#Virtue

Watching this BBC doco on "Eight Days That Made Rome" and the host is making out that Caesar's crossing the Rubicon & march on Rome was a bad thing....This is
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1I’m so angry at everyone who does not prioritize sexuality in activism; who thought it was fun to say dumb shit like “no sex at Pride” or that sex work
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What happened here is that a bunch of young people got interested in doing serious academic research in ethics, and they didn't get the memo that they're not supposed to
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I have unapologetically been very critical of US universities and professors about China for a couple of very straight forward reasons. First, professors know or should know very clearly what
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Aspiring POC graduate students are taught that the NSF GRFP is the great equalizer and gives weight to outreach and activism. However, I have watched white folks who could not
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when i was a kid i also believed 'communists should ditch that label, for PR reasons'. now i think you make more headway owning it than dishonestly disavowing it. not
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Like I've said before, class is a far more slippery descriptor than we're willing to admit. Yes, many people are wilfully facetious and enamoured with some mythical inheritance of humble
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The pro Corbyn far left remind me of the truculent child who turns everything on its head (eg You are being naughty..no, you are)Aggressive bullies, they claim anyone standing up
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Walter Hooper passed away this morning in a nursing home in Cumnor Hill near Oxford. THREAD Last week he had contracted COVID and, despite a temporary recovery, he succumbed to
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WHY CONGRESS MATTERSIf you type this in Google, you'll find a plethora of articles about what's wrong with the party, what it should do to revive etc. While no one
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"I shouted at my officials because I cared so much" presupposes that frightened officials do their jobs well. "I signed off the PPE without checking if it passed quality checks,
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While superhero comics are famous for advocating the existence of moral absolutes in the pursuit of justice, Storm takes that idea of the “one rule” and stabs it in the
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Been having a lot of thoughts lately on how the main problem with reaching a cultural consensus on how to deal with people who commit crimes (besides the racism, which
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1/ Morning all. Ive just been thinking about the work around equality, diversity & inclusion & I really have to be honest: I have an issue with the word ‘ally.’
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One of the problems facing the United States is that we're a country of social animals who believe we're individualists. For instance: The linked/quoted article mentions that people throwing big
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finishing this today:"I emphasize how black feminists have advocated expansive conceptions of relationality, encouraging us to view ourselves as deeply embedded in the world, and thus as deeply connected to
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