The Great Whatever

This is just wrong. People were aware of ethnic differences since there have been ethnic differences, and had labels for them. Ancient literature ment...

Slavery is a part of the history of black and white people. This does not mean that being white in itself was created as a result of, or is inherently...

Nah, you'd have different bodies even if no one talked about it.

Yes, Europeans are different from each other, but they are more different from Africans. This is seriously not hard to understand.

Because there are obvious differences, the most obvious of which is a clear difference in skin color? Isn't this a stupid question?

I don't think it's just or unjust. Again, I think it's reality. Ultimately I think that comedy is not for upsetting the powerful because it gives the ...

But it's obviously not a social construction. I mean, you understand that people who originate from different parts of the world look different, right...

It's a continuum obviously, but to deny the existence of groups because a continuum between them exists is the fallacy of Loki's Wager. Yes Europeans ...

It's not unjust. It's reality, and I'm commenting on it. I think that comedy is deeper than that, but okay.

This doesn't make much sense, considering white people were always white, and even now people are still German, Polish, etc. I mean, Europeans are an ...

To think that there is only one unique race (white people) whose racial identity is defined entirely negatively in terms of oppression, requires a dee...

You can be an underdog in certain respects and not in others. The inability to understand this, except in terms of intersection of multiple demographi...

Is not being allowed to attack someone symptomatic of being in a position of power over them?

I'm going to suggest that the reason you don't find it funny is that you are the overdog and hence feel threatened by it. *shrug*

This is not true: non-white people are allowed to say racist things in public. If you believe racism against whites isn't possible (note the racially ...

I think a non-naive understanding would be that white people have a unique relation with racial guilt and masochism that makes them self-hating and re...

If you like, csal, you are the underdog if you discover anything unspeakable, because if you weren't, your opinion would determine, implicitly or expl...

I think you are naive to suggest that white people are the ones in power, at least in the US. Yes there are correlations, but it's far more complicate...

If you are not the underdog, there is nothing unspeakable for you. Your thoughts go out of the radio, into your ears, and out your mouth again.

What this response ignores in my opinion is that being funny and being the underdog are deeply, deeply linked.

So is this funny? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5lpLHaVXnM I feel that this is an example of something on the verge of being too serious. But it's ...

It might be. Some insults are clever because they cut so deep, toward subconscious inadequacies people have. There is no limit to how mad you can pote...

Another golden age r9k production. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCeOf2q6_TA I used to think that the humor was an endless spiral, and that maybe th...

I'll give you an example of something I found utterly hilarious. It's hard to explain out of context, and wasn't even connected to the alt-right direc...

I don't think Milo is alt-right. He's co-opted the label and tried to make it seem like a classical liberal thing, but the core seems to be white nati...

You could, but I have some sympathy for the alt-rghters because they have a quality that others don't -- they're funny. There's something about what's...

I would be happy never to have to hear an undergraduate open their mouth again, to be honest -- what's in that video is not, from my experience, in an...

What I am telling you is that if you believe the picture of what happened that you just outlined, you are delusional. It may be due to insularity of n...

In what sense was Trump's campaign more fueled by fear, hatred, 'the other,' anger, and doubt than Clinton's? This is what I mean about being delusion...

To emphasize the point about being out of touch with reality, the reactions to the people who were watching the election and not pleased with the resu...

It's the same with 'working white class people voting against their own interests.' As soon as the tides turn, it's always 'I can't believe these redn...

By and large, the delusion does run that deep. Liberals have a serious problem with conceiving of minorities as people with opinions. And I say this b...

Another thing that bothers me is that my social circle (what little there is) is mostly academics, and academics have a smokescreen in front of them b...

They weren't predicting the popular vote. They were predicting the election.

Yet what they saw on TV was literally just him talking. And then they went to his rallies and saw him in person. The people who can't distinguish betw...

I see it the opposite. The television told us all one thing, and reality smashed it.

I am not enthusiastic about a Trump win but I don't see it as a sign of the apocalypse. I hope that above all else, every pollster, media station, and...

Home stretch! How is everyone feeling! I'm sorry this has been dead for several days – my mental effort has been taken up elsewhere. We're on the fina...

The first part of this chapter seems super dumb. Any thoughts on that?

Go for it. But this chapter is....I dunno.

Husserl begins to speak at some point of sedimentation, whereby a transcendental ego is affected by a past and starts to take on a personal 'style' of...

Wooooooooww, holy shit

The crux is this: can you be introduced to a piece of music midstream and have it seem from your perspective that you had been listening all along? If...

But my familiarity can't have a bearing on retention. Unless I've horribly misunderstood, retention cannot extend years, or even hours, into 'the past...

I guess it depend son what you think of Omphalos hypotheses. Put it this way – if I'm familiar with a piece, and I hear a note or chord from the middl...

I think the case is more plausible for retention. And that is what Derrida specifically criticizes (again, without comment on why protention ought to ...

I agree, but don't think the various avenues you tend to offer (or really that Henry does, ultimately) are an interesting antidote for these woes. To ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTpJm16AHxQ

You should read that book. It's not very rigorous, it's just him telling it like it is for pages and pages straight. A certain kind of mind will find ...

That doesn't seem like a terrible result. There's even a good case to be made that James and Nietzsche are at least proto-pomo, which fits with this c...