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It would seem to me your proposed terms suggest a dualism of some sort, which is perhaps the problem to begin with. I would argue that repurposing dua...
February 21, 2022 at 19:11
Assuming that something is the cause of thoughts, and that that something is therefor responsible for them, it goes to follow that each of us are resp...
February 21, 2022 at 19:01
Next you’ll tell us about The End of History and the Last Man.
February 21, 2022 at 18:31
It’s evident to me that laws can be either just or unjust, right or wrong. There is no human right the government has not violated. The government mur...
February 21, 2022 at 18:17
The defining feature of bigotry is that it is intolerant. Even the unreasonable can tolerate another’s thoughts and words. A public objection is just ...
February 19, 2022 at 18:31
I’m well aware that the government can invent crimes and violate its charter of rights and freedoms. I’m just saying it’s wrong and tyrannical to do s...
February 19, 2022 at 17:14
There probably is a tribal element to it. What do you think? By bigoted I mean that one is intolerant of another because of his views, which do not ma...
February 19, 2022 at 08:46
The motivation of bigotry and resultant actions of censorship and ostracism are wrong no matter who does it, is the point.
February 19, 2022 at 03:28
I don’t know who to believe. The Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said she would like to “request to the mass disinformation outlets of the USA an...
February 18, 2022 at 23:31
War is certainly immanent, though I hope I eat these words. If so, it will no doubt be a self-fulfilling prophecy premised on projection. https://twit...
February 18, 2022 at 22:27
No, I mean bank accounts. Bank accounts are being frozen for the crime of donating to a protest.
February 18, 2022 at 22:23
There is nothing self-regulating about this kind of ostracism and bigotry, even if they have found less violent means of doing it than in the past. Wh...
February 18, 2022 at 22:17
Cancel culture was regnant in McCarthyism and Anti-communism, I would say.
February 18, 2022 at 18:11
Polarization was effectively suppressed during those times, though. But in “Eichmann in Jerusalem” she notes of Denmark, which resisted the Nazi progr...
February 18, 2022 at 17:32
Polarization and division are important. Think of all the one-party or no party states, as uniform as could possibly be. Look at regimes that are unab...
February 18, 2022 at 16:48
It’s bigotry, it’s censorship, and it’s cruel. The punishment is disproportionate to the supposed crime, which is often no crime at all, not even an a...
February 18, 2022 at 16:37
That’s the expected reply. It suits perfectly well a pampered culture. A bruise is worse than poverty. Getting a spanking is worse than the government...
February 18, 2022 at 16:14
I've walked through three different freedom convoy protests where I live and it is nothing like what you describe, so I can reject your characterizati...
February 17, 2022 at 23:07
Watch MSNBC shill for Ukraine’s Azov Battalion. https://youtu.be/dixGvR7e5F8 Suspiciously enough, Congress removed a ban on funding them back in 2015....
February 17, 2022 at 22:50
Have you ever had your bank account frozen for participating in a protest?
February 17, 2022 at 16:55
If Biden’s pick is given advantage by eliminating an entire gender and other races from the process, it doesn’t follow that members of the another gen...
February 16, 2022 at 22:19
It would be fair.
February 15, 2022 at 16:38
Well, yes.
February 15, 2022 at 16:19
Canada’s panty-waisted despot just invoked the Emergencies Act to quell the so-called Freedom Convoy protests. The act gives the federal government sw...
February 15, 2022 at 16:18
No, that’s fair. I don’t understand what you mean when you say I have a superstition that I don’t value fairness.
February 15, 2022 at 06:49
You’ve lost me.
February 15, 2022 at 03:09
I don't understand the contention. A murderer has killed someone. How can others of the same taxonomy be perpetrators of murder if they did not kill a...
February 15, 2022 at 00:26
The superstition as it has been used leads one to false conclusions and unjust actions, such as the assumption that any member of such taxonomies are ...
February 14, 2022 at 23:37
I speak of race as pseudoscience and superstition. The history of how this superstition was used to malign, exclude, and murder human beings is well d...
February 14, 2022 at 22:23
But you never mentioned the motivations of those who appointed them nor any other circumstance. If you do not want to know what I would infer from suc...
February 14, 2022 at 20:30
I could infer nothing from such facts. What would you infer?
February 14, 2022 at 20:26
The arguments as to why this is a good thing are still lost on me. Far from being any concrete progression towards a better state of affairs for anyon...
February 14, 2022 at 20:19
You look at the disproportionate representation of certain skin colors in prison, and then someone comes along and shows the same disproportionate rep...
February 13, 2022 at 20:18
No, it is not obvious to me that someone who has been convicted and sentenced to prison, or who is similar in skin-tone to others who may have had suc...
February 13, 2022 at 10:04
You are unable to explain why the racial makeup of the court is relevant to law or the court’s function.
February 12, 2022 at 17:46
It was certainly relevant wherever the law was unjust and the court racist, sure. But that’s no argument that it is now or ought to be.
February 12, 2022 at 17:39
The racial makeup of a court is irrelevant to law and the function of a court. Not to mention, historically speaking, the only ones concerned with the...
February 12, 2022 at 16:26
I completely agree. Biden explicitly stated his nominee will be a black woman, all of which is irrelevant to qualifications.
February 11, 2022 at 18:59
Well, you have grouped people and have made assumptions about them according to their racial characteristics. But all I’m trying to say is these assum...
February 11, 2022 at 18:53
No I fully agree. That’s why I said Biden, nor anyone, cannot claim he is excluding other races for matters of racial justice. His past actions falsif...
February 10, 2022 at 20:26
I see it like this: you've grouped people under superficial racial categories of which there is no scientific basis, look for the disparities between ...
February 10, 2022 at 20:22
I could care less what a judge looks like, what feigned group they “represent”. It is Biden, not me, who is making the symbolic effort of choosing a b...
February 10, 2022 at 19:11
Very true. It probably is about tokenism for Biden in particular, and the democrats in general.
February 10, 2022 at 18:53
Just another racial hierarchy upon which you place people with darker complexions on a lower rung. What does the spectrum of complexion have to do wit...
February 10, 2022 at 18:24
You’d have to assume she’s been wronged, and base it on nothing other than the color of her skin. So already you place her on a lower rung in a racial...
February 10, 2022 at 18:05
So-called “positive” race discrimination suggests a belief in the inferiority of the races they are designed to help. But this nomination isn’t a form...
February 10, 2022 at 17:37
I’m not sure how a freedom founded on sovereignty can only be won at a cost to another’s sovereignty. If each of us are (or ought to be) sovereign ove...
February 09, 2022 at 00:01
No, she should not have been censored. Censorship is cruel and leaves us ignorant. Better to let truth and falsity battle it out in the open field.
February 06, 2022 at 09:47
The idea that objects are merely collections or aggregates arranged from other objects (particles, atoms, etc) hasn't born itself out, in my opinion. ...
February 04, 2022 at 18:14
I wouldn't say the system is just—it clearly isn't—but that it ought to be. But it's true: the law serves only to protect the state's interest.
February 04, 2022 at 17:25