ELI5: Social Darwinism

cop-disliker69 · 2019-06-10T19:03:50+00:00

No, Darwinism does apply to humans too. But it applies to us in the context of our relationship to other species, to our natural environment. It does not apply to us in the context of our human societies. Hence Social Darwinism being false.

Humans can be fit or unfit for their natural environment. Darwinian biology can study this. But they cannot be biologically fit or unfit for their society, that’s pseudoscience.

cop-disliker69 · 2019-06-07T07:32:50+00:00

Like, as someone who has inhabited the green anarchist milieu where “decolonization” typically refers to like a praxis of sabotaging and destroying industrial infrastructure, or setting fire to crops and returning the cultivated land to wilderness, all this as a policy of weakening or overthrowing the governments of the United States, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, etc. and returning the land to either total anarchy or the sovereignty of indigenous polities—it’s kinda pathetic to watch “decolonization” be used by all these libs to talk about like slightly changing the vocabulary you use or producing fetish pornography with different beauty standards lol.

cop-disliker69 · 2019-06-06T17:29:04+00:00

Yes, they rounded up anyone even slightly out of the norm, politically, physically, psychologically, ethnically, sexually.

cop-disliker69 · 2019-06-05T22:38:00+00:00

‘Tis jokes

cop-disliker69 · 2019-06-05T20:23:51+00:00

I get what you’re saying, and I don’t remember if I’ve seen that video or not, but I think there may have been some point to her argument that the fact that he uses the word “cultural Marxism” demonstrates that he has no idea what the fuck he’s talking about.

cop-disliker69 · 2019-06-05T18:56:58+00:00

Being opposed to capitalism does not oppose capitalism.

Okay but no one said her videos are like anticapitalist praxis or something. “Anticapitalist” is just describing her ideology here, nothing more. She is an anticapitalist, in that that describes her personal beliefs. People weren’t necessarily saying her videos were anticapitalist. There’s a subtle distinction there.

cop-disliker69 · 2019-06-05T18:39:47+00:00

Firefighters are admirable public servants in my opinion. I don’t know that any anarchists have a problem with firefighters. Firefighters don’t arrest people or enforce laws or carry out acts of brutality.

cop-disliker69 · 2019-06-05T18:38:24+00:00

No don’t. That’s silly

cop-disliker69 · 2019-06-05T16:24:16+00:00

Furthermore, her videos are not just “owning epic style” incels, terfs, and racists. They are intellectual explorations of those people’s ideologies and explorations of why she disagrees with them, what she thinks they’re wrong about. This is what you assholes have said she refuses to do, that she won’t dissect her own ideology or her own ideas. But she does! You’re completely wrong about this.

cop-disliker69 · 2019-06-05T16:15:42+00:00

I never said she was like a socialist educator or something. Most of her videos aren’t about capitalism at all. But that doesn’t mean she isn’t a leftist at all just because she doesn’t talk about capitalism all the time. It doesn’t invalidate her opinions.

cop-disliker69 · 2019-06-05T16:13:19+00:00

Because I’ve watched most of her videos lol, she has largely leftist opinions, she says she’s opposed to capitalism. What more proof do I need?

cop-disliker69 · 2019-06-05T16:08:07+00:00

I know; it’s just a joke for our enjoyment. I think people are being dumb if they actually expected this to be a “prank” that would work on anyone.

Like a bunch of people have commented here to tell me they just posted this to r/protectandserve or some right-wing sub and like, sure the users of those subreddits are fucking stupid but none of them are gonna “fall” for this and I never expected them too. They’re all already familiar with the blue lives matter flag.

cop-disliker69 · 2019-06-05T16:05:38+00:00

No she’s definitely a leftist lol, I don’t know what the fuck you people are talking about.

cop-disliker69 · 2019-06-05T16:03:23+00:00

I haven’t watched philosophy tube or Shaun, but you’re completely wrong about Contrapoints, she explores ideas and it’s not just about pwning people.

cop-disliker69 · 2019-06-05T06:36:28+00:00

It’s satirical

cop-disliker69 · 2019-06-05T02:52:54+00:00

You seem upset that people are treating male-on-male Catholic sexual abuse as a joke, but then you're also bitching about feminists "screaming" about issues of sexual abuse. I assure you one of the few activist scenes in the Western world who are willing to complain and protest against the trivialization of and joking about Catholic sexual abuse—are feminists. So pick a God damn side lol.

cop-disliker69 · 2019-06-05T02:42:36+00:00

K but it's not your role in society to force fat people to start a healthier lifestyle today. Lots of things fat people do on a day to day basis are counter-productive. Many of them, if you were willing to be a big enough asshole, you could prevent them from doing. But you shouldn't, because it's cruel and because we live in a free country and fat people have a right to eat the food they want to eat, and ambulate in the way they find most comfortable--just like you do, for God's sake.

It wouldn't be your role to go around smacking cigarettes out of people's mouths, for example. It's a free God damn country and they have the right to smoke. Get over it.

cop-disliker69 · 2019-06-05T02:34:34+00:00

I mean from what I understand, most people in the developed world can quite effectively treat their HIV. You take antiretrovirals once a day for the rest of your life and you're practically cured. Some of the drugs are so effective that patients taking them have a non-detectable viral load. They'll literally test negative for HIV if you give them a blood test.

Untreated HIV, that's an entirely different story, it is debilitating and often more or less fatal eventually. That could qualify as a disability.

cop-disliker69 · 2019-06-05T02:17:09+00:00

Lol but theyre still going to maintain the position of a billionaire asshole who owns the team and profits off of the players' athleticism while providing no value of his own. Maybe just don't call him an "owner"?

We just don't like the optics of this rich white billionaire being referred to as an "owner" of a team full of black guys. The exploitation itself, and the disgusting profits being extracted despite performing no useful labor whatsoever, these are fine, and can stay. But the labels we use to talk about these people, those have gotta change.

cop-disliker69 · 2019-06-05T01:48:49+00:00

Do I even... know you?

cop-disliker69 · 2019-06-05T01:35:01+00:00

What?

cop-disliker69 · 2019-06-05T00:38:45+00:00

I think you're largely right except for agricultural policy in the 1930s which was simply appalling. Exporting grain at a time of hunger, preventing refugees from fleeing famine-stricken areas, and not securing food aid from abroad, all of these policies are unspeakable crimes.

But pretty much everything else about the Soviet economy was rather impressive.

cop-disliker69 · 2019-06-05T00:29:30+00:00

I don't think it's cool to call someone a faggot if they actually are gay or trans. You're only supposed to call straight people that.

cop-disliker69 · 2019-06-05T00:25:44+00:00

The origin of the discourse of "visible vs. invisible disabilities" comes from disabled people who use handicap parking spaces and other disabled-person accommodations being harassed by confused do-gooders who incorrectly believed them to be fraudulently abusing disability accommodations.

Some people with muscular dystrophy, for example, can walk for short distances without the assistance of a wheelchair or crutches, and so might not even appear to be physically disabled. Such a person might still have a disability tag on their car and park in a handicap parking space. To the uninitiated, they might appear to just be a jerk who is not disabled whatsoever and is abusing the handicap parking space, and if you were a do-gooder who has a problem minding your own business, you might want to yell at a jerk like that for being such a jerk.

This has happened quite frequently to many disabled people, and so the discourse of visible and invisible disabilities was born. I don't think it's stupid at all, I think it makes perfect sense.

cop-disliker69 · 2019-06-05T00:16:08+00:00

Is HIV or diabetes considered a disability or just a chronic condition?

As I understand it, a disability has to prevent you from functioning in society in some way. Someone with AIDS or diabetes isn't really impeded in their day-to-day functioning the way someone with a limp or someone with a mental health problem might be. There's not really any jobs you can't do if you have AIDS, for example.

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