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Or put another way: the nat-geo thing about which breasts are showable, and which celebrity is what race - these are pervasive and organic. All the se...

Well, it's certainly liberals who elaborate whiteness in the ways you point out. But I think that same academic bubble you decry may, despite your bes...

Doesn't the 'one-drop rule' speak to a more complicated, quasi-metaphysical understanding of whiteness? (Note: I'm definitely not saying that the idea...

i agree that pc speech is all too often a class signifier used to identify and keep down poor ppl.

Oh, I definitely agree, but I think we differ on why the unspeakable stuff in it is funny.

I think that's actually a super complicated question. Couldn't you flip this and say the taboo on racial slurs is an expression of white racial securi...

I still don't think that makes the white people the underdog, tho, certainly not enough to explain the humor of the vid.

Oh ok, yes, I agree minorities are allowed to attack white people in ways white people aren't allowed to attack minorities.

I guess I don't see that as an underdog/overdog thing. It's an ethos thing. And a public/private thing. There are certain taboos in any culture. Both ...

I'm not sure what you mean. I think by and large white people are in power, yeah, but there are important social/class things that come into play and ...

Like I said, the video is funny bc white ppl already do this exact same thing but code it (like a movie! like a french novel! like jane austen!) but t...

Nah, most rich successful white ppl are repressed as fuck. It's a psychological minefield, every day, of what's speakable and what's not.

I disagree with this reading. It's funny because it expresses the unspoken and unspeakable emotional undercurrents two powerful white ppl (say a news ...

I think it works as best as neither criticism nor sincere expression, but as just a kind of strange crossing of two realms that would never otherwise ...

And, as you've already said, alt-righters are all too eager to get serious and sacrifice the humor.

It's not bad at all. But it gets infinitely less funny if you view it as a serious attack on PC speech-policing (since it then turns into a sincere lo...

I've always thought Trump was funny, and not just in a funny-for-me-as-a-smart-ironic-liberal guy way. But yeah, no crocodile tears, I think you have ...

Yeah, this is where I'm at. I love the anarchic comedic spirit (I've mentioned him before but Donald Barthelme is my saint here and is far funnier (an...

I respect that type of humor and deeply sympathize with it. It makes me real nostalgic for High School. That's my shit! Those are my ppl! & I also und...

no, clickhole is funnier than all that, tho I do agree with you re: Louis CK, Amy Schumer et al. Not all that funny. (I'll be honest, I didn't watch t...

I agree with you - funny for me trumps all. But I think clickhole is funnier than most 4chan stuff. The alt-right memes quickly become as predictable ...

I agree - even look at OWS. I'd love to never hear a confused reference to Hardt&Negri again. But satisfaction at being smarter - or more aware - than...

We're very much in agreement, I think, but I still don't like that Horowitz video, for the same reason I don't like daily show vids about dumb trump s...

I do agree humans are animals, I worded the question poorly. Would you say that a turtle remain the same turtle throughout its life?

I made no dualist assumptions in my early conversation. If one believes that "identity" does not persist over time (which is a quote verbatim) then th...

One last thing re: liberals polling and interviewing minorities (or poor whites.) There's often a slightly bullying aspect to it. The undertone is you...

That's fair, I agree with most of that. One quick question before delving in: Do you think animals have personal identity? Or just humans?

The people shocked at Trump's Latino support really don't get it either. Have they talked to latinos? Beyond asking them stock questions for 15 minute...

Yeah, I'm pretty upset with the results, but I agree with this 100% (There were a few prescient voices among liberals, but they were drowned out by th...

Sure, that's fair and I'll admit it was too strong to say based simply on the physical/conceptual opposition that you were in disagreement with the qu...

Great, concepts are physical. And they're real too right?

Excellent, so after 3 pages, you've arrived at the response Willow was able to formulate immediately. (See above) Can I assume that you think concepts...

There's one word that sticks out to me a bit.

"Personal identity is the concept you develop about yourself that evolves over the course of your life." Nothing about this quote strikes you as sugge...

To be fair, I'm not sure which quote is from where, since you didn't cite your sources, but the first sentence of your first quote is this: "Personal ...

Wait, you are referring to definition you quoted, right?

You asked me for examples of inconsistency earlier? Here ya go

So tho the SEP explicitly defines it in that way - and tho you quoted them to demonstrate the conventional definition - in fact their definition is be...

So you cited the SEP as a way to explain how personal identity is defined conventionally, but you disagree with how they define the term?

You may have trouble spotting bolded words, a possibility I hadn't considered, so I apologize for trying to to get you to do that. So my point (which ...

I know I should give up, but I just can't.

? Yes, I am absolutely 100% saying that. Part of reading and talking and thinking is understanding how sentences fit together. (And you wouldn't have ...

Do you think that sentence had any relationship to what came before it? What came before that sentence?

Bonus hint: Read Willow's response defending you (it didn't go over his head)

Re-read it again (hint: look at the bolded words)

Man, I guess not. Keep going!

You're literally playing out in slow motion my initial post going over your head, so I'm glad to indulge you. Go on...

No

Yes, the SEP has a relationship to philosophy. Now that we've gotten that out of the way, let's circle back (again) Ok, right, so you think that I was...

So, now that we've had a unnecessary exchange of posts because you wanted to also be the one talking about things going over people's heads, even if i...