Y'all must be trying to kill me. The sheer volume of quality contribution reports, combined with the outrageous volume of text you maniacs generate every week, made this an astonishing month to be sorting through the hopper. By far the busiest month for AAQCs since I took over the task. This made winnowing them down especially challenging, and some very good posts simply didn't make the cut simply because the competition was so fierce.
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Quality Contributions in Culture Peace
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Contributions for the week of September 26, 2022
Battle of the Sexes
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Contributions for the week of October 3, 2022
Identity Politics
Contributions for the week of October 10, 2022
Battle of the Sexes
Identity Politics
Contributions for the week of October 17, 2022
Identity Politics
Contributions for the week of October 24, 2022
Battle of the Sexes
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Alright, well, the comment I was thinking of did exist, but it wasn't the one in this conversation. What (I think) I meant was, 1) on-the-ground primary-source reporting is always valuable for its own sake, and 2) if you model your enemies as being inhuman and monstrous in their desires will always fail as a model of reality, and if your model of reality isn't accurate how can you hope to solve the problem? And yes, this qualifies as empathy, the ability to understand viewpoints that are not one's own. Being symapthetic to those viewpoints is, well, sympathy.
Just so.
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Likewise though I felt very little empathy from the left as someone who watched from the roof of my building as rioters rammed a uhaul through several storefronts on my block. I heard cheering when the bike police turned the corner and washed the chaos away.
I think I do understand the perspective of the people who cheer as police are pushed from the city, and I don't mean in the cynical because they can then do mischief way, there is a narrative that the police's main function is oppressing the weak for the benefit of the strong. Bulstered by horrific videos amplified to the greatest ability of the media. It's the kind of narrative that would have appealed to me in my rebellious teen phase. But it's nonsense. They're tilting at windmills and illusions drummed up by a class of people in their revolutionary word games. Not only will exiling the police not solve the problems, real or imagined, that they want solved but it will impose real costs on everyone else. How many life's works in the form of small businesses were burned on the pyre to not solve police violence?
My most substantial disagreement with broadly "the left" is the existence of what seems like an assumption that all the good that society does is somehow separate from all the bad things that society does not prevent. That without the imposed order of society there would be a warm bed for everyone and no one would go without. But the absence of order is no utopia, it is chaos. It is rammed storefronts, beaten proprietors, private security and prices raised so that even more go hungry. And that's the best case.
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