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• • 21 Oct 07
  • 1:43 am

  Speaking as a Progressive and an often quite fierce critic of American society, I do think that a resolution condemning Turkey's genocide against the Armenians, while belated and inexpedient (given Turkey's current strategic importance to our presence in Iraq), would be meaningful. I do agree that there are more important issues that need to be addressed right now. I'm also not sure how I feel about characterizing America's admittedly brutal and despicable policies toward the Indians as "genocide." I feel quite conflicted about this. The term has come into casual use in a lot of progressive discourse, but as awful as …

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• • 21 Oct 07
  • 2:26 pm

  Well, people today are not directly responsible for the evils of the past, but one can't just ignore the past either, because the past caused the present. "Men make their own history, but they do not make it exactly as they would please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under conditions already existing, given and transmitted from the past. Thus the tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living." - Karl Marx It may be a bit hypocritical for the US government to chide other governments on their legacy, but that …

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• • 27 Jul 07
  • 1:48 pm

  The positivist ethos has destroyed social science, and these kinds of ridiculous overgeneralizations are what results. There needs to be more emphasis on critical, qualitative research in psychology and other fields.

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