Kudzu_Bob

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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
"I wonder what our 'racial' categories would look like if people treated these groupings as a statistical problem, rather than some sort of given natural phenomenon." The outcome would no doubt have a lot in common with the ugly and ill-fit
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
That's a potentially life-saving bit of information. Thanks! I shall take steps to avoid letting any doctor who might possibly have been a beneficiary of affirmative action treat me or mine.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Switzerland is far more multicultural than the rest of Europe. Switzerland must embrace multiculturalism the way the rest of Europe has. Switzerland is the most decentralized country in the world. Switzerland is inherently totalitarian. Leg
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Neither. Advocating that taxes be raised serves to increase their status, just as catapulting buckets of money in the generally direction of irredeemably corrupt African countries does. Biologists refer to such behavior as a "display of fit
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
You forgot to add, "and not being handcuffed to a dead man."
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
The image of the immigrant as invariably hard-working, noble, and law-abiding gets taught and passed along too, not by parents and peers but by business interests seeking cheap labor and political parties seeking permanent dominance by mean
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Stereotypes don’t materialize out of thin air. If they did that you’d see a more random distribution of competing stereotypes.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
You seem to think that participation is an end in itself. By that metric, Belgium is doing splendidly, whereas Switzerland is a failure. Meanwhile, on Planet Earth, Switzerland is a marvelous country, while Belgium is on the verge of splitt
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
If you do not know what your birthright is, then it is unlikely that you will manage to keep it for very long.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
If it is not clear whether it's a violation of the agreement, then it is dishonest to accuse them of being in violation of the agreement.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
1) The words "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" appear nowhere in the Constitution. 2) In any event, the above phrase has nothing to do with immigration. 3) Even though Bluto asks in "Animal House" if it was over when the Germans
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
What you call xenophobic, others call noticing what is right in front of their noses.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
You sure are excited about this economy stuff. It's as though you think that people exist to serve the economy rather than the other way around. I hope nobody points out to you that per capita income would go up if we gassed all the old fol
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
And they are making far better use of those benefits than Turkey ever could. For instance (since so many people here are fond of economic arguments), tiny Switzerland (population under eight million) has a GDP a bit over six hundred and thi
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
By what metric are they unequal? Crime rates? Economic output? Level of corruption? Degree of political freedom? What? You cannot name a single way in which Switzerland is not the equal, and often the superior, of the countries that compris
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Only an idiot or an ideologue promotes a particular policy even though he knows that it would harm him.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Aristotle contended that justice consists of treating equals equally, and unequals unequally. You, on the other hand, want to treat Switzerland just like Turkey, even though the two countries are strikingly unequal.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Some people seem to think that whatever is good for the stock market is good for the country, because the country IS the stock market.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Why? Because they're not as multicultural as the rest of Europe? Because they dare to live in a way that suits themselves? The promoters of diversity ueber alles certainly are in touch with their inner totalitarian these days.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Sure, but you're pre-judging all pygmies as being short. This is exactly the behavior that you condemn, unless I've missed something.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
"Prejudicial discrimination is bad because its piss-poor discrimination." Exactly. This is why basketball teams are missing out by their pig-headed refusal to send talent scouts to evaluate Rwanda's Pygmies.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Increasingly, even silence is no protection.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Whoa! Déjà vu!
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Sorry, but I can't help but remember encountering people who made comments much like yours, only to find on closer examination that they were incredibly, deeply in the wrong. Since you don't go into any actual details about the basis of you
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
"What about having families makes the world a better place?" Families are vital. That everybody from Genghis Kahn to Jonas Salk was born into one ought to be the tip-off.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
The only practical, field-tested way to get more women into tech is to lower tech's prestige. Once that happens, men will flee to other careers, thereby creating vacancies that can be filled by women. Problem solved.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Some people want to make the world a better place by having families. To me this makes at least as much sense most plans for world-improvement.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
If you want to do something revolutionary that potentially threatens the status quo, first you have to be born.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
They'll quit breeding (or at least slow down considerably) if we cease to subsidize their reproduction at the expense of our own.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
The Church tried its best to lower the population's average IQ by encouraging the smartest boys to become priests. For ostensibly different reasons now we've got do-gooders doing exactly the same damned thing to us.

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