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Those are invented terms, absolutely. As are, for example "virtue signaling" and "SJW." Unpacking all of those would be a separate issue from the widespread misuse and misunderstanding of "cultural Marxism" and "postmodernism." Not exactly separate. The issue...

Oh I should add, I don't think Joe Rogan is a neo-nazi or even an alt-righter, even though he's had lots of them on his show over the years. Joe Rogan has had a neo Nazi on his show? Please provide a link. Gavin McInnes was on the show, bragging about his violent neo-nazi gang. Though recently he p...

Conservatives railing against cultural marxism goes back before I was born. The "alt right" doesn't really have anything to do with it. If you review my post you'll see that the term originates in Nazi Germany, which also pre-dates the "alt-right." Also I don't think you are abl...

ok, so we are in the murky territory on if they are encouraging more to make the same risky trip or not by enabling it. our society is full of such punish people to save them things, from making begging illegal to throwing drug addicts in jail, its how we are.. cant say I agree with most of it but ...

I agree. I think we may be talking past each other. The hypocrites don't influence my actions. My point is you have every right to do whatever you want with your own personal resources. When the charity checks are drawn from the personal checking account of Ibrahim, I admire and salute you. If your...

If i make a flimsy raft and die in the ocean their is no wider discussion on the inherit immorality of whoever didnt save me. people just make jokes about what an 1d10t I was and then ignore it. I dont expect any different in regards myself, why would I assume some random guy from another country s...

I see what you are saying, but at the same time I don't think who is or isn't a hypocrite should influence our own decisions. If refugees are drowning in the Med I'm not going to be opposed to helping them because some celebrity advocate for refugees lives in a mansion and never interacts with anyon...

Doesn't seem like a left-right issue to me. Hard to make a distinction between right and left on this issue. As I have said before, I don't know any lefties taking unvetted, illegal immigrants into their home and treating them like family. I was involved with an organization that was helping settle...

Sometime in the 1980's ( as opposed to the 1880's or 1780's) somebody invented the word homophobia (later on islamaphobia, and being more recently invented the same principle will apply yet we won't need to perform the same exercise) and nobody asked me to agree with it or what I thought it meant. ...

Other than a flat footed attempt to conflate Joe Rogan with alt righters I'm not sure there is a verifiable claim in there. Oh I should add, I don't think Joe Rogan is a neo-nazi or even an alt-righter, even though he's had lots of them on his show over the years. Rogan is just amenable to any view...

You are really going to like this one Ibs. All of this is stuff is documentable now in the digital age. You won't be able to get away with it. Also don't think the irony is lost when you talk about established meanings of words and bandy around a term as a blunt instrument that's maybe 3 years old....

The world of alt-right YouTubers has created its own cargo cult version of academia, with its own definitions for previously accepted and understood terms, and which references itself constantly, creating this internally sustaining miniature version of academia but with its own pet version of histor...

noddy wrote:if you take unscheduled immigrants in large numbers without appropriate housing and services and government assistance you get ghettos and shanty towns and horror stories.

all this only works in an orderly, planned manner.

I'm all for planning it better, certainly.

The question of whether or not extreme poverty is justification for asylum is philosophical and moral one. I'm just saying that the the wretchedly poor fleeing gang violence in Guatemala aren't the same part of the immigration debate as whether your economy would benefit more from an Indian enginee...

I view routine immigration and the migration of people fleeing violence of extreme poverty as two separate issues. I don't object to picking "the best and the brightest" under normal circumstances, my point was that they might not find the political culture in America as appealing as it w...

The question of whether or not extreme poverty is justification for asylum is philosophical and moral one. I'm just saying that the the wretchedly poor fleeing gang violence in Guatemala aren't the same part of the immigration debate as whether your economy would benefit more from an Indian engineer...

The rising tide of perceiving racism where there isn't, in general where facts matter less than they should. Facts should matter more. I guess the white power rallies where people were murdered, the mass shootings by neo-nazis, and the concentration camps along the border for brown children were &q...

we have credit ratings, all linked so any institution involved with money can get your score we have health records, all linked, so any institution involved with healthcare and potentially insurance can get your score we have no fly lists and watchlists, so any travel or movement of money can be re...

Spengli Goldman is right when he is right: President Trump Calls for America to Recruit 'the Smartest People in the World' Come for the education. Stay for the economic opportunities and help us remain a powerhouse of innovation. Try to ignore the rising tide of racial hatred and political division...

I don't think so. I think we are naturally attracted to people who resemble us and avoid people who differ. I hear this quite often, and it baffles me as a totalizing claim. Certainly some people are like this, but other people are quite the opposite. There is a lot of research behind it. It is suc...

People shouldn't equate race to cultural bigotry. IE fear of the stranger from the other side of the hill. Joe Biden claimed a few years ago that if Mitt Romney was elected POTUS he would put black people back in chains. How is Biden's statement not a racist statement? Clearly he was using Identity...

Nonc Hilaire wrote:I don't think so. I think we are naturally attracted to people who resemble us and avoid people who differ.

I hear this quite often, and it baffles me as a totalizing claim. Certainly some people are like this, but other people are quite the opposite.

People shouldn't equate race to cultural bigotry. IE fear of the stranger from the other side of the hill. Joe Biden claimed a few years ago that if Mitt Romney was elected POTUS he would put black people back in chains. How is Biden's statement not a racist statement? Clearly he was using Identity...

When US troops discovered the first German Concentration camp the war was essentially over. Hitler would be dead in two weeks. Losing an election does not qualify for a free pass from legal jeopardy for crimes against democracy, and treason. If there are no consequences they will certainly do it ag...

FfLnFVzfKBs I ran into a few expats like this in South China. "Time for me, the protagonist of reality, to teach these morally atrophied Orientals about the proper way to behave." Nobody take this guy to Bangkok. Since we are conducting anecdotal anthropology, the only time I had my pocke...