If you haven’t actually read the book and think the movie is better then your opinion is meaningless. If you have and think the movie is better, I’d say you’re wrong. They’re different animals, but the book is way better. You take the movie out of Kubrick’s hands but keep the exact same story and it simply isn’t as goo…

Absolutely better than a C+.

I wasn’t being condescending. I’m genuinely trying to be nice. If I was being condescending I would point out that anyone who thinks (rightly) that we live in a violent racist oligarchical state who then wants to turn around and give that same state the power to control the private and economic lives of people is a…

Why do you have to make a law against something- because people are or are not doing it? If black people aren’t working, owning property, running businesses, and interacting and even intermarrying with whites then you don’t have to make laws designed to specifically prevent those things.

But here you go. From teh New…

Capitalism didn’t perpetuate slavery. Capitalism actually killed slavery. Capitalism and free markets are what drove the innovations of the Industrial Revolution which made the agrarian slave based system completely obsolete and led to people abandoning it for the much more productive factory based paid labor system.…

Because they responded appropriately to racism when it was uncovered? That makes no sense.

Correct. Which is why free markets make racism less of an issue and not more. The whole reason racists had to create Jim Crow Laws was because more people were willing to serve black people for their money and employ them for their work than the racists thought should happen, so they created government laws to justify…

Nah. I’d call you a hack writer to your face. Acting like people should kow tow to you instead of actually criticizing your lackadaisical (at best) and dangerous (at worst) opinion pieces is nonsense. And you know the guy was right about your article, which is why the best you could do was level a shoddy strawman…

Great article.

Why, because she is British and her parents are Nigerian? Are people saying people from one country can’t act in the roles of people in another country now? That is stupid.

Any ranking that put Bento Box and “Killing Black Kids For Fun and Profit” Kamala at the top is so fucking useless it makes one weep for the stupidity of those involved.

Yes, because atheism taught them there was nothing higher. There is no God or Deities so the greatest good is the “collective good” for the most people and the tool to achieve that greater good for all is the State. Trying to excuse what atheistic nations have done in the name and with the permission of their atheistic…

Then you, like Sagan, would not understand basic history. Modern science was created by the Catholic Church. Further, it was basing its foundation on developments created by deeply religious Muslim scientists. Scientists are great at science, but treating them like historians is foolish.

If you care to read history you would find the exact opposite is generally true. People murder each other over any reason. The worst mass murdering nations in all of history that have murdered more people in modern holocausts than entire centuries of human history combined were all atheistic in nature. Religion turns…

Science is not a cult. The worship of scientific figures of pop science -such as Dawkins or Tyson- is a cult though, a cult of personality.

I wonder at how many that is also the case for. It is a sad thing because it is almost always built on a complete misunderstanding of what the Bible, whether it is believed to be of divine origin or not, is actually saying about how we should fell about and approach God. People see “fear” and think terror when the…

>The infant mortality rate for black women in Alabama is almost twice the rate of white women.

I think your point is valid, but I doubt we’ll see them disappear anytime soon. These kind of things have long been the tools of vulgar religion, whether we are talking about the passion plays and mystery plays of the Medieval or modern hell houses. I think it no accident though that these are methods used by the…

They both bet on it because the fools on both sides give them money for it.

Works teh other way around, too. Those who don’t believe Jesus was teh Son of God want to pretend that Jesus was completely imaginary. It means they don’t have to engage in any actual intellectual effort.