We'll see how consistent this concern is as time progresses.If we had been at an earlier stage of history, it could have been that there had been less concerned for the elderly. — Jack Cummins
Given the looming socio-economic crisis, hardly. But we'll see what happens. If we're still around.I do believe that we are at a stage in the life of humanity which has transcended the emphasis on 'the survival of the fittest'.
This overcoming of prejudices could be just temporary, due to the luxury of relative soco-economic stability.I am inclined to think that one of the problems with any current rise in Nazi values is more of a backlash against the way in which most people have already overcome a fair amount of prejudices already.
What makes something true is how well it works.
— Athena
Then threatening people with eternal hellfire and burning them at the stakes are good practices, for they work!
I do not know the first person who said "look for God in everyone", I just know doing so has a positive effect.
Yes, the Holy Inquisition were "looking for God in everyone" as well.
In the short term the Nazis were very successful, but today, Germany acknowledges the wrong done to Jews, and through education attempts to right the wrong and prevent it from happening again. The US occupies land held by indigenous people, and we have learned they were right about our planet being a living organism and that we need to protect ecosystems so they work as evolved to work.
But today is not yet the end of the story.
Take Nazism, for example: it's being rehabilitated. If the current trends are anything to go by, it might not take that much before it rises to power again.
The Romans conquered the Greeks but it is the Greeks who live on in our understanding of democracy and through the philosophy we share and science we develop.
Read again. Whose letters are you using to write this? — baker
Good point.But the act of generalising precedes the group. — bert1
They were burning people at the stakes and threatening them with eternal damnation. It worked, in that the population at large acted in line with the way the Church wanted them to.I am not sure ignorance works and fear of the supernatural is ignorance? What is our goal? — Athena
You were praising the ancient Greeks and dissing the ancient Romans -- while using Roman script.What do you mean, whose letters am I using? What kind of argument is that?
But prior to that, they characteristically didn't. It's an identity assigned to people with alcoholism by others.I am not sure about the point of people with alcohol problems not seeing themselves as part of a group. I am thinking of the whole history of the AA movement. — Jack Cummins
And such groups are a good example of how people internalize the identity ascribed to them by others; ie. they internalize the prejudices of others.I would say that self- help groups have been a significant force in uniting people with alcohol problems and other issues which people identify as a focus.
I am not sure ignorance works and fear of the supernatural is ignorance? What is our goal?
— Athena
They were burning people at the stakes and threatening them with eternal damnation. It worked, in that the population at large acted in line with the way the Church wanted them to.
What do you mean, whose letters am I using? What kind of argument is that?
You were praising the ancient Greeks and dissing the ancient Romans -- while using Roman script.
Rather ironic, don't you think? — baker
“Similar to how contemporary Republican and Democrat candidates focus campaign activity in political battlegrounds during elections to attract the loyalty of undecided voters, historical Catholic and Protestant officials focused witch-trial activity in confessional battlegrounds during the Reformation and Counter-Reformation to attract the loyalty of undecided Christians,” write the study’s authors, Peter T. Leeson, an economist at George Mason University, and Jacob W. Russ, an economist at Bloom Intelligence, a big-data analysis firm. — Gwynn Guilford
Yes, people were ignorant and superstitious and yes the Church attempted to create social order, but if we are speaking of the Catholics, they were not in favor of claiming people are witches and burning them at the stake. That was more a protestant thing and there were so many different groups of protestants they never had the power the Catholics had. Actually, the witch hunts were more secular than religious. Someone wrote a book about witches and educated people used the book to hunt witches. Here is a marvelous explanation of why witch hunts spread like a pandemic.....
“Similar to how contemporary Republican and Democrat candidates focus campaign activity in political battlegrounds during elections to attract the loyalty of undecided voters, historical Catholic and Protestant officials focused witch-trial activity in confessional battlegrounds during the Reformation and Counter-Reformation to attract the loyalty of undecided Christians,” write the study’s authors, Peter T. Leeson, an economist at George Mason University, and Jacob W. Russ, an economist at Bloom Intelligence, a big-data analysis firm.
— Gwynn Guilford — Athena
When I'm grading students, and it's a tough call on the grade, I often find myself giving the black students a lower grade. I catch myself doing this all the time. — RogueAI
When I'm grading students, and it's a tough call on the grade, I often find myself giving the black students a lower grade. I catch myself doing this all the time. — RogueAI
If Christians want me to change my mind about them, they're going to have to do better than pass the buck for the witch hunts.I am quite sure there are many things you have not heard yet. What concerns me is I don't think you have a desire to learn of things you do not already know. — Athena
I commend you on your honesty here. How do you deal with it when you do catch yourself? Have you found an alternative way of differentiating grades?
On some courses I have been on, work is labeled with a candidate number instead of names to make marking so much fairer. — Jack Cummins
That's all very well. But take the group of cunts. They're all cunts aren't they? They just are. Same with wankers, there's no non-wankers among them.
Yes, it is horrible when teachers and other people just seem hostile and sometimes we don't always know why, and are left wondering. We can try to put it down to certain characteristics, everything from race, gender, dislike of short or tall people, or hair colour etc. It is sometimes not clear.
That is where it gets complicated because if, for example, a black person gets treated badly it can be say the other person is racist. But, it would be hard to prove in a court of law, unless it is overt. — Jack Cummins
I think that the difference between scorn against an idea and a person is complex. I once was in a situation in which a white woman commented to a black woman, who was dressed in white trousers, 'I have never seen you looking so clean before.' The black woman spoke of being so hurtful, and it incorporate ideas about dirt and cleanliness, which are often projected onto others. I think this is getting into the social anthropology of prejudice, which involves cultural ideas. — Jack Cummins
Thanks, Athena. I teach 6th grade, which is all subjects. I have the same group of kids all day (virtually, now). — RogueAI
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