“I have neither the right nor the duty to claim reparations for the domestication of my ancestors… Am I going to ask the contemporary white man to answer for the slave ships of the seventeenth century?” - Fanon!
Was violence acceptable for the cause of defeating Hitler? Of course it was. Today, our country supports Ukrainian violence against Russia for the Ukrainian cause. Not to mention police violence in every country.
Can you imagine if Iran made propaganda posts about how bad mark twain and Nathaniel Hawthorne are? Or if Hamas made propaganda posts dissing Jewish authors like Kafka or Spinoza? I don't like Iran or Hamas but they have the sense not to do that nonsense.
I just discovered an incredibly dry book entitled 'how marriage became a sacrament' which is 1200 pages long. No doubt a towering work of scholarship, but I can't even imagine the authors mother will read it all.
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An issue I have with the modern left™ is that I think the enlightenment was a good thing and a significant portion of them don't
I'm afraid if you don't believe that people can be convinced into supporting reason, that means you believe communism is impossible. Everything schmitt wrote was built on an extremely strong (secularised) version of original sin which is anathema to socialism.
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If you still think giving the government the power to “regulate big tech” is not going to backfire on the Left- even after the anti-Palestine laws- then frankly you’ll never learn.
If this is a true statement, it's a quite stupid one
Im going to speak my truth. The first two seasons of the big bang theory are okay. Pretty tolerable. I liked Leslie winkel.
It's not surprising that the pope believes AI can't be conscious and doesn't have a soul because he's the pope. Of course he thinks humans have souls given to us by God. Pro-AI people getting mad about this are ridiculous, and anti-AI people praising it are also wrong.
Hac intellegentiae artificialis aetate, urgens fit humanam artem ab iis distinguere, quae machinis efficiuntur. Ars enim et ea, quae machina ex innumeris alienis imaginibus statisticae ope computationis generare potest, ontologice, prius etiam quam aesthetice, inter se differunt. Algorithmis humani deest favilla. Quapropter Ecclesia cum artificibus et humani cultus institutis foedus renovare cupit: foedus scilicet ad humanum custodiendum.
I sometimes still get slightly annoyed the ANU encampment moved on late at night instead of staying put when the police arrived. It would have been the biggest story in all the news bulletins. Hundreds of people were willing to get arrested that day.
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there's a huge organizing tension between disability being a huge vector of actual social marginalization that is overlooked a lot and the fact that ableism accusations seem to be one of the most potent forms of wreckerism introduced in the contemporary era
The other thing right wingers are missing in this annoying classical music discourse is that the Chinese are more invested in classical music than we Anglo-Saxons are! China and (when it existed) the USSR were/are great preservers of western culture
I believe in the greatness of western Christian culture (which birthed Karl Marx and Toussaint, after all). But if this was the height of that culture, I would become a Khmer Rouge supporter.
