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• SOCIAL SCIENCE 100

  By paulosophicalvimplications on January 5, 2021 • ( 2 )

  There are five times as many inordinately tall white men as black men in America, and yet there are three times as many blacks in the NBA as whites. Why isn’t this a slam-dunk proof that there’s discrimination against white… Read More ›

• ONE PARADOX OF POWER

  By paulosophicalvimplications on January 5, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Last Saturday Donald Trump spent an hour on the phone trying to inveigle the Attorney General of Georgia to ‘find’ him enough votes to overturn the results of the election, in the wake of which some pundits are speculating on… Read More ›

• BREONNA TAYLOR AND NO-KNOCK WARRANTS

  By paulosophicalvimplications on January 4, 2021 • ( 3 )

  On the one hand it’s perfectly understandable that law enforcement might not want to give the miscreant the opportunity to flush the evidence before it can be found, or to arm himself so he can go down fighting. But on… Read More ›

• STEREOTYPING

  By paulosophicalvimplications on January 4, 2021 • ( 0 )

  It’s a matter of straightforward induction that Great Danes are typically taller than Chihuahuas. So why would it be odd to say that they’re stereotypically taller? Because in normal parlance a stereotype only applies to people. Then why would it… Read More ›

• THE ROLE MODEL ARGUMENT

  By paulosophicalvimplications on January 3, 2021 • ( 2 )

  The role model argument for affirmative action hiring cannot be dismissed out of hand. There may, however, be a few less-than-welcome autonomous consequences to consider.  For one thing, affirmative action hiring is very likely to be sub-optimal by measures other… Read More ›

• OF HUMAN BONDAGE

  By paulosophicalvimplications on January 2, 2021 • ( 3 )

  Picking cotton in leg-irons is very slow work. So instead – and with very few exceptions – slaves are held in their servitude not by leg-irons but by there being nowhere else to go, and there being no access to… Read More ›

• TWO CALLS TO ARMS: GRIEVANCE ACTIVISM AND THE RESISTANCE OF THE PRIVILEGED

  By paulosophicalvimplications on January 1, 2021 • ( 6 )

  There’s a lot of variation within white. I happen to be swarthily white, but I’m white nonetheless.  I know that all us whites are privileged, but I’m especially privileged. And yet, though I probably should, I don’t seem to suffer… Read More ›

• ISMISM

  By paulosophicalvimplications on December 30, 2020 • ( 7 )

  Among my wife’s many charms are her neologisms. Her latest is ‘ismic’, by which is meant, according to its coiner: prone to think and speak in isms. An ism, in turn, is a suffix indicating a condition, as in autism,… Read More ›

• CULTURAL APPROPRIATION (March 26, 2017)

  By paulosophicalvimplications on December 30, 2020 • ( 1 )

  Without social justice warriors we wouldn’t have any social justice. But every once in a while these moral crusaders get a little carried away. A case in point – well, at least on the surface – is the current crusade… Read More ›

• DRESS LIKE A HUTTERITE DAY

  By paulosophicalvimplications on December 30, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Today, December 30, is Dress Like a Hutterite Day. The debate over this has been raging for a few years now, and it’s put the SJW in a difficult position. Mocking members of the dominant culture has always been more… Read More ›

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