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Again, that's not a significant difference from other presidents. Joseph Wilson has shown that Saddam had no access to uranium or WMDs but George W. B...
July 30, 2017 at 03:12
You wrote some good stuff, including in the paragraph above. But minorities/POC aren't just oppressed as part of the general suppression of the workin...
July 30, 2017 at 02:49
No, I have been the only one really talking, and you have failed to address anything I said. Let's just leave it at that.
July 30, 2017 at 02:44
Well said.
July 30, 2017 at 01:29
I gave you a list of radical academic philosophers. Some of them are still alive.
July 30, 2017 at 01:25
No, concepts are something that arise out of and reflect reality, if not perfectly or always successfully.
July 29, 2017 at 23:29
Considering the difficulty you had defining "indirect realist,' I'm not sure you know the definitions yourself. But nothing I said in my post pointed ...
July 29, 2017 at 23:27
What is that?
July 29, 2017 at 23:13
You didn't address anything I said in my post I quoted. When you do so, I will answer your question. And I showed you it why it needs to be addressed ...
July 29, 2017 at 22:48
No, it wasn't since there already was third world racial oppression before American segregation and there is still anti-Black racism in our American p...
July 29, 2017 at 22:36
I have no idea what you mean by progressive elites. Elites are politicians like Obama, Clinton, and Trump who work for elite corporations, banks, and ...
July 29, 2017 at 22:26
It's not an either/or. Working to address and diminish racist police brutality is a priority in itself, just like stopping Jim Crow laws and segregati...
July 29, 2017 at 22:22
It's a common misconception. I've been making that explanation for over a decade now to my less theoretically-inclined colleagues...:)
July 29, 2017 at 22:10
Ideas are as much a product of the realm of the sensation as they have a influence over it. They are not sovereign over it. What you claim about the n...
July 29, 2017 at 22:04
No, neither Derrida nor any other prominent Postmodern/Poststructuralist philosopher says this. What he does say, building strongly from Heidegger's (...
July 29, 2017 at 21:56
In America, yes. We are divided into three groups, and two of them--the Conservatives and the Centrists--support foreign colonialist wars, laissez-fai...
July 29, 2017 at 21:29
No, I showed you multiple times how your usage was wrong. You are reading as poorly as you are using words. No, your misuse of "race" is in line with ...
July 29, 2017 at 21:23
And in the above quote is where you misused it when you said "racial categories" when you were discussing two different ethnic, not racial, groups. So...
July 29, 2017 at 21:13
Because of the way you incorrectly used it. I already made that clear. How do you keep misusing a word when you know you're misusing it? It's bewilder...
July 29, 2017 at 21:09
That's a lie. I never did that. You were using the word "race" incorrectly and I pointed that out. I don't see how we can continue the discussion when...
July 29, 2017 at 21:07
This sounds a lot like Leftist Post-structuralist philosophy like you find in: Gilles Deleuze Jacques Derrida Michel Foucault Julia Kristeva Judith Bu...
July 29, 2017 at 21:05
That's a ridiculous statement since you were using the term "race," and you kept using it. Once I pointed out your incorrect usage, you should have ad...
July 29, 2017 at 19:56
Gravity would still exist, and if we didn't replace it with a word or words describing the same ubiquitous phenomena, we would have substantially regr...
July 29, 2017 at 19:02
Except many institutions, such as religious myths and dogmas, and concepts such as human rights are fictions, since none of them can rely on material,...
July 29, 2017 at 18:59
Using that logic, unicorns are as real as Gravity and Santa Claus is as real as Hillary Clinton (some may argue moreso). And that just isn't the case....
July 29, 2017 at 18:52
Because if you see no difference between what is real and what is constructed or elaborated, you couldn't see that human rights are a total fabricatio...
July 29, 2017 at 15:24
Since you use the world "real," you clearly subscribe to it and its standard definition. Knowing that, you should be able to see that water is a real ...
July 29, 2017 at 15:22
I wouldn't call human rights a total fabrication, since we are social animals and our societies came up with them. But they are definitely a construct...
July 29, 2017 at 14:28
Face it, deep inside your consciousness, you're that guy who thinks he's Napoleon. He was a fine military leader. Be proud of that thought and who you...
July 29, 2017 at 14:05
No, natural in such contexts is tantamount to "natural." Your use of the word "consciousness" is tantamount to God, if not quite as omnipotent. And th...
July 29, 2017 at 13:55
Yes, when you hear the world "natural" used in discussing farming, human reproduction, rainstorms, humidity, evolution or any other natural phenomenon...
July 29, 2017 at 13:40
I got ya. I guess it would say that someone who actually freed themselves from the socio-cultural concept of "Truth" they grew up with would be a Plat...
July 29, 2017 at 04:33
Charming retort.
July 29, 2017 at 04:21
Of course it does, unless you're claiming there's nothing between the two points of the binary and there were no directions implied by the binary, and...
July 29, 2017 at 04:14
Of course it does, since it notes what the real is and what it isn't, therefore it implies a gradation from those things closest to what it establishe...
July 29, 2017 at 04:01
Yeah, that sounds like Rove's philosophy. He may have been a complete scumbag, but he was clearly as self-aware one.
July 29, 2017 at 03:48
I agree with what you said in your first paragraph, but the distinction between lying and bullshitting is unclear since "lying" denotes a multitude of...
July 29, 2017 at 03:47
If you don't know what it means for anything to have more or less reality than anything else, than you should probably stop using the words "real" or ...
July 29, 2017 at 03:33
Of course Gravity has more reality than the socially constructed notion of race. The laws of Gravity have been confirmed through testing and retesting...
July 29, 2017 at 03:09
No, you don't seem to get the discussion bit. I ended the discussion we had by correcting your incorrect notion. As to the Postmodernists, there are m...
July 29, 2017 at 02:29
I just did. I told you none said that when you had incorrectly said they did.
July 29, 2017 at 02:22
That was weak, Rich. And it didn't come close to clearing you as the super-dense one. So, what is it, Richie? Are there waves or not? Your wee brain i...
July 29, 2017 at 01:57
The only super-dense one is clearly you, and I just showed that in my last post...:)
July 29, 2017 at 01:53
It's amazing, one day Rich is saying there are waves within an ocean when just days before he said the ocean was just ocean, and waves were mere human...
July 29, 2017 at 01:49
This is all irrelevant to the discussion. I was solely talking about the scientific classification "animal" meaning: "a living organism that feeds on ...
July 29, 2017 at 01:34
That assumes Postmodern theorists say anything goes when it comes to Truth, and they don't. You're free to name one if you can. It also incorrectly as...
July 29, 2017 at 01:12
To whom was that addressed?
July 29, 2017 at 01:05
Because you didn't read very well, and you're lost in a fantasy world. It certainly was a waste of time for me.
July 29, 2017 at 01:04
Then go look up the accepted scientific explanation. I've been going with that one the whole time.
July 29, 2017 at 00:42
No, you asked for a scientific explanation, and I showed you why I don't need to give one.
July 29, 2017 at 00:18