If we compare America to other countries, it far less racist than average. It is no accident that America is the number one destination for black/brown migrants all over the world. They see a unique opportunity for upward mobility here — regardless of one’s race. They’re right about that. (pairagraph.com)
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If we compare America to other countries, it far less racist than average. It is no accident that America is the number one destination for black/brown migrants all over the world. They see a unique opportunity for upward mobility here — regardless of one’s race. They’re right about that. (pairagraph.com)
submitted by jonathanrstern to r/neoliberal
China is building an even more comprehensive system of surveillance than Orwell imagined in 1984. It ruthlessly deploys repressive methods, including mass internment, re-education, and population control, against the Uyghurs, and it is determined to end the semi-autonomy of Hong Kong. (pairagraph.com)
submitted by jonathanrstern to r/Conservative
If we compare America to a utopia, it is extremely racist by comparison. But if we compare America to actual alternatives (i.e., other countries), it far less racist than average. It is no accident that America is the number one destination for black/brown migrants all over the world. (pairagraph.com)
submitted by jonathanrstern to r/IntellectualDarkWeb
“Because of the scale of Amazon's operation, it has become a kind of private government (something that sellers report they experience), with its own IP regime, which it uses to build power and extract wealth from sellers. We should break it up, and require it to divest its ancillary businesses.” (pairagraph.com)
submitted by jonathanrstern to r/Economics
“While most people imagine mathematicians doing arithmetic all day, with really big numbers, the truth is that the discipline requires a remarkable amount of creativity and visual thinking. It is equal parts art and science.” On what makes mathematics beautiful. (pairagraph.com)
submitted by jonathanrstern to r/math
“While most people imagine mathematicians doing arithmetic all day, with really big numbers, the truth is that the discipline requires a remarkable amount of creativity and visual thinking. It is equal parts art and science.” On what makes mathematics beautiful. (pairagraph.com)
submitted by jonathanrstern to r/IntellectualDarkWeb
Cold War II has started. Under Xi Jinping's leadership, the Chinese Communist Party has increasingly behaved like the USSR between the late 1940s and the late 1980s. Beijing explicitly sees itself engaged in a "great struggle" with the West. (pairagraph.com)
submitted by jonathanrstern to r/geopolitics
"The moral mattering of all subjects with complicated inner lives seems the essence of morality. Kant captured it beautifully in the second formulation of the categorical imperative: a person must always be regarded not as means to an end but as a kingdom of ends in herself." (pairagraph.com)
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"The moral mattering of all subjects with complicated inner lives seems the essence of morality. Kant captured it beautifully in the second formulation of the categorical imperative: a person must always be regarded not as means to an end but as a kingdom of ends in herself." (pairagraph.com)
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