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No, we should not tolerate the intolerant.

Look at Korea. The south developed with capitalism, while the north developed with socialism. One is prosperous, the other is impoverished and despoti...

I am an immigrant to my current country, and most of what I know about immigration is related to my own experiences of it. It’s a long and difficult p...

About a t-shirt?

Here is a list of states, both past and current, that claim socialism in their constitutions. Which of these in particular would you says has the acce...

This is a great article by Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone. Even with his disdain for Trump, he can see the dangers of the IC coup. This is at least a le...

No, what’s bad is surreptitiously taking a picture of someone’s t-shirt and spreading it among the uncritical masses on twitter for political gain.

Next you’re going to tell us video games cause violence.

True, but what I meant was the rest of the body, ie, not the brain. A body is more than a brain and nervous system. I am speaking about the idea that ...

Trump apparently buckled to pressure. What a shame. In doing so he gives the thought police exactly what they want: Power. https://twitter.com/nytimes...

Yes, I’m aware that you’re trying to connect me, speciously, to the demonization of Jews in Nazi Germany. I was merely turning it back on you. Does it...

Why lie? I would never say that.

I am extremely offended by the urge to censorship, which I imagine you clutching, like pearls, whenever your feelings get the best of you. That urge i...

Absolutely. I don’t believe the species can be subdivided into races in any coherent manner, but apparently the debate is still ongoing. In philosophy...

I think the biggest problem with the category “race” is that there is more genetic diversity within races than between them. So for instance, a tall b...

Here’s a better video of ABC’s blatant, egregious propaganda. https://youtu.be/12ikTKazYcI

What monsters!! No, I do not agree at all. https://twitter.com/americanp2019/status/1183603985778917378?s=21

I’m not a geneticist. I was just reading Wikipedia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_genetics

Did you complain about the original movie? The Christians being shot in their place of worship? Or did you realize it wasn’t real? Or was it only when...

That’s the colloquial version, I think. But there is no gene that determines race.

It was just a meme, a joke, a gag, a parody. For those that don’t know, this meme was shown at a pro-trump event—not on the stage, mind you, but on a ...

ABC using a video from Kentucky, pretending it was Syria. Apparently the video was taken down. Here’s a side-by-side comparison. https://streamable.co...

I love what you wrote there. :up: Yes, it’s odd, the extent to which atheists leave one foot in the religious circle, just enough to allow speaking ab...

No I don’t think it would work, and completely agree with you, but human bodies no less end up becoming the brick and mortar to their failed schemes, ...

I’m the same way, I was never given any religious teaching or training and remained mostly ignorant of it until a later age.

You’re right; my apologies for the irrelevance. I was trying to explain the reasons why I reflect both labels.

I really do believe it. This is an aspect of racism that now permeates throughout American culture and is spreading, to the point that it has become i...

The term “atheist” was, at least historically, a term of abuse used against those that didn’t follow the religious orthodoxy. In other words, a term i...

I dislike both atheism and theism because of their relationship to one another. Are any atheists not former theists?

What I mean is, colorblindness is refusing to engage in racism. It’s to do the opposite of what racists have done throughout history.

Historically people have been treated as members of racial groups, convicted of some form or other of essentialism, and treated accordingly. It seems ...

Again, colorblindness is a way of treating others that does not entail denying racism, just refusing to engage in and practice racism. Anti-colorblind...

Neither does hypocrisy.

That sounds to me an admission of guilt than a statement of fact.

I suppose, then, that it was only a matter of time that the oppressed would adopt the pseudoscience and superstitions of the oppressors, if not as a s...

Actually, “color-blindness” is more a refusal to engage in “racial constructionism”.

Philosophy of mind and neuroscience tends to do away with the body, focussing instead on abstracted parts of the body, ie. brains and nervous systems,...

Thanks, I’ll check it out. The body seems to me be the obvious—almost too obvious—heuristic principle of many questions regarding bodily phenomena, ie...

Maybe they don’t. But like I said, my immigration views are my own.

I’m not sure. I don’t have the time or energy to compare them. We can discuss immigration.

I am game. My views of immigration are my own.

The rhetoric comparing Trump’s supporters to Nazis justifies their persecution. https://youtu.be/9No7jLG_9gA https://youtu.be/UxoL8tHSa7g

“Concentration camp, internment centre for political prisoners and members of national or minority groups who are confined for reasons of state securi...

Ha. My point is, both sides have legitimate concerns that are not necessarily about hatred or malice. It’s best if we at least hear them out, and then...

For the same reason we do not throw children in jail with their parents. It is unjust. 15% of “families” engage in child trafficking is only concernin...

For the same reason I don’t speed around police. If an action is likely to lead to negative consequences we are less likely to do it. If the penalty f...

I’m trying not to butt in, but ethically it’s double edged sword. Some believe throwing children in jail with their parents or potential human traffic...

I don’t think it’s a bad thing. Not many people were capable of writing and reading in ancient times, so personally I’ll take whatever I can get, no m...

I can pick up the book and read about this character at any time, so yes.

God exists as a character in a book.