#Debate

What would you do if you were allowed to go inside the Kabah? For al-Ḥākim al-Astarābādī, a leading 11th c. Shāfiʿī scholar, this was an opportunity for him to ask
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1./ Who knew the BBC now needs defending from a regulator that admits to working hand in glove with a controversial lobby group which famously enforces its own narrow, biased
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Also remember, the fact that India's law and order machinery can effectively treat Muslims as second class citizens is also because the community has no political voice. At the very
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these mitigations do not work to stop covid or to reduce overall deaths.this is the most expensive peace time policy debacle in human history and they all want to do
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The problem with Wignats is that they've never created something beautiful and they have nothing to lose. Sure, they have effects and artsy edits, but what have they actually built?
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Thread:In 1994, a defeated Azerbaijan signed a defeatist ceasefire agreement. They resorted to delay tactics, which included promoting the involvement of powers other than just Russia, to negotiate a final
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A short thread on free speech. 1. I make no apologies for being a near free speech absolutist. To me, there is almost never any valid reason for restricting speech
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The debate over coronavirus transmission is becoming a full-on culture war when we don't have the full evidence base to know for sure exactly how it spreads. Does it spread
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Every community cancels, almost by definition. I've never opposed canceling as such: Of course we cancel Holocaust deniers, for example, or pedophilia apologists. The questions are: Who does it? To
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1/ Hi. I’m a cultural anthropologist. Can we talk about the “culture” part of #CancelCulture? 2/A lot of talk about #CancelCulture focuses on whether “cancelling” is a real phenomenon, whether
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Y’know, when the truth is told — of how a powerful corner of white British feminism built itself a circular system of falsehoods to punch down on trans people from
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It may be true that some people have been unfairly "canceled" in the sense of losing jobs or opportunities as a result of people's interpretations of their actions (see link
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Feeling the need to make a thread on WHY Native mascots are harmful (and no, it's not about our delicate little feelings). The following is a summary on some of
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This is wrong in almost every way. 1. The only time people divide knowledge and skills is in arguments like this when people are claiming that others divide them. In
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The whole debate has been reduced to a game of one-upmanship; everyone thinks that he/she alone is the true upholder of Dharma & is trying its best to steer society’s
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One of the main arguments of Armenians during the NK conflict is problematic and needs to be debunked: "They () care about the land, we care about the people", also
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