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Clearly privilege is contextual and it doesn't help here. Another reason why "privilege" the way it has been used recently is a silly concept.

Why change it at the consumer level when we can change it at the governmental level? Personally I think trade with China should be banned until the CCP is gone and democracy instal…

Japan is going pretty well last I checked. It's one of the few places that is successfully transitioning to a lower birth rate via population shrinkage rather than mass immigration…

That's partially true but I think it's partially a recasting of right-wing thought into a left-wing mould. The main driving factor is third-world immigration, and in particular the…

Hell no, i don't think religions should be allowed to push their agenda on children. If we banned that we could eradicate religion within a generation. If I had a teenage daughter …

Helping them make up their own minds about the issues? That's a pretty good service. But reprinting propaganda from one side only does not serve that purpose.

Are you sure you think that biased substance is better than nothing? Are you sure it's not just that you happen to agree with the bias in this case? If Teen Vogue were suddenly ful…

Maybe it's too much to expect, but I rather think that any publication which doesn't have an overt and honest political bias ought to be politically neutral.

You really think it's okay for Teen Vogue to be pushing political opinions on impressionable young minds?

Anyone being considered for that job will have an impressive CV, obviously.

The trouble with "affirmative action" is that in situations like this, nobody can really tell whether she earned it on her own merits or not. It's possible she would have got the j…

Semi-intentional maybe? If you tried to start the Amish now it'd never last, it's too large a leap. But the Amish society evolved slowly over time much like others. If you went bac…

A good book on this theme is Matt Ridley's "The Evolution of Everything", which argues that social institutions are generally a lot more evolved and a lot less designed than people…

Ten years isn't that long in a car's life though.

I dunno. Go anywhere in the world and look at how billionaires and Presidents get around. Do they catch buses or do they choose to get around in private, possibly chauffeured, vehi…

How long before facebook gets sued over a suicide it failed to prevent?

I'd say it matters a great deal what it is -- for instance if your cause is the pro-life movement or the expulsion of illegal aliens then you might have difficulties getting social…

Yes but that's a bus. Public transport is intrinsically a worse and less convenient experience than having a private driver.

Huge transfer of wealth from low-margin businesses to high-margin businesses. Supermarkets, for instance, have margins of about 3%. With a revenue tax they'd be completely boned. T…

While Vox tends to lean pretty strongly anti-Trump I think this article is actually pretty good/neutral.

Right, because of all that obvious evidence of stuff that hasn't happened yet but might.

Well "liberal" in the sense it's used in US politics to mean "left wing" not actually liberal.

What if I'm both deaf and blind? Should Netflix have to cater to me through some kind of touch system? If I'm blind and I go to an art gallery should there be an audio track to som…

Or it shows it's a terrible law and total compliance with it results in terrible effects.