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by nhchris 4y ago
The old "you have power/privileged/are the oppressor, so should not be allowed any means of defending yourself" trick. Also known as "punching up (good)/down (bad)". Quite popular these days.
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> I find it fascinating that South Korea [..] is very religious. I thought [..] religion was supposed to raise [fertility]. South Korea: 1.1 fertility rate, 56% no religion - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea
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Tunisian president says migration to Tunisia aimed at changing demography(reuters.com)
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More than a goal, it is a prerequisite. Without it, a society sustains itself only as much as the robin sustains its family after a cuckoo kicks out her eggs, but the nest remains the same.
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If platforms such as Reddit really wanted to protect their users, they would try to avoid placing themselves in the position where even they can deanonymize their users. Otherwise it's like Apple crying they're only complying wi
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> He rattles off a list of things that he claims Asian Americans are doing to assimilate: having stable families, not having kids out of wedlock, attaining education, not committing crime, etc. Aren't those all habits most Asians br
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> I’m arguing that free individuals in those societies with the power to choose otherwise, and access to information about the consequences of their choices, don’t get to blame those norms for their behaviour. Fair enough, but I care les
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> It would be racist to suggest all members of the same race have the same beliefs. I'm not suggesting that. Only that they, on average, exhibit in-group preference, to a degree that correlates with how important they say their raci
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> Why is a white minority a bad thing? I addressed this question: "Or will that leave them as individualists in a country dominated by inter-group competition, as current polls suggest?" Of course this is not guaranteed - once
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The US cannot turn against immigration, period. "Afford" doesn't enter into it. The Latino voting bloc, growing every day, votes against immigration reduction (or even enforcement, via sanctuary cities) out of ethnic solidari
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She fled the war in Ukraine but failed to find a safe haven in SF middle school(sfchronicle.com)
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This is analogous to alleging a company is complicit in an MS13 murder committed by an illegal immigrant, because the company wasn't strict enough in checking the immigration status of their employees. Or, ignoring sovereign immunity,
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We can talk about "choice" for an individual. But when it's hundreds of millions of people in a society overwhelmingly "choosing" the same thing, it becomes more useful to talk about causes , about how society is s
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In a white supremacist society, who is going to stop whites from sticking together? It sure is convenient if you get to be the one deciding who is an oppressor and who is oppressed. You can place arbitrary moral limits on the oppressor&#x27
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> Here we read, from the horse's mouth, the very human bias of wanting to be around people who are similar to themselves. What's wrong with that bias? Let people associate with who they wish. If the GP is happier living in an a
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What to Know About Children's Author Roald Dahl's Controversial Legacy(time.com)
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> you're just inventing Political Enemies Propagating Horrific Injustice when the simpler explanation is a publisher trying to sell more books. I only described their actions. You're talking about motivation. Though the publish
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You are correct, it's not censorship. It's lying, fabricating a past that is more in line with the present. Creating a false consensus on modern sensibilities using the voices of dead authors. Your mention of translation is apt -
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> so why do people care? Because we are being lied to about what Dahl wrote, and implicitly, the zeitgeist and sensibilities of his time. This is faking the past to serve Year Zero. And no, noting that there were some changes in small pr
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Fabricating the past does not become okay just because some relatives agree.
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> In Matilda, a mention of Rudyard Kipling has been cut and Jane Austen added. Burning books was at least honest.
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> is closed regarding inmigration comparing it to, say, Canada. Is this a joke? The US went from 83.5% white in 1970, to 57.8% in 2020 [1], mainly due to immigration. How many other countries can you point to where the former majority po
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> strengthened as compared to simply choosing their own successors as was claimed? No, compared to cooperating with the appointment of replacement members.
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They are the wrong demos.
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But if the judges veto, their power is, if anything, strengthened - it keeps the supreme court in their hands. I.e. they only share power with judges of their choice, or no-one. And they can easily wait-out short-term politicians and get th
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Not just in the US, but Australia, Canada, and many European countries too.
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An argument I heard against "localization" [1] of video games and cartoons is that one would never dare "localize" [2] Moby Dick, the Odyssey, or the Gulag Archipelago, so why not extend the same courtesy to other media
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CSIS documents reveal Chinese strategy to influence Canada’s 2021 election(theglobeandmail.com)
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> Have you been to any many EU countries? I was born and live in one of them, and have been to eleven others.
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> why are you not counting immigration within Europe when looking at European immigration? That would make about as much sense as counting immigration between different US states. I know it's fashionable to pretend someone immigrati

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