Conservatives believe that a terrorist is a race, or at least a kind of person. A person who does terrorism is only a terrorist if they oppose the goal of the violence.

I can think of several terrorists that I support. But not by pretending that they were good and peaceful people.

Arron Schwartz is right there on the top of the page!

Maybe they thought it would be disrespectful to use an avatar for a deceased person?

Anti-theists are stuck in the classic bigot’s dilemma.

On the one hand, they hate the administration. On the other, they love religious discrimination.

Oliver already basically does. Stewart is a die-hard neoliberal and it drives me crazy people don’t see it.

There was a competing theory that language was a technology that we developed and therefore had to learn rather than being innate.

We tortured a whole bunch of apes in the 70s & 80s trying to teach them language when it was always an exclusive ability of humans.

( I know that chimps could do sign language and stuff, but they never developed language; only able to express simple desires and emotions that they were well capable of without doing sign. And yes, Koko the gorilla’s ability was mostly a stage act. I’m sorry. )

They’re not teaching prayer, they’re accommodating it.

You’re suggesting Canadian Universities should show religious people less respect than American prisons.

curate what it wants to show you

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Sign language has puns. But the gestures are similar, rather than the sounds.

Sign language is fascinating because it works exactly like other languages. It has rhymes, again with similar gesture rather than sound. Some people stutter in sign; being stuck in a repeated gesture.

This is further evidence for the theory that language is something inherent in human brains.

This sounds like the teenager ran away and started a new life. Why she did that is nobody’s business.

There is an excellent chance that Iran will emerge from this better off than they were under Obama’s nuclear deal. If that happens, the details should be a new chapter in “Art of the Deal” because goddamn.

She told Argentine media that she had not intended to be racist. “It was an emotional reaction,” she said. “I never imagined the gravity of it all.”

I’m becoming more convinced that there is only racism and anti-racism. All the “non-racists” are just closeted; never more than a little stress or a couple drinks from the Nword.

Why do you want to study Marxism in the first place? Most people do that because it’s interesting to them. The chances that that knowledge will help you in your life is vanishingly small.

You don’t need to understand Marx to criticize capitalism. All you need to do is exist under capitalism.

If your writing is being spied on because you use AI, that’s not a privacy violation because it’s not your writing.

I know when we think of politics in church you think of evangelicals and Republicans, but don’t forget that the black Church has been nexus for progressive politics since forever.

I bring this up because a misguided attempt to reign all this in would give a powerful tool to those who’d suppress Democrat voters. (If you ever wonder why Republicans hate Sunday voting, you probably haven’t seen the church bus pull up to the polling station.)

Concentrate on your experience. You don’t need a diagnosis or clinical jargon to understand yourself.

Conspiracy theories are a plot by Big Dumb to make us think less.

Mexico is going to pay for the wall too.

Working people paying for the mistakes of the ownership class. What else is new?

Nobody calls it the SS for that reason

One of my core values is that people get to decide for themselves what to believe. And it sounds a whole lot like you’re disrespecting your parent’s agency.

Imagine the thread: My son is talking like an atheist, how do I make them change?