Category Archives: Race and politics
Rise of the Planet of the Moralists 5: Social Dominance and Power
Rise of the Planet of the Moralists Series1: Introduction2: Chains and Trees 3: Clades and grades4: Predicting traits5: Social dominance and power Thus far we have focused on the differences between human beings and apes, and the ways we should … Continue reading
On fear and risk
I haven’t had a rant/sermon in a while. My parents’ generation went through the second world war, fighting tyrants and ideologies that sought to control our everyday lives; for which reason they are sometimes called “the best generation”. Their parents’ … Continue reading
Filed under Censorship, Freedom, Media, Politics, Race and politics, Religion, Sermon, Social evolution
Some interesting links
A speculative journal published by Elsevier may be dropped after it publishes AIDS denialism. The crisis of faith in rational economics of a Chicago economist… An article claiming that race as a biological concept got a bad rap. How Haiti … Continue reading
Filed under Epistemology, Evolution, History, Humor, Links, Media, Politics, Race and politics
Avatar plotline
is best summed up as Dances with Smurfahontas in Fern Gully For example… And now, the Metacontextual Edition (warning! Major plot spoilers, and I mean that in the most literal way).
Filed under Humor, Race and politics
"Including none at all"
Just when I start to get cynical about Obama’s agenda, he proclaims this: Long before our Nation’s independence, weary settlers sought refuge on our shores to escape religious persecution on other continents. Recognizing their strife and toil, it was the … Continue reading
Filed under Politics, Race and politics, Religion
A video for Pat Robertson
The Hives – Walk Idiot Walk by The-Hives
Filed under Politics, Race and politics, Religion
Arendt and Heidegger – moral failures?
Slate has an essay on Arendt and Heidegger by Ron Rosenbaum that suggests they never really disavowed or freed themselves from fascist ideology. Worth a read.
Filed under Philosophy, Politics, Race and politics
The forgotten Holocaust
This is a disturbing essay by Timothy Snyder in the New York Review of Books, republished in Eurozine. It suggests that we do not remember the entirety of the Holocaust in German and Soviet hands. [H/T 3 Quarks Daily]
Filed under History, Politics, Race and politics
The hate that dare not speak its name
It’s self-evident that a movement that calls the president a lying, socialist, Nazi eugenicist with a fake birth certificate is about something more than deficit spending. People don’t brandish automatic weapons and pray for the president’s death because they want … Continue reading
Filed under Politics, Race and politics
