If systemic racism didn't work through economic means, you would not expect minorities to be economically disadvantaged. The current economic system o...
Self concept is much different from treating oneself as an object; a person enacts a self concept in how they evaluate themselves - and hows are not w...
Insofar as anything can be treated as an object, that is an objectification. But it doesn't mean the same thing as objectification in the way other pe...
Nah. I think I felt more like that when I was younger though - not that I was "entitled to sex", just that I got more pissed off and bamboozled with r...
:up: I don't wanna draw a line for other people regarding what consentual games are played. They seem to enjoy it. There's even some nice moments of e...
I think that is true, what makes me uncomfortable are situations where one person is signalling that they are "connected" for the sole purposes of get...
Do you care if the guy is successfully putting on caring and flirting as a performance? This is something I've never gotten my head around. The hetero...
I think the line is: Solipsism says that worldly objects are existentially dependent upon the solipsist's mind. As in, if there wasn't that mind, ther...
Now we're on the same page. But from my perspective that brings us to the start of the discussion again, I don't really want to go around the loop onc...
I think for him it was a question of tactics? @"boethius" had original source stuff regarding MLK and nonviolence. Keep in mind; the possibility of su...
Neither am I. It's not like I've got any formal training in it. So you're not speaking to someone who's actually a domain expert. My exposure to it mo...
After several days of discussion, banned @"ernestm". Reasons for decision: comments containing phrases like "black coon" (joke or racist double en ten...
I dunno how to envision what's likely and what's not from the space of all possible representative democracies. The only speculative principle I can c...
A little variation can matter a lot between species. I was referring to a little within species; humans. The race categories we're familiar with have ...
Why should anyone believe that there is a large effect on sports performance related to whether a body is black when there is so little genetic variat...
I'm unsure whether representative democracy as a social model is itself to blame. I think that our current forms of it in the political north are pron...
Nah man. Even if there were genetic propensities, they don't explain variation like that. Reasons are cultural. We clearly live in a world where India...
I'm pretty amazed that it's learned devices and tropes. Enjambment Thence down the mountain-sides the bright gold sun Dapples all the valley below Sim...
What do you think I'm missing by focussing too much on the US when talking about over 100 years of failure of US "democracy" to represent a good chunk...
The thing that makes it very convincing to me is "where" that "limit" is located; within a presupposition of the correlationist circle. I go into why ...
:up: Elections are not a means by which the public expresses their views on specific political issues. They're fully consistent with a representative ...
Let's keep two flavours of claims distinct; Elections are totally irrelevant. Elections and representative politics has a terrible track record on add...
It's true though. Elections do hee haw for the people in the streets. Historically too; you'd think if there was a big chance of an election changing ...
Let's keep in mind that there've been protests like this for over 100 years; the elections haven't done much at all. What related gains there have bee...
Seriously though. Really? You're willing to brand huge protests as blunted because they're part of a "culture war", that they're ultimately symbolic, ...
Good, agreed. Just what the protests want. Too early to tell what they can be leveraged into yet. The decentralised networks that lead to these protes...
Tell me whether police reform is more likely now or before the uprising. The problems aren't just discursive. To the extent you believe the countries ...
I don't understand at all. You say that my narrative is harmful, but when asked to give examples of harm it's causing, you say that how I articulate m...
That's completely absurd. You think a social shut in who spends his time arguing on the internet is making race important to the extent you're critici...
I don't really know what you're talking about. Give me an example of something I've said that has done more harm than silence and ignorance on the iss...
Highlighting that race matters when it shouldn't is much different from making race matter when it shouldn't. It's not my rhetoric that's causing syst...
We both know it's also "just a statue"; toppling it doesn't change any policies by itself. How I'm seeing those acts of symbolic destruction in the UK...
I could spend time educating you on R^2 and forecasting, but I won't. Suffice to say; a high R^2 in an strictly linear OLS model doesn't tell you anyt...
... That tells no one anything about what you (allegedly) did. What whoever modeled this actually did in the forecasted years is exactly as @"Streetli...
Can also serve as a reply to @"Judaka". There's one form of it which I agree is regressive; if we end up talking about white individuals and guilt rat...
Three things that means; (1) You acknowledge the reality of global systemic racism. (2) You know that it's almost always white supremacist in nature, ...
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