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by rexpop 2y ago
If he's taking responsibility, why did he specify a semantic version?
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by rexpop 2y ago
Maybe, unless some form of Sapir-Whorf is true, and the lexica—and grammar, and phonology, etc.—impose an inalielable umwelt, one inaccessible to hegemony.
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by rexpop 2y ago
Indigeneity generally refers to the descendants of people who inhabited a territory prior to colonization or the formation of a country, often those who are disadvantaged as a result, and who continue to inhabit the land. Connection to the
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by rexpop 2y ago
Unrelated: The hakenkreuz (swastika) was used by German nationalists and "Aryan" supremacists as early as the late 1800s, and was quite popular, even used by the Wandervogel. The swastika officially became the emblem for the Nazi
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by rexpop 2y ago
Might be time to stop extending him the benefit of the doubt.
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> I struggle to imagine what a Pollock "about" racism would look like That Pollock's style cannot address racism is, possibly, why it was promoted over more politically salient schools.
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by rexpop 2y ago
This is a vague and baseless conspiracy theory.
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by rexpop 2y ago
> Most of the places I've worked cannot even resolve all of their observable quality issues, let alone the hidden ones. Just remember... > Nobody gives a hoot about profit. — W. Edwards Deming
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by rexpop 2y ago
Fun fact! Jackson Pollock, along with other abstract expressionists, was a CIA propaganda asset! The CIA believed that abstract expressionism, with its unbound and individualistic style, could be associated with American freedoms, so they s
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by rexpop 2y ago
Similarities between the current political climate in the United States and 1930s Germany include the use of rhetoric and propaganda, the rise of a particular type of leader, and the appeal to a specific type of follower. The idea promulgat
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by rexpop 2y ago
> Just don't commit crimes. This is a really, really ignorant imperative. First of all, the criminalization of poverty and structural injustice, generally, make technically criminal activity inevitable in some communities, but I r
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by rexpop 2y ago
I'm not talking about "asshats," I am talking about violent abusers—95% of whom are men! It's nowhere near close! I'm sorry about your Adverse Childhood Experience, but you're way out of touch with the statisti
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by rexpop 2y ago
Who is carrying the stick? Not me! No one I voted for!
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by rexpop 2y ago
Bro, I have sat in a room in the wealthiest city in the US and interviewed dozens of men who repeatedly violate their partners—verbally, physically, emotionally, and sexually—and justify it all in terms of what men deserve, and what women d
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by rexpop 2y ago
> “Leftists”, however defined, certainly did This is utterly bonkers on so many levels. Don't you see how the turn of phrase "Leftists, however defined" is exactly the kind of storytelling that confabulates the phantom int
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by rexpop 2y ago
> free yourself from these preconceptions I have, but patriarchal societies have a tendency to accommodate--even encourage--violence against those who don't exhibit "conformity to their preconceptions". It is those categ
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by rexpop 2y ago
My Jewish family, too, left Europe. In the 1890s—from Ukraine, they left to evade the Tsar's pogroms—Kropotkin had not yet penned "Mutual Aid". Why that wasn't enough writing on the wall for my Austrian and Polish family
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by rexpop 2y ago
The Democrats did nothing like this move when in power. There is a difference between agreement and enforcement. Edit: to be clear, when Twitter recognizes hate speech, it's not "the Democrats". It's not dictated by the
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by rexpop 2y ago
The Democrats did nothing like this while they were in power. Furthermore, Nazism is a very real and hiatorically bad ideology against which we must be vigilant. So, you are comparing ghost stories to history books.
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by rexpop 2y ago
> the "male"/"female" label is useful Unfortunately, these are overloaded terms, and we need to dereference them. Otherwise we end up with weird expectations that contradict your egalitarianism. See: "Femini
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by rexpop 2y ago
> Hiding people, while it did work for a small number of people, was completely ineffective at stopping the larger holocaust. Ok, that's somewhat goalpost-shifting, because you said "ineffectual," and I showed effect . It
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by rexpop 2y ago
> You can't just declare the rightness of your cause and hope it catches on. Well, duh.
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> the ongoing winners -- certainly did not Well, how could they have known?
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> we're unlikely to redefine society in the name of making less than 1% of the population feel better Believe it or not, there are actually many popular, far-reaching political ideologies centered around helping "the least of u
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by rexpop 2y ago
> I don’t think your point stands. Elaborate?
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by rexpop 2y ago
What's presented without evidence can be dismissed without evidence, but because it's important I'll deign to enlighten you with some counter -examples: - In Nazi-occupied Europe, during World War II, various groups wielded
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by rexpop 2y ago
> Plenty of antisocial (or worse) behaviour has been promulgated by those indisputably at the top of the social food chain. This isn't a counterpoint to "fix the world," because those "at the top of the social food ch
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by rexpop 2y ago
Or, perhaps, we're very far from an adequate society.
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by rexpop 2y ago
Luckily, we live in a society of specialists, and while you are laying bricks, public health orgs are generating reports and taking interviews and making these data accessible and meaningful to you. So, yes, your grandma relies on a data &q
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by rexpop 2y ago
Uh, what ever happened to Civil Disobedience? Direct Action? Nonviolent Action? There are at least as many ways to respond to repression as there are avenues of repression: https://commonslibrary.org/198-methods-of-nonviolen

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