Recent content by Peuri

Oh lordy, I go away for a year and come check what's up with CivFanatics, where I used to go for nuanced takes on world politics etc., only to find that it's gone even deeper into tumblrification and become yet another Internet community that's become just a chapter of the cult of the woke...

It was a rather charitable interpretation, I think, when I literally said that I thought generalizations (implied of ethnic groups) were bad in the original post you quoted. I didn't use the Roma to justify anything in my original post, I used them as an example to show that I did care about...

Eh. You assumed that I apparently thought that racism doesn't exist or something, and I used the Roma as a local example to dispel that notion, and the notion that I hadn't cared about such things effecting other people than now myself. Obviously I'm not such a "knuckle-dragger" as to think that...

Good that something is done to the tech giants, although the motivation behind this is wrong. Social media is ripping societies apart to the profit of the advertisers and the tech companies. Manipulating people's behaviour and selling them rage and unachievable images of normal life is their...

Going off topic. But, well, yes. There is only my biological body, and all positive feelings have an evolutionary basis that helps me to choose actions my nature "thinks" will benefit my continued existence and the chance of procreation. Some of which obvioulsy are not suited to our changed...

This message assumes that I didn't previously care about combatting negative stereotypes about, say the Roma, who have a bad reputation in my country. How did you divine this knowledge from my brain? You are a slave to your nature if you follow pleasure. Ok, now there is a "we", although I've...

The position I used to hold, that I thought was the moral position to hold was that there is no "we". The fact that you and I share some superficial characteristic in our melanine content is irrelevant. It doesn't make you and me an us. It doesn't help me at all that Zuckerberg has the net...

Sorry, forgot the trigger warnings. I'll blame Austin for the hetero/cis/whateverthatisyouwrotetherenormative example. The book was published in the 50s.

Isn't that the core of the problem? Our individualistic cultures have been striving for deconstruction of these shared values to maximize personal liberty, leading to the destruction of a coherent narrative for people to hang on to. The point of life seems to be pleasure. What a sad view of...

Why not? What if that thought control is the thing required to bring about a society where everyone feels accepted and embetters the psychological wellbeing of various minority groups?

Of course! That's literally what people like Robin D'Angelo are doing. To people like her racism, that is "white supremacy", is an all-pervasive aspect of white people's sayings, doings, thinkings and feelings that has to just be accepted as fact and constantly combatted. It doesn't matter...

Sure. I didn't mean it to be taken as that it shouldn't be done, just that soon it probably will be woefully insignificant a policy if you can just print your magazine at home anyway.

Yes. Isn't the point of anti-racism to purge the thoughts also?

Sure, but that moment is here in no time, and once that moment comes, this policy will be woefully insufficient. Although I'm not saying it wouldn't help at all now, just that soon it will not deter anyone truly committed to an act of mass violence.

Can't you just print magazines and guns anyway in about 5 years or so?