Comments on: Jonathan Haidt on Progressive Campus Culture

By: Steve Sailer

Steve Sailer — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 15:12:52 +0000

Most of the intellectual progress in human history took place in a handful of times and places that also emphasized sports as serious but not as serious as war. Males can be acculturated to treat debate as a form of sports with rules about not taking it too personally. Females … the jury is still out.

By: JKB

JKB — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 22:39:41 +0000

Not a university, but a sign of things to come. The use of an old Civil Rights to enforce civil rights for all, not just the former groups.

http://popehat.com/2015/09/09/omg-broad-flexible-plaintiff-friendly-law-used-in-unanticipated-manner/

By: Andrew'

Andrew' — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:44:07 +0000

It is something so obvious and yet people suspend their disbelief. Strong “government” may have nothing at all to do with strong rule 8f law.

By: Prakash

Prakash — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 08:30:04 +0000

Paraphrasing Dr Brown, “where we’re going , we don’t need steering wheels”

By: Andrew'

Andrew' — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 01:47:25 +0000

Maybe giving my children a father is depleting the supply for others.

By: Andrew'

Andrew' — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 01:09:04 +0000

By intervention into natural property rights you think it is democracy when you are causing plutocracy.

By: Lord

Lord — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 00:08:43 +0000

Their preferred forms of government differ, aristocracy, democracy, plutocracy.

By: BillD

BillD — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 19:39:21 +0000

This is one of the better satirical sites that pokes fun at people who live on the oppressor/oppressed axis: http://everythingsaproblem.tumblr.com Pithy and to the point.

By: Butler T. Reynolds

Butler T. Reynolds — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 19:32:05 +0000

Visit any editorial or blog post on white privilege and you’ll see white people posting in the comments about how hard *they’ve* had it.

There’s no shame in having a mother who was at least 20 when you were born or a dad who you actually know.

By: Handle

Handle — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 19:22:56 +0000

Politics is about asking and answering the fundamental question of rival coalitions, “Whose side are you on?”

The languages of politics are ways to ideologically frame, rank, and cast moral judgments on social conditions that use ones commitment to a particular value system as a proxy for loyalty to a particular coalition.

For progressives the metric of judgment is oppression, and the answer to “Whose side are you on?” is always, “With the oppressed, against the oppressors,” (i.e. with us, the good guys, and against them, the bad guys) and of course ‘we’ are always the good guys, so can’t be oppressors by definition.