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- 14 Dec 06
- 2:20 pm
"In this narrative, identity politics is to blame for the inability of progressives to stick together, thereby making room for the rise of conservatism. Michaels says as much, barely acknowledging any other factors, including the right wing�s brilliant (and highly racialized) campaigns to establish its ideas in the American consciousness." Does the author realize that she is disproving her own argument? Yes, the right has used race to split the working class - "the right wing�s brilliant (and highly racialized) campaigns". and if progressives allow the right to control the battlefield - race - then we lose. The right is using …

Posted to White Progressives Don't Get It
- 12 Dec 06
- 6:24 pm
Dawkins is, indeed , a fundamentalist. He has an completely unproveable hypothesis , namely that god does not exist. Using the scientific method we would simply leave this question alone until we came up with some kind of experiment that would give evidence to support a hypothesis. He is in the EXACT same position as proponents of intelligent design. I am not religious. however, i find the contempt some atheists have for religion to be the mirror image of fundamentalists contempt for non-believers. the rational approach is agnosticism and respect for others in general.

Posted to The Godless Fundamentalist
- 13 Dec 06
- 11:43 am
aetheism is disbelief in god. agnosticism is lack of certainty. anybody who professes atheism is just as much a believer in the unproveable as are theists. Dawkins is both strident and rude in his unporoveable belief system - as are many fundamentalists. other examples of the religion of science include "string theory". First off, since it has not been subject to any verification by experimentation, it is not even a theory. Nor has it produced a single shred of technological advancement. Yet this "theory" has become de rigeur in physics departments everywhere. Can anyone refute that this is at all different …

Posted to The Godless Fundamentalist
- 02 Jun 06
- 5:58 pm
1) Wolf, the article lists incarceration rates for other countries for a comparison. and other countries are lower than the us's 2) it seems like what you are getting at, wolf, is that boys and girls are different. and i completely agree. boys and girls are different and boys perpetrate the vast majority of crime and violence. At the same time, yes this should give pause to feminists demanding an equal number of professors of mathematics and physics at universities. its not all discrimination. 3) Tina, the main point of the article is about the drug war and victimless crimes. I …

Posted to Convict Nation
- 02 Jun 06
- 5:04 pm
I'd rather have my "tax dollars" support this than killing innocent women and children throughout the world, but hey, thats just me.

Posted to Pow! Shazaam! Its ғMinoriteam!
- 21 Oct 05
- 11:29 am
I think you are all missing the point. The author is not saying that accurate reporting is racist - although he does not do a good job explaining his thought clearly. I think the point is that people made-up racist stories and reported them. If they had LATER turned-out to be true, they would still be racist stories because when they were reported, they were made-up racist stories. What if the "boy who cried wolf" had gone yelling about a wolf that wasn't there, but while he was yelling - a real wolf just happened to show-up? Would he then be …

Posted to The Subject Supposed to Loot and Rape
- 24 Oct 05
- 10:32 am
Racism is not unidirectional. There are plenty of black, hispanic, and Asian racists in America. The whole stupid construct about how racism and sexism are unidirectional is crap. Attitudes are attitudes, prejudices are prejudices regardless of your race or sex. The unidirectional argument is just a way of excusing everyone in the world except for white males for any crap they want to shovel. And outside of academia - does anyone believe that? its just too absurd to take seriously. A black man that says all whites are scum is not racist? wake up!

Posted to The Subject Supposed to Loot and Rape
- 21 Oct 05
- 1:20 pm
WOW! y'all are intense! but this is a pretty critical issue. My own thoughts... Tyrrhen - please just use regular speech, your overbearing verbosity makes your posts nearly unreadable - though they contain very interesting ideas buried in them. Edithanne - you do, at times, get worked-up to the point you do almost sound anti-semitic. ariram is, of course, good at provoking you. Ariram - you are obtuse, overbearing, and insufferably smug, please look into some "real" historical facts - even if they make you uncomfortable. Grapple with some of this information with integrity and maybe you will have some thoughts …

Posted to The Real Case for Israel