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by MockObject 4y ago
So does "Latin", but the point is to publicly signal virtue, hence the eye-catching and bizarre "x".
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by MockObject 4y ago
"ne" and "ner"?
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Isn't that one of the chief goals of accumulating wealth? Being able to offer their children more opportunity?
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by MockObject 4y ago
Some people are "lucky" enough to be born into nicer circumstances than others, which make them more suited for certain pursuits. How is that even worth mentioning, when it's the universal condition of humanity everywhere, an
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by MockObject 4y ago
> If both students apply to a job or college, should their final academic grades be treated equally? Yes. Grades reflect what the student did, which is a distinct question from why they were able to do it.
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by MockObject 4y ago
It's probably as inevitable as every other technological advance that some warned us to avoid. Even if banned in some Western countries, I don't see every advanced nation willingly cooperating.
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by MockObject 4y ago
Hate facts.
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by MockObject 4y ago
> Bacterial mats, multicellular organisms, forests, fields of grass, mamals, families, civilizations. All of these things are escalations in survivability due to every part of them choosing to "voluntarily refraining from maximizing
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by MockObject 4y ago
This goes far beyond capitalism, and describes all forms of human complex societal organization, from the ancient slave states described by Marx, to the Leninist states in our modern times. Nature's balance is found as each organism st
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by MockObject 4y ago
We do agree here. It's interesting that calling CRT "Marxist" gives the Fox News watchers a familiar enemy to fulminate against, and it gives the CRT peddlers themselves unearned credibility as dangerous dissidents, so it&#x2
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by MockObject 4y ago
When I review human history, in all its approaches to organizing technologically advanced societies ever since the plow, I see profit-seeking behavior everywhere, even in societies deliberately engineered to thwart the profit motive, so evi
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by MockObject 4y ago
Look how far afield those examples had to be drawn from!
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by MockObject 4y ago
> So it's... not Marxism at all. None of the rest of Marx makes sense if you replace "class" with "race". Correct, and in fact, many Marxists are virulently against CRT/wokeness, because it distracts from cl
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by MockObject 4y ago
From my job to my marriage to my artwork, what couldn't conceivably be done by someone else, if I wasn't available? Most of us are fungible.
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by MockObject 4y ago
I find this tone annoying. Let's discuss systems and incentives, not personalities. The decision makers aren't all nasty people, they're maximizing their profits, just as most people would do in their shoes. (Or if they'
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by MockObject 4y ago
> Do you believe you have had the same experiences as a person of the races/genders experiencing the -isms What do you mean?
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by MockObject 4y ago
> To... what? Study a civilization and do nothing with the data? Arguments like this neglect the relative inscrutability of even human motivations, with which we ought to be intimately familiar, yet can nevertheless perplex us. Humans un
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by MockObject 4y ago
> Do you know VIRULENTLY anti-black (or woman, or gay) these communities were? I can't begin to describe it. That has not been my experience at all, whatsoever, and my involvement in tech communities, both online and in the flesh, d
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by MockObject 4y ago
It sounds like a fascinating story indeed, but I can't find anything about it after a search.
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by MockObject 4y ago
Culture is not required to take subterfuge in dog whistles. Only counterculture is. Culture is what's uncontroversially and fearlessly blasted on front pages, and on mainstream TV. > They could, but their agenda fits white people be
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by MockObject 4y ago
> Dog-whistles are more for plausible deniability But why? If this is really the majority sentiment, why on earth leave any room for plausible deniability? > their agenda and campaigning for the most part is so overwhelmingly targeted
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by MockObject 4y ago
Imagine if F500 companies displayed the Christian cross to the extent they did the Pride colors, for one month. Would that signal "support" for Christianity?
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by MockObject 4y ago
How often do they see themselves represented positively in TV and movies?
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by MockObject 4y ago
> Why doesn't dog-whistling count as explicit pandering to white Americans? Because why do they have to dog whistle about it? Why do they have to resort to subtlety at all? It's forbidden from public discourse to such an extent
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by MockObject 4y ago
> Second, you assert that being in the overwhelmingly dominant racial group, the overwhelmingly dominant sexual orientation and the undeniably dominant gender should somehow be interpreted at "counterculture" even though the gr
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by MockObject 4y ago
That's quite an uninformed leap.
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by MockObject 4y ago
> The hippies were rooted in things that were objectively good: peace, love, self discovery, acceptance, mutual aid, egalitarianism, free thought. History is written by the winners.
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by MockObject 4y ago
> Have you directly asked a black person how they feel about encounters with the police? Comments like this seem to ignore the fact that a good number of law enforcement officers are black. I guess one could ask one of them?
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by MockObject 4y ago
> When we say we live in an expanding universe, we’re saying that the distances between galaxies, on average, grows with time. And that’s it. How could this be due to the expansion of space, which should expand our galaxy, and my foot-lo
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by MockObject 4y ago
I'm always astounded when lengthy generational analyses invalidate themselves by neglecting even the briefest mention of Gen X.

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