous, especially given the unrest, violence and destruction of property occurring right now. No amount of h...
August 31, 2020 at 23:02
In: Privilege  — view comment
You’re safe to use adjectives to describe human beings. But races are a taxonomy. So when we start to classify them as members in this taxonomy, we’ve...
August 31, 2020 at 22:26
Perhaps they were weened too late. Less responsibility. Less risk. It’s no strange wonder that the coddled grow up to prefer the same treatment when t...
August 31, 2020 at 21:48
I know that if rioters burned my business to the ground I would be happy if the leader of our country came in support. I can’t think of any leader hav...
August 31, 2020 at 21:37
From my own vantage point, I have rarely come across people who listen to what the president says and coming to their own conclusions, instead preferr...
August 31, 2020 at 21:35
Trump offered federal support, only to be denied. Days after Wheeler rebuked the president’s offer a protester is killed. Once they asked for federal ...
August 31, 2020 at 21:27
The kid clearly defended himself when a convicted pedophile rushed him and tried to grab his gun. He disarmed another man, quite literally, who ran at...
August 31, 2020 at 18:02
It will get more ugly. But to blame Trump for the division, when most if not all of the rioters inform themselves through a hostile media, seems to me...
August 31, 2020 at 17:59
Blaming others for that which you are guilty. I’m not surprised.
August 31, 2020 at 17:52
You just cry “fascism” out of one side of the mouth and then pretend you’re not calling anyone a fascist out the other. So fake.
August 31, 2020 at 17:23
It’s like calling the shooter, the rioters, Bernie supporters. It may be true, but it’s malinformation. The groups involved have names. No, I think it...
August 31, 2020 at 16:54
No, I label rioters as “rioters”. You call Americans “fascists” and, like a ghoul, cry foul when your incitement comes home to roost. BLM Activists Ce...
August 31, 2020 at 16:04
A possible suspect in the murder, a 48 year old self-avowed Antifa reprobate, is under investigation for the fatal shooting. https://www.oregonlive.co...
August 31, 2020 at 05:49
Someone walks up to a protester, a so-called Trump supporter, executes him, and rather than condemn the act we condemn the partisanship. Brains rottin...
August 31, 2020 at 05:33
Someone executed a “Blue lives matter” protester in Portland. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1300193398477946883?s=20
August 31, 2020 at 02:14
Confessions of a voter fraud: I was a master at fixing mail-in ballots https://nypost.com/2020/08/29/political-insider-explains-voter-fraud-with-mail-...
August 30, 2020 at 21:04
I‘be been missIng your insight as of late, friend.
August 30, 2020 at 21:00
There are more videos. I’m not right wing either.
August 29, 2020 at 05:50
Though there might be right-wing mobs out there swarming and harassing people, I am personally not aware of any who suggest or condone doing so, espec...
August 29, 2020 at 04:44
It’s called harassment and you blame the victims. I’m sure you do so without hypocrisy.
August 29, 2020 at 03:08
Being threatened by a mob is a little different than feeling threatened by tweets and ideas.
August 28, 2020 at 23:07
In: Privilege  — view comment
q I think the vitriol stems from “white privilege” being a sweeping and unjust generalization upon people with lighter skin colors, in this case the p...
August 28, 2020 at 17:19
Of course belligerent mobs threaten RNC attendees as they leave the event. https://youtu.be/OFDx5qTlGjU https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1299217...
August 28, 2020 at 15:25
I’m trying to argue that it isn’t as nefarious as you make it out to be. Photos of Obama era “children in cages” were shown to great effect in order t...
August 27, 2020 at 01:56
The facilities with “cages” were set up during Obama’s term. Rather it’s the “zero tolerance” policy that led to family separation, because it sent il...
August 26, 2020 at 20:50
I would agree that the American identity has been exploited, but that identity is welcome to all races and creeds. As for racism in varying circles of...
August 26, 2020 at 20:10
It’s true, a fair amount of demagoguery and sophistry goes into political campaigning, which is we know is antithetical to some philosophers. But in t...
August 26, 2020 at 19:02
A “sense of justice” is found in chimps, who will protest if they learn others receive more for the same work. Whether you call it nature, God, or wha...
August 26, 2020 at 18:46
I’m not sure they are at odds with each other since a great deal of philosophy goes into forging ideology. But perhaps one should begin with philosoph...
August 26, 2020 at 18:38
Miller is definitely a hardliner on immigration, but I’m not sure that makes him a racist. However, I am welcome to learning about any racist statemen...
August 26, 2020 at 18:26
No, I do not think one man’s views can be said to be shared by any majority of people. I do not follow or care much about alr-right figures, but I thi...
August 26, 2020 at 16:19
He was the alt-right poster boy for the media in the previous election, and was used to great effect to convince pliant minds of guilt by association....
August 26, 2020 at 14:57
If you want to play that game, how about Richard Spencer? https://twitter.com/RichardBSpencer/status/1298482619668037632?s=20
August 26, 2020 at 14:17