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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: 21st century identity politics |
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Posted: 31 Oct 2017, 2:46 pm
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| The tests weren't invented to prove that any race was smarter than another, but they were created by people with an overly specific idea of what constitutes intelligence. It just so happens that what white, 20th century scientists saw as intelligence included ways of thinking encouraged in some Eas... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Old....very old School Report Card |
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Posted: 31 Oct 2017, 2:32 pm
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Ah the 80s, how enlightened they were...  |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Old....very old School Report Card |
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Posted: 31 Oct 2017, 2:20 pm
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| I have a really brutal one written by a trainee teacher when I was 4 years old (it included photos). Comments included: 'Other children enjoy teasing her and this causes her to cry excessively. It can be difficult to console her.' 'Here she is trying to run. She is flatfooted and bottom-heavy, so st... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: 21st century identity politics |
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Posted: 31 Oct 2017, 2:12 pm
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| Most humans are dumb as planks. The further you get from European and East Asian stock, the dumber they are and these are the people invading the West in huge numbers. http://www.unz.com/jthompson/the-worlds-iq-86/ I could argue about the validity of IQ tests, but I would be wasting my time. Have y... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: 21st century identity politics |
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Posted: 31 Oct 2017, 1:55 pm
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| Most humans are dumb as planks. The further you get from European and East Asian stock, the dumber they are and these are the people invading the West in huge numbers. http://www.unz.com/jthompson/the-worlds-iq-86/ I could argue about the validity of IQ tests, but I would be wasting my time. Have y... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: 21st century identity politics |
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Posted: 31 Oct 2017, 6:11 am
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| WRT to the question of if one were to address the UN about women's concerns, I tentatively put this forward: 1. The fundamental assault of women's personhood involves denying women control of their reproductive function and biology. All women need to have access to reproductive healthcare that meets... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why do feminism blame everything on white males? |
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Posted: 31 Oct 2017, 5:26 am
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| Oh, don't get me started on my irritation Western women who believe feminism stops at the Schengen border, or stops at their national border, or even stops in certain postcodes of the city where they live. But in this case, I'm thinking this is: 1. diplomacy 2. when in Rome... If the Iranians were m... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: 21st century identity politics |
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Posted: 31 Oct 2017, 5:07 am
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| @Clakker, is't none of my business if you want to avoid class-based theories of oppression. I won't tell a black person how to think about their experiences, and I apologise if it came across that way. I was trying to clarify the class-based analysis, but you already understand it and reject it. I d... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: 21st century identity politics |
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Posted: 31 Oct 2017, 4:42 am
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| I think the 19th/20th century forms are dead too, themselves a weird mix of socialism/communism, the relatively new idea of the nation-state and what I believe to be in-group racial preference exhibited, as far as I can tell, by all humans everywhere. Where you predict a slow fading of racial polit... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: 21st century identity politics |
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Posted: 30 Oct 2017, 10:34 pm
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| Here's perhaps an issue I see as well. How do we define oppression, and if we're talking about women being oppressed by men what particular scope are we talking about? In a way I think this hearkens back to my question from a couple days ago - ie. the international congress meeting to come up with ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: 21st century identity politics |
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Posted: 30 Oct 2017, 10:28 pm
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| I'm referring to men and women as classes. When people make the statement, 'whites oppress ethnic minorities', or 'able-bodied people oppress disabled people', they're doing the same thing. I used a class-based analysis of oppression. Men and women are sex classes. This idea of gender as a class is... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: 21st century identity politics |
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Posted: 30 Oct 2017, 10:17 pm
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| Mikah, I don't think the current division of allegiance along ethnic and religious lines can last indefinitely. The reason for this is that socially-constructed identities like religion and ethnicity are unstable. I have to disagree, while all identities change to some extent, ethnicity particularl... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: 21st century identity politics |
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Posted: 30 Oct 2017, 1:58 pm
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| Women can oppress other women as individuals, but not as a class. Oppressive systems are organised into classes. Anyone can oppress anyone as an individual. Individual women can oppress individual men, but the sex class of women does not oppress the sex class of men. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: 21st century identity politics |
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Posted: 30 Oct 2017, 1:19 pm
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| I'm referring to men and women as classes. When people make the statement, 'whites oppress ethnic minorities', or 'able-bodied people oppress disabled people', they're doing the same thing. I used a class-based analysis of oppression. Men and women are sex classes. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why are feminists not against hijab? |
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Posted: 29 Oct 2017, 11:31 am
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| On the other hand, if your parents introduce you to a nice young man in the hope that you'll fall in love and get married, but accept that you can also choose to say no and do things your way, then there's nothing wrong with that. I don't know how common that experience is, but it's definitely an e... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: 21st century identity politics |
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Posted: 28 Oct 2017, 4:56 pm
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| I've got a question and it's mostly to see if we can probe out something constructive. I'm going to present a hypothetical scenario where women of every political stripe across the west got together, IRL and online perhaps, and decided to hash out a formal pronouncement, lets say through the UN, on... |
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