A word should refer to an essence, a natural kind, and normal words do. Suppose we had a word that referred to roast pork and fried chicken, but not to other foods. This would imply that roast pork and chicken were the same essence, the same natural kind, which of course they are not. So when you have a word that does not refer to a natural kind, that word …
Category: politics
Improbable caring as an indicator of evil
No one cares about far away strangers, still less about far away strangers very different from themselves. Claims to do so are lies or self deception. People near one are always the big threat. So if one wants to destroy everyone near one, one justifies it by piously announcing love for those far away.
Racism is an anti concept
We do not have a word “deskism” for someone who thinks differences between kinds of desk matter, and who has strong preferences in favor of some kinds of desks and against other kinds of desk. No one can be racist against white people, and all whites are racists. That is why it is not racism when a bunch of blacks beat up a white man who happens to be passing by. …
Ever faster movement left
Weasel zippers reports some tweets: Now, not only can free speech get you fired, supporting, people’s right to free speech behind closed doors with the blinds drawn, while piously deploring what they say, can get you fired. Observe that Josh Olin did not take the horribly extreme ultra ultra far right neo nazi position that people have a right to free speech in public. Can anyone remember a time when anyone …
ESR moves ever leftwards
Esr has to move ever leftwards, or else suffer persecution, and to prove himself sufficiently left, has to enthusiastically support the ever greater persecution of his fellow leftists. Thus each leftist has to move further left, and has to support the persecution of his fellow leftists even more than he did last year. This is the left singularity, which results in ever leftwards movement, ever faster. It is always cut …
Sunshine Mary bows out
I will greatly miss you, Sunshine.
The American right is deader than God
In the last presidential election, nominated governor Romneycare In the election before that, nominated Senator McCain-Feingold The current huge increase in government expenditures and substantial increase in taxes reflects a bipartisan budget that your Tea Party congressman voted for – which means that your tea party congressman voted to fund Obamacare. And, very shortly after the 2014 election, the Republican party is about bring in thirty million Democrat voters.  (Each person …
autogynophilia
The progressive model of transexuality is that a man is really a woman inside. For the most part, this is not true. Transexuals are, for the most part, men who have no interest in knitting, dolls, or housework. They are men who have a sexual fetish for being treated as women. They get a kick out of it. Wearing women’s clothing is analogous to flashing girls – it is making …
Still patting themselves on the back
The Cathedral believed it was unthinkable that Putin would annex Crimea. When Putin annexed Crimea, they believed he had made a terrible mistake, and they just needed to allow him some face saving way to back down. Mother Jones tells us: Russia Is Not Exactly a Big Winner in the Crimean Dispute Here is how Russia has won: The Cathedral has murdered its allies, and been unable to murder its …
The Death of Libertarianism
What is libertarianism? Stephen Landsburg complains that Arizona law protecting religious people from being forced to enthusiastically support and endorse gay marriage is unlibertarian. Bryan Caplan, a libertarian and theoretically an anarcho capitalist, wants the Mexican underclass moved here to live on welfare, crime, the production of anchor babies, and voting Democrat. Esr recently used exterminationist rhetoric against “racists”. I doubt he knows what “racist” means, but those that put …