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by adamsea 6y ago
There were marches for George Floyd. Looting was really just about ... looting. I don’t think it’s appropriate or fair to say “Floyd riots”, though I’ve said that too at points. Feel free to disagree.
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by adamsea 6y ago
Not sure why parent comment is grayed out; seems like it’s more for its viewpoint than anything else. Not that different in tone or broad assertions from lots of other posts in this thread.
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by adamsea 6y ago
We gotta agree to disagree man.
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by adamsea 6y ago
I think we have to make a variety of assumptions to draw any conclusions about what the author of the New Yorker article intended. There’s too little info in the article to go on.
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by adamsea 6y ago
So, creditable also can mean “worthy of belief” which I think is more relevant. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/creditable But the very fact we are arguing over the meaning of a single word is, I think, kind
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by adamsea 6y ago
Thanks for the response man - appreciate it. To be honest, with regards to the ultimate intention of the New Yorker article, I don’t know. And with regards to your question, I ultimately don’t know what Alexander intended. I think that the
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by adamsea 6y ago
Yeah but the financial irregularities and crimes around events like the '08 crash are, I'd think, much bigger, in terms of dollars, than those other things?
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by adamsea 6y ago
That's a great article! FYI it mentions Andrea Dworkin though -- not Judith Butler, who you mentioned earlier. Not an expert but think they're fairly different. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Butler ht
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by adamsea 6y ago
I actually agree with the grandparent post, and, I'd originally tried to explain why I thought your previous comment was kinda grandiose, but I kept writing snarky things so ultimately decided to pivot ; ). And, I don't think I&#x
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by adamsea 6y ago
Can someone
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by adamsea 6y ago
The article isn’t about Scott Aaronsen. Also I mean your phrase “uncritical childhood exposure to radical literature” is .... weird. “Childhood exposure to radical literature”? “radical literature” almost sound like a disease.
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by adamsea 6y ago
> I insulted the New Yorker article and reporter, but I accompanied that with an argument for why they deserved it This. It’s a really easy trap to fall into online, but, the whole idea of someone deserving an insult is, 99.9% of the tim
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by adamsea 6y ago
I don’t think the article is saying that “negative coverage” would necessarily be warranted, just that it would exist, and be negative. I don’t think a hit piece would explain how some potentially controversial SST articles were either late
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by adamsea 6y ago
Well, one possible reason is that even if people support unions in general, they don't support one engaging in behavior they think is corrupt, illegal, or unethical.
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by adamsea 6y ago
Just to mix it up, how does one come up with a warning for something “heartbreaking”? Asking out of half-seriousness. ;)
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by adamsea 6y ago
Stepping back a bit the idea of “warnings” or “trigger warnings” for literature - and for arguments sake let’s consider all fiction literature - is complicated. Same as what is pornographic or not, or obscene or not - https://en.
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by adamsea 6y ago
Sure, I could see that. But it’s a newspaper headline. It’s not the title of a scientific paper. And since we can’t devise repeatable experiments for the truth or falsehood of news articles (though I give it 50/50 odds someone might po
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by adamsea 6y ago
Good point. To me the whole schools / prisons thing just seems dramatic and not well thought out. “X is like prison”. Work is like prison. Childhood is like prison. Society is like prison. Is everything like prison? If we live in The M
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by adamsea 6y ago
It’s complicated, no doubt. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Cakeshop_v._Colo... The point I’m trying to make is that because these things are complicated, I think that discourse around them is valuable. And
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by adamsea 6y ago
Fair. It was not the best example. The comment below creates a better thought-experiment. For the purposes of the discussion “we” is everyone. Or all US citizens if you prefer to focus on a political entity. Even total libertarians want to
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by adamsea 6y ago
> products are an ecosystem and if the product gets worse or updates get slower then the whole ecosystem suffers. I can't resist pointing out the irony in your concern over the health of the software ecosystem, when it is the heal
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by adamsea 6y ago
> Do we want hammers to be restricted to only those whose political ideologies align with ours? Do you want a hardware store to have a "free fertilizer for white supremacists" sign? Sorry for the extreme example. Point I'm
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by adamsea 6y ago
I certainly agree that so much about school is problematic and could be improved, but ... > Schools are functionally no different from part-time prisons. A prison by definition cannot be part-time ; ). Plus, it's a totally unfair co
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by adamsea 6y ago
I don't know if it's exactly what you describe but Hasura compiles GraphQL queries and mutations to SQL (for Postgrs).
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by adamsea 6y ago
It's a news article headline; I don't think anyone clicked on the link with the expectation that the professors would be literally arming themselves or something ...
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by adamsea 6y ago
"Faculty were already feeling anxious about the upcoming fall semester, GPB News was told, but a recent decision by the Board of Regents and state university system to not require students wear masks in classrooms sent faculty over the
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by adamsea 6y ago
Seems like the people who need this the most are the least likely to use it.
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by adamsea 6y ago
One right doesn’t cancel out a wrong, or vice versa. The problem with a statue is that it literally sets something in stone; perhaps these particular statues are being torn down because people don’t think the conversation is over; that ther
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by adamsea 6y ago
tl;dr “America good, me not want think about complicated stuff.”
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by adamsea 6y ago
I think lots of white collar crime occurs in “white neighborhoods”; it’s just not a priority for law enforcement.

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