Author: Stable Genius

I am the very model of a Stable Genius Liberal.

President Trump and Three Stooges Syndrome /r/politics

President Trump and Three Stooges Syndrome /r/politics

I’m starting to see one of the disadvantages of making this list so long: People don’t believe it. Rather than seeing each item and realizing that Donald Trump really is that bad, they’re starting to dismiss the criticisms entirely. “The List” has offically contracted Three Stooges Syndrome, which is why next week I’ll be paring this down to just ten or fifteen links. All the good arguments in the world don’t do a whit of good if no one bothers to read them.

Amazing list. With sources. It’s shocking when you see the last two weeks in list form. In a normal world, any one of those items would be a news cycle dominating scandal. In Trumpworld it’s just a placeholder.

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Do you want to give his name? We’ll destroy his career! – Donald J. Trump How does this differ from political correctness? How does this differ from the critique of SJWs trying to silence and intimidate?

Statement for the BBC on the Disruption of Berkeley Speaker Event on February 1, 2017

Statement for the BBC on the Disruption of Berkeley Speaker Event on February 1, 2017

If the members of the Berkeley Republican Club believe that their invited speaker has ideas about politics and moral philosophy that are–even potentially–great, I really wish that they would explain why they think they are great. They have a duty to the university to do so. But perhaps they invited their speaker because they hoped he would make African-American, Asian, Hispanic, Muslim, and other minority members of the university feel small and unsafe. If so they need to examine their consciences and pray to their gods, and think hard about whether they understand the purpose of a university.

If you only care about free speech when it’s your freedom to insult people you dislike, then you don’t actually care about free speech. You care about insulting people.