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05-15-2016 , 08:18 PM

#601

Loki

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Uh oh, the spanklish is starting up

05-15-2016 , 08:23 PM

#602

Paul D

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Is there some mockery and derision going on?

05-15-2016 , 08:34 PM

#603

chezlaw

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Quote:

Originally Posted by AsianNit

Is it reasonable to take this reply as a long-winded way of saying "yes"?

If you mean 'is he a man in a very sexist world?' then afaik he is.

If the conversation is about whether or not he thinks a sexist world is better than a non-sexist one would be (or some other distinction) then I kinda doubt it, he can speak for himself if he wants to.

05-15-2016 , 08:42 PM

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AsianNit

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Is he significantly more sexist than the baseline sexism that permeates male privilege?

Keep in mind that the point of this question isn't about determining whether Foldn is sexist, it's about your capacity for recognizing sexism and your willingness to give a substantive answer to a question, so Fly doesn't care if Foldn can speak for himself.

05-15-2016 , 08:53 PM

#605

Jbrochu

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Don't break his heart
His achey rapey heart

05-15-2016 , 08:59 PM

#606

chezlaw

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Quote:

Originally Posted by AsianNit

Is he significantly more sexist than the baseline sexism that permeates male privilege?

That's not a judgement I have reached.

Quote:

Keep in mind that the point of this question isn't about determining whether Foldn is sexist, it's about your capacity for recognizing sexism and your willingness to give a substantive answer to a question, so Fly doesn't care if Foldn can speak for himself.

If you want a substantive answer to questions from me then ask ones about the substance. Like: what should we do about the problem of sexism?

If you want to discuss the value of rushing to judgement about people, then I'll have a bash at that as well. None of it will be about an individual though unless possibly they wish to participate.

05-15-2016 , 10:58 PM

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Trolly McTrollson

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spanky being a chez gimmick would explain a lot. Have the mods done an IP check?

05-15-2016 , 11:17 PM

#608

Loki

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Probably cheezebrain's drunken other personality

05-16-2016 , 01:04 PM

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bobman0330

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Good Will Wilkinson essay:

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In Free-Market Fairness, John Tomasi, a political theorist at Brown, makes the case that the classical liberal and libertarian allergy to social justice, which he calls “social justicitis,” is based on a number of intellectual mistakes. I think he’s right, and will have a thing or two to say about what’s wrong and right in the attacks of Hayek and others on the very idea of social justice in a future post. In Tomasi’s forthcoming book with Matt Zwolinski, Libertarianism: A Progressive Intellectual History, they argue that 20th century libertarians became so obsessed with combating socialism that libertarianism narrowed into a sort of codified anti-socialism, fixated on defending the underpinnings of the free enterprise system against technocratic economic planning and redistributive leveling. In the process, they argue, libertarianism lost much of what had made 19th-century classical liberalism such a powerfully progressive and emancipatory force. Having hunkered down in a defensive anti-socialist posture, libertarians become unable to see, for example, that the feminist and civil rights movements were fighting for forms of freedoms earlier classical liberals had devoted their lives to. Social justictis, in my view, is a further symptom of this anti-socialist monomania. And it saddled classical liberals with a distorted and enfeebled message that forces a false choice: whatever liberty is, whatever free markets and limited government are good for, it ain’t social justice.

05-16-2016 , 01:15 PM

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Sounds right on from the blurb, will read later. This same weird "monomania" goes both ways, obviously, the flip side is people who blame "capitalism" for every bad thing that has ever happened in the world.

05-16-2016 , 01:34 PM

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Quick, someone tell Deuces that for $5k he can get a front row seat to a 9/11 recreation put on by a Truther who's intent on proving to us once and for all that it's a hoax! Or something!

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-n...rebar_facebook

05-16-2016 , 02:08 PM

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Paul D

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For $5 you can recreate your classmates clapping as you enter a room

05-16-2016 , 02:10 PM

#613

Loki

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Women perform better at maths in progressive societies with more equality

https://news.slashdot.org/story/16/0...th-study-finds

05-16-2016 , 02:41 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by DudeImBetter

I am also raising 10k to prove their was a gunman in the grassy knoll. Please make payments out to cash.

05-16-2016 , 03:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Paul D

For $5 you can recreate your classmates clapping as you enter a room

LOL wp

05-16-2016 , 04:23 PM

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pvn

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WHITE PEOPLE

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...old/?tid=sm_fb

05-16-2016 , 05:06 PM

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Huehuecoyotl

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I would say white people but when I was in Yellowstone we watched an Japanese group get attacked by an elk that they tried to take a selfie in front of. Good times.

05-16-2016 , 05:49 PM

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Is it racist to say Japanese tourists are the nut low?

Ehhh, Ugly Murikans abroad are also bad. Maybe tie?

05-16-2016 , 05:58 PM

#619

microbet

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Quote:

Originally Posted by DudeImBetter

Is it racist to say Japanese tourists are the nut low?

Yes.

05-16-2016 , 06:20 PM

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Dids

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl

I would say white people but when I was in Yellowstone we watched an Japanese group get attacked by an elk that they tried to take a selfie in front of. Good times.

I think the "white people" thing is more the buttinski interventionist we need to save this poor Buffalo part. That kind of weird paternalism does seem rather caucasian if we're generalizing.

05-16-2016 , 08:01 PM

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Gonna suggest that the bison had already been rejected by the mother, hence why it looked so pathetic when the people came across it and were compelled to save it. Animals abandoning their offspring due to human interference is largely a myth. Putting a baby bison in your car is pretty stupid but more because it might flip out and cause some damage and hurt itself and the occupants.

05-16-2016 , 08:47 PM

#622

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Pretty good point. Grabbing a non-abandoned bison baby will probably get you killed.

The bison in Yellowstone aren't exactly terrified of people.

05-16-2016 , 09:07 PM

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mosdef

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Dids

I think the "white people" thing is more the buttinski interventionist we need to save this poor Buffalo part. That kind of weird paternalism does seem rather caucasian if we're generalizing.

Well, yeah. It's not called The Black Man's Burden.

05-16-2016 , 09:14 PM

#624

Jiggymike

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Also the rangers being all "You killed it!" is a little mean but probably best to make sure people don't start thinking its a good idea to get involved with wildlife.

05-16-2016 , 09:37 PM

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Loki

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I may be a little tipsy atm, but is it true that the smurfs was kinda white supremacist/anti-Jewish?

White hoods, red hold for their leader, bad guy was vaguely Jewish, etc?

Tell me if YouTube is right or wrong!

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