professorgerm
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
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professorgerm
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
4d ago
Removing likes from Scott's substack does not seem to have resulted in any meaningful change in comment quality.
Not a perfect parallel to the up/downvote, but some evidence that the votes or lack thereof have little effect.
professorgerm
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
4d ago
There's just no way that the opinions on this site aren't tainted by racism.
Also true of anyone that's ever read Robin Diangelo or Ibram Kendi.
If you want a place with opinions untainted... enjoy journaling?
professorgerm
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
4d ago
A very old black guy comes into the hospital and prompts a speech by the main white doctor about how a group of black doctors made some important medical discovery 50 years ago that is underappreciated today.
It was definitely a Special Episode kind of moment and speech, but at least that one was about working in Pittsburgh history like the old guy on life support having worked with Mr. Rogers and his family reminiscing before they unplug him.
I’m sure I’m missing a bunch of these.
Everything Santos and Mohan says or does? Slight exaggeration, but not much. Certainly not accidental that they keep getting rewarded for hubris, while nervous Whittaker is a punchline with the scrub changes and his living situation.
professorgerm
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
4d ago
Sometimes even the doctors don’t know what to do like in the case of an incel with some violent journaling or a patient who’s been poisoned by his wife
Those cases were ridiculous and even when there was the briefest glimmer of treating the incel like a human being and McKay being way too high on her own supply, nope, immediately back to her sanctimonious attitude being what was clearly intended as right.
Frustrating show, in that way. Did like the bit about the old man who worked with Mr. Rogers.
professorgerm
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
5d ago
If there's one criticism of Harris that's untrue, it would be that she's insufficiently ambitious.
Surely the anecdote about Biden telling her "no daylight, kid" and Harris agreeing to put that albatross on her neck displays either a lack of ambition, or a degree of loyalty to a ship already 9/10 sunk that overrode the ambition.
professorgerm
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
5d ago
4 million deportations by the end of 2028
I have no interest in a bet of any size, just curious about the details. Do voluntary self-removals also count? I assume all removals have to be documented, not vague estimates like most immigration stats are?
professorgerm
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
5d ago
excepting of course that he may have been saying it with his trademark irony…
It is indeed somewhere in Innocents Abroad, so it was likely intended ironic but modern readers take it as literal.
professorgerm
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
5d ago
The entire point of this site is to allow us to discuss across ideological divides.
And the monkey's paw curled a finger hard on this one.
I've long though that people abuse that Twain quote about travel being fatal to prejudice and bigotry, and that travel- especially if it's only a limited exposure- has about a 50/50 shot of reinforcing it instead. Likewise here; if your exposure across the ideological divide is limited and of... particular quality, it only reinforces just how obnoxious/stupid/evil/whatever "the other" really is.
professorgerm
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
6d ago
Rather like the joke regarding the expanding acronym that no one has less in common than gays and asexuals, no one should think a tradition that opposes hedonism and considers all pleasure to be a distraction would approve of gays.
That said, I can easily see how one would conclude that American Buddhism, such as it is, has had very little to say about interpersonal pleasure and much more about, say, animal welfare.
professorgerm
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
6d ago
Disease eradication is probably the easiest to defend
And maintaining the screw-worm border.
I’d go to bat for various foreign aid and social programs to a lesser degree.
I'd be more satisfied if the people that go to bat for foreign social programs would just acknowledge that it's colonialism, but good when they do it.
I was actually thinking about edgy contrarians like KulakRevolt.
Okay, fair. You seem to consider them more common than I do, and I will not defend the relative proportions.
Whether or not they embrace heel tactics, you can dig down and find an intended policy
Well, yes. Whether or not that policy is insane is another matter.
The current "correct" response to someone expressing a bigoted sentiment is ignoring it, then? Would replying "This is a grossly bigoted statement" be considered a personal attack or what have you?
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