Paulosophical Vimplications

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• SOME PUZZLES ABOUT RACISM

  By paulosophicalvimplications on June 19, 2020 • ( 5 )

  I’m not sure what racism is, but I am sure no one else does either. I know it’s a term of opprobrium, like ’sexism’ or ‘fascism’ or ‘colonialism’. But what exactly is the accuser accusing the accused of? A racist can’t… Read More ›

• INDIGENOUS EXCEPTIONALISM

  By paulosophicalvimplications on June 17, 2020 • ( 0 )

  In early May of 1463, a full twenty-nine years before Columbus ‘discovered’ what was to the Europeans the ‘new world’, a boatload of Mi’kmaq from what is now Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, set sail – actually they rowed… Read More ›

• DEFUNDING THE POLICE

  By paulosophicalvimplications on June 7, 2020 • ( 0 )

  There’s a movement afoot in America, one that predates the current fuss over the George Floyd killing, to defund the police, if not entirely then certainly by some amount in excess of just a little. If we want to reduce… Read More ›

• AMERICA’S BEST

  By paulosophicalvimplications on June 4, 2020 • ( 0 )

  The German people can be forgiven for electing Hitler in 1933. They didn’t know. Perhaps even he didn’t know. After all, events have a way of overtaking themselves. But we’re told they’d have ratified that choice as late as April, 1945…. Read More ›

• TRUDEAU’S 21 SECONDS OF SILENCE

  By paulosophicalvimplications on June 3, 2020 • ( 0 )

  I thought nothing could outdo Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, until … The other day, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was asked by a reporter what he thought of Donald Trump’s words and actions in response to the… Read More ›

• AMERICA’S POLICING DILEMMA

  By paulosophicalvimplications on June 3, 2020 • ( 3 )

  The question, I suppose, is this. At what point should the penny have dropped for the Jews of Europe? When should they have started shooting the authorities at the door rather than come along peacefully? It’s easy to say in retrospect,… Read More ›

• LET HOTTER HEADS PREVAIL

  By paulosophicalvimplications on June 1, 2020 • ( 3 )

  Some of you may remember the cult classic Billy Jack from 1971, and if so, the title character’s remark that, “When policemen break the law, there is no law!” That might be a bit too strong. Policemen are people. People break… Read More ›

• THE LEGACY OF GEORGE FLOYD

  By paulosophicalvimplications on May 31, 2020 • ( 2 )

  A law that’s impossible to obey isn’t a law. A law that’s impossible to disobey isn’t a law. A law that’s impossible to enforce isn’t a law. And a law that isn’t enforced isn’t a law. The most it can be… Read More ›

• PATIENCE, GRASSHOPPER

  By paulosophicalvimplications on May 20, 2020 • ( 0 )

  The number of American soldiers who’ve died in Iraq since George W. Bush declared victory from the deck of that aircraft carrier has been many times the number who died before that declaration of victory. So it’s not always clear that victory… Read More ›

• SCHADENFREUDE

  By paulosophicalvimplications on May 20, 2020 • ( 2 )

  Covid 19 has divided the human world into four distinct camps. There are those who’ve already lost – or are about to lose – their lives to this thing. That’s probably going to end up being about a half million… Read More ›

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