It's a big country, so there is a constant crop of lefty wacko events to find, but when the other side is refusing to admit defeat in elections they l...
Republicans don't need to "steal" elections. The system already favors them and Biden won on quite thin margins. Without the shock of the pandemic, it...
Cancel culture might have been around before, but the internet has given it the ability to amplify its signal and spread out of control. Take for exam...
I highly doubt there will be evidence to sufficiently prove that the virus came from a lab. The Chinese government has a vested interest in not lettin...
Better grab them soon. I hear Trump is coming back "in two more weeks," or "by August." Anyhow, surely this is the best outcome. Now his influence can...
It's hard to think of a group that Westerners care more about being killed than the Palestinians actually, aside from other Westerners in wealthy nati...
Do you mean, all isms are nothing but nothing-but-isms? I don't agree, that seems reductive. For example, take nominalism vs idealism. While nominalis...
I am offended by this as a Christian. Surely the Crusader States existed for longer than the US, or many established nations. That's long enough to be...
I read the Khalidi article when it came out, but the 1993 one was new to me. It doesn't support your first quote, although the introductory paragraph ...
Sure, if the analysis of a partisan in the fight, writing 20 years later, through the lens of later shifts is to be taken as the final word... Did the...
Wouldn't a move towards peace necissarily mean the removal of repressive restrictions of movements on Palestinians? I agree with you on the relative t...
Agree 100%. My point was merely that the culture war paradigm works to retard meaningful change in US policy. Likewise, no negotiations are going to w...
Good post. You can't separate groups into large boxes like oppressor and oppressed and expect to get a full understanding of conflicts. It's a useful ...
Both articles mention non-European majorities in the UK based on government statistics, the more recent in the subtitle. We're off track and I'm done ...
Yeah, but to be fair, some of the Arab states have fallen behind the occupied territories on economic metrics, so they aren't particularly in strong p...
If your theory is jettisoning the sciences under the theory that they are inheritally corrupted by power relations, and it's raison d'etre is addressi...
Typical? I don't know, maybe for alarmist outlets claiming that such a change is around the corner, not more than half a century away. The UK's Office...
How is this determined? What would define a country lacking in agency? The United States is the most economically and militarily powerful country in t...
Because that isn't projected, Europe is much larger than the three largest Western European nations' populations combined. The French government doesn...
Yes, a population of 4.6 million under extreme travel restrictions can just up and go to another poor country of just 10 million that already struggle...
I'm not sure having Egypt as an ally was ever particularly helpful to the Palestinian cause. They did, at one point, consider granting Palestinians on...
Certainly there is support for splitting up nations by ethnic group: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.tandfonline.com/...
It arguably did change under Clinton and a deal that featured a Palestinian state on over 95% of the occupied territories was eventually proffered by ...
Yes, that's true. Aid for Egypt and weapons sales to Saudi Arabia is generally something that is done shame faced. An unfortunate reality people accep...
I somehow doubt this will matter particularly. Other regimes in the region are even worse at covering up authoritarian action. Egypt killed more civil...
Couldn't it be both? That something is bad, morally wrong, has nothing to do whether or not it increases your chance of reproducing. Why so people tol...
Given the obscurity of many esoteric texts, it's an open question whether insiders are able to convey their ideas to other insiders as well. That said...
For sure. Slavery in the Americas is unique in the intensity and codification of racial divisions. Law absolutely prohibited the enslavement of White ...
I'm not sure what you're getting at here. What would make a cross-cultural political trend natural versus unnatural? In any event, it seems apparent t...
Sure, race as a concept didn't have the same sort of relevance for ancient cultures, but certainly there were cases where it was acceptable to capture...
The ubiquity of slavery in ancient history should be apparent in reading any histories of the era. It existed in all state level societies. As for lev...
If race (or class, or gender, etc.) is the only unit of analysis you concern yourself with, then of course variances there will explain all of world h...
I think it's dangerous to reduce disparities to class. In a whole host of terms, Blacks tend to fare worse than their poorer White peers, and many ins...
Interestingly, in every attempt to research CRT's electoral appeal, it appears to be an election loser. It variously makes Whites and some minority gr...
I wouldn't put too much faith in the "Trump will bring down the party," logic. He won in 2016 despite his liabilities, giving the GOP full control of ...
If you're looking for a psychological take on alchemy that is a bit more accessible (still definitely not super accessible) there is Jung's Psychology...
Well, to approach the issue Hegel is getting at from an entirely different angle, there is Bacon: That is, there is a real sense in which an encompass...
I saw this elsewhere and thought of this thread. Certainly Hegel took mystical ideas seriously. Granted, this is an appeal to authority, but an appeal...
Thanks for the tip. I will check out Creation , sounds like a similar time frame for what I'd like to use. Guess Herodotus and Xenephon will be on the...
Anthony Kenny's New History of Western Philosophy. It got a lot of good reviews as the best single volume overview. Trying to fill in gaps and revisit...
The "faith is just people trying to get over their fear of death," trope never made sense to me in light of Calvinism. How could an idea of God that c...
Reading through this thread and the esotericism one made me think of the opening of Phenomenology of Spirit: There is a striving to know, as Hegel ter...
Yeah, I can get on board with that definition. I think "systemic racism," is another tricky term I believe. Should it apply to all systems which disad...
It's an interesting phenomena. All people under 35 are having less sex, but particularly men 18-24, with those having no sex rising from 19 to 31% ove...
To be honest, this situation doesn't seem all that far fetched. While explicit racism is taboo were I live, explicitly anti-homosexual and transgender...
Thank you, I really like that explanation. I think that is a good way to look at it. Sorry, I didn't mean to be uncharitable. My initial post in this ...
That's how I've generally understood it too. The issue I have is the scope of power relations. Systemic imbalances can occur in varying ways, at varry...
Movements generally get defined as leftist if they challenge existing structures and norms. This is more likely to seem looney. It's worth noting that...
Maybe I was a bit verbose. To sum up: "racism is prejudice + power" is meaningless without defining power. When I've inquired on this before, "power" ...
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