Roy
Atomized millennial • Homosexual male • Abolish progressivism • Carceral urbanism
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Got a quote tweet *sharply* critical of this, suggesting such a law would be purely nefarious in its intentions, and I have to say that—while a "nation-state law" is hardly the fir...
European countries whose constitutions contain explicit references to culture, identity, language, ethnos, or nationhood that unambiguously or arguably establish it as a state for,...
Not even doing the too-clever "the purpose of a system is what it does" here: My impression is that the grooming gangs coverup wasn't an "institutional failure" because the *purpos...
Countries that had no awareness, understanding, or appreciation of entire eras of their ancient history have no greater of a moral claim on artifacts from those eras than the Europ...
This is like saying "Lincoln Cathedral is older than the Ming Dynasty." A vacuous triviality that only sounds revelatory if you don't know anything about Mesoamerican history. The...
The analogy between biological and linguistic evolution is far from perfect, and I think one thing that trips people up is that, while some biological phyla remain relatively "the...
The social mingling of men and women—including mixed dancing—is a cornerstone of Western culture, dating back to the customs of the early Germanic peoples, and a key part of what d...
A major contributor to the lack of trust in the immigration system in both Europe and the US is the deliberate obfuscation of legal vs. illegal and refugee vs. non-refugee status,...
Apparently in 2002 somebody in Iraq created what is essentially the Baha'i Faith 2, which—almost infuriatingly confusingly—is ALSO called "Ahmadi"! (like the other Islamic messiani...
I do sometimes think about the 1982 mass arrest of Baha'is in Shiraz by the Iranian government, which tortured and interrogated them for months and ultimately executed 16 of them,...
Truly a naïve and Western-brained view to assume that a typical Palestinian or other Arab would recognize the resistance against the Zionists as having anything to do with somethin...
Wilson takes note of the sporadic claims that Coptic survived as a spoken language in certain pockets of Upper Egypt into the 19th or 20th centuries or even the present day. He say...