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The problem about all of this is that the most liberal and tolerant societies in human history are now unified in being portrayed as the most oppressive and bigoted societies ever.

Douglas Murray (via no-wonder-married-horse)

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Anti-Polarizing Reading List

An attempt to understand morality without religion in a politically polarized world  1. The Righteous Mind  2. The Madness of Crowds  3. The Blank Slate  4. The Moral Landscape 5. The War on the West

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“And yet, despite their insistence on ‘reason’, the New Optimists are often strikingly uninterested in the nuances of the historical evidence they invoke. In their hands, the story of human progress has been distorted into a cartoonishly simple narrative wherein capitalism is responsible for virtually everything good that has happened in modern history and nothing bad. The fact that the most important gains in human welfare have been won by labour unions and social movements, enabled by publicly funded research and secured by public healthcare and education systems, almost always in the face of determined and even violent resistance from the capitalist class, is never acknowledged. Egregious disparities in social indicators between classes and nations are papered over in favour of aggregate trends. And the decidedly regressive sides of capitalism – colonization, genocide, plantation slavery, oil wars, regular attacks on workers’ rights and welfare systems, and, perhaps most damningly, climate change and ecological breakdown – are either downplayed or ignored altogether”

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Reading The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt, and came across this.

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Unpopular Opinion #2

Startrek keeps getting worse. At first I thought Startrek discovery is the worst Startrek series. I was wrong, so wrong. Then came Startrek Picard. 

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Why I Reject the Fat Acceptance Movement

Instead of a fat acceptance movement, can we have a overhall of our overly sweetened processed foods? No seriously, what the food industry does is not ok. They put sugar and high fructose corn syrup in nearly everything. Even freaking plane white bread! And you wonder why everyone is overweight? There are people out there who say “I can’t help being fat it’s just my body.” I’m here to tell you that it’s not your body or your metabolize, it’s the fact that in the US everything is sweetened to hell and back, and no i am not not kidding. Just read the food labels and you will see. Even most food marketed as low fat or diet food is extremely overly sweetened to my taste buds to the point I can’t eat it. Does that seem ok to you?