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Liam Bright
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One of my schticks is that people frequently misconstrue the Schelling model of segregation. On my read this is moral of the paper, confusingly placed 1/3 of the way in.
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I agree with authors' central point; this is a normative not descriptive question. More subtly I agree one can't infer from what one thinks about trans re gender to trans
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Earnest self reflection for a moment - I must admit I get a spiteful pleasure from the thought that I'm in many ways what this sort of person dislikes (e.g.
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More than one person in the recent past has called me a "moderate" This perturbs me! I'm sceptical of representative democracy and the parliamentary road to socialism, I want to
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Here are the current Teams in philosophy, as defined by me in a completely idiosyncratic way that I have no intention of trying to justify or even pretend is sociologically
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I often joke about being against things I’m actually in favour of. I’m close to the stereotype facts and logic bro in my actual opinions, I have an almost religious
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Thing I saw just now and have witnessed plenty irl too, is the following move made in lefty circles:
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The ostensible language of woke racial self confidence but used in service of apologetics for the racism of whites who govern blacks, and in fact a particular individual who has
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Here's a pet sociological theory about culture warring, followed by a quasi-black-nationalist call to rid ourselves of it. There is, at present, some sort of internal fight among many white
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The African American intellectual tradition has some of my fave thinkers. Angela Davis, WEB Du Bois, Alain Locke, and Ida B Wells are people who have really helped me understand
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I think Journal of Controversial Ideas submissions are mostly gonna be people saying “what if socially normal hierarchies are... good actually” - ideas controversial in academia but, like, normie irl.
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Another thread + conversation with Yuzi has me thinking about this: how did Peterson gain a positive reputation with the FACTS and LOGIC crowd, given that his methodology is basically
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