The Blanco
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you can never quarantine the past
British Columbia
Joined January 2022
This is a very important point. The culture war is not being waged for free speech, but for the preconditions that make it possible.
Classic liberal free-speech advocates are living in a fantasy land of well-behaved citizens with a shared sense of the common good who self-regulate—what they say, what they do, and what they understand as right and wrong. That might have existed in our past, were there was an
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Words are not violence. When you pretend that views that oppose your own are violence, you are justifying the use of actual violence towards the speaker. Gender ideology’s reliance on tropes and slogans like ‘words are violence’, its constant rationalisation and justification of
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In 2018 I self-published the first of a number of circumspect, polite essays suggesting we should question whether transwomen were really women, pointing to wider harms of a positive answer. There were a number of deranged responses from fellow philosophers in my field, but one
This is probably the most powerful video you will see all year. Every American needs to watch this:
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Montreal 👀 @walterkirn
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The proper etiquette if you are a grown adult and catch a baseball
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It’s right wing counter culture to wave your national flag now. Canada is no exception.
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GENERATION DIVIDES ON THE TOP ISSUES FACING CANADA 18 to 29 year olds: Cost of living - 58% Housing - 48% 🚨 Economy - 35% Immigration - 26% Job security/unemployment - 26% 🚨 60+ Cost of living - 57% Trump - 56% 🚨 Healthcare 45% 🚨 Economy - 35% Housing - 29% @abacusdataca
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Newly revealed document shows that Meta has internal ethical standards--approved by its chief ethicist--that allow its chatbots to engage children in conversations that are "sensual". Also OK to generate sexual and violent images for kids. https://t.co/VtpWsD9tko
reuters.com
An internal Meta policy document reveals the social-media giant’s rules for chatbots, which have permitted provocative behavior on topics including sex and race.
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This is easily the most extraordinary outbreak of mass irrationality I have encountered in my life, & it has permanently & profoundly altered my conception of human beings. Among young people it has provoked the most obvious social contagion since the Children’s Crusade
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The first Wimbledon men's final without one of Federer, Nadal, Djokovic, or Murray since 2002!
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@jeffreyatucker I'm reminded of this (from Grok): "In The Power of the Powerless by Václav Havel, the greengrocer is expected to put a sign in his shop window that says: "Workers of the world, unite!" In Havel's essay, the sign is not about expressing the greengrocer’s personal beliefs — it’s
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When you tell a woman she must pretend a man is a woman, you’re asserting the right to control her speech and perception of reality, while also trivialising and devaluing her female-specific experience. You’re asking her to agree that ‘woman’ is a concept men can embody at will.
Misgendering is cruel and rude, no matter how many edge cases or straw man arguments people can come up with to try to assert otherwise.
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Young educated women are the drivers of far-left politics--and they drive it through policing each other to be ideologically "pure"
you can’t say you care about women and also vote for andrew cuomo just fyi !!!!!
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Canada is literally a Saturday Night Live skit.
In Canada we know that diversity is our strength and we love to celebrate it! This #BeingYouDay, let it be a reminder to be authentically yourself and celebrate all the things that make you, YOU! 🌈❤️
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Imagine taking a time machine back to 2001 and telling these guys that the Apprentice host will be the one to bomb Iran
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Eagerly anticipating the Thermidorian reaction.
On my hobbyhorse that French history is often a more illuminating analogy for our present than, say, the history of the Roman republic: the fall and dismissal(s) of John Law, Turgot, and Necker come irresistibly to mind.
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Canada now spends more on debt interest payments than on defence.
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Are people tired yet of living every moment of their public and professional lives in service of some progressive social engineering project?
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Open the gates. Hasten the restoration.
I would actually prefer outright, tyrannical reality-denial to this incoherent Lake Woebegone compromise approach. Let the consequences of gender ideology be laid bare for all to see.
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Here’s a step by step guide of how Classical Liberalism gives birth to Wokeism. Step 1: Society redefines authority away from tradition, natural law, or divine order and replaces these things with individual choice. This is the beginning of social liberalism. Step 2: Because
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