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by like_any_other 10mo ago
> There is a difference between a professional academic librarians managing a collection and political activists suppressing societal critiques and marginalized identities. Yes, the difference is the political activism of librarians is i
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by like_any_other 10mo ago
No, I am saying there is no such objectively correct set of books. Hiding behind "expertise" doesn't make educational decisions less political. Children can be indoctrinated more, or less, "expertly". But then every
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by like_any_other 10mo ago
So Jared Taylor's "White Identity" is available in most school libraries?
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by like_any_other 10mo ago
> It is not actually about moral authority it is about expertise. I sure am glad that there is an Objectively Correct set of books children should be exposed to, unaffected by issues of identity, politics, or morality, and it's just
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by like_any_other 10mo ago
Why are elected officials and parents "external parties" to the education of their children, while librarians are.. "internal"? What gives one, but not the other, the moral authority to decide what kind of education to g
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by like_any_other 10mo ago
We have, broadly speaking, two groups deciding which books to make available to children using taxpayer money - the voters/parents/elected officials, and unelected librarians. If one of those groups decides to withhold a book from
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by like_any_other 11mo ago
> The article says they only do it for non-whites. I think you're misunderstanding it. Let me try to explain with an example. When the attacker is white and the victim is non-white, the headline reads: "White man kills minority
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by like_any_other 11mo ago
> the media's traditional policy of trying to mitigate those animalistic urges As the article shows, they only mitigate [1] them for whites, and encourage them among everyone else. [1] What a nice word for deception!
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by like_any_other 11mo ago
There is a different reason also: https://freebeacon.com/media/yes-the-media-bury-the-race-of-...
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E Pluribus, Pauciores (Out of Many, Fewer): Diversity and Birth Rates(papers.ssrn.com)
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by like_any_other 11mo ago
> has existed Sorry, but if you would actually read my post, you would notice that I am not proposing that it should merely "exist", but that it should come enabled by default on all new devices.
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by like_any_other 11mo ago
> In real life, we think age verification is a good thing. Ok. In real life, do we think having agents from the government and corporations following you everywhere, writing down your every move and word, is a good thing? Or rather, what
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by like_any_other 11mo ago
> Age Verification isn't about Kids or Censorship, It's about Surveillance We know this because, instead of putting easy-to-use parental controls on new devices sold (and making it easy to install on old ones) with good defau
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by like_any_other 11mo ago
And 5000+ laptop models per year, yet linux runs on (pretty much) all of them. This is an entirely self-inflicted problem. They don't deserve an ounce of mercy.
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by like_any_other 11mo ago
Back in the day in my country, if your neighbor or taxi driver was informing the authorities of your habits and travels, this was considered a dangerously hostile action. If no willing informant could be found, there were torture basements
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by like_any_other 11mo ago
> Although, ironically, a lot of those Europeans were also not considered white contemporaneously and it’s only now that their descendants consider themselves white and rail about all the non white immigeants This is outright false: htt
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by like_any_other 11mo ago
So the Americans deserve it? Well, thank you for your honesty.
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by like_any_other 11mo ago
> lines on a map which we call "nations" are a foolish way to decide who is allowed to go where and do what. A nation is a group of people. What you're referring to is territory that belongs to a country. > But it does
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by like_any_other 11mo ago
The only thing that proves is how badly misinformed and propagandized on the matter the common person is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_China
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by like_any_other 11mo ago
> especially in the United States. China has 1.4 million immigrants, and 12000 foreigners with permanent residency. Not per year, but total, cumulative [1]. Despite having 4x the population of the USA. Meanwhile the USA has gone from 8
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by like_any_other 11mo ago
> an ally of the west Remind me again of all the help Israel has provided the USA/the West that they are considered such a great (the greatest, in fact) ally?
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by like_any_other 11mo ago
> US has increased manufacturing output over the last couple decades. 2019 was the highest year ever, covid interupted a bit, but levels are back there again Terms like "highest ever" conceal that US industrial production only
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by like_any_other 1y ago
Should we say that every other country that doesn't provide aid equivalent to what USAID did, is also killing those 14 million? E.g. China, Japan, India, Brazil, the UK, Saudi Arabia, France, Russia, Canada, Mexico..?
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by like_any_other 1y ago
Too bad all the competent politicians were dead set against preventing the "free market" from hollowing out American manufacturing.
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by like_any_other 1y ago
> doing the extra digging instead of just going along with the claim. That's the intention of intermediary liability laws - to make meritless censorship be the easy, no-risk way out. To deputize corporations to act as police under a
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by like_any_other 1y ago
> Grokipedia’s entry for “Clinton body count,” a conspiracy theory that falsely links the deaths of multiple people to Bill and Hillary Clinton, cites an unlikely source [InfoWars] Okay, but in the very example the article gives, the sub
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by like_any_other 1y ago
> As soon they became a competitor there was a problem Was there? It seems to me trade and offshoring continued even after they became a competitor. And then continued after they strong-armed Western corporations to invest in China [1],
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by like_any_other 1y ago
> they made clear rules if you want to play business in China. Not really: https://www.hudson.org/technology/china-ignores-rule-of-law-... Apple CEO Tim Cook "secretly" signed an agreement worth more than
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by like_any_other 1y ago
Can you point out what errors the article makes, for those of us less versed in history?
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by like_any_other 1y ago
Sorry, I must be doing something wrong, because in this article by the globally respected journalist organization Reuters, I cannot find a description of how Google abused its market position, a link to the court decision, or even which c

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