I see what you mean :) Can't say i can't understand that "adaptive behavior".
I have to say, though, my friend is not the manipulative type. More the type "goes nuts if someone hurts someone she cares about" :D

People who mistreats others' pets in order to hurt them are well "beyond the realms of what we might call usual evil."

So, antidepressants suppress emotions?

My ex and current bff is a Southern woman. I can fully attest to that.

In my fantasies, i'm William Wallace :D

It's a shame language doesn't allow for the"hierarchy" of parenthesis that we have in maths: {[(x)]} :D

Jack Trance: Obama has caused an 8 year mass freakout among most conservative white men...

Everybody has their weird kinks and turn-ons. In principle, i don't doubt that there's such a thing a arousal from eroticizing children or a situation of unwillingness/powerlessness. I don't think they are evil in themselves, as those attractions could be innate for all i know.

I think she's objecting to your use of kyriarchy rather than patriarchy.

If personally held beliefs were so easily influenced by the larger social structure, black people would have caved in and given up on inequality, they would have accepted the belief that they were inferior.

This is not a discussion about social context, it's a discussion about personal beliefs. If you say "this person is racist", it's about the personally held beliefs, not about the social relations of power.

So we're foolish just because we don't want to accept an arbitrary change in the definition of a word?

Racism has always been the name of that anthropological theory that claims that : 1- humankind is separated into genetically distinct races, and 2- that the genetic differences between races are translated into different abilities and capabilities. While this theory has long been discredited, and recently proven…

That clearly wasn't the attempt of the person hrhduchess was replying to.

I disagree with this change of the definition of racism that the people in social sciences are trying to push, because racism has always been quite well defined: an old and discredited anthropological theory according to which the humankind is genetically divided in races, and that those races have different innate…

You are using a different definition of racism than most of people. You can't expect other people to accept your definition without a good reason.

The definition of racism that includes power is minoritarian, and fairly new. Racism is understood and commonly defined as a type of prejudice based on the belief that there are certain traits that are genetically inherent to each "race".

From that point of view, you are correct.

But they pay you that amount against their will, because there are oppressive laws that force them to give up their hard earned money to their blood-sucking employees. It's theft, really, which is why they feel entitled to control what you can do with it.

"It seems fairly new—maybe the last 5-6 years or so—that all the religious fundies have decided that abiding by their own religious beliefs is not enough. In order to truly exercise their religious freedom, they need to be able to force other people to behave the way they believe."