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Very famous author. She won the pulitzer prize for fiction. Her books are both beautifully written and hard to read because of their often brutal depiction of the racism African-American's experience in the U.S. https://en.m
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A lot of African-American fiction can have that effect. Corregidora by Gayl Jones is a book that blew me away and made me really upset. It took me almost twenty years to read it a second time.
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I love reading, but only a handful of books have really changed the way I look at the world. The Bluest Eye was one of them. Minor spoiler: in the bluest eye a young black girl obsesses over a white female doll with blue eyes. Before I read
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This is a significant spoiler for those who haven't seen the show. Please delete it.
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I never said we should be more like China. I just said that internet censorship can prevent extremist groups from organizing (which it can).
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> In the end, white supremacists and other kinds of supremacists existed before the internet. By supporting China-style censorship you're not actually eliminating those ideas, or even stopping their spread. They existed before the i
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Giving hate manifestos easy access to a global audience can help get more people killed.
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> Feels like no one online wants to just provide a 'dumb pipe', and always want to act like a pseudo publisher trying to dictate what's allowed and what isn't. Sites like 8chan, Hacker news, etc are publishers, and I
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How would that be different from railroads? Aren't those already dedicated to moving products and large amounts of people? And wouldn't they be much easier for machines to navigate?
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In the book "Principles" by Ray Dalio, he argues that when someone criticizes you or opposes your opinion, you should at least briefly consider the possibility that they are completely right and you are completely wrong. Well, I m
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I agree he and the Gates Foundation do wonderful things, but I will Never be entirely comfortable with one person sitting on that much money. He is worth in the range of 100 billion dollars. 100 billion dollars. He has promised to give half
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However poor its implementation has been, the ideology behind communism is based is the idea that people should not be stratified by class. The ideology behind slavery is that some people are subhuman and can be treated like animals. The br
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Bots and email clients. Microsoft word. Libre Office.
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> 1/ When humans wield their power in the world, they are limited by the linear nature of their thinking. The best example of this linearization is the top-down planning of modern suburbs. Contrast this with how nations and states e
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Except none of it is improv. It is all planned.
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Do you think he continues this persona with his family? He must turn it off at some point. He cannot go home and tell his wife every other week how shocked he was to find that he was the main speaker. And yes I consider performers who clear
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> He is an entertainer and capable of manipulating crowds. My concern is the lack of people like this who share my own politics. The creepy part for me was not the canned speech. It was the attempt to manipulate the people at his table.
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> I have zero problems with "economic pain" caused by us not doing business with a country that has 1M people in "re-education camps", disappears protesters, and wants to extradite people from Hong Kong. If these were
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I entirely agree, and what you write connects with Karl Marx's theory of alienation: that as workers become more specialized they become more alienated from the people and communities that benefit from their work. I think this is a hug
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His works are also the basis for Minority Report, Total Recall, and The Man in the High Castle
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As a teacher, it's a necessary tool. But you are right that it can be abused by teachers who are both attempting to inspire critical thinking AND trying to navigate their students to the "correct" answer at the same time. If
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Maybe to the business. But jobs are a very desirable side effect for the nation state that makes the laws that make a business possible.
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It is an expression of dominance. Male and female dogs both do it.
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Leaders always know they have to answer to voters. So They cannot just do whatever they want. The communist party in China does not have to answer to voters. So they can do whatever they want. I concede that perhaps there are internal check
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Still not even close. The U.S. has a constitution that gives its citizens legal recourse when they feel the government has gone too far and gives them some basic rights. The U.S. has elections to hold leaders accountable. China has none of
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Volunteer! I meet the best people volunteering. People who will do stuff for non-monetary reasons are usually pretty great.
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I had a friend with a wonderful yearbook quote: "The secret to happiness is contentment." Pretty wise for an 18 year old.
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That is kind of what a comic book is, isn't it?
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Am I confident ethnic nationalists will be proven definitively wrong in my lifetime? No. But my confidence comes from basic math. All capitalist countries have to accept immigration at some point. Even China will have face a population cris
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I am not describing a utopia. I just do not think, barring some world-wide catastrophe, there is any way you can turn the clock back on globalism at this point. I know people want to go back. People always want to live in the past. Many Tru

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