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I think a great deal of unnecessary trouble is caused by people on both sides being unable or unwilling to try to understand where those they disagree are coming from. (I'm speaking generally here, not about your particular situation—I'm not accusing you of a lack of empathy!) Understanding people's reasons for holding views that you disagree with won't necessarily make you agree with them (and nor necessarily should it), but it might let a more meaningful discussion take place, instead of people just talking over each other.

I recommend reading stuff by the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt on this subject, in particular his recent book The Righteous Mind which explores the psychology behind political difference. His main thesis is that conservative types base their worldview on different foundations than do liberals. For example, they tend to consider things like obedience to authority, ideas of purity/sanctity, and loyalty/patriotism to be far more important than do liberals. Both groups care about fairness, but they have different conceptions of it: roughly, liberals are more concerned with equality of outcome whereas conservatives care more about a more "sporting" sense of fairness: if you've earned it you get to keep it, pull yourself up by your bootstraps and so on.

So it might be that your colleague might have had that conception of fairness: he might have considered it "unfair" for the government to take away his money to help people he might feel don't "deserve" it. I personally disagree pretty strongly with this viewpoint—it seems to ignore the role luck plays in people's success, as well as narrowly aligning a person's worth with how much they earn for example—but it's interesting and I think very worthwhile to try to understand where people you disagree with are coming from.

Alternatively of course he might just have been a run-of-the-mill bonehead. And apologies for the long post and/or telling you shit you already knew!

Lol.

"Look at all the sources of information that I haven't read or even bothered to cite any of their relevance!"

Naming the title of a book or journal doesn't indicate that its contents support your argument. I'll actually give you things you can read, AND tell you what they're about and how they relate to my point.

Enjoy. Dunce.

Humans can be genetically categorized into five racial groups, corresponding to traditional races. Source: http://pritchardlab.stanford.edu/publications/pdfs/RosenbergEtAl02.pdf
Genetic analysis “supports the traditional racial groups classification.” Source: http://psychology.uwo.ca/faculty/rushtonpdfs/PPPL1.pdf
“Human genetic variation is geographically structured” and corresponds with race. Source: http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/full/ng1435.html
Race can be determined via genetics with certainty for >99.8% of individuals. Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15625622
Oral bacteria can be used to determine race. Source: http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-10-oral-bacteria-fingerprint-mouth.html
Race can be determined via brain scans. Source: http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822%2815%2900671-5
96-97% of Whites have no African ancestry. Source: http://www.theroot.com/articles/history/2013/02/how_mixed_are_african_americans.3.html
97% of Whites have no Black ancestry whatsoever. Source: http://www.unz.com/isteve/nyt-white-Black-a-murky-distinction-grows-still-murkier/
There was minimal gene flow between archaic Europeans and Asians. Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/science/20adapt.html
Common-sense racial categories have biological meaning. Source: http://www.ln.edu.hk/philoso/staff/sesardic/Race2.pdf
A substantial amount of the human genome has been subjected to natural selection since the races diverged. Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1317879/
With 160 short gene sequences, race can be determined with 100% accuracy for Whites, Asians, and Africans. Source: http://www.cell.com/ajhg/abstract/S0002-9297%2807%2960574-6
Principal continent of origin (race) can be determined with 87% accuracy even for highly mixed populations. Source: http://www.cell.com/ajhg/abstract/S0002-9297%2807%2960574-6
“It is inaccurate to state that race is biologically meaningless.” Source: http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/full/ng1435.html
Race is biologically real and represents “genetic clusters” of variation. Source: http://stx.sagepub.com/content/30/2/67.abstract
“Empirical structure within human genetic variation … resembles continentally based racial classifications”. Source: http://stx.sagepub.com/content/30/2/67.abstract
“Recent research in genetics demonstrates that certain racial, and also ethnic, categories have a biological basis in statistically discernible clusters of alleles.” Source: http://stx.sagepub.com/content/30/2/67.abstract
“Numerous human population genetic studies have come to the identical conclusion that genetic differentiation is greatest when defined on a continental basis.” Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC139378/
Genetic analysis of race corresponds with self-identification more than 99% of the time. Source: http://stx.sagepub.com/content/30/2/67.abstract
Races are human subspecies. Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19695787
The “social constructionist account of race lacks biological reality”. Source: http://stx.sagepub.com/content/30/2/67.abstract
Race can be determined from fingerprints. Source: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.22869/full
For 99.86% of individuals, genetic analysis of race matches self-identification. Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1196372/
Predefined ethnic/racial labels are “highly informative” about genetic identity. Source: https://web.stanford.edu/group/rosenberglab/papers/popstruct.pdf
Over 2000 genes have been subject to recent (post out-of-Africa) evolution. Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/science/20adapt.html
The concept of race existed in ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt, China, India, and Arabia. Source: http://www.amazon.com/Race-The-Reality-Human-Differences/dp/0813340861
Racial classification has genetic significance. Source: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.10315/abstract
Racial identity is real and is hidden in correlations between different traits. Source: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.10315/abstract
With enough data points, an individual will never be closer related to someone of another race than someone of their own race. Source: http://www.genetics.org/content/176/1/351
An individual’s geographic origin can be determined from their genes “with remarkable accuracy”. Source: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v368/n6470/abs/368455a0.html

you should read this- a lot of millionaires live a pretty modest life. part of "being rich" is all about being better than someone else. i don't mind everyone having a certain standard of living that most people would consider "millionaire" lifestyle of free healthcare, good housing, free higher education. that's too easy. https://www.amazon.com/Millionaire-Next-Door-Surprising-Americas/dp/1589795474

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I guess parents who don't have enough empathy to think that their kids deserve some semblance of privacy.

Oh! Time to put my history degree to work!

Yes! WWII was a great reminder of why feminism was so important. A really good example can be found in the women pilots. They were utilized mostly in more dangerous missions/test flights since they were considered less valuable than men. There was also so much misunderstanding regarding them. Women would be grounded during their periods because their leaders believed that they lost their sense for the duration. For similar reasons, women couldn't fly after they hit menopause. Women were also so little respected that they might suddenly find themselves stranded due to being barred from flying from different bases.

Reading about women in this time was rather eye-opening, and if it's something you're interested in, I highly recommend this book. It's a good reminder that females are strong as hell!

I learnt on it but haven't looked for years..

But now it is only 50 bucks and has pretty positive reviews. Better than $1000 for Photoshop...I might be tempted.

Maybe I should reload Windows 95.

You jest, but there actually is a prominent element of witchery in ecofeminism. Some of my lady friends identify as witches, and have a monthly moon gathering where they... well, I don't know exactly what they do.

And the INDOCTRINATION starts early. This was one of my kid's favorite bedtime books for a year or more as a toddler.

awesome! Nothing like a mandatory employee propaganda film screening for freedom!

my favorite place for "this movie speaks the truth" [type reviews are up on amazon] (http://www.amazon.com/Last-Ounce-Courage-Marshall-Teague/dp/B008MZJ2GI). Several others make the same "mandatory viewing" suggestion.

Academic Cross Cultural Communications papers are literally made of this stuff, if you want some direction. Edward T. Hall's "Beyond Culture" is a good primer to a lot of cross cultural communication concepts (although it focus on international cross cultural communication), and the field in general does a lot of analysis of how to communicate in a a way to make your ideas understood in good context by another party because of it's usefulness in diplomacy.

Some language and rhetoric texts would also be a good place to start.

Yeah, I honestly wouldn't bother slogging my way through Capital - Marx was so prolific, and so many of his other writings deviated from Capital... it's like trying to understand Christianity by sitting down to read the Bible cover to cover.

I would pick up Geoff Mann's Disassembly Required. It's short, well-sourced, and lucid while still being written for popular consumption. Geoff Mann is a radical geographer in Vancouver, and he wrote the book specifically to be a tl;dr on how capitalism actually works. I also like it because it doesn't moralize like so many Marxists do. It's not going to tell you that bankers are evil or anything. It literally lays out the processes of capitalism as they actually exist without any of the navel-gazing you see out of so many radicals. It's great.

I just ordered it, only $3.00 used. Thanks for the suggestion. I just finished this book, which was an interesting read on the Founding Fathers faiths.

I'd took it chapter by chapter (each chapter covered a different Founding Father) and looked up different sources on each claim so as not to be influenced by a writer's agenda.

All in all, it was a good read.

Edited the link and yes, it's smaller. Wow, 16cm, I know what to look for next time. Thanks!

Eh, it's among the more ok-ish pieces on the topic that's out there. Sure he's biased, and some of his points are awkward at best, but the amount of either anti-semitic or anti-Arab nonsense is just mind blowing. It's hard enough to find anything that provides original sources.

And regardless of the quality (or lack thereof) of scholarship on the subject, al-Husseini had some pretty reprehensible ideas.

This is one of the best books on the history of Middle East conflict - if you search a bit, you can find PDFs of older versions.

It exists! I had to read it over the summer for my freshman year of high school, and honestly it was pretty decent. Would recommend.

No problem. If you want to learn more about George Washington I highly recommend this book. http://www.amazon.com/Washington-Life-Ron-Chernow/dp/0143119966/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1459134165&sr=8-1&keywords=washington
Really love this book and it goes into great detail on Washington's life without feeling boring or overbearing.

Try with this one Why Evolution is True, by Jerry Coyne.
Pretty good book actually.

They're are arguments that legalizing heroin could be be beneficial as it would make it safer do to not being cut with anything deadlier and addicts could get better access to help. Birth control should be as easy to assess a aspirin and you can buy uranium on amazon.

I'd recommend Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible by David Plotz. It helps make some sense of the archaic writing. And the rest of the time, it talks about all the stuff that straight up makes no sense.

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Reagan was an actor playing the role of President. He looked and sounded the part. He delivered some really great soundbytes and let some really awful people run his administration.

For a gentle and amusing introduction to Reagan, get a copy of Herb Lock' s Through the Looking Glass

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