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It's interesting to see this title because I'm reading The Psychology of Totalitarianism by Mattias Desmet and so far he seems to believe that the Enlightenment with its emphasis on science and rationality helped push us inevitably towards totalitarianism.

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I respectfully recommend the debators’ read Fausto-Sterling “Sexing the body” to elevate their unsophisticated and shocking recent debate on human gender nurture/nature constructions. Moreover, I recommend they seriously reflect on their very simplistic argument of a correspondence theory of truth, which its true alternative is not a postmodern consensus truth theory, but a more complex and historical language game a la wittgenstein.

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Our system of law has been used numerous times to punish white people who harm black people. I should explain the rule of law. It requires notice of the burden to be placed on a party, the opportunity to be heard, and a moving party with a burden of proof. As we have refined it, we have added many procedural safeguards, which many including myself consider rights, such as the right to be free from unreasonable searches, and the right to an attorney. As to getting rid of the rule of law. When we privilege the subjective experience of a person over objective facts, we are harming the rule of law. The rule of law requires objectivity. I have found many times that when an ideologue is caught out, the ideology becomes a moving target. Woke privileges subjective experience over objectivity. Therefore, it is a danger to the rule of law.

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It like pornography, you know it when you hear it.

And duh, there are different forms of it.

It’s forbidden in polite company and in the workplace, ie. you’ll often get fired if you do it at work.

Grow up. Do you really need me to define it for you? Do you live in a cave?

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Why is the left obssessed with race? The explanation is identity voting. If you vote your identity, bad governance is irrelevant. It doesn't change your identity. So you keep voting your identity, even though the government gets worse and worse. If you're convinced your identity means you vote for leftist Democrats, you continue to vote for leftist Democrats, regardless of how bad they do in governing.

The reason Democrats call all Republicans racist is because it maintains identity voting in minority communities. Democrats wouldn't have a chance if people voted on the issues, like crime and school choice. So Democrats make sure that minorities think all Republicans are racist, so minorities won't even consider voting for them. This leads to silly comments like saying Larry Elder, a black conservative who ran for Governor of California, is the black face of white supremacy. It leads to Sen. Tim Scott (R, SC) and Lt. Gov. Elect Winsome Sears (R, VA) to be called house negros or tokens, even though their elections show Republicans vote on issues, not skin color.

Sen Tim Scott, a black Tea Party Republican, won election state wide twice in South Carolina, where the electorate is over 60% white. Republicans don't care about his skin color. However, Republicans have to be racist, or identity voting fails, and Democrats lose. So even though Sen. Tim Scott writes major legislation for Republicans, like crime bills and tax legislation, he's called a token and the press doesn't cover him. That's racist.

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If you insist. But I would say diagnosing unseen and imaginary patients on the internet with definitive conclusions could present cause to question it.

Besides have you never heard of circumcising? Were the outrage? Not as god intended.

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Dude. You are way way off topic. Re-read the title of this article.

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Racist, bigoted, misogynistic, and phobic speech is protected speech. In Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969) the Supreme Court held that speech advocating illegal conduct was protected speech. Speech is not protected when the speaker intends to incite violence, and the speech is designed to produce imminent lawless action, and is likely to do so.

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That is not my view. I have always said that liberty is a two way street. With a few exceptions, such as having to have a license to practice in a certain field, what I am permitted every other adult citizen is permitted. This is the view of every pro-liberty person whom I know.

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We are not talking about 4-year olds.

Strawman

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huh? racist's fleeing the Dem party after LBJ and continuing under Roger Ailes/Ronald Reagan "southern strategy" was really because of the international Cold War?

that's ahistorical nonsense.

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Substack deleted Gene Frenkle’s account at the behest of Taibbi…there is just no place one can’t get censored today.

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Dude, it's not the "blood". You want "pure blood"? there is no such thing.

What you call "blood" is DNA and ancestry. I am not my "blood".

Calling all Ukrainians white supremacists is racist by definition.

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Loopy and McWhore together again! Black people have been using the term for decades yet these two turn to a white for a definition (and a laughable description of "methodology"). This just shows how little connection to actual Black people these two have and why their masters love them so.

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The phrase "the laws of nature and of Nature's God" in the U.S. Constitution is a statement that the American people desire to govern themselves through reason (i.e. logic) and observation (i.e. scientific inquiry). Wokeism is a counter-argument to the first foundation principle of the American polity.

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The people who want to be treated fairly in society are the problem. OK, Glen.

I'm old enough to remember when MAGA attempted to murder the VP and install a trump dictatorship. They should hang every single one of those traitors.

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