2021-07

Sources:

• Part 1

Contributions for the week of July 05, 2021

/u/Njordsier:

• “Is the observation that a theory would be self-refuting upon reflection a refutation of the theory?” Critical Race Theory

/u/iprayiam3:

• “Can you explain how its wrong without saying: it’s wrong because it’s like other things that are wrong?”

Galileo, for some reason

/u/Ame_Damnee on:

• One small reason why the Jesuits didn’t support Galileo.

/u/iprayiam3:

• “Let’s instead point and laugh at that time the Catholic Church suppressed SCIENCE! and avoid any obvious lessons about letting the ruling elite have such a dogmatic control over the conversation that they feel comfortable censoring any unorthodoxy from political discourse…” COVID-19 Response Science's Bias

/u/OracleOutlook:

• “The Galileo myth has been around a lot longer than New Atheism.”

American Politics

/u/VelveteenAmbush:

• “So, my positive right-wing vision is to Make America Great Again, in that specific sense… to organize a country that sees achieving greatness as a central objective and terminal value, not just as a side-effect of economic progress or utilitarian optimization…”

/u/DeanTheDull:

• “How much of Afghanistan was a wasted effort depends on what you think the point of it was.”

/u/mister_ghost:

• “What is the moral argument for the states to be united in the first place?”

Identity Politics

/u/Sizzle50:

• “According to the CDC, the US had a homicide total of 24,692 in 2020, an increase of 5,551 compared to 2019, and an average of 595 extra homicides every month since May.”

• Part 2

• Part 3 (sort of)

/u/KulakRevolt:

• “Absolutely everything wrong with woke was present in the 1964 civil rights act and attendant 1970s anti-Discrimination law.”

/u/wlxd:

• “If you’re high quality black, top schools, top businesses, top institutions will fall over themselves and compete among each other to get you. Why would you then bother to stay within your own black community and try to improve it?”

/u/Ilforte:

• “It is very relevant for evaluating a given group’s trustworthiness what their mission and affiliation is, and what it would encourage on a given topic.”

Contributions for the week of July 12, 2021

/u/gattsuru:

• “I’m quite likely the only person on the planet who cares about [FEMA trailers and formaldehyde], and it’s mostly because I’m really obstinate.”

/u/Njordsier:

• “This is where I am with the Sunrise Movement: they’re the Westboro Baptist Church to my evangelicalism, the eugenicists to my Darwinism.”

/u/rolfmoo:

• “If the world is saved, it will much more likely be by clever cheating than by selfless nobility. In real life, Wizards matter much more than Paladins.”

/u/DuplexFields on:

• The anatomy of a “news” piece. Mainstream Media

Finally, this contribution to the Bare Links Repository resulted in some QC reports for /u/Cheezemansam, /u/Hailanathema, and others who put in the effort of examining original documentation to determine that, yes, something fucky did apparently happen in Fulton County, GA in the 2020 presidential election, though what (if anything) that amounts to appears to remain an open question.

European Politics

/u/Situation__Normal:

• “Last week, representatives from 16 European parties, including Orbán, Salvini, and Polish Deputy Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński, signed a declaration written by Marine Le Pen for the EU’s ongoing Conference on the Future of Europe.”

/u/DeanTheDull:

• “In the spirit of the other (poke)ball the world revolves around, please enjoy this quite serious, not at all tongue-in-cheek consideration of what cultural stereotypes a children’s monster-collection game implies.”

Identity Politics

/u/Sizzle50:

• “In my view, the push for race to be ‘irrelevant, of course’ was made earlier by the fans annoyed with the overt, on-the-pitch racial activism before every game, and it was roundly rejected by cultural elites, including the players themselves, who insisted on race being an overt consideration in the commentary around their matches.”

/u/JuliusBranson:

• “Okay, how did a bunch of Marxists waltz into a boojie Ivy League university located in the heart of one of the biggest, most Capitalist cities in the world?”

/u/2cimarafa:

• “It is rarely discussed how much of a disappointment the postwar West - and the general continuation to the present of liberal capitalism - was to many Frankfurt School and earnest academic leftists in general.”

Quality Contributions in the Main Subreddit

/u/_windjammer on:

• How gender reassignment is nothing at all like taking your hair dryer to work. LGBT

/u/TracingWoodgrains:

• “I suppose it’s likely incumbent on me to give the ex-Mormon takeTM here.”