It’s chilling reading the words of a well spoken mass murderer.
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1) Identity politics is a road to hell. It’s bad when the far right plays that game with white supremacy and it’s equally bad when the left plays the game with equality of outcome.
2) Where are the hospitals having their conference on how to get more male nurses? Where are the construction companies complaining there aren’t enough women doing hard labor? Why is tech the center of this craziness when there are plenty of other careers that have the same type of demographic imbalance?
3) The value of your ideas aren’t limited to the color and gender you were born with. It is racist and sexist to say otherwise. As a white man, I can have ideas on race relations and women in the workplace that is just as valid as a black man’s ideas or a woman’s ideas. Ideas need to be evaluated with reason and logic.
For UBI to be tested effectively it would, at a minimum, need be implemented at a national level and include everyone in that nation.
For one, that is the only way to see the macro economic effects. Second, in this study the money falls from the sky. No one is being taxed to pay for the UBI nor is the currency being debased.
In any case, if it works, people like me will point to these flaws. If it doesn’t work, the pro-UBI camp will have their set of flaws to argue.
Finally, this study seems to suggest that ‘success’ is determined by what percent of people on UBI work. Instead they should be measuring people’s standard of living improvement, if they work or not.
What I was trying to say, without saying it, is that rasism is not what the cultural Marxist are trying to sell - “power + privilege”.
One could argue about the intention of affirmative action, but I don’t think one could argue that it’s not racist, using the dictionary’s definition of racism.
The odd thing about racism is that we typically see it in the US as a asian/black/white/hispanic issue where historically race was finer grained, especially when talking about a much more homogeneous population.
Historically Brits would consider the French, Irish, or Italians as a different race, and, yes, have racist views about those people.
What I learn from that is, even if the US was 100% “white”, racism would still exist as we would find increasingly small differences to categorize people into races and then discriminate.
The problem is that discrimination based on categorization is how the human brain works.
When a writer puts down people who add enormous value to the world while putting those who extract value on a pedestal, I have to wonder about her motives.
They’ll be pushing the same political ideology of big government in their new home and blame the problem with their old home on corruption, while never understanding how the two are inextricably linked.
A native Swede bigot thinks “I hate all non-straight people.” and a normal Swede thinks “I really wish we could get rid of bigots like that dude. Too bad we can’t deport jerks.”
An immigrant thinks the same thing as the bigot and the same normal Swede thinks “We need to help these people, how do we take in more of them?”
Seems foolish to me. Being oppressed in their homeland doesn’t make them intrinsically “good” people.
Your observation about Republicans is just as valid.
Check your outrage, it’s affecting your perception.
The wealthy don’t pay their fair share. Trump: New tax plan just took away a huge source of federal tax deductions.
The wealthy ship jobs oversees. Trump: attempting to put reciprocal tariffs in place to level the playing field.
The wealthy use the government to subsidize their business. Trump: let’s stop subsidizing companies doing bulk mail and abusing the system.
The wealthy use cheap labor and we need to bolster unions. Trump: cuts work visas and attempts to remove undocumented workers that depress unskilled labor wages.
I guess this goes to show that the medium is the message. LTDVB.
If this allows for cars to have a 50 mile battery range while still being able to travel unlimited miles on highways, it would be a huge win.
“Shapiro and Yiannopoulos have absolutely said fascist things.”
So no quotes then? We’ll just take your word for it?
Who dictates what is dangerous speech? You? A mob?
Now do yourself a favor and go and watch their speeches, then come back and quote the facist bits. I bet you can’t...because I know you can’t.
When you hold up small regions that survived for a short time (about 3 years), created nothing, then were defeated, I’m not sure you’re going to win against a system that created modern North America from nothing and has lasted over 200 years.
Anarchism is an abstract idea that has never worked, which is why all your examples are of anarchists that work with collectivist, squarely against their individualist ideals.
Communism is great in theory but no matter how well read I am on Marx, Lenin, or Mao it won’t make communism work any better historically.
What is it you want to do that you’re not allowed to?
Also, why are anarchist teaming up with communist in order to limit free speech?
I’m specifically talking about Antifa trying to stop a jew (Shapiro) and a gay man married to a black man (Milo) from speaking at Berkeley?
Do anarchists support free speech or not?
Though I suppose you could argue sending robots instead of people is better?
Is it possible the road had other vehicles blocking the view?
It’s more likely the author created his own echo chamber.
My Facebook friends span the political spectrum 70% liberal and the rest some degree of conservative.
I would venture to say, 99% of political post come from my liberal friends. Some of which I will comment on, most of the time I get responses that aren’t logical and mostly insinuate I’m not a good person because I disagree.
For those people, I usually just remove from my feed. Not because I don’t care for their politics, but because they only want a one way conversation.
That is how an echo chamber is created and it’s their own doing, not Facebooks.
It’s an odd double standard.
I’ve met as many (if not more) liberals who expressed racist ideas as I have conservatives.
I had the same types of calls. Changed the phone number on my domains to an old number of mine and the spam calls stopped a few weeks later.
I believe the current limitation to speech strikes the right balance, so I don’t support new and subjective limits to speech, like “hate” speech.
I’m unclear what you’re asking about governments and corporations. Members of both already have special case restrictions on speech, mostly dealing with military and security.
But, generally speaking, any organizations is just a collective of people who have the right as individuals. So, if I understand your question, my answer is yes.
I’m reading your words, but can’t tell what you’re actually trying to say.
“...but if you look at the public opinion data, you find some patterns quite incongruous with many of the popular talking points circulating right now”
So, he’s saying, ignore what is demonstrably like Antifa and other liberal students protesting and/or rioting when a Jew or a homosexual man married to a black man attempts to give a speech on campus. That’s all just talking points?
It’s really happening, but they have data that shows it’s not happening? Sorry, I can’t buy that.