@Ironic? Does anyone else see the inherent historical perverseness in minorities demanding ‘safe spaces’? We used to have spaces just for minorities before- it was called segregation. And don’t tell me its somehow different because of an active vs. passive participant and historical agency paradigm/bullshit.
@safe spaces no he didn’t…all he said was it’s a solution that “amounts to running away.” he didn’t call them terrified little kids. i think the point was it’s better to face the issues, and it’s counterproductive in the long term.
@No conservatives on CC syllabus (says JD Porter) After all Plato and Aristotle were both liberals. They were anti-elitist, pro free speech and freedom of thought, and they believed in gender and racial equality.
The writers of the Bible were all liberals. Especially the J-source.
The Koran is really liberal. Augustine of Hippo is better known as Hip Augustine the hippy. St Thomas Aquinas reminds me of Eric Foner.
Hobbes is obviously a liberal (life is short and brutish–so let’s all live happily together).
Descartes is a liberal: he’s not a materialist so he must not like free markets too much.
Rousseau is a liberal. Kant is a liberal. Neither are as liberal as Marx though. Yet the high liberal of second semester is Nietzsche. He wants higher taxes, better health insurance, and better public schools for all Americans.
@anybody Today’s column by JD Porter was sooo full of crap:
Burke was a liberal, not a conservative;
Burke was a member of the liberal Old Whig wing of the Whig party;
Burke was only a conservative in the sense that he opposed the radical change that turned France into a totalitarian democracy (with socialist leanings);
The “Old Jewry” was simply an ancient meeting house near the Inns of Court in London.
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@Ironic? Does anyone else see the inherent historical perverseness in minorities demanding ‘safe spaces’? We used to have spaces just for minorities before- it was called segregation. And don’t tell me its somehow different because of an active vs. passive participant and historical agency paradigm/bullshit.
@safe spaces no he didn’t…all he said was it’s a solution that “amounts to running away.” he didn’t call them terrified little kids. i think the point was it’s better to face the issues, and it’s counterproductive in the long term.
@No conservatives on CC syllabus (says JD Porter) After all Plato and Aristotle were both liberals. They were anti-elitist, pro free speech and freedom of thought, and they believed in gender and racial equality.
The writers of the Bible were all liberals. Especially the J-source.
The Koran is really liberal. Augustine of Hippo is better known as Hip Augustine the hippy. St Thomas Aquinas reminds me of Eric Foner.
Hobbes is obviously a liberal (life is short and brutish–so let’s all live happily together).
Descartes is a liberal: he’s not a materialist so he must not like free markets too much.
Rousseau is a liberal. Kant is a liberal. Neither are as liberal as Marx though. Yet the high liberal of second semester is Nietzsche. He wants higher taxes, better health insurance, and better public schools for all Americans.
@anybody Today’s column by JD Porter was sooo full of crap:
Burke was a liberal, not a conservative;
Burke was a member of the liberal Old Whig wing of the Whig party;
Burke was only a conservative in the sense that he opposed the radical change that turned France into a totalitarian democracy (with socialist leanings);
The “Old Jewry” was simply an ancient meeting house near the Inns of Court in London.
… and more errors.
@H.L. Mencken Well played, sir.
@That Guy I do all of my cheating over at Barnard…
@also re: safe spaces–
WHAT THE FUCK?
in an article on how racism is bad, he compares everyone advocating for safe space to a terrified little kid. condescending much?
@somebody casey acierno makes YOUR mom mix-tapes
@nobody casey acierno makes HER mom mix-tapes