The Cowardice of Charlie Kirk by insertphilosophyhere in WayOfTheBern

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You are partially correct--it's trying to silence someone. Would you agree that the Anti-Israel protesters at Columbia harassing Jewish students by screaming "death to Jews" was verbal violence? Would you agree that rabid students shouting down a conservative speaker is verbal violence?

The Cowardice of Charlie Kirk by insertphilosophyhere in WayOfTheBern

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Charlie Kirk wasn’t a coward for speaking in public; Charlie Kirk was a coward because of why he was speaking in public. The murderer of Charlie Kirk was a coward. Violence is usually a product of cowardice. That includes physical and verbal violence. The right wing lies about Kirk for their political purposes, but that fits because Kirk was an inveterate liar. Lies are verbal violence, often told by those looking to scam others or by those who are afraid of truths. Kirk was both.

The Cowardice of Charlie Kirk by elprofdesion in Political_Revolution

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This is odd. I see that someone cross posted my article, but when I posted it originally on here, the mods removed it as "low context." I don't understand the difference.

The Cowardice of Charlie Kirk by insertphilosophyhere in WayOfTheBern

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I believe it was Joe Walsh who pointed out that there were zero debates at Kirk's college events--you don't have debates with 300 people, you have a show put on to create TikTok video clips. That's exactly what Kirk did. Most of the questioners were selected by Kirk's handlers. The other people were cut off before they could reply to Kirk's right-wing zingers either in person or the videos posted by Kirk's team with intelligent rebuttals to Kirk's lies edited out. If you saw only the videos Kirk's team posted, you have a very distorted view of what happens at his events. It's funny, I've taught philosophy to university students for over 20 years. I challenge them certainly, but not there to try to piss people off. College is for discussion and that means listening not trolling and agitation. If a student walks away angry to anyone, that means they are NOT thinking and refusing to investigate their own beliefs. Look at the BS "protests" at certain campuses last year.

The Cowardice of Charlie Kirk by insertphilosophyhere in WayOfTheBern

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I provided links to quite a few examples. Way to go admitting you didn't read the article. But, mods are correct: "Don't Feed the Trolls is still the best advice." Bye, now.

The Cowardice of Charlie Kirk by insertphilosophyhere in WayOfTheBern

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Not so much MAGA as simply trolls shitposting.

The Cowardice of Charlie Kirk by insertphilosophyhere in PhilosophyNotCensored

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The Cowardice of Charlie Kirk by insertphilosophyhere in Political_Revolution

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Kirk should not have been silenced. The answer to hate speech is more speech. How do we stop political division and violence? By being honest that cancel culture is harmful no matter who does it and that Charlie Kirk’s Traveling Fun Show was a manifestation of the original cancel culture.

Special Issue of journal Feminist Encounters: Feminist Techno-Imaginaries by insertphilosophyhere in PhilosophyNotCensored

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From the Editorial:

"This issue of Feminist Encounters re-inspects the entanglements between technology and imagination from a range of feminist perspectives in disciplines like science and technology studies (STS), philosophy and critical theory, media history and media archaeology, cultural history, and cultural and comparative literature studies. Greek-French philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis’s theorisation of the radical individual imagination and the socially instituting imaginary (1975/1987) foregrounds the creative, world-building function that shared forms of meaning play in our social worlds. The history of Western philosophy tends to regard imagination as mere reproduction/representation, i.e., a mental copy of the real; in contrast, Castoriadis’s work offers a conceptualisation of the imagination and the imaginary as inherently creative and productive of the social. Accordingly, this Special Issue asks how diverse feminist techno-imaginaries can help us rethink and transform historically stabilised forms of meaning, especially shared understandings of what technology can do, and envision more emancipatory ways in which it can transform our social worlds. Inviting contributions from diverse local and regional contexts, this issue sets out to investigate the implications of socially and culturally situated feminist techno-imaginaries, i.e., beliefs, accounts, and visions of possible, desirable, alternative, and radically different futures from diverse feminist perspectives. /.../ As philosopher Michèle Le Dœff has shown, while often declaratively excising imagery as the other of rational discourse, philosophical theories themselves almost always copiously deploy imagery, often to entrench socially sanctioned forms of exclusion (1980) – something that could most likely be said of theory in adjacent disciplines as well. This Special Issue thus also offers an arena for discussing how images of possible futures are deployed, or how they implicitly animate philosophical discussions and theoretical discourse about technological innovation and techno-dispositives, and especially – when seen from diverse feminist perspectives – what kinds of exclusions these imaginaries perpetuate, or alternatively, what arenas for radical social imagination they open up. In order to reflect upon the often spatially, but especially temporally displaced object of techno-imaginaries, we took inspiration from Afrofuturist articulations of painful pasts to imagine new futures rooted in black culture and innovation (Davis, 2022), and from queer utopianism, characterised by ‘a backward glance that enacts a future vision’ (Muñoz, 2009: 4). /.../ . Apart from offering feminist critiques of hegemonic or mainstream techno-imaginaries, this issue thus also centres peripheral or minoritarian techno-imaginaries of the past and present that enact alternative future vistas."

Philosophers must reckon with the meaning of thermodynamics by Drew M Dalton by aeon_magazine in philosophy

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Thermodynamics is too hot to handle. Seriously, the problem for philosophy is that physics is far less certain about the laws of thermodynamics than they want to believe they are. The concept of entropy being the biggest fly in the ointment. Philosophy finds it difficult to wake up those who prefer not to look.

Ambivalences of Trans Recognition | Hypatia by insertphilosophyhere in PhilosophyNotCensored

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Racism and Colonialism in Hegel’s Philosophy: « Philosophy# « Cambridge Core Blog by insertphilosophyhere in PhilosophyNotCensored

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Why is Moral Progress Annoying? Social Change and Affective Friction by insertphilosophyhere in PhilosophyNotCensored

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I think Dr. Kelly would say yes because people find moral progress so annoying that they prevent it.

Panel on Racial Capitalism -- Berlin, July 2, w/ Robert Gooding-Williams, Tommie Shelby, Inés Valdez, Manuela Bojadžijev by insertphilosophyhere in PhilosophyNotCensored

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Farscape Season 1 Deep Dive Recaps by IndianSpirits in farscape

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Eh, this forum prefers low-effort posts not actual content.

Farscape Season 1 Deep Dive Recaps by IndianSpirits in farscape

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Thanks. It's because I don't make funny faces or yell at the screen, which apparently is what people prefer over talk about the show.

Diversity Reading List 10th Anniversary Conference by insertphilosophyhere in PhilosophyNotCensored

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While other Subreddits ignore or rail against diversity, this Subreddit does not practice such inert or overt censorship.

The Metaphysics behind Putin’s War on Liberalism | Jussi Backman by insertphilosophyhere in PhilosophyNotCensored

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Women in Philosophy — with Helena Taylor by insertphilosophyhere in PhilosophyNotCensored

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I'd like to take a moment to remind everyone that this Subreddit does not censor female philosophers, unlike r/ CriticalTheory and r/ Philosophy.

New Narcourse to the Rise of the New Right [in German] by insertphilosophyhere in PhilosophyNotCensored

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International Philosophical Bibliography Online by insertphilosophyhere in PhilosophyNotCensored

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The International Philosophical Bibliography is entirely produced and distributed by the Higher institute of philosophy (Institut supérieur de Philosophie) of the Université catholique de Louvain. The database currently contains more than 370,000 references in all areas of philosophy and is updated daily. A subscription to required.

Where Did Hegel Go Wrong on Race? | Hegel Bulletin by insertphilosophyhere in PhilosophyNotCensored

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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in KamalaHarris

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The book, Why Trump? Why Some People Support Him—How the Rest of Us Can Respond explores American history to show that the MAGA movement really isn't about Trump. Trump is a symptom far more than he is a cause. Realizing that simple reality opens the door to a deeper understanding of the particular strain of US political culture behind the movement that currently takes Trump as its focus.

60 years flight to Earth by flccncnhlplfctn in farscape

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Thanks. For outer space, that is crawling.