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A defining feature of bigotry is that it is unreasonable. We can have well-reasoned objections to what people say and do. There is something of a cont...

Good point, but that obviously is not the only motivation behind cancel culture. Isn’t it really more about something like tribal loyalty? Or maybe yo...

Horrible and grotesque is morally good? :chin:

Right?! I recall Trump announcing to a cheering audience that he would fire any athlete who knelt during the National Anthem (in protest of police bru...

The difference, my hyperbolic friend, is that the Salem witch trial executions, for instance, were state-sanctioned. If a private sector employer fire...

I would greenlight it for the comics section. https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ4oAG7sTq-8bwqtI_6Mst-4vVm_2tAvTu1Og&usqp=CAU

It’s funny that many of those who whine the loudest about cancel culture believe that a capitalist society should be self-regulating. Isn’t cancel cul...

Not publishing a piece (of shit) in the Op-Ed section of the Times doesn’t eliminate it from public conversation, particularly if the author is high p...

What do you mean by hidden? He’s a senator. Also, the direction towards militarization of law enforcement is nothing new, unfortunately.

Giving a platform to the idea of using the military against civilians is not good, to say the least, particularly at a time when the fucking president...

The following is alarming but no examples are offered and it is therefore hard to take seriously.

I'm pretty sure they took advantage. It's not morally good to take advantage, is it?

This again: It doesn't appear to claim that these cases are clinically diagnosed. Incidentally, there was a point in my life when I think that I could...

To a degree that they're somewhat disabled? It doesn't seem to say.

That's the point, in many cases. It's called trolling. People always say "don't feed the troll" but I think they're often rather adorable and fun.

Seems about what one would expect.

Perhaps that is an unpleasant delusion.

It seems that I have much more faith in the idea that we’re all deluded (cannot know reality) than you do.

It’s possible that a person could find both significantly meaningful. The only requirement of a successful religion is that people find it meaningful....

This doesn’t really make sense, does it? If we are deluded and delusion is our stock-in-trade then “objective reality” must be part of our delusion, b...

I've only been acquainted with a couple, who I don't really know at all. They never seemed delusional to me. I find it extremely hard to believe that ...

I have the sneaking suspicion that Biden's picks will be strategically planned to primarily benefit his political career. I hope he nominates a black ...

The ballad reveals its fuller meaning in subsequent lines. In the end distinctions of geography, breed, birth, or sex, do not matter at all when those...

A kitchen-aid and a toaster walk into a bar. The toaster says, “I’ll have the usual, Mac.” The kitchen-aid says, “Give me the usual, Mac.” The toaster...

I don’t see a pot or kettle. There’s just a trash icon reversed on a gray background, which I notice is the website favicon. I’m calling the trash whi...

Actually, all fetal genitalia are the same and are phenotypically female, so all men are not men but masquerading women. We've both got frick'n nipple...

Assuming there's a 'superstition' that black women are low status and being low status in America is disadvantageous, lobbying in favor of someone on ...

My carping isn't limited to Christians. :naughty:

I’ve been derelict in my duties.

Then wouldn’t it be fair to try rectifying the situation?

Do you believe that the false beliefs and biases that we’re talking about are advantageous to some and disadvantageous to others?

A curious pairing. If a stiff upper lip is the goal then Bushido may be the better choice. I don’t think the world is in need of more stiff lips thoug...

I’ve misinterpreted what you mean by superstition? What exactly do you mean with that term in this context if not false beliefs and biases?

In a nutshell, the word you used to describe this is superstition. False beliefs and biases that are advantageous to some and disadvantageous to other...

Yes, as you say, "I speak of race as pseudoscience and superstition. The history of how this superstition was used to malign, exclude, and murder huma...

Never had that but it looks great, though quite labor-intensive to make.

These two sentences seem to contradict each other. Can you rephrase?

You might assume it is, in a common-sense sort of way, but it's far from a given. All other species on Earth seem to have survived this far without it...

The primary fault with your reasoning here is that you speak as though 'race' exists in a vacuum. It is clear to everyone who takes this case seriousl...

My second thought is that he reminds you of an old flame, but that's another story... Back in the spring of life and deep in the dusty heart of Texas ...

My first thought was that very few can move their hips like Shakira and the thought of a drunken middle aged white guy attempting it is :vomit:

I actually copied and pasted “upper esculin” from Tiff’s post, because I’m such a poor speller and wasn’t confident in its spelling. Noticed the spell...

I’d offer to escort you but I don’t golf, could not impress the upper esculin of skid row with my lackluster social grace, and live some five hundred ...

Trying to follow what you’re saying, I will point out that the media doesn’t report what its audience doesn’t want to hear, and that approval polls re...

I don’t follow what you’re saying.

Second only to Trump for worst first year approval rating. The media and the public are responsible for that, of course, and not Trump. :smirk:

The last thing Trump needs to be worried about is environmentalists and social justice warriors, and the only thing that he's lost is the election. He...

Ah, I didn’t see the ponytail until now. That’s even more mystifying though, because it seems highly unlikely that Greta would warn Trump about losing...

No. The body proportions clearly show that the man with the “I warned you Trump” t-shirt is an adult. There is no shame in putting yourself in a compo...

How so? Anyway, I guess my point is that because religion is based on faith rather than reason, an uneducated but charismatic person could do just as ...