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Why should Man not rebel against Nature, when Nature herself is in rebellion against Justice?

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Why should Man not rebel against Nature, when Nature herself is in rebellion against Justice?

				
				
				

				

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				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 7, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think it kind of works; one could be said to 'carry' an objection. I understand your irritation, though.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 7, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
And how do you propose to ensure that a woman can leave an abusive husband while still keeping herself fed and housed?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 7, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


make the kosher food as unpalatable and inconvenient as the rest of their offerings




Or, they could make their regular food better.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 24, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Colbert in 2006 joked that reality has a well known liberal bias. How tables have turned.




Is it a turning of tables, or merely the difference between 'liberal' and 'left'?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 10, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It depends on what was marked on said maps; "Locations of secret facilities Pyongyang thinks they've hidden from us" could be very bad if it got back to them.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 3, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
"It is wrong to kill a person who cannot defend themselves." ∩ "Personhood begins at birth."


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 26, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


anything that would actually solve it




Where does 'Marshall-Plan class program to bring the Third World Global South up to standard so that the inhabitants won't feel the need to move' fit in this?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 19, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Why does making a slip in complicated research result in "are you saying Chinese people can't be trusted with advanced technology?" but pointing at the widespread popularity of wet markets does not result in "are you saying Chinese people can't be trusted with distributing food?".




Because the latter can be explained as being from differing rates of adoption of universal culture (see comments below on western farmers' markets), whereas the former places the issue in one of the aspects of universal culture which the Chinese have already adopted.


This might raise uncomfortable questions regarding whether all peoples are equally capable of practising universal culture.




The latter is literally invoking a racist stereotype against Asians.




The former also links to racist tropes in that the 'lab leak' hypothesis is adjacent to, and often conflated with, a 'deliberate bio-weapon' hypothesis, which pattern-matches to the history of 'yellow peril' rhetoric involving underhanded tactics by Asians.


However, given a slightly different fall of the dice, I could see the 'wet market' hypothesis being the one denounced as racist, and all the (pre-Musk)* bluechecks endorsing the 'lab accident' hypothesis.


(*Or could Mr Musk's purchase of Twitter also be butterflied away...?)


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 19, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I will attempt to steelman this distinction.


Zoonotic/'bat soup' hypothesis: "Chinese people are, at the deepest level, no different from us. If we had wet markets selling live bats/pangolins/&c., we would be at the same risk of zoonotic disease outbreaks; if they didn't, they wouldn't."


Lab-leak hypothesis: "The Chinese were doing the same kind of research we were. Are you saying Chinese people can't be trusted with advanced technology?"


If one has these reactions, 'bat soup' seems less racist than 'lab leak', in the same way that Rudyard Kipling might seems seem less racist than Alexander Stephens.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 19, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


whereas it showed up as cruelty in courtrooms in the 1950s.




The legalisation of no-fault divorce might be a confounding factor....


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 19, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The Nordic countries have the vertical part shifted toward the hoist.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 12, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Or "Vote for the lizard, not the Wizard."


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 12, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


If man/woman is defined through self-identification, then the definition becomes recursive, and therefore useless. I have no idea whether or not I am a woman, because I don't know whether I identify as one, because I don't know what a woman is.




There are two large dense clusters in gender-identity space. Membership in these clusters is strongly, but not perfectly, correlated with genital configuration at birth. Therefore, the clusters can be defined by natal anatomy of their modal members, and individuals' gender can be defined by membership in one cluster or the other.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 5, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
But they didn't tell everyone and his brother about it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 5, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
To the best of my knowledge, Secretary Clinton didn't show anyone what she had.


Loose lips sink ships, but her lips were sealed tighter than a pickle jar.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 5, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Note that in the books we see her in September. Perhaps, being associated with a river, she becomes wider in the spring.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 5, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


That doesn't change his point. His point was that it's still eugenics.




A point responded to a century ago. (Part I, Chapter 2, paragraph three.)


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 5, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The taboo against consanguineous relationships has existed for thousands of years without leading to piles of skulls.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 29, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Violence by armed gangs has fallen 'drastically' since the emergence of a vigilante justice movement




Ah, yes; another one of those irregular verbs.


We're a neighbourhood watch organisation; you're vigilantes; they're a gang.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 22, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


And Scott had a thread about how pride is just like every other cities holiday posted recently. I can’t find it.




This one?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 22, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
And any form of "_____ should know their place" is mean.


This is an application of a more general principle: "If you find yourself advocating things which would not seem incongruous coming from the villains in a young-adult dystopian novel, step back and take a long look in the mirror."


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 22, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
But the purpose of that feature is mean.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 15, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think strong opposition to 'alternative medicine' was, pre-pandemic, more of a græy-tribe thing; ["Alternative medicine has either not been proved to work,


Or been proved not to work."](https://youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U)


(The past 3+ years have driven home the point that the gap between 'not been proved to work' and 'been proved not to work' is big enough to fit the Ever Given through edgewise.)


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 8, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


"Just don't be a cunt and you'll be fine"




First they came for the Communists; but I was not a Communist, so I stayed silent....


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 8, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
That's why I said there was "some dispute" regarding the matter.