Comments by
Page 1 of 18 | Next
Posted on December 6 at 2:57 p.m.Suggest removal
If you want to capture the overwhelming majority of terrorists in a particular profile, you don't profile muslims, you profile young men, regardless of race, ethnicity, etc.
Also, this is quite a bit more practical than profiling muslims, as profiling muslims is about as stupid as saying you are going to profile Christians. Guess what, they come in different colors.
Posted on December 3 at 12:17 a.m.Suggest removal
Someone has been artificially enraged by watching too much FOX News.
Christians sure love to feel persecuted. Must be because of Jesus and stuff. Sorry that your 90% majority in the country has made you feel so oppressed.
Yawn.
Posted on December 2 at 11:28 p.m.Suggest removal
Well, whatever you suggest your point was, you were demonstrably wrong on whatever it is you were meaning by saying "liberal" means conservative ideals. Unless conservative ideals are encompassed by both center-left, statist social democracy and anarcho-capitalism. Which is doubtful.
Posted on December 2 at 1:51 p.m.Suggest removal
Liberalism, in the classical sense, does not refer to conservative ideals. It is a political theoretical framework that broadly encompasses ideas of liberty, individualism, and so on. There are thinkers broadly represented within liberal political theory. You have extreme libertarians like Robert Nozick, and then you have strong social democrats like John Rawls, both of whom are considered "liberals."
Amusingly, you use the word "conservative" here as if that has any coherent meaning, when in fact it is also a label that is extremely unclear. But I assume you are referring to something broadly libertarian in nature, but as John Rawls demonstrates, the liberal methodology of political theorizing cuts across a reasonably broad chunk of the political spectrum.
Posted on December 1 at 12:30 a.m.Suggest removal
In America, when people say socialism, they mean social democracy. We don't have a word for social democracy because we are so far right, that even center-left ideologies and countries that follow them are all lumped together under the banner "socialism."
If you make that minor correction and admit that people really mean social democracy when they say socialism, then the article is fairly uneventful.
People also say liberal here meaning some sort of vague right-center ideology. So you can't really trust the labels. Just ask more penetrating questions until you can figure out what they really mean. In the case of "socialism," they really mean "social democracy," and Sweden is certainly that.
Posted on December 1 at 12:25 a.m.Suggest removal
Honestly, the present process is not that difficult. If you can't get through it, you probably should not be awarded a degree.
This shows more of a lack of creativity among the student congress in stamping out serious issues than it does anything really pressing. "Gees, we don't have any clue about things to do here, we didn't run because we had ideas, but because we wanted an office" --> "Oh, let's talk about dead week again."
Come on.
Page 1 of 18 | Next
Posted on December 6 at 4:53 p.m.Suggest removal
PollyProteus, I am against profiling. I just wanted to make it clear, since so many young white males are always first to scream about profiling, that the most sensible profiling would be to take them aside (with every other white male) and inconvenience them, and strip them, and feel them up everytime they go the the airport. People love to profile, so long as they aren't the ones being targeted. That was my point.
On