Thinking Out Aloud

Postings on books (mainly non-fiction), a few films and matters of interest by Lorenzo from Oz (aka Downunder)

Monday, July 12, 2021

Ancestry, ethnicity and the hopeless confusions of race

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Yes, ancestry matters but not in the way that makes race talk sensible. A 1904 depiction of Asian ethnicities. The early medieval scholar Re...
Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Being sensible about Patriarchy

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Just because something is used propagandistically does not mean it is not a thing. Patriarchy is authority being presumptively male. The mo...
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Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Narrative self-enforcement and the refusal to notice

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If believing X makes one a good person, then avoiding evidence to the contrary preserves one’s virtue. Don’t see, hear or speak anything tha...
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Monday, June 14, 2021

The One-Stop Explanation of Why Marxism is Toxic Crap

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The human disasters of actually existing Marxism flow directly from Marx’s theories. Two toxic theorists and three mass murdering tyrants. T...
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