You're taking a lot for granted here (for example the desirability of a universal franchise, equality, etc.). But at least we can agree that where the...
Some of those movements (e.g. gay marriage) I don't see those as natural movements of opinion and feeling, they're mostly astroturf. I'd say the same ...
Mainly an unquestioning belief in equality, which is especially amusing in the context of relativism - but then it can always be excused as a "leap of...
Oh for heaven's sake. Universities have the right to have whatever programs and courses they see fit. They can change their minds, and they can be per...
It depends on the grain of one's analysis obviously. There are things different about the groups on my helicopter list, sure, but there are also linke...
Anything modeled on the Marxist type of societal analysis (of oppressor/oppressed groups, with the groups marked by their closeness to, or distance fr...
The problem with conservatives is that they're too scared of being called racist to move to the logical next step of the defense of Western civilizati...
I've treated the variety of identity politics that's taught in universities in a derogatory sense, but that's not the only kind of identity politics. ...
I didn't ask for some random quotes of me, I asked for where I said: "they just all died mysteriously but completely unsuspiciously shortly after volu...
That's an interesting point. I think it's actually the other way round, the self never was anything other than an object, for others; we introjected t...
It's an accurate description of what Communism has turned out to be every time people have tried to implement it, but of course from the Communist poi...
No they don't, they practice identity politics in terms of socioeconomic class - they're just a bit too stupid to realize what the modern Left realize...
But it is. For example, there's the same mangling of language - the modern Left's rhetorical tricks are identical to those that enabled bastards withi...
You're missing the point, all the big Commies turned out to be savage psychopaths, sure, but that wasn't obvious from their writings and doings before...
There's always been a difference between racism and racialism (which is more mild-mannered than racism), or race realism (which is even more mild-mann...
Why should it? I mean, they all seem lovely and that today, but Mao, Lenin and Stalin all wrote lovely things when they weren't in power too (and even...
The waters were muddied by Hillary when she twitted the Trump Train and all who oppose her as "Alt Right." This was an attempted smear by her, but it ...
Yeah good call. I mean, I'm fairly Dionysian on a gut level, I've had mystical experiences, taken the full recommended course of drugs in my time, etc...
I think it's a mixed bag, as most things are. There were positive elements that you mention, but Puritan fanaticism wasn't too pleasant, and its desce...
Well it's pretty clear that there's a genetic connection between the Protestant sects - Puritans, Quakers, etc. - and early classical liberalism and p...
Sort of, Communism is more thoroughgoing than mere redistribution of wealth, which is more of a Left-liberal/Universalist cause. Obviously there's som...
I don't see why you can't just say it's the moon that exists. The manifestation (the "face" it shows us) doesn't exist outside that interaction, but t...
One way of looking at it is that the marks and sounds of language trigger in us trained expectations about what to expect upon further interaction wit...
Well the moon we experience is the only manifestation of anything we know, and it's external in the relevant sense of existing (in its other "faces" f...
We've already been doing this topic to death in another thread, but as a fresh encapsulation, I'd say: the most you can say is that the way the moon e...
Morality is roughly the habits of interaction that people have, which fall into patterns, the patterns are social rules. It's partly something people ...
No but that's privacy, not my awareness being personal; although that word can be a bit misleading in this context (one wants to ask "private to whom?...
Consciousness is not personal or local, "consciousness" describes a process that includes the brain but is not limited to it - one's consciousness of ...
I don't think scepticism is like a possible general stance, rather it's something you engage in based on evidence. Scepticism is a phase of inquiry th...
It has a continuous effect right now, and always, in democracies, it's called "rational ignorance." Compare and contrast with buying a car. Deliberati...
I know it's a tempting metaphor, and it's a metaphor with a rich history in non-dual mystical teachings too, but there's something troublesome and sub...
Well there are lots of good people on all sides of the political spectrum waking up to the nonsense these days (there are even some old school Leftist...
Yeah, I would agree with that to some extent (though to some extent it's also obviously ass-saving boilerplate). But race realism isn't a prejudiced t...
Yeah, I know it's kind of a boring answer. :) There's no reason to believe it in any particular case, not by "reading off" from the perception (or eve...
Isn't "doubting the time" one of the main arguments from creationists? ;) Evolution doesn't have to take all that long. For the claimed effects on int...
Well for example you'll get a different average attitude to deferred gratification, planning ahead, etc., where you have an environment that rewards i...
Count them. Seriously, just count them. Think of all the times when you've proceeded as if your sense perceptions have been correct, and your desires ...
I was wondering when you'd drop the passive aggressive stance and trot this out. ;) A shameful plan which was an aberration and not in fact responsibl...
Miniscule differences are what get weeded out by evolution. A fraction of a second's poor physics calculation avoiding a predator can mean the differe...
What on earth are you talking about? Similar but not identical, there are differences between individuals and average differences between racial/ethni...
I already made it: yes, violence is part of the story, but a relatively minor part. The decimation of Native Americans was a result of diseases accide...
I think you should really look more closely at what you've said here. The operative principle is proportionality (suum cuique tribuere) not equality, ...
Oh for crying out loud, this is just PC cult indoctrination. Put down your Howard Zinn and step back from the bong. You can invest capital and lose it...
I don't know where you're getting this nonsense from. Aristotle talks mostly about what is now called "procedural" justice (Aristotle's "rectification...
Theft is taking control of something away from someone without their consent and without justification on the basis that they were doing harm. Propert...
Now you're just being silly. They're pretty major and intimidating to the people who were subjected to them. The thinkers I mentioned, I mentioned (as...
The consensus seems to be that variance has varying degrees of genetic vs. environmental causes - for example with political preferences, the variance...
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