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There's no consensus among scholars about how many human rights exist, how to realize them, and how to prioritize them. For example, is healthcare a right? Is food a right? Is educ…

> It's oppressive enough of minorities just in the relatively peaceful areas I've visited. What first-hand things (that you saw for yourself) can you use to corroborate this?

Thanks for this. I know there are benefits of living with awareness of death (like practicing your values more), but I cannot reap them as long as I avoid thinking about death.

It depends on how you define "outsiders". Look at the 2019 poll table in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Russian_sentiment#Statist... The Five Eyes countries, Germany, Poland, a…

Dumping Apple isn't the best example, since Apple is a luxury product that is more about signaling status than about a great computing power-vs-cost value proposition.

Yeah, the tea and herbs part is the first part, near the middle and end you start to see things like heavy industry. There's a Marxist concept called "commanding heights of the eco…

"Collapse" is a bit too passive to describe what happened to the USSR. Gorbachev was a pro-American advocate of Social Democracy (aka the Denmark-style state that Bernie likes). He…

WeChat isn't some app for government leaders. Its userbase in America are ordinary people in the Chinese diaspora who use it to stay in contact with family and friends worldwide. L…

What is this comment trying to say, by putting China outside of the "rest of the world tribe"? Does this mean that Chinese people are a different species, or what?

Does China really identify as "a country that views the US as its enemy (politically, economically, philosophically)" or is that just a projection of how the US feels about China?

The military alliances of the United States in Asia are not part of NATO.

The comparison doesn't seem proportional at all. American tech companies were not forced to sell their technology to European investors in order to avoid their apps being banned in…

The sense of social solidarity versus atomization plays a part, for me. Do I feel like my neighbors will look out for me or do I feel this is a "no snitching, mind your own busines…

Ok, I understand now that people are taking "cancel culture" to mean online shaming generally. In that case, I think it is reasonable to take precautions like blogging anonymously.…

I also wonder if the author had non-English origins of words in mind. Ex., to how many people is it useful to convert アルバイト from "arubaito" to "Arbeit", especially when the Japanes…

As I understand the term "cancel culture", it mostly relates to celebrities who were already controversial or polarizing in some way, that were finally able to be organized against…

Speak for yourself, don't speak on behalf of 1 billion.

When you say "towards solving the issue", what issue do you reckon needed (or needs) solving?

If we're questioning the egalitarian quality of pre-20th century relationŝips, one could also say that "heterosexuality" between equals was also not the norm. Only modern _homosexu…

Are migrants not considered "people"? Seems to me like a nativist argument.

Except Eric is not any sort of govt or party representative. He is a naturalized American of Chinese ancestry. In history, this kind of scapegoating was counterproductive.

The restrictions mentioned in the article only apply to boards that do not have at least one (1) woman representative. They're not asking for 50%, and just 1 woman representative r…

> The legal fight focused on the definition of “sex” in Title VII [of the Civil Rights Act of 1964]. The plaintiffs, along with civil rights groups and many large companies, had ar…

"Integrate" here is used in an unusual way; to mean the abolition of competitive standardized tests that produce majority-Asian schools

> So landlords of British descent can't be considered Irish? Even if their families had been present in Ireland for several centuries? There are people in 2020 whose families have …