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Supporting Black History Month is racist. No, it isn't. Only people who don't understand the concept of "racism" and who think they do could believe this. That's white people, mostly. Don't buy the emotional hype, people. Don't try to sell the emotional hype, white people. All history is ...

Skepdick wrote: ↑Sun Feb 07, 2021 9:33 am ... where did we miss each other...

Skepdick wrote: ↑Sun Feb 07, 2021 9:41 am... where you missed me ...

No, I want you to tell me why you insist on being an arse.

lol You tell me!

... your identity doesn't hinge on group membership. Yes, that is precisely the point. The categories I belong to, no matter how politically significant they might be to me and to others, have nothing to do with my identity. "Identity politics" is simply a misuse of the word "identit...

... i am NOT a philosopher. I agree. If you want to know which philsopher is me, you need to find the one called "mickthinks"* What if I want to know which human is you? I see that as the same question and I would answer in the same way, though perhaps it might require the extra detail I ...

Let's say you are a philosopher. I can see how you might have a certain attachment to your identity as a philosophy. You have missed my point, entirely I think. I consider myself to be a philosopher, certainly. I place myself in the category of philosophers. That has nothing to do with my identity....

I mistrust those who misuse the term “identity” when talking about the categories—natural* and socially constructed—of which we human beings recognise ourselves to be members. My identity is just my “me-ness” as opposed to your “you-ness” and everyone else’s “their-ness”. Thus I am the one person wh...

And that, my fellow philosophers, is what happens when Walker loses a debate he'd set his heart on winning. That is why I mostly ignore him.

The American Journal of Medicine is one of the touters. Not in any normal sense of the word "tout", it isn't. Now that the vaccine has been created ... You do understand that it isn't creation that matters; it's nationwide distribution and administration? (another great Trump achievement)...

Okay, Walker hasn't been willing or able to find anything in his long and vaunted list of #45's doings that actually stands up as an "achievement", so I'll pick out another failure ... Trump Administration Accomplishments [...] • The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched the Coronavi...

That's a seemingly impressive list of accomplishments, Walker, but in fact it's just a list of things that you want to give Trump credit for. I don't intend to go through the whole list, lol. Let's do it this way; I'll start at the top and then you can choose what you think is Trump's most impressiv...

I'm a better thinker than most of their authors ...

Aaah, now I understand what this is about. Why not come out and say what you mean? : "If Philosophy Now was serious about philosophy they'd be seeking contributions from me."

My answer would still be same.

The only thing higher about the standards used to choose their posts is in an academic sense. I can't even parse this sentence. I have no idea what it is trying to say. If you were hoping to catch the eye of the magazine's talent scouts as an author with "legitimacy", I think you need to ...

But I have said nothing about a more academic standard. It's like you are arguing with yourself. Whatever turns you on, I guess.

Again, I believe I have a reasonable grasp of what "meaningful" means in this context, but I can't make sense of what the "philosophical" qualifier is doing there. The forum has value. That value doesn't adhere to everyone who posts here, nor to everything that is posted. A much ...