rukittenme

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by rukittenme 6y ago
I hate it when white supremacists admire and respect black authors.
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by rukittenme 6y ago
It's not a straw man to belittle you. Next time you respond to someone, try not to prefix it with "right" if you don't want to signal your agreement.
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by rukittenme 6y ago
> Strawmanning the education system Maybe he is. If that's the case, let's "steelman" his position and do better. Do you feel that Thomas Sowell would read your response and feel you grasped the argument he was maki
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by rukittenme 6y ago
> "Instead of trying to propagandize children to hug trees and recycle garbage, our schools would be put to better use teaching them how to analyze and test what is said by people who advocate tree-hugging, recycling, and innumerabl
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by rukittenme 6y ago
Must be hard. Hating it when the ideas of a black author are supported, admired, and shape the political leanings of a white audience.
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by rukittenme 6y ago
Poor black people. You're either a token for conservative "racists" or a whip for liberal "racists" to flagellate themselves with. Always the supporting actor. Never allowed to have ideas which inspire others to a
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by rukittenme 6y ago
> To say things that white conservatives believe but suffer ridicule for saying. This is so ridiculously racist and uninformed I don't know where to begin. First, it assumes Sowell hasn't made any unique contributions to econo
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by rukittenme 6y ago
> How do people idolize this guy? Read his books and find out. You'll be supporting a black author if you do.
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by rukittenme 6y ago
> so that article OP cites is outrage bait, it's not an informed source. How does this follow? One faction burns a bible and another faction puts it out. How do you choose which narrative to privilege?
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by rukittenme 6y ago
> Law has 4-5 kids per teacher Is this true? When I was a kid my daycare was like 30 kids per teacher. It was called "Mother's Day Out". I can't remember the cost but judging by the amount of time I spent there i
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by rukittenme 6y ago
I understand your point but Terry Crew's probably understands his tweets reach millions of people. He uses it to advertise his TV shows. And I have to have some sympathy for people who live their entire internet lives is absolute obsc
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by rukittenme 6y ago
> Would you feel comfortable that you still have your job and your reputation after going in front of the nation and saying "I think interracial marriages should be illegal"? Don't you think that's a bit disingenuous?
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by rukittenme 6y ago
How is that an opinion of the content of the piece? Its a rewording sure but the content is the same. "what’s wrong with our public education system [...] the most powerful force in our schools: White parents"
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by rukittenme 6y ago
if i hosted a forum i would very likely ban people who posted extreme messages. but, of course, im small. the relative harm to the extremist is small. they can find another place to spread their awful message. but what if i'm bigger
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by rukittenme 6y ago
Whats the word on desalinization? How expensive would it be; how much water can it produce? Anyone here in the field?
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by rukittenme 6y ago
Source: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6488/314
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by rukittenme 6y ago
Did you miss the next sentence?
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by rukittenme 6y ago
The thing about protest is that it has the capacity to be misunderstood. They misunderstood you. You misunderstood them. > it denies that anything unfair is happening to people because of their skin color. Like you did here. In my exp
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by rukittenme 6y ago
I suppose its worthwhile to make a distinction between "small, private, Christian, conservative, seminary" and "large, public, secular, liberal, university". I think its appropriate to advocate for gay students at these
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by rukittenme 6y ago
In the same way a gay person can be outed without ever explicitly coming out to their peers. There are social queues that people can pick up on. To enumerate a few: 1. Lack of participation in political events. "Silence is violence&q
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by rukittenme 6y ago
> oh my god. the HORROR. People call you names! It is a horror when a private political opinion can get you fired, de-platformed, and removed from society.
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by rukittenme 6y ago
I think the OP argued pretty explicitly that a well researched comment, that violates the orthodoxy, is down-voted until it is removed from public discussion. I'm not sure how you can come to the conclusion that he's "against
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by rukittenme 6y ago
I live in Chicago so I wanted to see what the hyper-partisan conservative site was for my area. Turns out its the Cook County Record[1]. I obviously haven't done an in depth analysis but it looks conservative in its selection of topi
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by rukittenme 6y ago
> The only limit is yourself! ;) You have no idea how significant of a limit that is... I'm kidding. Thanks for the response! And zombodb looks very cool. I might bring it up since we have a couple of heavy analytics endpoints ri
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by rukittenme 6y ago
Just out of curiosity, what sort of requirements compel a person to write a postgres extension? I know of things like PostGIS but I'm not well versed enough in this world to know the totality of the problem.
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by rukittenme 6y ago
Anti-intellectualism no doubt has been given a bad name by its adherents. By its very nature it attracts the ignorant and opportunistic. But anti-intellectualism, in and of itself, is a positive good for our society. Ironically, we just
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by rukittenme 6y ago
If you want to provide government aid to poor communities then by all means do it. But let's not pretend that welfare even approximates a solution to the problem. There is likely no solution. Well... aside from letting go of past inj
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by rukittenme 6y ago
As I said yesterday in our conversation, we are in agreement there but I'm not quite sure it solves the problem. A "good start" isn't a solution to the problem and even the "good start" requires enforcing some
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by rukittenme 6y ago
The question remains. How do you solve the problem of historical injustice? Focusing specifically on land stolen from Native Americans by European settlers.
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by rukittenme 6y ago
> Things need to be properly acknowledged before they can be moved past. What acknowledgement would right the wrongs of history? What is the appropriate amount of reparations to be paid?

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