Woof!

Honestly, the book is worth reading. It posits pretty convincingly that early consciousness was like schizophrenia. I think it hasn't been pursued because it's a largely untestable hypothesis.

He's talking about left-handed people.

I'm striking that day, and I'm going to yell "Scab!" at anyone who doesn't.

Please don't confuse me with someone who would ever use "snowflake" as a perjorative. I still contend that a bookstore refusing to carry a book because the bookstore owner, as you said, is likely liberal, is closer to censorship than a Twitter mob.

Honestly, for the third time, I said it's *closer* to censorship than a boycott is. One is top-down, the other is bottom-up. Nobody is "getting to decide which ideas can exist in the public marketplace and which can't." If you're "not entirely comfortable" with the precedent sent by people choosing which companies…

But the bookstores would be denying access to the ideas (I was categorizing all businesses as institutions, which is probably rhetorically incorrect, as a way to distinguish them from individuals.)

I said "closer to censorship." It's right there above your comment. It's closer to censorship because it's institutional.

Public schools won't start costing money, they'll just be bled dry by "school choice." Then you can use your school voucher to send your kids to unregulated, for-profit charter and religious schools. Public schools will be holding tanks for the children of the underclass.

Your point #4 seems a lot closer to censorship than anything else being described here.

Jefferson, as in Davis.

Yeah, this is where I'm at. Gonna raise me a little Angela Davis.

"They call it trampolining…"

I was there, too! What are the odds?

There's a station here that really promotes local music, on which they get a lot of play. Honestly, I like a lot of their music.

Well that makes me feel better. In Milwaukee they're ubiquitous, so I probably lack perspective.

Comment removed because I was being kind of a dick.

You sound like an actual crazy person. Do you honestly only read novels that address the historical crimes of their countries of provenance? And the novels are a far cry from shit, they're brutally honest and insightful.

Right? I thought everyone who read knew of Elena Ferrante, and I'm fine with being wrong about that, but all these comments are weirdly hostile and defensive about not knowing her work.

Haha, it's funny because people die!