rowtheway

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by rowtheway 4y ago
South Africa’s infrastructure failures have little to do with privatization or “the West,” and far more to do with self-inflicted brain drain, a general lack of expertise and project management skills, theft, crime, and corruption: https:&
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by rowtheway 4y ago
When it comes to value systems that have stood the test of time and have well-understood failure modes vs. whatever hot new theory was cooked up on Twitter or Tumblr last week (the main vectors for recent moral changes in my country), I gen
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by rowtheway 4y ago
>and just as most Christians don't support setting bears on children that mock priests. I’m not Christian (anymore) but I’m pretty sure this isn’t a thing in canon law. In contrast, the major strains of Islam are refreshingly clear
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by rowtheway 4y ago
This optimistic view of the Islamic world is, sadly, inaccurate. For example, as of 2013, an overwhelming majority of Muslims wish to make Sharia the law of the land: https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2013/04&#x
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by rowtheway 4y ago
You wouldn’t get fired at Rutgers: https://torontosun.com/life/rutgers-professor-calls-white-pe... Or Drexel: https://www.cnn.com/2016/12/26/health/drexel-professor-white... Or Yale
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by rowtheway 4y ago
> Or none at all. Or ones for people in a select group. Bureaucrats do this too. See the history of communism in Europe, or present state of communism in China. Centralized welfare is a centralized system of control in the hands of polit
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by rowtheway 4y ago
I am an atheist ex-Catholic. The big atheist-leftist crowd in my college town are intensely more violent, toxic, and racist than local Catholics or Lutherans. Lack of religious belief is no guarantee of kindness or rationality, nor is the p
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by rowtheway 4y ago
Broadly speaking, the community-oriented left in places like the US support bureaucratic government welfare programs, while community-oriented conservatives support more organic, often religious, and non-government charitable organizations.
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by rowtheway 4y ago
In America, you don’t need to reach for philosophy to explain the destruction of high-trust communities when history will do: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2056992.Left_Behind_In_R... Summary of the book by