Hey now, be careful - you might accidentally lead Stephen Miller to the most convincing possible argument against immigration: If our immigration laws weren’t so permissive, we wouldn’t have Stephen Miller in the country.

In a country with as many guns and as many people with concealed carry permits as we have here, a citizen’s arrest seems like an extremely fucking stupid thing for anyone to attempt.

No, you’re presumptuous and rude.

Mixing up “incredible” and “incredulous” is kind of a thing.  I’ve heard a lot of people do it.  My wife does it, despite the fact that she has a degree from one of the top colleges in the country and a graduate degree too (where she finished first in her class).  Not sure why it’s a thing, but it is.

Yeah.... troll. I come to this site with rational opinions that I’m interested in discussing, often to get only name-calling and insults in return because I don’t lock-step with the progressive orthodoxy, and I’M the troll because you can’t properly understand the very things you’re quoting.

Well, the question was kind of rhetorical. You may think it’s not hate speech, but I would bet that a lot of Republicans do, and I would bet that a lot of them can come up with a pretty decent argument that it is hate speech. If banning hate speech is legal, what’s to stop Republicans from criminally prosecuting…

I said “good speech,” not “compassion and understanding.” Those are not the same thing. You don’t use good speech to change the mind of the racist speaker because, as you noted, they aren’t changing their mind. You use good speech to make sure they don’t convince anyone else to buy into their ideas.

Yes, I am in favor of continuing legal tolerance of hate speech, as long as it isn’t explicitly or implicitly inciting violence. Any other opinion is myopic. And Popper is advocating for banning it. That’s what he means by “consider it as criminal.”

Yes, I’ve heard Popper’s theories many times before. Just because someone said it doesn’t make it right. The way you combat bad speech isn’t by banning it. The way you combat bad speech is with good speech. You can combat intolerance without throwing people in jail for saying stuff.

The first thing I thought when I saw this story was “Darren McFadden is only 31?”  I feel like a few years ago, he was an experienced veteran RB who was getting too old to play in the NFL.  Just goes to show how short many RB’s careers can be.

I think she’s wrong for doing what she did.

That’s..... not the way the Constitution works.

I don’t think there’s one“magic number.” There is a “magic number,” but that number depends on a lot of things like the current state of the economy, interest rates, etc.

Yeah, but the Constitution trumps any university’s code of conduct. Public universities are state entities and thus subject to Constitutional protections for free speech. If she gets booted from school for speech, the university could very well have an expensive, high-profile lawsuit on their hands. If this were a…

To be fair, science does say “life” begins at conception.  A single cell is a living thing.  At what point that “life” deserves to be treated like a “person” and granted rights is a philosophic and moral question, not a scientific one.

OK, so I don’t agree with the right on either of those issues...... but I’m really not sure what about “in favor of protecting innocent life, but not the lives of murderers” is so hard for those on the left to understand. There’s many reasons to disagree with their positions, but pretending like it’s hypocritical…

I grew up around a lot of racist people, and I heard “Martin Luther Coon” used a lot. I’ve never said it accidentally or otherwise, but I guess I could maybe see how someone who heard it said over and over again might accidentally say it even if they would never say it intentionally.

I don’t think it’s making fun of feminisim. I think it’s making fun of stereotypical caricatures of feminists. If I read something on this site and it looks like it might be a veiled condemnation of abortion rights, I just assume there’s probably an additional layer of satire that needs to be peeled away.

Dovetail only recently started distributing locally, and I think they only distribute a Helles, a Vienna Lager, and a couple of Belgians. Something to look for if you’re in Chicago. Metropolitan distributes enough that you can find it at Target in Chicago, so it’s likely you can find it somewhere near you. Try looking…

There’s a few in Chicago, Metropolitan and Dovetail being probably the two most prominent.  Not exactly Michigan, but it’s not that far away either.