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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,574 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    Buddly wrote: »
    Employment markets are made up of people who want to be employed who have choices. Maybe he meant that these people decide where they want to go and sort themselves out that way. 'The market decides' that more women are in healthcare, meaning that more women than men through everyone's own free will end up in healthcare.

    That assumes that it is a free market though. That there is no inherent bias in any industry when it comes to employing and promoting people. I am not sure I agree. In fact the affirmative action regulations in the US mean that employment is decidedly not a free market. Equality legislation in any country skews the system very far from a free market. As does the inherent bias of a patriarchal society. The market doesn't decide in either way as the market isn't allowed to. What's the solution to this? I don't know to be honest. But early education could help.
    That is on the assumption that there is no other distortions at play, such as prejudice, which of course needs to be addressed.

    His point that we shouldn't be aiming for equality of outcome is a subtle one that needs more attention. Work on equality of opportunity. When it comes to the outcome - let the market decide!

    I agree, we shouldn't be looking for equality of outcome. We should be striving for equality of opportunity. That equality doesn't exist right now. Not just based on gender, but on race and socio economic class.

    they/them/theirs


    And so on, and so on …. - Slavoj Žižek




  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,574 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    Beta males tend to have lower testosterone levels, look and act weak and produce fewer sons. It's basic evolution. A hunter gather with beta traits is fair more successful as a female than a male.

    Have you any further reading to suggest? I am intrigued by your ideas.

    they/them/theirs


    And so on, and so on …. - Slavoj Žižek




  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,574 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    they/them/theirs


    And so on, and so on …. - Slavoj Žižek




  • Registered Users Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭pumpkin4life


    Beta males tend to have lower testosterone levels, look and act weak and produce fewer sons. It's basic evolution. A hunter gather with beta traits is fair more successful as a female than a male.

    Lol, despite the beta/alpha slightly twattish language this is actually true.

    Jordan Peterson agrees with you.



    The Winner Effect. You win at something, your testosterone tends to spike. You lose at something, a lad's testosterone dips.


  • Registered Users Posts: 658 ✭✭✭johnp001


    Brian? wrote: »
    Have you any further reading to suggest? I am intrigued by your ideas.

    "Alpha males" do not exist in humans as they exist in the animal kingdom but the term is generally used as a synonym for those who exhibit social dominance.
    This study from the journal of adaptive human behaviour and physiology seems to address what the poster stated.
    Effects of Mother and Father Dominance on Offspring Sex in Contemporary Humans


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  • Registered Users Posts: 104 ✭✭Buddly


    Brian? wrote: »
    That assumes that it is a free market though. That there is no inherent bias in any industry when it comes to employing and promoting people. I am not sure I agree. In fact the affirmative action regulations in the US mean that employment is decidedly not a free market. Equality legislation in any country skews the system very far from a free market. As does the inherent bias of a patriarchal society. The market doesn't decide in either way as the market isn't allowed to. What's the solution to this? I don't know to be honest. But early education could help.



    I agree, we shouldn't be looking for equality of outcome. We should be striving for equality of opportunity. That equality doesn't exist right now. Not just based on gender, but on race and socio economic class.

    Yep, fully agree, depends on no other distortions at play. Which of course is the case and it is so nuanced it takes a lot of hard work and research to figure out what is really causing any inequalities.

    The irony of the whole situation is that his use of evidence is directing the discourse towards potential solutions. Understand the drivers of the problem. When we have that evidence, we are closer to solving it. If everyone could take this approach, we would be on the right track instead of the current cultural trajectory.


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 14,535 Mod ✭✭✭✭johnnyskeleton


    Arghus wrote: »
    For instance equating the ideology, or at least the driving motivation, behind trans activists - and notice how he makes no distinction between any varying level of activism - to ideologies that led to the deaths of millions in the twentieth century. That might sound good to some ears, but it's a serious stretch on his part. It's an opinion he has, not an actual factual statement - you can't claim that's a fact: what rigorous research and evidence is he basing that on? But yet he claims it like it's an absolute categorical truth and he makes everything that comes out of his mouth sound like a categorical truth - even if it's far from it, at times.

    This is the warning that Martin Niemoller gave us. Totalitarians dont come into the world fully fledged and saying what they are going to do. They slowly pick off one group then another until there is no one else to fight back.

    Does criminalising anyone who doesnt use politically mandated language automatically lead to totalitarianism? No, but if it is done as part of a cultural movement designed to undermine peoples confidence in individual and democratic rights ir certainly is a good first step!


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,939 ✭✭✭20Cent


    Its a little known fact but Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot all began their careers campaigning for preferred pronouns.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 280 ✭✭Max Prophet


    20Cent wrote: »
    Its a little known fact but Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot all began their careers campaigning for preferred pronouns.

    Tee hee ! Massive lollers ! Really have you thought about going on stage?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    20Cent wrote: »
    Its a little known fact but Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot all began their careers campaigning for preferred pronouns.

    And weren't Stalin and Pol Pot both Socialists......and in Pot's case, a Radical Marxist.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    20Cent wrote: »
    Its a little known fact but Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot all began their careers campaigning for preferred pronouns.

    Did zhey really?


  • Registered Users Posts: 658 ✭✭✭johnp001


    And weren't Stalin and Pol Pot both Socialists......and in Pot's case, a Radical Marxist.

    Hitler was the leader of the National Socialist party.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,574 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    johnp001 wrote: »
    Hitler was the leader of the National Socialist party.

    Do you believe Hitler was a socialist?

    they/them/theirs


    And so on, and so on …. - Slavoj Žižek




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭The Rape of Lucretia


    Brian? wrote: »
    Do you believe Hitler was a socialist?

    A national socialist. If you were German, and a worker.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,729 ✭✭✭Arne_Saknussem


    Why are you talking about Hitler?


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,939 ✭✭✭20Cent


    And weren't Stalin and Pol Pot both Socialists......and in Pot's case, a Radical Marxist.

    Was only joking they didn't really start that way.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,908 ✭✭✭✭markodaly


    Brian? wrote: »
    Ah come on now, it was an easy joke. People spell my name wrong all the time, I was making light of it. Apologies if it caused any offense.

    So, why didn't you answer the question there and then?


    Do you honestly believe there are no intelligent feminists? There are plenty of feminists who work in fields not directly related to psychology or sociology, who are extremely intelligent. There are also plenty of wailing feminists who I have little or no respect for.

    No, I didn't state that there were none. I asked a simple question on what you think on who is an intelligent feminist. That was all.
    Susan Blackmore. An evolutionary psychologist is an extremely intelligent feminist, who spends very little time talking about feminism.

    So, not really a feminist then. OK.


  • Site Banned Posts: 406 ✭✭Pepefrogok


    20Cent wrote: »
    Was only joking they didn't really start that way.

    Your making a fool out of yourself bud.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭The Rape of Lucretia


    20Cent wrote: »
    Was only joking they didn't really start that way.

    They started out as Lobsters. That has been covered.


  • Site Banned Posts: 406 ✭✭Pepefrogok


    I would like to take the word feminism back, I am a feminist, I have a wife, a daughter, sisters and a mother, some of the greatest, smartest people I have known have been women and I hope they have equal opportunity and treatment in life, I will fight alongside them if needs be! My daughter is sporty, I dont want her to compete with biological males, I don't want some dude making my wife uncomfortable in the toilet, I will help my daughter understand that if she takes time out of her career to have babies she will earn less over her lifetime than a male who didn't, she will also know that a loving fathers advise is not "mansplaining" she won't feel like a child with a victim complex when an adult, most of all she will know about real feminists like Germaine Greer and Emily Pankhurst and will understand what equality really means.


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  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 14,535 Mod ✭✭✭✭johnnyskeleton


    20Cent wrote: »
    Its a little known fact but Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot all began their careers campaigning for preferred pronouns.

    Well sarcasm aside the essential political tool is the same:

    1. Identify a group of people who are successful;
    2. Blame them for all the worlds ills;
    3. Use them as a scapegoat to gain political influence.

    Im not saying that the mass murders inevitably flow from this formula, but overthrowing democratic institutions does follow. These systems of democracy and individual rights are far more important than the specific and temporary issues of concern.

    At the moment, the US "liberal" agenda promotes the right not to be offended (if such exists) as more important than the right to free speech, the right to have your allegation believed (again if such exists) over the right to the presumption of innocence and to a fair trial.

    I remember when people used to quote voltaire with pride. "I dont agree with what you say but I shall defend to the death your right to say it." Or Benjamin Franklin that any society prepared to give up a measure of liberty for temporary security deserves neither.

    So yeah, one group advocates eroding a fundamental right in pursuit of their cause. Another person says that their cause ia valid bur we dont need to give up fundamental rights to achieve it. The latter person is evil and must be silenced. Does that scenario not sound like the start of totalitariansim?


  • Registered Users Posts: 658 ✭✭✭johnp001


    Brian? wrote: »
    Do you believe Hitler was a socialist?
    My post above makes no claim other than to point out that fact that he called himself one.

    Writing that set me thinking though and I read a couple of articles this evening on the subject which made the arguments both for and against.
    The prevailing opinion seems to be that he wasn't a socialist and Dan Hodges forcefully makes that case in:[URL=' https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/02/dont-ever-call-hitler-socialist']Don’t ever call Hitler a socialist[/URL] but some interesting arguments that he was one were made in the article
    The Myth of "Nazi Capitalism"


    I don't think I have a clear enough understanding of this question to have a belief either way.
    There are a lot of factors to take into consideration such as what the definition of socialist that we are using here is and what it was at the time. Especially seeing that socialism (as defined by the ideology that is espoused by current self declared socialists) is something that appears to be evolving rapidly.
    Do you believe he was a socialist yourself Brian?


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,004 ✭✭✭conorhal


    Well sarcasm aside the essential political tool is the same:

    1. Identify a group of people who are successful;
    2. Blame them for all the worlds ills;
    3. Use them as a scapegoat to gain political influence.

    Im not saying that the mass murders inevitably flow from this formula, but overthrowing democratic institutions does follow. These systems of democracy and individual rights are far more important than the specific and temporary issues of concern.

    At the moment, the US "liberal" agenda promotes the right not to be offended (if such exists) as more important than the right to free speech, the right to have your allegation believed (again if such exists) over the right to the presumption of innocence and to a fair trial.

    I remember when people used to quote voltaire with pride. "I dont agree with what you say but I shall defend to the death your right to say it." Or Benjamin Franklin that any society prepared to give up a measure of liberty for temporary security deserves neither.

    So yeah, one group advocates eroding a fundamental right in pursuit of their cause. Another person says that their cause ia valid bur we dont need to give up fundamental rights to achieve it. The latter person is evil and must be silenced. Does that scenario not sound like the start of totalitariansim?

    The easiest way to identify such creatures is to answer the simple question: Who's burning the books these days? Who's building pyres of words they disagree with?

    You really need to watch out for those sorts of people.
    German Jewish poet Heinrich Heine, wrote in his 1820–1821 play Almansor the famous admonition, “Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen":
    "Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people."

    The scary thing is that it's colleges that are burning books these days, censoring texts and issuing trigger warnings and shutting down free speech. That's really worrying as is the fact that half the students at these colleges agree that free speech should be curtailed, with violence if necessary:
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-chilling-study-shows-how-hostile-college-students-are-toward-free-speech/2017/09/18/cbb1a234-9ca8-11e7-9083-fbfddf6804c2_story.html?utm_term=.cf239f55fa4b

    If you want to see real fascists at work, you need look no further then Jordan Peterson's attempt to speak at the University of Toronto and the baying mob trying to shout him down and unplugging his speakers.



    Does he run? Is he cowed by the mob?
    No, when they take his mic, he merely SHOUTS his refusal to be silenced. It's an electrifying moment of defiance from the unlikeliest of hero's and the video that made him both a famous and important voice against the tyranny of censorship.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,807 ✭✭✭take everything


    conorhal wrote: »
    The easiest way to identify such creatures is to answer the simple question: Who's burning the books these days? Who's building pyres of words they disagree with?

    You really need to watch out for those sorts of people.
    German Jewish poet Heinrich Heine, wrote in his 1820–1821 play Almansor the famous admonition, “Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen":
    "Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people."

    The scary thing is that it's colleges that are burning books these days, censoring texts and issuing trigger warnings and shutting down free speech. That's really worrying:
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-chilling-study-shows-how-hostile-college-students-are-toward-free-speech/2017/09/18/cbb1a234-9ca8-11e7-9083-fbfddf6804c2_story.html?utm_term=.cf239f55fa4b

    If you want to see real fascists at work, you need look no further then Jordan Peterson's attempt to speak at the University of Toronto and the baying mob trying to shout him down and unplugging his speakers.





    .

    A wise man dealing with infants


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,004 ✭✭✭conorhal


    A wise man dealing with infants

    The chants of "SHAME!, SHAME! SHAME! SHAME! SHAME!" from The High Sparrows of political correctness made me laugh.


  • Registered Users Posts: 295 ✭✭fattymuatty


    Pepefrogok wrote: »
    I would like to take the word feminism back, I am a feminist, I have a wife, a daughter, sisters and a mother, some of the greatest, smartest people I have known have been women and I hope they have equal opportunity and treatment in life, I will fight alongside them if needs be! My daughter is sporty, I dont want her to compete with biological males, I don't want some dude making my wife uncomfortable in the toilet, I will help my daughter understand that if she takes time out of her career to have babies she will earn less over her lifetime than a male who didn't, she will also know that a loving fathers advise is not "mansplaining" she won't feel like a child with a victim complex when an adult, most of all she will know about real feminists like Germaine Greer and Emily Pankhurst and will understand what equality really means.

    I'm sorry if I have missed where you said this but I haven't read the full thread, who exactly are you reclaiming feminism back from? There are lots and lots of feminists out there who believe exactly what you are saying? I am a member of feminist groups where women putting themselves on the line every day for saying what you are saying. They are being doxxed, subjected to rape and death threats for speaking up and saying things like they don't want to compete against biological males in sport. You don't think you are the only feminist who thinks these things do you?
    There are plenty of feminists who not only share your views but who are actually out there doing something about it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 921 ✭✭✭benjamin d


    I'm sorry if I have missed where you said this but I haven't read the full thread, who exactly are you reclaiming feminism back from? There are lots and lots of feminists out there who believe exactly what you are saying? I am a member of feminist groups where women putting themselves on the line every day for saying what you are saying. They are being doxxed, subjected to rape and death threats for speaking up and saying things like they don't want to compete against biological males in sport. You don't think you are the only feminist who thinks these things do you?
    There are plenty of feminists who not only share your views but who are actually out there doing something about it.

    Most "real" feminists recognise that the word is distorted beyond recognition nowadays. I would like to call myself a feminist. My girlfriend, an educated and clever woman, rails against the term as it is currently applied. Almost every rational woman I have heard discuss this in real life agrees that the word feminist has been utterly ruined by the Tumblr and Twitter charlatans who insist that the patriarchy and white male privilege are singularly responsible for all the world's ills. Any rational human can see that the word feminist has been hijacked and completely bastardised for a nefarious agenda. It's time for true feminists to abandon the label for something else IMO.

    I await retribution.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,574 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    markodaly wrote: »
    So, why didn't you answer the question there and then?

    Because I was being a scamp for comic effect.
    No, I didn't state that there were none. I asked a simple question on what you think on who is an intelligent feminist. That was all.

    Did you not imply they were "like hens teeth"? Or was that some other poster?
    So, not really a feminist then. OK.

    Actually, yes. A feminist. Unless you want to redefine the meaning of the word to suit your needs.

    they/them/theirs


    And so on, and so on …. - Slavoj Žižek




  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,574 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    Pepefrogok wrote: »
    I would like to take the word feminism back, I am a feminist, I have a wife, a daughter, sisters and a mother, some of the greatest, smartest people I have known have been women and I hope they have equal opportunity and treatment in life, I will fight alongside them if needs be! My daughter is sporty, I dont want her to compete with biological males, I don't want some dude making my wife uncomfortable in the toilet, I will help my daughter understand that if she takes time out of her career to have babies she will earn less over her lifetime than a male who didn't, she will also know that a loving fathers advise is not "mansplaining" she won't feel like a child with a victim complex when an adult, most of all she will know about real feminists like Germaine Greer and Emily Pankhurst and will understand what equality really means.

    You don't need to take it back, no one has taken it away.

    they/them/theirs


    And so on, and so on …. - Slavoj Žižek




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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,574 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    johnp001 wrote: »
    My post above makes no claim other than to point out that fact that he called himself one.

    Writing that set me thinking though and I read a couple of articles this evening on the subject which made the arguments both for and against.
    The prevailing opinion seems to be that he wasn't a socialist and Dan Hodges forcefully makes that case in:Don’t ever call Hitler a socialist but some interesting arguments that he was one were made in the article
    The Myth of "Nazi Capitalism"


    I don't think I have a clear enough understanding of this question to have a belief either way.
    There are a lot of factors to take into consideration such as what the definition of socialist that we are using here is and what it was at the time. Especially seeing that socialism (as defined by the ideology that is espoused by current self declared socialists) is something that appears to be evolving rapidly.
    Do you believe he was a socialist yourself Brian?

    I don't, of course. But then I don't believe that Stalin, Mao, Lenin, Pol Pot etc. were socialists either. Authoritarianism is an anathema to pure socialism. Only the worker can free them-self, freedom cannot be granted by a central authority.

    they/them/theirs


    And so on, and so on …. - Slavoj Žižek




  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,574 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    benjamin d wrote: »
    Most "real" feminists recognise that the word is distorted beyond recognition nowadays. I would like to call myself a feminist. My girlfriend, an educated and clever woman, rails against the term as it is currently applied. Almost every rational woman I have heard discuss this in real life agrees that the word feminist has been utterly ruined by the Tumblr and Twitter charlatans who insist that the patriarchy and white male privilege are singularly responsible for all the world's ills. Any rational human can see that the word feminist has been hijacked and completely bastardised for a nefarious agenda. It's time for true feminists to abandon the label for something else IMO.

    I await retribution.

    How about alpha-females?

    they/them/theirs


    And so on, and so on …. - Slavoj Žižek




  • Registered Users Posts: 8,939 ✭✭✭20Cent


    conorhal wrote: »

    Does he run? Is he cowed by the mob?
    No, when they take his mic, he merely SHOUTS his refusal to be silenced. It's an electrifying moment of defiance from the unlikeliest of hero's and the video that made him both a famous and important voice against the tyranny of censorship.



    .

    Jaysus you'd think he saved the world from alien invasion.
    It's a college.
    He's protesting/arguing against college rules and regulations.
    This is what ye are calling censorship, cultural marxism destroying society.
    It's pathetic.
    If his fanboys experienced one fraction of the discrimination, fear and silencing that minorities face every day they would have something to cry about. So ironic they call the other side snowflakes.

    "Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low." Wallace Sayre.


  • Registered Users Posts: 921 ✭✭✭benjamin d


    Brian? wrote: »
    How about alpha-females?

    What about them?

    Insofar as I think the alpha and beta theory is nonsense in general, I think some females have some of the traits that you're probably referring to here, but manifesting to a lesser extent than males. What do you want me to say here?


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,933 ✭✭✭smurgen


    Brian? wrote: »
    How about alpha-females?

    Alpha females don't have time for third wave feminism.they're too busy taking care of business to listen to that nonesense.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,574 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    benjamin d wrote: »
    What about them?

    Insofar as I think the alpha and beta theory is nonsense in general, I think some females have some of the traits that you're probably referring to here, but manifesting to a lesser extent than males. What do you want me to say here?

    I was a bad joke.

    they/them/theirs


    And so on, and so on …. - Slavoj Žižek




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  • Registered Users Posts: 921 ✭✭✭benjamin d


    Brian? wrote: »
    I was a bad joke.

    You were a bad joke?


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,574 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    benjamin d wrote: »
    You were a bad joke?

    I was.

    they/them/theirs


    And so on, and so on …. - Slavoj Žižek




  • Registered Users Posts: 658 ✭✭✭johnp001


    Brian? wrote: »
    I don't, of course. But then I don't believe that Stalin, Mao, Lenin, Pol Pot etc. were socialists either. Authoritarianism is an anathema to pure socialism. Only the worker can free them-self, freedom cannot be granted by a central authority.
    I would completely agree that freedom cannot be granted by a central authority but this belief is not something that I had previously associated with socialism.

    If as you describe, the worker frees themself then for this freedom to be actual they must therefore be free to choose whether or not to participate in social and communal structures and if their freedom is not granted by a central authority it follows that they are not coerced into social and communal interactions by a central authority and that all interaction between individuals is on a purely voluntary basis.

    Is this an accurate description of your definition of pure socialism?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,908 ✭✭✭✭markodaly


    conorhal wrote: »
    The easiest way to identify such creatures is to answer the simple question: Who's burning the books these days? Who's building pyres of words they disagree with?

    You really need to watch out for those sorts of people.
    German Jewish poet Heinrich Heine, wrote in his 1820–1821 play Almansor the famous admonition, “Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen":
    "Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people."

    .

    100% agree. The question many people don't ask themselves is that who is trying to censor people, who is burning books and who are the mob going after and trying to silence.

    The video is interesting. At the end the mob try and shout him down by shouting things like 'hate speech' A few hundred years ago the same type of tyrannical mob existed to shout down men of reason, science and logic. Instead of shouting hate speech, they shouted things like, "Heretic" or "Blasphemy".

    For whatever reason I thought of Galileo and wonder are we going back to those times.
    Galileo was found "vehemently suspect of heresy", namely of having held the opinions that the Sun lies motionless at the centre of the universe, that the Earth is not at its centre and moves, and that one may hold and defend an opinion as probable after it has been declared contrary to Holy Scripture. He was required to "abjure, curse and detest" those opinions.

    He was sentenced to formal imprisonment at the pleasure of the Inquisition. On the following day, this was commuted to house arrest, which he remained under for the rest of his life.

    His offending Dialogue was banned; and in an action not announced at the trial, publication of any of his works was forbidden, including any he might write in the future.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,908 ✭✭✭✭markodaly


    20Cent wrote: »
    Jaysus you'd think he saved the world from alien invasion.
    It's a college.
    He's protesting/arguing against college rules and regulations.
    This is what ye are calling censorship, cultural marxism destroying society.
    It's pathetic.
    If his fanboys experienced one fraction of the discrimination, fear and silencing that minorities face every day they would have something to cry about. So ironic they call the other side snowflakes.

    "Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low." Wallace Sayre.

    Yesterday you were giving out about people taking sides, then today you write that. Your a bit tone deaf aren't you?


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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,574 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    johnp001 wrote: »
    I would completely agree that freedom cannot be granted by a central authority but this belief is not something that I had previously associated with socialism.

    You're not alone there. Thanks to the bastardisations of socialism that were Leninism and Stalinism mainly.

    If as you describe, the worker frees themself then for this freedom to be actual they must therefore be free to choose whether or not to participate in social and communal structures and if their freedom is not granted by a central authority it follows that they are not coerced into social and communal interactions by a central authority and that all interaction between individuals is on a purely voluntary basis.

    Is this an accurate description of your definition of pure socialism?

    That's it exactly. It can't be enforced and must be entirely optional. Unfortunately most socialists believe a vanguard state is required to implement societal change. This is a flawed interpretation as it inherently involved some sort of coercion.

    You should do some reading about libertarian socialism.

    they/them/theirs


    And so on, and so on …. - Slavoj Žižek




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,299 ✭✭✭JenovaProject


    markodaly wrote: »
    Yesterday you were giving out about people taking sides, then today you write that. Your a bit tone deaf aren't you?

    Selective hearing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,455 ✭✭✭tritium


    20Cent wrote: »
    Jaysus you'd think he saved the world from alien invasion.
    It's a college.
    He's protesting/arguing against college rules and regulations.
    This is what ye are calling censorship, cultural marxism destroying society.
    It's pathetic.
    If his fanboys experienced one fraction of the discrimination, fear and silencing that minorities face every day they would have something to cry about.
    So ironic they call the other side snowflakes.

    "Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low." Wallace Sayre.


    Because you have the inside track on what those people have experienced?


    Or are you just subscribing to that arrogant privilege argument like it’s religious dogma?


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,939 ✭✭✭20Cent


    tritium wrote: »
    Because you have the inside track on what those people have experienced?


    Or are you just subscribing to that arrogant privilege argument like it’s religious dogma?

    Gas the same people who argue you shouldn't even use the preferred pronoun for a trans person or let them go to the toilet claim there is no discrimination against them.

    Imagine being called the wrong gender all the time or having to hold in your pee all day because just going to the toilet is an ordeal.

    Religious dogma? what you on about.


  • Posts: 25,611 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    20Cent wrote: »
    Gas the same people who argue you shouldn't even use the preferred pronoun for a trans person or let them go to the toilet claim there is no discrimination against them.

    Imagine being called the wrong gender all the time or having to hold in your pee all day because just going to the toilet is an ordeal.

    Religious dogma? what you on about.
    Who said you shouldn't use the preferred pronoun?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,007 ✭✭✭s7ryf3925pivug


    People who like his 12 rules, you'll love this, there are around 30 rules!



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,007 ✭✭✭s7ryf3925pivug


    Omg...I just googled and...
    100 rules!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,455 ✭✭✭tritium


    20Cent wrote: »
    Gas the same people who argue you shouldn't even use the preferred pronoun for a trans person or let them go to the toilet claim there is no discrimination against them.

    Imagine being called the wrong gender all the time or having to hold in your pee all day because just going to the toilet is an ordeal.

    Religious dogma? what you on about.

    Except that’s not remotely what I claimed, was it?

    Tell me, what discrimination or social challenges do you think white males might face? Young men might face? Since you’ve indicated white privilege is a thing, explain to me, is it global? Does it exist in Zimbabwe? Saudi Arabia? How does it differ from majority privilege? How does it differ in Ireland, with a very limited history of non-white interaction and the US with a very different history and demographic?


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,004 ✭✭✭conorhal


    20Cent wrote: »
    Gas the same people who argue you shouldn't even use the preferred pronoun for a trans person or let them go to the toilet claim there is no discrimination against them.

    Imagine being called the wrong gender all the time or having to hold in your pee all day because just going to the toilet is an ordeal.

    Religious dogma? what you on about.

    Ahhahahahahahahhahahhaha......*sigh*



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,021 ✭✭✭kg703


    Omg...I just googled and...
    100 rules!

    Sounds like life advice for an 'American Psycho'

    Own a handcrafted shotgun. It’s a beautiful thing.

    Desserts are for women. Order one and pretend you don’t mind that she’s eating yours.

    Revenge can be a good way of getting over anger.

    Drink outdoors. And during the day. And sometimes by yourself.

    Date women outside your social set. You’ll be surprised.

    No-one cares if you are offended, so stop it.

    Hookers aren’t cool, but remember, the free ones are a lot more expensive.

    You can get away with a lot more if you’re the one buying the drinks

    does the last one sound a bit 'rapey' to anyone else?!! :confused::confused:


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