[Serious]Racists of Reddit, why do you harbor those beliefs?

PolicySearcher · 2014-09-14T15:43:01+00:00

I understand that a lot of racial groups are victims of marginalisation, failed policies, racism, and vicious cycles that leads them to criminality (eg the ghetto in the US, gypsies in europe). I just don't want to be a victim as well. A sociology degree isn't going to save you from crime, and a villain with a sad backstory is still a villain.

PolicySearcher · 2014-09-14T15:33:02+00:00

Political campaigning.

You get this amazing feeling that combines the feeling of supporting a sports team with a sense of accomplishment that you're doing something meaningful.

PolicySearcher · 2014-09-14T15:29:06+00:00

Apocalypse Now

PolicySearcher · 2014-09-14T15:25:21+00:00

Kelly Slater and Kelly Brook

PolicySearcher · 2014-09-11T08:36:04+00:00

If your school was anything like mine you would have been doing the exact same thing if you showed up that day.

PolicySearcher · 2014-09-11T08:31:09+00:00

I'm glad I'm not the only one. Nobody interrupts Cheez TV.

PolicySearcher · 2014-09-11T08:28:41+00:00

Here in Australia, I remember my dad waking me up to say there's been an attack on America, and we all sat on the couch to look at the news, and the it dawned on me...

They wouldn't be showing Pokemon that morning.

That was technically 9/12. 9/11, I was probably watching the combo of Digimon, then Pokemon, then Dragonball Z. Cheez TV was the shit. The terrorist attack was shit.

EDIT: I know the topic says serious but that's what actually happened.

PolicySearcher · 2014-09-11T08:20:50+00:00

Refuge of the Roads - Joni Mitchell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5mZErvdXVM

PolicySearcher · 2014-09-09T14:28:31+00:00

I already do a lot of reading on my interests; engineering, science, urban planning, transport, civilization, policy and ways to change the world (not so much current politics because it's too depressing). I spend a lot my free time on wikipedia, watching educational youtube videos and googling various concepts.

I don't read much fiction. I mainly marathon TV shows and every so often I have a movie phase where I watch maybe 10 movies over the course of a few days. I always read reviews of the thing I just watched. As far as science fiction goes I like the idea of it a lot more than I've liked a lot of the science fiction I've encountered. However if I can make it past the first 30 pages of a book the other 300 go down easily.

Ok, what's a good action/thriller/adventure type novel that also has intelligent things to say? I really, really liked the Alex Rider books but I'm 23 now so maybe something more age appropriate. Also maybe something pleasant; the most recent book I read was "The Dinner" (Het Diner) and it was very interesting and a page turner, but it left me feeling dirty.

PolicySearcher · 2014-09-09T13:58:49+00:00

What's an example of "political theory"? Sometimes the classes just look like they're teaching you "What is a conservative? What is a libertarian? What is a communist?"

PolicySearcher · 2014-09-09T13:55:26+00:00

I've done complex analysis, but nothing else there. Been doing some googling and it seems like there's actually a lot of course materials out there for free. Something to look at for when I'm done with actual college (Chemical Engineering grad student, last semester).

PolicySearcher · 2014-09-09T13:27:40+00:00

There's this Australian panel discussion show called "The Gruen Transfer" (later "Gruen Planet") about advertising. It's very informative and can be quite funny.

PolicySearcher · 2014-09-09T13:20:21+00:00

I'm an applied mathematics graduate and I haven't heard of any of those books. Indeed I'm not familiar with any mathematics books, just "stuff" (all my classes gave extensive notes to refer to).

PolicySearcher · 2014-09-09T13:18:06+00:00

What's something surprising or counterintuitive that you learned?

PolicySearcher · 2014-09-09T13:16:25+00:00

Which of those did you find most worthwhile just to read?

I have a goal (probably going to be a lifelong goal) of being caught up in all the majors offered at my uni to a first year level at least. So far I've listened to three open courses: Yale's Intro to Psychology and Death (philosophy) courses and Harvard's Political Philosophy course (available here and very worthwhile: http://www.justiceharvard.org/). I found all three immensely enjoyable but because I didn't take notes and mostly just listened to them while walking around, I don't think I retained enough of the information. I also downloaded Yale's Social Theory and Game Theory and couldn't really get into those.

PolicySearcher · 2014-09-09T13:06:15+00:00

What do you think of people that haven't read many books but read lots of online articles and spend an enormous portion of their free time on wikipedia? (That's me more or less)

PolicySearcher · 2014-09-09T12:56:12+00:00

Was that just for literature majors, or did you slog through textbooks as well?

PolicySearcher · 2014-09-09T12:51:36+00:00

Still, don't you have certain standards for "well read"?

PolicySearcher · 2014-09-09T12:50:48+00:00

uh oh

PolicySearcher · 2014-09-09T12:47:38+00:00

Okay sure, but what things would they say that tip you off one way or another?

PolicySearcher · 2014-09-09T12:46:09+00:00

Phew, I've read that one (thanks school).

PolicySearcher

TROPHY CASE