theorique

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by theorique 11y ago
"Frat party" is offensive now? What about the very existence of frats altogether. Should we ban those? Oh what about men's clubs? What about groups of men? Some people do believe that any men organizing and assembling in gr
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by theorique 11y ago
Welcome to our "College Party Themed Party with Typical College Party Games such as Beer Pong". (it's NOT A FRAT PARTY!)
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discredited, but important So even though the article wasn't true, and it was based on a completely fabricated story by a person who may actually be insane, it's still "important", because it provides ammunition to bui
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by theorique 11y ago
One of the things you're paying for is for the service provider to "act as if".
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by theorique 11y ago
People who use privilege as an argument aren't asking you to be ashamed of being white, they're asking you to be ashamed of being conservative. Well that's a big problem too. It's essentially erasing the experience and
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by theorique 11y ago
The context seems to be people with specialised skills who are approached by start ups for specific items of work (graphic design projects), with an expectation of free our cheap labour. What's the potential benefit to the contractor
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by theorique 11y ago
I admit, I've never gotten this from total strangers. That would be a very strange experience and I'd probably make a joke about it, as you describe. Relatives have occasionally asked me for computer help but those questions have
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by theorique 11y ago
In Canada, "human rights tribunals" have been weaponized to attack journalists and writers. See, for example, the case of Mark Steyn, who has been harassed by Islamic extremists deploying "lawfare" techniques to silence
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by theorique 11y ago
I think hate speech should be made illegal in America like it is in the rest of the civilized world. Define "hate speech". Thought experiment: you're running the government, your definition applies. Oops, your opponents jus
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by theorique 11y ago
Cultural Marxism is no joke. http://www.academia.org/the-origins-of-political-correctness...
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by theorique 11y ago
People use the term "NAM", or non-Asian minority, to separate out minorities who are affirmative-action target populations from non-Whites as a whole.
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You're right. Since CY/MM was unknown to the organizers, it was not that the organizers believed he was beyond the limits of civilized discourse. Rather, the "hecklers" who advised the organizers to drop CY/MM wer
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by theorique 11y ago
This still doesn't explain why Yarvin being present at a conference, giving a non-political talk on technology (presumably with no so-called "hate speech" content), represents a threat to anything or anyone at said conference
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by theorique 11y ago
The following link is an ongoing set of updates of people who have fallen victim to the so-called "brown scare" - being fired, ostracized, or otherwise penalized for holding right-wing views. It's a lot more pervasive, and
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by theorique 11y ago
Extreme conservative opinions like Mr Yarvins are actually shocking to me. I don't think his particular writings should be banned or anything like that. However, are they so reactionary as to represent to the organizers a position tha
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by theorique 11y ago
Is this a real thing? This conversation feels like a window into an alternate universe. I'm with you there. I've helped organize a couple of small regional meetings, and I have literally zero idea what the political leanings of
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by theorique 11y ago
It's not like there's an actual policy that Yarvin violated that I can be confident I'm on the right side of. This is the bigger issue - the chilling of all controversial views and debate. It's less about "violate
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by theorique 11y ago
More recently, perhaps within the past year or two, I've been seeing online a polarization and evaporative cooling effect in action. There doesn't seem to be as much middle ground and nuance as there has been in the past. Any su
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It's a good summary - generally balanced, but skewing toward the side of letting CY speak on Urbit, and asking some pointed questions about why he was removed after acceptance.
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"Scientific racism is the use of scientific techniques and hypotheses to support or justify the belief in racism, racial inferiority, or racial superiority, or alternatively the practice of classifying individuals of different phenoty
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by theorique 11y ago
Moldbug treats as subhuman It's really extrapolating hard to infer this from his writings. There's only one part in the Carlyle essay where he throws out a hypothesis about slavery, and nowhere does he imply that (1) this is a g
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by theorique 11y ago
This is a perfectly sensible way to do things. The concept that a person's politics is so "evil" that their talk acceptance must be rescinded is, frankly, childish. It treats attendees like small children, who can't rati
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by theorique 11y ago
This sounds like the function of the free marketplace of ideas. One is allowed to espouse any ideology that you wish. However, other people are allowed to respond with their own speech. They can call the idea racist if they want. They can
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by theorique 11y ago
And if you're investing in 20 startups, why not take a few interesting gambles on the crazy outliers in hopes that they will be the the money-printing machine of a Gates / Jobs / Zuckerberg. As long as the inventor seems smar
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by theorique 11y ago
This is probably what gives rise to the bail bonds industry, no? Credit for posting bail.
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by theorique 11y ago
Agreed, that kind of extremely binary thinking about "CRIMINALS" and "NORMAL PEOPLE" is not helpful.
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A disturbing number of people immediately stopped having any sympathy the moment they found out that e.g. Michael Brown had just robbed a convenience store or that Eric Garner was selling cigarettes illegally. They would generally not come
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In Europe, as well, there's a significant and rising problem of crime associated with migrants from the Middle East and Africa, right?
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Are you referring to the "nerd blackface" of Big Bang Theory ?
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Part of the issue is the question of who moves first - individual or society. A man who expresses his emotions, in a society where this is not valued or honored, is going to lose social status. I would not want to teach my son to be that &q

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