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by beaner 6y ago
If imperial colonialism is responsible for bringing the idea of Jesus to new areas to begin with, then it's not replacing something. I don't understand what's "systemic racism" about that? You skipped the meat of my
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by beaner 6y ago
I feel like I might get downvoted for this, but a large part of it comes from a sense of guilt about clearly being the most successful and powerful country in the world. When nearly everyone else on earth constantly gives you shit (while al
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by beaner 6y ago
Make learning it a requirement for immigration. If the locals want to preserve it without their own effort, they can sell it in exchange for living in their country.
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by beaner 6y ago
Historians are record-keepers of history, they are not arbiters of ethics, spirituality, and guidance. Statues of people are not meant to teach us about those people per se, but rather hold to us an example of exceptional attributes of thos
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by beaner 6y ago
Sure you don't have to, but then you potentially end up with a bias and you definitely end up with an incomplete perspective, when completeness is defined by considering the complete set of experienced circumstances. It may be the case
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by beaner 6y ago
Since this isn't our first pandemic, it would be interesting to look back on the 1918 pandemic and the 1950s pandemic and see if anything can be learned from them. I don't have an opinion either way because I haven't studied
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by beaner 6y ago
I mean all of the statues that are in fact being toppled.
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by beaner 6y ago
Choice is certainly a factor and I don't think it needs to be minimized. If we choose well and isolate and elevate symbols of positive and productive principles, we create better guidance for ourselves and for future generations. Part
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by beaner 6y ago
My response to that is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23717398
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by beaner 6y ago
Respectfully, without a place to read about the intimidation tactic of statues, I'm not sure that I put much weight in it. An alternative explanation on the timing could for example be that people in the majority in those communities s
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by beaner 6y ago
I think you're still taking as a foregone conclusion that (all of) the statues represent bad men with evil ideas, and that's what I'm disagreeing with.
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by beaner 6y ago
I don't know the history of that so I can't argue it. If you could link to some education on it, I'd like to read about it. I would imagine that it's possible in some circumstances for this to be true for some, mostly co
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by beaner 6y ago
It isn't, see my comment on history below.
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by beaner 6y ago
One reason is that people might feel closer to something that they think superficially resembles themselves. This is part of the reason why diversity is important, according to so many people right now. Not just because groups have more per
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by beaner 6y ago
History is important because it lets us see ourselves in the arc of time and be more cognizant of how and why we arrived at the present moment. When we idolize figures who we believe did good things, we project a guide line from the past in
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by beaner 6y ago
I dunno, people pretend that they know about what these historical figures were thinking but I feel like nobody's read a book about it, they're all just learning from their assumptive misinformed peers and that there isn't ne
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by beaner 6y ago
Reminds me of when Trump a while ago (before the recent George Floyd stuff) was commenting on statues being torn down, and commented something like, "next they'll go for George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, where does it end?&q
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by beaner 6y ago
Would be interesting to hear the answer if anyone knows it.
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by beaner 6y ago
Would you have cared if they said "Russian hacker"?
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by beaner 6y ago
Who cares? It could be anything. Random descriptions add flavor. Bitcoin is also popular in China anyway.
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by beaner 6y ago
I mostly meant in terms of population. There is a physical limit to the number of people who can be on earth. If economic growth is dependent on population growth as many seem to be suggesting, then we need to reckon with that. And we shoul
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by beaner 6y ago
Why is continuous growth even a goal? There's a physical reality that at some point it must stop. We should plan for that. GDP growth is just a number. We should focus on quality of life. (Notwithstanding transitionary points like &quo
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by beaner 6y ago
You're thinking of T9, which is for typing text. When you dial 800-AAAAAAA, you're not typing, you're dialing. The "A" character is just on the same button as the "2". So when you press "A" seven
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by beaner 6y ago
I haven't read the link but I assume it means something like: The institutions do not have ownable shares that can be traded, and so ownership of the institution itself is not a profit-seeking endeavor (is it even "owned" at
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by beaner 6y ago
It reminds me of a section of Thomas Sowell's book Discrimination and Disparities. It was talking about automatic background checks for applicants at businesses. Some people wanted such processes to be illegal, on the grounds that they
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by beaner 6y ago
I don't get it, aren't most colleges non-profits? Why do they seek such high tuition fees if they're not profiting? Or are they, somehow?
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by beaner 6y ago
> the article does not provide any further information that the Surgisphere study was the source of the WHO decision Genuine question: What else is it assumed WHO may have made the decision based on?
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by beaner 6y ago
"anti-fascist" here should be in quotes. In the context of Antifa, "anti-fascist" is doublespeak.
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by beaner 6y ago
I think this is an error of taking literally what is figurative. It's common parlance to call the mainstream pop press "the press." That's how generalizations work and anybody reading that knows it without needing it exp
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by beaner 6y ago
Again, what you're describing is a personal vendetta between the press and the president. They cover him and he responds, and they attack each other. It's normal. Ask any celebrity. You are not describing a situation that is indic

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