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				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 23, 2023
			
		

	




	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
That’s my prior, but I’d also be surprised if there were zero effect on conception from the stress and trauma of a violent rape.  Direct evidence  would be impossible to gather, but I can imagine studies based on other forms of stress and trauma.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 30, 2023
			
		

	




	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Sorry, I missed your links.  Let me review.  I was responding to your text, trying to follow the argument, but I was premature in responding.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 30, 2023
			
		

	




	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
EDIT: disregard the below.  I missed the course description link


You’ve got a slight problem in your post: a circular reference.




That is because the course description is not a curriculum, and the course description, like all AP course descriptions, says:








[no specifics about this AP class]








I have attended several AP trainings in my day, and can attest that they make a big deal about individual teachers being given autonomy, as long as their syllabus addresses the content and skills set forth in the course description.




From this, it looks like anything could be taught and match the course description.  We should really look at the actual course description, and much more importantly What’s on the test??


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 23, 2023
			
		

	




	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Great link, in terms of actually digging down instead of flinging talking points.  My take is that Rufo is comfortable fighting fire with fire, getting dirty with the hogs, etc.  He can also shower off and don a 3 piece suit for the Harvard set.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 23, 2023
			
		

	




	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Thanks.  I didn’t see any serious wrangling with the idea that the trauma and stress of a violent rape may induce physical changes that prevent conception.  The wiki article showed many plausible statements from conservative doctors in support of the idea, and just bare rebuttals from the medical establishment, presumably along the lines of “there is no evidence…”, likely driven by mood affiliation.  I dug into the most direct rebuttal but it 404d and I stopped there.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 23, 2023
			
		

	




	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Dreher’s Law of Merited Impossibility: X will never happen, and when it does, you bigots will deserve it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 23, 2023
			
		

	




	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


these guys are getting soft-balled. It's almost staged.




I understand your point, but disagree.  I felt kinda bad posting Rufo dunking on the Karen president, particularly in response to the Charlie Hebdo massacre, but I also feel like we've seen tons of well-meaning administrators cave to the forces of safetyism and pearl-clutching in order to prevent certain views from being aired.


But there's kind of a structural bind here: if Karen wants to come back from this setback, she needs to go, ultimately, full Charlie Hebdo.  There are of course many steps in that direction.  But Karen now needs to pray for violence in order to prevent speech.  Yet -- where security and safety are truly concerns, one may host debates in highly secure environments.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 23, 2023
			
		

	




	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m having trouble understanding your point, with a lot of what seem to me like unsubstantiated yet controversial assertions.




I think Scott's title is actually wrong. People do want a purely biological apolitical taxonomy of mental disorders - they just also want the world to be just, so there wouldn't be any conflict. That what is true and what we want to be true do, in the end, coincide; that the truth would never be inconvenient to those with the correct values.




I read Scott as saying “No, you don’t want to eat that tub of ice cream, even though you are tempted.  It comes with consequences, laid out here, that you are not actually willing to accept”.  Is that your read in this paragraph?  I don’t think so, but I’m not sure what you’re getting at either.




To take a very different example: Todd Akin's claim that "legitimate rape" could not cause pregnancy: often considered an example of rank misogyny, but even if so, I would say it's much more importantly clear just-world thinking.




I’m not familiar with this person or claim.  I’m struggling to understand how pregnancy can be ruled out, given PIV intercourse, whether coerced or not.


EDIT: Akin said “legitimate rape” rarely causes pregnancy, because because their bodies prevent them from doing so.  “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”


I have no idea of the biology there.  Maybe stress hormones in a traumatic situation somehow prevent conception?  Does this still comport with your point?


I’m struggling with the rest, likely because of the above.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 23, 2023
			
		

	




	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Based Chris Rufo demonstrates how to deny the heckler’s veto.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 23, 2023
			
		

	




	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


And to be honest we never really had a Ukraine policy before the war. They couldn’t join NATO with territorial disputes. They had some trade deals.




Wasn’t the US heavily involved in the leadup to and aftermath from the 2014 revolution?  With a strong policy interest in removing Yanukovich?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 23, 2023
			
		

	




	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Is it useful for you and I to try and understand the mind of the lowly Russian serf?




Insofar as one is curious, of course!




Is this kind of half-baked understanding going to reflect anything but our own biases, whether for peace or for war?




It’s better than nothing!  I struggle with your intellectual defeatism and know-nothing approach.  Tug at small threads for long enough and eventually you will have the entire sweater!  (in a pile of spaghetti on the floor)


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 23, 2023
			
		

	




	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


DePape uses the hammer to break into the back door of Pelosi's house. This is not how you typically invite male prostitutes into your house




Several possibilities, mostly revolving around prior encounter / relationship.  DePape feels scorned, or wants money, or wants leverage for anarchist / crazy / Nancy reasons.  His arrival is neither invited nor welcomed in this instance, yet DePape is determined to proceed.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 23, 2023
			
		

	




	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I agree, there is something ghoulish about the media salivation over this, as well as anticipated protests and riots.  That said, we’ve known for a long time that if it bleeds, it leads.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 14, 2022
			
		

	




	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I think that Wokeism and Marxism are both branches of Progressivism, which is the ideology of the Enlightenment.




Wokism, Marxism, and Progressivism are all collectivist ideologies.  The Enlightenment was very much individualist in contrast.  Perhaps if Progressivism’s collectivism were replaced with individualism, we might have something resembling Enlightenment.  But without this substitution, I reject the descendent relation.