Fellow Unbelievers

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If the food truck and the ice cream wagon where you have got your lunch for years have paperwork for an L.L.C., they are Corporate Food. Porky Pig and The Good Humor Man are Bourgeois Kulaks.

If you have ate there for years without gastonomic incident, shut up and enjoy your Street Corn Tamales and your…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
So the daughter pipes in that she was amazed at university that the first thing she was taught was that we should not judge Islam for these practices. The daughter goes on to describe it as a betrayal of human rights.

Do you have this video?  Of course, I deplore making excuses for the medieval abuse of women.  I would be i…[Read more]

Many Muslim women still need permission from male relatives for the little things……. like marriage, travel (in some cases), choosing what to wear, gaining an education, speaking, singing, reading and even getting certain medical procedures done. But apart from that……

Simon,

Islam as to women is a great deal more than just beating women as a cultural/religious norm. It is gender mutilation. It is arranged marriages. It is tolerance of old men molesting/raping little girls. Marrying little girls. Denying education. Not giving opportunity to females beyond bearing children. Not treating mental illness that…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Tell me Simon if you are okay with the cultural relativism that protects abusers and punishes the abused.

No, I’m not OK with beating women, or for making excuses for it.  Do people really do that?  Can you find evidence of a “lefty” defending abuse of women by Islam?  I’m not denying it happens, but I’ve never seen it in the fl…[Read more]

Jake,

All of those innovations from Israel are Sowell-ian trade-offs that are oh-so-well-played trade-UPs.

These innovations are continutions of The Green Revolution, which was a great step forward for humanity that saved over one billion lives in the 20th Century.

In justice, the Owl houses are where the Middle Agers got it right and today the…[Read more]

Enco,

Punk soul brother. I read Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, when i was a kid. It was sort of THE ecology book. It may be dated now idk but one of the takeaways was how evolution is hastened and the impact of pesticides is to require stronger pesticides. Short life span. 1000 pests. 3 survive. Survivability passed on.

On a strong hunch that…[Read more]

“Put it this way, different people value different norms and goods, and some of those norms/goods are incompatible with each other.”

So sez Simon.

Islamists are attempting to impose their norms on the world. Lefty’s are cooperating. Nay, helping Islamists.

Give this 11 minute vid a look see. Tell me Simon if you are okay with the cultural…[Read more]