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That sounds about right, but I do believe racial-colorblindness is required in order to not be racist, that it is a fundamental step to refusing racis...
October 22, 2019 at 15:05
I’m not a republican, but if it was established that the sole reason Trump withheld funds was for political dirt for an election I would say it was wo...
October 22, 2019 at 14:57
The waffling between this straw man and the next suggests to me most of the criticism of color-blindness is made of straw. No, it’s not to refuse seei...
October 22, 2019 at 07:15
Well, race is one thing and ethnicity, gender, disability, etc. are quite another. Though it is possible, I am unaware of anyone, liberal or otherwise...
October 21, 2019 at 22:08
Our president went off the cuff this morning, speaking candidly about everything dominating Washington news. It really is a sight to behold. https://y...
October 21, 2019 at 18:19
It is a tricky question because it assumes first that there is something it is like to be X. What is this something? I would argue it is X and we’d ha...
October 21, 2019 at 17:49
Great thinking. Thanks for sharing it. It is counter-intuitive, but the statement is true both figuratively and literally, at least on the basis that ...
October 21, 2019 at 17:11
The administration’s policies, sanctions and arms deals are contra Putin. On the Record I’d be weary of the growing neo-McCarthyism now plaguing the p...
October 21, 2019 at 16:40
Every human being has an original genetic code or sequence unique to him.
October 21, 2019 at 15:45
Races are the mental chains that early racists strung around vast, disparate and diverse groups of people to justify their oppression and conquering. ...
October 21, 2019 at 14:42
Race isn’t the acknowledge of personhood, but the denial of it. It is another mental nation within which one can dissolve his or another’s individuali...
October 21, 2019 at 06:00
The racial context is the problem to begin with. Seeing everything through “the lens of race”, as critical race theorists propose, is to adopt the sam...
October 20, 2019 at 22:06
I’m wondering how you could know any of the following: It sounds more like an admission of guilt or projection than of fact. Could I hazard a guess th...
October 20, 2019 at 13:44
But you can see their inability to see in all of them? How does that work?
October 20, 2019 at 06:27
I guess I’m unsure how this is a problem and why I am the one being called out on it.
October 18, 2019 at 18:53
I agree on some things and disagree on others. If they say the water is wet, I would agree. As for this particular topic, there is little to no agreem...
October 18, 2019 at 17:21
This might sound too simple, but I think these sorts of problems typically arise when we turn adjectives and verbs into nouns via nominalization. So i...
October 18, 2019 at 16:54
And what point would that be?
October 18, 2019 at 16:35
:up:
October 18, 2019 at 16:11
Seems a bit of begging the question. Intentionality is assumed.
October 18, 2019 at 15:58
As you said, this another common strawman. Of course people are judged by the color of heir skin. That’s no question. Color blindness is merely that w...
October 18, 2019 at 15:40
Mulvaney never said it was a quid pro quo, nor admitted such. You guys are twisting his words and quote-mining for political gain. These are the reaso...
October 18, 2019 at 15:23
I’m not theist, nor ever was, but I have experienced nihilism in a similar manner. I could only imagine how it may be for a person raised on religion,...
October 17, 2019 at 15:51
This “fantasy” was the goal of the best part of the civil rights era, and the message was used to end apartheid and Jim Crow, back when people were op...
October 17, 2019 at 15:31
That’s a pretty shitty answer. I was merely asking if race factors into your own judgement, and if not, why should it factor into the judgement of oth...
October 16, 2019 at 20:05
Another reason to be skeptical of equality of opportunity is that opportunities are only available in a particular time and place, out of the reach of...
October 16, 2019 at 16:17
The basics should give you a general understanding of what philosophy entails. Personally, I never read philosophy in order to learn what to think, bu...
October 16, 2019 at 16:08
We could just call it “privilege”, then, without racializing it. Do you prefer judging people according to the content of their character, or does the...
October 16, 2019 at 15:23
Just to clarify I did not state diversity training was a malevolent cancer, only that diversity training is a manifestation of anti-colorblindness.
October 16, 2019 at 15:16
We’ve talked about this in the Trump thread and we should keep it there.
October 15, 2019 at 18:53
I don’t quite remember, but didn’t physicists have to change or at least clarify a part Newton’s theory to refute Hume’s argument?
October 15, 2019 at 18:16
Over decades!!
October 15, 2019 at 18:07
Another alternative might be that folks are angry that Trump is doing what they could only ever promise for decades.
October 15, 2019 at 17:57
A wall feels harsh. Well that about explains it. He should have proposed it differently. Let’s quibble about how it was proposed, and not what was pro...
October 15, 2019 at 17:51
The problem, as I see it, is that you’re treating individuals in accordance with their group membership, their “identity”, and not their individuality...
October 15, 2019 at 17:26
Asylum seekers can enter legally through secure points of entry, like everyone else. Either way, only 53% of those who state they have a “credible fea...
October 15, 2019 at 16:50
A 30ft metal wall is a minor obstacle? What a dangerous lie. Tell that to the woman who impaled herself n the same wall. Tell that to the man who brok...
October 14, 2019 at 23:57
Apparently the article you linked to is about this study, which uses “group threat theory in its analysis. They have the clear mind to at least admit ...
October 14, 2019 at 20:56
What is easier to cross, a border with a wall or a border without a wall? I’m not sure why I have to argue the efficacy what seems blatantly obvious.
October 14, 2019 at 20:52
I no longer live in the United States. I’m just curious, who blames black folks for the welfare state? Any quotes, or...
October 14, 2019 at 20:41
Barriers of all sorts have been used to great effect since time immemorial right until today. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_barrier#List_of_c...
October 14, 2019 at 20:36
As I intimated, the set-up I would imagine is a moral society where we help one another on our own accord, with no need for a statist safety net. This...
October 14, 2019 at 20:29
Zing! Tim, your great writing is betrayed the moment you try to come up with an insult. What a shame.
October 14, 2019 at 20:19
The risk is the essentialism involved in racism, I think. There is an essence, characteristic, or set of “racial traits” for members of races, when su...
October 14, 2019 at 20:04
Lol, that’s at least fair.
October 14, 2019 at 19:31
I get the reference, yes. Are you unable to tolerate his t-shirt?
October 14, 2019 at 19:29
It doesn’t happen. It’s statism all the way down. Socialism is merely the siren song of despots.
October 14, 2019 at 19:28
You had to add “lynching a journalist” to make it sound like the guy was being intolerant.
October 14, 2019 at 19:23
Right, the worst excesses of socialism was really capitalism. Even if they never quite reached “true socialism”, they did it in its name, and here are...
October 14, 2019 at 19:20
Clearly wearing a t-shirt is not lynching a journalist. There is only one intolerant person in the photo, and it is the person holding the camera.
October 14, 2019 at 19:16