cld8483

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by cld8483 4y ago
The wacky derivations of their beliefs doesn't change the fact that most businesses in red states would kick you straight out the door for antisemitism or any criticism of Israel. Anti-semitism is far outside the mainstream anywhere
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by cld8483 4y ago
This app should have been banned from both appstores when it was found to be exfiltrating all clipboard data. Insane that it's still permitted by Apple and Google after such an obvious display of malevolence.
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by cld8483 4y ago
> What differentiates boys like this from plain bigots is they think they can put it next to their resume. Yes, if they hand you the evidence then it should be obvious. > A gut feeling is all you need to tell. It's the "q
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by cld8483 4y ago
> Or just live in a red state? Heh, in red states where unconditional support for Israel among white evangelical protestants is more popular than in the Jewish-American community itself? Where every other car seems to have a bumper st
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by cld8483 4y ago
> "just because of stress" Where is that narrative coming from? It doesn't seem to be what the article is pushing. The perp seems like a nutjob who had a violent melt down, no need for a grander narrative. This sort of
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by cld8483 4y ago
You can tell the difference by looking to see if any of their research helped in developing the vaccine (it did not.)
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by cld8483 4y ago
The research out of this lab didn't help develop the vaccine, so what were they doing in the first place? Weapons research, it's as simple as that. As soon as the virus started circulating through the public, that was their cha
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by cld8483 4y ago
> I'm not sure what world you're living in but we've been shooting missiles at Chinese military objects Only after several days of failing to resolve the balloon matter diplomatically. Shooting it down was not their fi
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by cld8483 4y ago
> What should the consequences be? The abolition of modern virology, roll the clock back on them a hundred years. Allow the development of vaccines for extant viruses, but completely ban all Dr Frankenstein activities with viruses. N
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by cld8483 4y ago
It can be. Is there an abridgement of The Count of Monte Cristo that has the hashish chapter? The abridgement I read as a kid didn't have it.
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by cld8483 4y ago
Same. It took me a few years to get past the first few pages, but once I did that book just clicked for me.
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by cld8483 4y ago
> > The research, which was funded in part by the National Wildlife Federation and U.S. Department of Energy > Can't imagine there's any conflict of interest there. Pro-nuclear bias you figure? Does the DoE have anot
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by cld8483 4y ago
I have, and it isn't. Have you actually read any of his novels, or are you relying on Achebe to do it for you?
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by cld8483 4y ago
The author is dead, any "ownership" of the work today is purely a legal concept. But ownership in any sense irrelevant. Being the owner of a work does not preclude censorship. If the author himself censors his work, as Roald Dah
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by cld8483 4y ago
I like it; it often has the hands symbolically painted red.
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by cld8483 4y ago
You may be right, but I'm not convinced. I believe many Jules Verne novels were once considered "young adult" fare, but (in the original unabridged forms) became challenging for young adult readers in the 20th century. I th
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by cld8483 4y ago
The sentiment Joseph Conrad expressed in his books is that colonialism is evil and corrupts the souls of anybody who participates in it. If you can't read his books because you can't get past the dated language he used, then you
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by cld8483 4y ago
> Ok why aren’t there Hitler statues in Germany then? Are they going to forget Hitler was bad and have another Holocaust? Perhaps it is the reason why the Reichstag still today has a mailbox with Hitler's name on it.
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by cld8483 4y ago
The most common form of "sanitation" is probably abridgement, and I think there is a strong argument that abridgement is a net positive because it allows people who would never be able/willing to read the full book to get the
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by cld8483 4y ago
> But what if you could get the original text cancelled? No right-thinking publisher would print it, no God-fearing bookseller would stock it Modern book "cancelling" is not (yet?) so effective as that. Huckleberry Finn is
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by cld8483 4y ago
> the teachers say teens are increasingly finding late-20th-century kids' books hard to read That doesn't surprise me at all, I'm sure 20th century teachers found the same trend in 20th century students trying to read 19
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by cld8483 4y ago
Perhaps it should, I don't know much about the statue or the way the community that hosts it perceives it. My point is only that harsh criticism of Leopold II doesn't rely on retroactive application of modern values. He was a f
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by cld8483 4y ago
> Which is exactly what we should expect of any censor. Exactly. If they weren't artless hacks they'd write their own books instead of butchering others.
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by cld8483 4y ago
Those who can't write, edit.
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by cld8483 4y ago
So you're evidently privy to the company's reasoning when it comes to the initial decision to censor the books, but when it comes to the backtrack you just don't know. Got it.
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by cld8483 4y ago
The values of opposing the European subjugation of Africa. Which you'd know if you read his books and weren't fixated on the outdated language.
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by cld8483 4y ago
Leopold II, judged by the values of his time, was still a fiend. He was widely and rightly criticized by his own contemporaries.
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by cld8483 4y ago
Real left-leaning English newspapers haven't been tried, or something like that... But yes, to say that somebody is a "Guardian reader" is say they are somewhere in the left to center-left part of the spectrum.
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by cld8483 4y ago
> The publishing company holds the copyrights, they make a lot of money from Roald Dahl, but they're worried about the long term prospects for that revenue stream due to social change. If they were following public demand, then wh
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by cld8483 4y ago
There is nothing liberal about censoring books. Stripping the word "fat" out of children's books is progressive, but certainly not liberal, and certainly not mainstream.

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