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There is great comedy in resuming some argument after great delay as if no time has passed, the pettier the better. I’m still waiting for a ban to end on my fa

There is great comedy in resuming some argument after great delay as if no time has passed, the pettier the better. I’m still waiting for a ban to end on my favorite CS 1.6 server so I can go back in and point out that people that awp mid on dust2 suck and probably have no friends.

andrepd 2y ago
In a not so amusing story, there was a scholar that was persecuted, suffered violence, and finally fled Italy in the 1920s. Once the war ended he was reinstated as a professor, and—a quarter of a century after being purged from his post—returned to his now war-torn country. His first lecture began thus: "As I was saying in our previous lecture, ..."
- Yawrehto 2y ago
  Which scholar?
  - andrepd 2y ago
    I had to search the book where I read it, and this is the guy :) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaetano_Salvemini https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaetano_Salvemini
    - aspenmayer 2y ago
      What was the book?
      - andrepd 2y ago
        It's in Portuguese, no translation I'm afraid x) https://www.wook.pt/livro/agora-agora-e-mais-agora-colecao-7-volumes-rui-tavares/29428369 https://www.wook.pt/livro/agora-agora-e-mais-agora-colecao-7... Six less well-known periods of the history of the past 1000 years, from a scholar of the Islamic golden age to political polarisation in Dante's Italy to the upheavals of WWII, with an always-present unifying undercurrent: the notion of human rights.
        aspenmayer 2y ago
        That sounds really cool, actually. I don’t read the language, but I appreciate the reference all the same. The description vaguely reminds me of Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature, which, along with its author, has come under some criticism, and is concerned with the reduction of violence rather than the arc of human rights. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Nature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Natur... All of this probably speaks more to my own limited study in these areas, which I’m happy to have had broadened by you. Do you have any other suggestions for readings in the area of human rights, or generally?

andrepd 2y ago

In a not so amusing story, there was a scholar that was persecuted, suffered violence, and finally fled Italy in the 1920s. Once the war ended he was reinstated as a professor, and—a quarter of a century after being purged from his post—returned to his now war-torn country. His first lecture began thus: "As I was saying in our previous lecture, ..."

Yawrehto 2y ago
Which scholar?
- andrepd 2y ago
  I had to search the book where I read it, and this is the guy :) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaetano_Salvemini https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaetano_Salvemini
  - aspenmayer 2y ago
    What was the book?
    - andrepd 2y ago
      It's in Portuguese, no translation I'm afraid x) https://www.wook.pt/livro/agora-agora-e-mais-agora-colecao-7-volumes-rui-tavares/29428369 https://www.wook.pt/livro/agora-agora-e-mais-agora-colecao-7... Six less well-known periods of the history of the past 1000 years, from a scholar of the Islamic golden age to political polarisation in Dante's Italy to the upheavals of WWII, with an always-present unifying undercurrent: the notion of human rights.
      - aspenmayer 2y ago
        That sounds really cool, actually. I don’t read the language, but I appreciate the reference all the same. The description vaguely reminds me of Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature, which, along with its author, has come under some criticism, and is concerned with the reduction of violence rather than the arc of human rights. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Nature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Natur... All of this probably speaks more to my own limited study in these areas, which I’m happy to have had broadened by you. Do you have any other suggestions for readings in the area of human rights, or generally?