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yes, I would allow it to happen because I believe in free speech and carry that principle to its absolute conclusion. In my view, the best course of a...
August 09, 2019 at 15:56
The penultimate work on “white privilege” is Peggy McIntosh’s White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
August 09, 2019 at 15:47
Yes hate speech should be allowed, namely, because all speech should be allowed. 1 act of Censorship is far worse than any combination of words ever s...
August 09, 2019 at 15:40
White privilege is the continuation of white supremacy but in a milder form. Those who state it believe the white race is better off because of their ...
August 09, 2019 at 15:38
It’s not evidence of anything.
July 03, 2019 at 15:11
Trump greatest legacy will be the destruction of the politically-correct, public relations style of modern Western politics, where most politicians ar...
July 02, 2019 at 22:12
Persuade by means that do not involve force or threats.
July 02, 2019 at 22:01
A group of things is not itself a thing.
July 02, 2019 at 21:22
I think the Hitchensian dictum "That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence" holds true in this case. No faith is re...
July 02, 2019 at 21:09
Just to add, “social media” seems a grave misnomer. It is more “anti-social media” than anything social, because we are literally interacting with scr...
June 30, 2019 at 17:05
But if the second person “gives information” in a language that the first person doesn’t understand, no information is received. Only sounds/symbols/m...
June 30, 2019 at 16:58
Freedom, as I understand it, is the absence of coercion. So it’s more a duty each of us have to refrain from coercing others.
June 30, 2019 at 15:40
In: Fake news  — view comment
Fake news is the justification the government of China used for the censorship of the internet, and now we get to watch as the same thing happens in t...
June 30, 2019 at 15:27
If the universe has no location it isn’t finite but goes on forever.
June 30, 2019 at 14:52
None of which means anything unless something can decipher it.
June 30, 2019 at 05:28
No, information does not travel through the air. If it did we’d know every language just by hearing it. First we must have the tools to decipher the l...
June 30, 2019 at 04:56