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So you want to be spared: Faggot Nigger Is it what you wanted?

You have to draw a line somewhere. Speech turns out to be a wise place to draw it. We all agreed. The world worked.

?Roke Let us take an example: "Kill all the white people!" Substitute any group you wish. Suppose a person with influence yells that to their people w...

Seriously though, do I need to spell it out? Has everyone forgotten?

Bitter Crank?

Hey. There was a time when we held ourselves to a higher standard. It was a while ago.

I am putting it to you that it is not a useful term. Please afford me grace as I clumsily lay out my case. I’ll emphasize a subtle point that is impor...

Those who’ve coined a term using the word hate to mean something other than hate. Hate had a very well established meaning. The new meaning extends to...

Importantly, that was not necessarily anti-trans talk at all! I agree with you, but my interest here is not in the autistic navigation of evolving soc...

“I hate you.” (Not hate speech?) “That girl I made out with at the bar turned out to be a tranny!” (Hate speech?) The word “hate” is a generally well-...

You’re saying this is the intended function or the actual function?

I guess I have some cognitive dissonance about the sense of fervor and desperation with which this is being pursued. It’s not a trustworthy demeanor i...

Can someone humor me and explain what’s going on, possibly even without dismissive political buzz speak? I go into an intermittent hermit mode and am ...

I don’t have a media diet. This is literally me trying to broaden my media diet. If you have truth don’t wield it like an asshole.

I’m just posting in hopes of some confirmation and/or clarification. I have had my head in the sand where I like it for quite a while but I was just r...

Public discussions about race and racism have simply become a bad faith game. Whatever combination of words you say doesn’t so much matter beyond thei...

Cuss words are somewhat arbitrary but not without utility. When kids refrain from using them, it signals some degree of effective socialization and re...

You don’t think he was trying to also draw attention to (terrifying) violent bigotry in modern America?

I don’t disagree. But if we accept Harris’s assertion that this was terrorism before it turned out to be a hoax... I don’t see how the terror element ...

Draw attention to what though?

Alt-right is a term that was ruined by disingenuous accusatory overuse straight out of the gate. But the simple answer to the question in the OP is ye...

What are some metaphysical prerequisites to becoming an antinatalist? Atheism, right? Nihilism, but not quite... more like a desire for nihilism What ...

Most men I know have simply grown tired of the glaring incongruity in public gender discourse. This campaign (and I'd even say feminine campaign) to r...

I’m attacking the position with an experimental approach because (honestly) I suspect this sort of view is a pathology of the logos. Reason alone neve...

I’m saying the antinatalist position is untenable for non-pussies. It’s radical avoidance of potential suffering at the cost of literally everything. ...

Being a pussy is not good for you. I’m not being flippant. I don’t take it lightly. This sort of hypersensitivity to suffering is absolutely pathologi...

It’s really a repugnant philosophical position. There are an infinite number of ways to conceptualize the world but they’re not all equal. Surely the ...

Antinatalism appeals to those who’ve suffocated the hero within. Suffering of any kind is utterly unjustifiable... when you’re a pussy.

What polarizing times. I don't think talking in left vs right ever ends up being productive. I've always avoided it personally but I'm sort of bemused...

Thanks, that's helpful. What are some examples of masculine traits?

I understand where you're coming from. I think the cognitive dissonance stems from an attempt to reconcile multiple narratives about these issues. It'...

I think they used to be synonymous but have drifted apart. And I suspect gender is a poorly defined fraught concept now, post-drift. Trying to sort it...

Can you elaborate on what gender means to you? Expressions and impressions about what? Is my affinity for pinstripes part of my gender?

I think this is part of what I wanted to get at. If I don't behave normally, I'm not entitled to be considered normal. But it need not be a pejorative...

I'd have a few people run it, but randomly selected from the population with incentives for corruption mitigated in deliberate ways.

I agree, I don't find talking in terms of left and right very useful. The definitions shift over time. Better to be as specific as possible and not tr...

The claims aren't addressing those concerns. They're being made to suggest/demonstrate we're not able to have intellectually honest dialogue about ser...

Yet again, the responses seem indicative of the climate. What Pinker said was true. Is it that folks really don't believe the claims are true? Or is i...

I think they're most usefully treated as metaphors for how you should expect your inner world to turn out based on the way you live. In a sense, nobod...

The inelegant design examples remind me of the way overly-collaborative projects turn out over time. This happens a lot in administration. Lots of thi...

See, this is the fundamental problem of antinatalism. You don't understand other people. Yet you feel qualified to prescribe them extinction.

I'm performing my own philosophy in this case. It's OK that you don't get it.

Antinatalism deserves to be singled out as arrogant and presumptuous, so no problem.

Thanks, interesting. I do see it as a 'flipping over the game board' response. Anyone else? What makes people flip over game boards? How might we avoi...

If you have the time/means, I'd be interested to know the demographics. I have the sense that these are mostly young white men age 15-35 with most of ...

'We' being people who value human life. Governments are made of people. But the point of the comment was more that it's not so easy to treat the sourc...

If you want to get to the fundamental issue we should think about how to disarm governments too.

That we're all subsets of the same source of consciousness, and that this is something like the fundamental nature of reality.

Cool. No judgment from me one way or the other but I suppose it lends credibility to the insights if they're corroborated soberly.

Of the folks here who lean towards the mind being primary, how many of you would say you've gained insights from psychedelics? Full disclosure - I've ...