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Vaccines and Donald Trump are both excellent issues b/c the correct view is extremely obvious and they clearly & cleanly separate the true freethinking, rational people like @SamHarrisOrg & @RichardDawkins from the reactionary garbage like @BretWeinstein & @ConceptualJames.
I've noticed that I tend to have a sort of respect toward secular nationalists like DuBois, Atatürk, Savarkar, Hébert, and so on. Despite disagreements with all of them, their atheism (without Communist influence) indicates to me that they are capable of recognizing reality.
The United States is a liberal republic. Understanding that clearly better enables Americans to resist influence by illiberal, anti-republican ideologies like fascism, Communism, and Christianity, that have all chipped away at American liberal republicanism to various extents.
Advocates of diversity should keep in mind that the US is only about 15% black. So you should expect, in a totally equitable world that in any given area, only 15% of the people would be black. On a panel of 7, only one person would be black and a panel of 5, none would be.
The absurd way in which we've genetically engineered some dogs is a pretty strong indication that, collectively, we are no responsible enough to have access to genetic engineering tech.
A dangerous lie that America's enemies have helped propagate and is based in some truth is that any exercise of American power is illegitimate and that America is fundamentally racist.
1/ @googlemaps now includes women-led, black-owned, Latino-owned, LGBTQ-led, and Asian-owned businesses. Basically, as long as you're not a cis straight white male trying to run a business, Google will uniquely identify your business.
2/ It's a stupid implementation. If they are going to do this at all, they should give users real choice and allow them to filter businesses based on the race, sex, sexual orientation, etc. of the group.
3/ This will be looked at in history as a disgusting form of reactionary discrimination. Imagine if @google had been created in the 1930s. Perhaps we'd be seeing them highlighting white-owned businesses. Replacing discrimination with discrimination will only result in a blacklash
Phyllis Schlafly was right when she said the Equal Rights Amendment would have legalized same-sex marriage. The ERA did not pass. The Constitution does not protect same-sex marriage. We need the Respect for Marriage Act, or else SCOTUS will (correctly) reverse Obergefell.
Obergefell was wrongly decided. As Scalia put it in reference to Lawrence, it is "a product of a product of a law-profession culture, that has largely signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda". The proper approach is via the Respect for Marriage Act, not SCOTUS activism.
When medicine is tested on cis straight white men, this is evidence of "white supremacy" and "patriarchy". And yet imagine if most medicine was tested on, say, black women?
You can twist the facts to support your ideology whichever way you want them to.
Whether some group is perceived as "annoying" doesn't matter. Animal rights, gay rights, women's rights, and trans rights activists can also be "annoying". "Annoying" is fundamentally just part of activism. What matters is if the thing that is being advocated for is correct.
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1/ It is extremely important to question the base assumptions of one's worldview. If your assumptions are wrong, all of your conclusions drawn from that will also be wrong. It's also impt to understand others are coming at problems with a different set of base assumptions...
4/ The deeper the repugnance one feels for another set of beliefs, the more curiosity it should generate in you. You may very well be blinded by your worldview as to why someone believes things so different from you. And maybe the base assumptions you've made are incorrect.
Unlimited pronouns is an awful solution. There should be, ideally, one gender neutral and he / him and she / her gradually phased out. Remembering names is hard enough for people, trying to force them to remember “ey / er” is, simply put, insanity. Keep it simple.
Happy #NonBinaryDay! At Mind, we’re here to fight for everyone’s mental health. Recognising all gender identities and people’s pronouns is so important to supporting a person's mental health. We see you and you are welcome here 💙
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Even if what Murray, Lynn, etc. claim is true, this doesn’t justify “supremacist” sentiments. Europeans and Asians have fallen for all sorts of frivolous conspiracy theories, magical thinking, and other obvious nonsense. Humans, all of us, have low intelligence.
1/ Becoming a rich country is easier than ever before, provided we're speaking in absolute terms. Today, one has instantaneous access to any piece of information one desires via the Internet, experts from countries that have already developed, powerful industrial machines...
6/ In an alternative world where Germany and Japan were poor, we would simply say, "Oh that's due to their losses in WWII." We do this sort of post hoc justification for all sorts of poor countries. It reeks of knowing the conclusion you *want* to be true and then justifying it.