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24-1-11 Treason of the Intellectuals,” with Niall Ferguson | Uncommon Knowledge > .
Showing posts with label bigotry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bigotry. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Monday, December 18, 2023
DEI Must End
23-12-18 Bari Weiss: Why DEI Must End For Good - Free Press > .
24-2-15 Harvard wins Lifetime Censorship Award - FIRE > .
24-1-23 “The Treason of the Intellectuals” - Niall Ferguson | Hoover > .23-12-12 Ivy-League Anti-Semitism with Bari Weiss - Hoover > .
24-1-23 “The Treason of the Intellectuals” - Niall Ferguson | Hoover > .23-12-12 Ivy-League Anti-Semitism with Bari Weiss - Hoover > .
Awaking to Problematic "Wokeness" - Blake >> .
Debt Crisis
Militaristic Indoctrination of Children
Thursday, February 11, 2021
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Multiculturalism has failed women, with Ayaan Hirsi Ali > .
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, author of Prey and host of The Ayaan Hirsi Ali Podcast, discusses immigration, Islam and the erosion of women’s rights.
Pro Liberal Epistemology
Monday, January 11, 2021
Rabid homophobia = hypocritical internalized homophobia
A killer who stabbed three men to death in a Reading park has been handed a whole-life jail term: Khairi Saadallah murdered James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and 39-year-old Joe Ritchie-Bennett, in June last year in Forbury Gardens. London's Old Bailey previously heard the 26-year-old "executed" the [LGBT] men as an "act of religious jihad".
Given that research provides abundant evidence of the correlation:
a) between rabid homophobia and internal conflict about homoerotic urges
b) between religiosity and rigid authoritarianism
c) between violence and authoritarian parenting
and the inverse correlation between
d) religiosity and intelligence,
Saadallah's deeper issues are not difficult to infer.
Friday, March 13, 2020
ECHR is CENTURIES ahead of the USA
Swedish ANTI-abortion nurses fail in European court case:
"Two nurses denied jobs as midwives in Sweden because of their refusal to perform abortions have lost their legal action against Sweden at the European Court of Human Rights.
Swedish-born Ellinor Grimmark and Linda Steen from Norway object to abortion because of their Christianfaith superstitions. Swedish law requires midwives to carry out abortions - and several Swedish courts ruled against the two women. They then went to the ECHR but it declined to take up their case."
Swedish-born Ellinor Grimmark and Linda Steen from Norway object to abortion because of their Christian
Ladies, you have the right to hold narrow religious prejudiced beliefs, but you do NOT have the right to employment despite refusing to perform legal procedures required within the job description. Presumably both women were aware of the profession's requirements before undertaking training.
Monday, December 2, 2019
Sunday, November 17, 2019
Many virulent homophobes struggle with homosexual urges
"Folau, who is [claims to be] a Christian, gave a sermon in his Sydney church on Sunday in which he said Australia's decision to pass abortion and same-sex marriage laws had gone against "God's word", adding the nation needed to "repent".
"Look how rapid, these bushfires, these droughts, all these things have come, in a short period of time. You think it's a coincidence or not?," he said.
His comments sparked outrage from many Australians online, who noted the widespread devastation of the fires."
The 30-year-old fullback has been widely condemned for those comments and others targeting transgender people, but he has also received vocal support fromChristian pseudo-Christian groups."
Folau married in 2017, but that (heterosexism disguised as religiosity) does not rule out the possibility of projected internalized homophobia.
... The men were exposed to sexually explicit erotic stimuli consisting of heterosexual, male homosexual, and lesbian videotapes, and changes in penile circumference were monitored. ... Only the homophobic men showed an increase in penile erection to male homosexual stimuli. ... Homophobia is apparently associated with homosexual arousal that the homophobic individual is either unaware of or denies.
"Look how rapid, these bushfires, these droughts, all these things have come, in a short period of time. You think it's a coincidence or not?," he said.
His comments sparked outrage from many Australians online, who noted the widespread devastation of the fires."
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"Rugby Australia (RA) sacked the former Wallabies player in May after he said on social media that "hell awaits" gay people.The 30-year-old fullback has been widely condemned for those comments and others targeting transgender people, but he has also received vocal support from
Folau married in 2017, but that (heterosexism disguised as religiosity) does not rule out the possibility of projected internalized homophobia.
It's no comfort to have confirmation that America is not the only supposedly-developed nation with ignorant bigoted pseudo-Christian zealots.
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Heterosexism is a system of attitudes, bias, and discrimination in favor of opposite-sex sexuality and relationships. It can include the presumption that other people are heterosexual or that opposite-sex attractions and relationships are the only norm and therefore superior.
Although heterosexism is defined in the online editions of the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language and the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary as anti-gay discrimination or prejudice "by heterosexual people" and "by heterosexuals", respectively, people of any sexual orientation can hold such attitudes and bias, and can form a part of internalised hatred of one's sexual orientation.
Heterosexism as discrimination ranks gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and other sexual minorities as second-class citizens with regard to various legal and civil rights, economic opportunities, and social equality in many of the world's jurisdictions and societies. It is often related to homophobia. ... Other factors that Herek acknowledges to contribute to heterosexism include individual differences, religiosity, conforming to social norms,right-wrong-wing authoritarianism, customs and beliefs regarding cultural tradition, and personal experience with non-heterosexual individuals.
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1996 and many later: Is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal?
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Heterosexism is a system of attitudes, bias, and discrimination in favor of opposite-sex sexuality and relationships. It can include the presumption that other people are heterosexual or that opposite-sex attractions and relationships are the only norm and therefore superior.
Although heterosexism is defined in the online editions of the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language and the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary as anti-gay discrimination or prejudice "by heterosexual people" and "by heterosexuals", respectively, people of any sexual orientation can hold such attitudes and bias, and can form a part of internalised hatred of one's sexual orientation.
Heterosexism as discrimination ranks gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and other sexual minorities as second-class citizens with regard to various legal and civil rights, economic opportunities, and social equality in many of the world's jurisdictions and societies. It is often related to homophobia. ... Other factors that Herek acknowledges to contribute to heterosexism include individual differences, religiosity, conforming to social norms,
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1996 and many later: Is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal?
Friday, August 9, 2019
Homogeneity vs Diversity
Sorting has occurred on both sides, but the Republican Party RepuGNican Partisanship has tended more toward homogeneity: whiter, more Christian and more conservative CONservative. Democrats are a far more diverse party. So although the term “identity politics” is often wielded to criticize the Democrats for focusing on race and gender, Republicans RepuGNicans are typically more susceptible to appeals based on their shared identity than Democrats, according to research by Julie Wronski and Lilliana Mason, political scientists at the University of Mississippi and the University of Maryland, College Park.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/08/opinion/sunday/party-polarization-quiz.html .
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/08/opinion/sunday/party-polarization-quiz.html .
Thursday, July 11, 2019
Sunday, June 23, 2019
Religionist Judgmentalism & Hypocrisy
Prior to the 1840s, abortion was widespread and not illegal in our country. In the time of the Puritans, America’s deeply religious founding fathers, abortion was allowed until the fetus was “quick” — when the woman could feel the fetus move. Before modern diagnostic ultrasound, abortion was permissible beyond the first trimester — up to four or five months. Our founding fathers got this right; the choice to have an abortion or a child belonged to the woman.
Beginning in the 1840s, and continuing over decades, abortion was outlawed state by state, becoming illegal everywhere in the United States by 1900 — until 1973, when the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision held that a woman had a constitutional right to an abortion. For more than two centuries, after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, abortion was largely permitted. Why was it prohibited for almost a century?"
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"The “pro-life” term was adopted by anti-abortion crusaders after the Roe v. Wade decision. The anti-abortion cause didn’t promote itself as “pro-life” until the more punitive-sounding “anti-abortion” label failed. In 1976, with the passing of the Hyde Amendment, prohibiting the use of federal funds for most abortions, opposition to abortion gained support among The prevailing impetus to oppose abortion is to punish the woman who doesn’t want the child. The sacralizing of the fetus is a ploy. How can “life” be sacred (and begin at six weeks, or at conception), if a child’s life isn’t sacred after it’s born? Clearly, a woman’s life is never sacred; as clearly, a woman has no reproductive rights. The Roman Catholic Church, and many
[It would have been demonstrably more accurate if he had said "the protection of pedophile priests is the primary objective of the Catholic Church."]
Friday, June 21, 2019
Toxic "Masculinity" & Gun Violence
One of the disgusting aspects of American society:
Why is American masculinity violence-identification at the center of gun culture, but not the gun debate? > .
Thursday, June 20, 2019
Preventing Narcissists and Psychopaths [like DUHnocchio] from Taking Power
Throughout history, people who have gained positions of power tend to be precisely the kind of people who should not be entrusted with it. A desire for power often correlates with negative personality traits: selfishness, greed and a lack of empathy. And the people who have the strongest desire for power tend to be the most ruthless and lacking in compassion.
But modern psychopaths generally don’t become leaders in affluent countries (where they are perhaps more likely to join multinational corporations). In these countries, as can be seen in the US and Russia, there has been a movement away from psychopathic to narcissistic leaders.
After all, what profession could be more suited to a narcissistic personality than politics, where the spotlight of attention is constant? Narcissists feel entitled to gain power because of their sense of superiority and self-importance.
Those with narcissistic personalities tend to crave attention and admiration and feel it is right that other people should be subservient to them. Their lack of empathy means they have no qualms about exploiting other people to attain or maintain their power.
Meanwhile, the kind of people who we might think are ideally suited to take on positions of power – people who are empathetic, fair minded, responsible and wise – are naturally disinclined to seek it. Empathetic people like to remain grounded and interact with others, rather than elevating themselves. They don’t desire control or authority, but connection, leaving those leadership roles vacant for those with more narcissistic and psychopathic character traits.
http://theconversation.com/narcissists-and-psychopaths-how-some-societies-ensure-these-dangerous-people-never-wield-power-118854 .
Often those who attain power show traits of psychopathy and narcissism [almost identical]. In recent times, psychopathic leaders have been mostly found in less economically developed countries with poor infrastructures and insecure political and social institutions. People such as Saddam Hussein in Iraq, Muammar Gaddafi in Libya and Charles Taylor in Liberia.
But modern psychopaths generally don’t become leaders in affluent countries (where they are perhaps more likely to join multinational corporations). In these countries, as can be seen in the US and Russia, there has been a movement away from psychopathic to narcissistic leaders.
After all, what profession could be more suited to a narcissistic personality than politics, where the spotlight of attention is constant? Narcissists feel entitled to gain power because of their sense of superiority and self-importance.
Those with narcissistic personalities tend to crave attention and admiration and feel it is right that other people should be subservient to them. Their lack of empathy means they have no qualms about exploiting other people to attain or maintain their power.
Meanwhile, the kind of people who we might think are ideally suited to take on positions of power – people who are empathetic, fair minded, responsible and wise – are naturally disinclined to seek it. Empathetic people like to remain grounded and interact with others, rather than elevating themselves. They don’t desire control or authority, but connection, leaving those leadership roles vacant for those with more narcissistic and psychopathic character traits.
http://theconversation.com/narcissists-and-psychopaths-how-some-societies-ensure-these-dangerous-people-never-wield-power-118854 .
"Better than this"? All appearances to the contrary ...
Today’s movement for reparations places as much emphasis on the racist public policies of the 20th century, which denied black Americans opportunities to build wealth and left them vulnerable to all manner of economic exploitation, as it does on the crimes of slavery.
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Slavery and Jim Crow not only excluded generations of black Americans from benefits and opportunities enjoyed by white Americans; it also exposed them to the most predatory features of our capitalist system. It turned black people’s earnest attempts to build wealth the American way — through property ownership — into an opportunity for others to profitat their expense.
If we ever hope to repair the damage racism has done to America, and address the dividends it continues to pay to white Americans, we cannot simply open to black Americans previously closed doors of opportunity or merely provide some form of compensation for past injustices. We must also work to dismantle the laws and policies that sanction the continued extraction of property and resources from black communities.
If we ever hope to repair the damage racism has done to America, and address the dividends it continues to pay to white Americans, we cannot simply open to black Americans previously closed doors of opportunity or merely provide some form of compensation for past injustices. We must also work to dismantle the laws and policies that sanction the continued extraction of property and resources from black communities.
Friday, June 14, 2019
Bye Bye, Democracy
Needless to say, he has moonwalked on this admission of conspiratorial guilt. "Russher, if you're listening." "About that Russher thing ... I decided to fire Comey."
Monday, June 10, 2019
Pandering to Homophobes
Homophobic? Maybe You’re Gay
"In recent years, Ted Haggard, an evangelical leader who preached that homosexuality was a sin, resigned after a scandal involving a former male prostitute; Larry Craig, a United States senator who opposed including sexual orientation in hate-crime legislation, was arrested on suspicion of lewd conduct in a men’s bathroom; and Glenn Murphy Jr., a leader of the Young Republican National Convention and an opponent of same-sex marriage, pleaded guilty to a lesser charge after being accused of sexually assaulting another man.
One theory is that homosexual urges, when repressed out of shame or fear, can be expressed as homophobia. Freud famously called this process a “reaction formation” — the angry battle against the outward symbol of feelings that are inwardly being stifled. Even Mr. Haggard seemed to endorse this idea when, apologizing after his scandal for his anti-gay rhetoric, he said, “I think I was partially so vehement because of my own war.”
It’s a compelling theory — and now there is scientific reason to believe it. In [April 2012] issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, we and our fellow researchers provide empirical evidence that homophobia can result, at least in part, from the suppression of same-sex desire."
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"Thus our research suggests that some who oppose homosexuality do tacitly harbor same-sex attraction.What leads to this repression? We found that participants who reported having supportive and accepting parents were more in touch with their implicit sexual orientation and less susceptible to homophobia. Individuals whose sexual identity was at odds with their implicit sexual attraction were much more frequently raised by parents perceived to be controlling, less accepting and more prejudiced against homosexuals.
It’s important to stress the obvious: Not all those who campaign against gay men and lesbians secretly feel same-sex attractions. But at least some who oppose homosexuality are likely to be individuals struggling against parts of themselves, having themselves been victims of oppression and lack of acceptance. The costs [to society of Authoritarian Personality Disorder] are great, not only for the targets of anti-gay efforts but also often for the perpetrators.
Sunday, June 9, 2019
Malevolently-wrong fan-(mostly)-boys
The tension was evident on Tuesday, when YouTube said a prominent
In the videos, that creator, Steven Crowder, a
On Wednesday, YouTube appeared to backtrack,
“We came to this decision because a pattern of egregious actions has harmed the broader community,” the company wrote on Twitter.
The whiplash-inducing deliberations illustrated a central theme that has defined the moderation struggles of social media companies: Making rules is often easier than enforcing them.
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The kind of content that will be prohibited under YouTube’s new hate speech policies includes videos that claim Jews secretly control the world, that say women are intellectually inferior to men and therefore should be denied certain rights, or that suggest that the white race is superior to another race, a YouTube spokesman said.
Channels that post some hateful content, but that do not violate YouTube’s rules with the majority of their videos, may receive strikes under YouTube’s three-strike enforcement system, but would not be immediately banned.
The company also said channels that “repeatedly brush up against our hate speech policies” but don’t violate them outright would be [demonetized].
In addition to tightening its hate speech rules, YouTube announced that it would tweak its recommendation algorithm, the automated software that shows users videos based on their interests and past viewing habits. This algorithm is responsible for more than 70 percent of overall time spent on YouTube, and has been a major engine for the platform’s growth. But it has also drawn accusations of leading users down rabbit holes filled with extreme and divisive content, in an attempt to keep them watching and drive up the site’s use numbers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/business/youtube-remove-extremist-videos.html .
Alt-Wrong Radicalization
How to become a brainwashed A-hole online:
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"Over years of reporting on internet culture, I’ve heard countless versions of Mr. Cain’s story: an aimless young man — usually white, frequently interested in video games — visits YouTube looking for direction or distraction and is seduced by a community of far-right far-wrong creators.
Some young men discoverfar-right far-wrong videos by accident, while others seek them out. Some travel all the way to neo-Nazism, while others stop at milder forms of bigotry.
The common thread in many of these stories is YouTube and its recommendation algorithm, the software that determines which videos appear on users’ home pages and inside the “Up Next” sidebar next to a video that is playing. The algorithm is responsible for more than 70 percent of all time spent on the site.
The radicalization of young men is driven by a complex stew of emotional, economic and political elements, many having nothing to do with social media. But critics and independent researchers say YouTube has inadvertently created a dangerous on-ramp to extremism by combining two things: a business model that rewards provocative videos with exposure and advertising dollars, and an algorithm that guides users down personalized paths meant to keep them glued to their screens.
Some young men discover
The common thread in many of these stories is YouTube and its recommendation algorithm, the software that determines which videos appear on users’ home pages and inside the “Up Next” sidebar next to a video that is playing. The algorithm is responsible for more than 70 percent of all time spent on the site.
The radicalization of young men is driven by a complex stew of emotional, economic and political elements, many having nothing to do with social media. But critics and independent researchers say YouTube has inadvertently created a dangerous on-ramp to extremism by combining two things: a business model that rewards provocative videos with exposure and advertising dollars, and an algorithm that guides users down personalized paths meant to keep them glued to their screens.
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In recent years, social media platforms have grappled with the growth of extremism on their services. Many platforms have barred a handful of YouTube, whose rules prohibit hate speech and harassment, took a more laissez-faire approach to enforcement for years. This past week, the company announced that it was updating its policy to ban videos espousing neo-Nazism, white supremacy and other bigoted views. The company also said it was changing its recommendation algorithm to reduce the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories." [About effing time!]
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In reality, YouTube has been a godsend for hyper-partisans on all sides. It has allowed them to bypass traditional gatekeepers and broadcast their views to mainstream audiences, and has helped once-obscure commentators build lucrative media businesses.
It has also been a useful recruiting tool for far-right extremist groups. Bellingcat, an investigative news site, analyzed messages fromfar-right far-wrong chat rooms and found that YouTube was cited as the most frequent cause of members’ “red-pilling” — an internet slang term for converting to far-right far-wrong beliefs. A European research group, VOX-Pol, conducted a separate analysis of nearly 30,000 Twitter accounts affiliated with the alt-right Ultra-Wrong. It found that the accounts linked to YouTube more often than to any other site.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/08/technology/youtube-radical.html .
It has also been a useful recruiting tool for far-right extremist groups. Bellingcat, an investigative news site, analyzed messages from
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/08/technology/youtube-radical.html .
Saturday, June 1, 2019
Choice versus Control
The issue is not between fetuses and babies, but between safe, legal abortions and unsafe, backstreet abortions in which maternal lives are at increased risk. Those who genuinely wish to reduce the rate of abortion ought to support and fund contraceptive measures. Access to affordable birth control, in other words.
The anti-abortion mania is not about "pro-life" and functional moral-compasses, but about a hypocritical, judgmental, authoritarian desire to control women, promulgated by CONservatives who are typically pro-gun-ownership, pro-war, and pro-death-penalty. Genuine Christians, as distinct from judgmental holier-than-thou authoritarians, believe as Stacey does.
Tuesday, May 28, 2019
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