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The ONLY thing you can truly do is stop making being a victim 'cool'. Hear me out:

White privilege exists in the same way sexism does: A very small microcosm of the total world. But, it is used as an excuse constantly.


When you create programs to help one type of person over another it just reaffirms this position and perception bends that way. Instead of people chanting that African American communities are more likely to be poor, and have higher unemployment because of white privilege, we need to instill the concept that if you work hard, and have motivation, that regardless of the street you live on, or if your parents are still together you CAN succeed! But freebies and assistance reaffirm that they NEED the help and can't help themselves.

this book "Please stop helping us" (written by a black man) is really an interesting read on the subject.

> hundred year old talking points

Official redlining didn't start until 1934. Other forms of discrimination and segregation existed during that same time period. For example, the realtors association of Grosse Pointe had an informal racial point system until the 1960s. This is hardly a hundred-year-old issue. Elderly people alive today spent a good portion of their lives living under these conditions. There are plenty of excellent, thoroughly-sourced books on the subject. Enjoy!

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p.s. Wealth may not last for three generations, but that doesn't necessarily mean that poverty (and its effect) also does not last for three generations. It's much easier to lose wealth than it is to gain it in the first place.

As /u/rabidstoat has already recommended, Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon is a fascinating read. One of the authors (Michael P. Ghiglieri) also co-wrote its sister book, Off the Wall: Death in Yosemite. Both books manage to not be overly morbid (tales of near-misses are included, so it isn't just one death after another) and actually seemed uplifting to me. I came away with a real sense of respect for the wilderness; if we are aware of the dangers and risks every time we venture out, however seemingly remote, our chances of survival in a "worst case scenario" improves.

There are other books in a similar vein that chronicle all (or most) deaths in specific wilderness areas, such as Not Without Peril: 150 Years Of Misadventure On The Presidential Range Of New Hampshire. These are good too, but often seem to be a collection of first-hand accounts and historical vignettes. Ghiglieri manages to weave all of his information into a larger overarching narrative with a satisfying conclusion. I'm really hoping he does another one of these books!

The book that goes along with internet shaming and the Sacco case is quite prominent.

http://www.amazon.com/So-Youve-Been-Publicly-Shamed/dp/1501231847

The audiobook is great just because of Ronson's amazing Welsh accent.

More info for ya..

"Intended as an internal document. Good reading to understand the nature of rich democracies and the fact that the common people are not allowed to play a role."

Crisis of democracy

http://trilateral.org/download/doc/crisis_of_democracy.pdf

http://www.amazon.com/Crisis-Democracy-Governability-Democracies-Trilateral/dp/0814713653/

Education as ignorance

https://chomsky.info/warfare02/

Overthrowing other peoples governments

http://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list

Wikileaks on TTIP/TPP/ETC

https://youtu.be/ABDiHspTJww?t=17

Energy subsidies

https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2015/NEW070215A.htm

Interference in other states when the rich/corporations dont get their way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mxp_wgFWQo&feature=youtu.be&list=PLKR2GeygdHomOZeVKx3P0fqH58T3VghOj&t=724

Manufacturing consent (book)

http://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Economy-Media/dp/0375714499/

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

Manufacturing consent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM

https://vimeo.com/39566117

Testing theories of representative government

https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf

You can order a subscription to the magazine on Amazon here: http://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00007LMFU

Free shipping to the U.S., 52 issues for 12 months and "the first print issue should arrive in 4-6 weeks."

I'm not sure if this means the first issue you'd receive would be the weekly issue published 4-6 weeks from now (i.e. not the issue published tomorrow) and also not sure if you'd be getting a periodic weekly shipment of the magazine after that as the details are rather scarce, but so far it's the best I've found in terms of ordering the magazine online.

More information on deaths in Yosemite.

Pretty interesting book, though I prefer the one on deaths in the Grand Canyon.

For those having trouble comprehending how incredibly stupid these tourists were, I would recommend reading the book Death in Yellowstone. It is kind of a Darwin awards, Yellowstone National Park style. Want to feed the bear because he is so cute? There's a chapter on that. Want to put your toddlers on a bison for that perfect vacation photo? There is a chapter on that too. Feel like diving head first into a boiling pool of water because you think that the park ranger is lying about how hot it is? That chapter is like the first 100 pages of the book. There was one story in that chapter about a couple of ladies in the early 1900's who were burned because they thought that "DANGER' was the name of the geyser. Good read. Everything is laid out by chapter with a huge list of references and additional information at the back of the book.

>Again, none of this comes even close to the crime of misrepresenting information intentionally with a political aim.

Of course it does, every time they talk about gun control issues they misrepresent so much data it's insane. Their coverage of the Zimmerman trial was equally biased and at times incredibly misleading if you hadn't been watching the trial yourself.

FOX news is so popular simply because it's the only television network that has a right-ward slant. PBS, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN all have a left-ward slant so there is plenty of choices for liberals to choose from.

Fox is the only right-ward leaning network so it makes sense people on the right trust it more than networks that claim to be non-biased yet constantly seem to approach news from a progressive agenda.

I would recommend you read Bernie Goldberg's excellent book Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News. He was a leftwing liberal who worked for CBS for 30 years, much of that directly with Dan Rather, but was blacklisted in the industry once he wrote an editorial for the WSJ on liberal bias in the media. Here is the editorial if you're interested. Networks Need a Reality Check
A firsthand account of liberal bias at CBS News.

The book is a quick, amusing read that can likely hold the attention of even someone from the millennial generation. If you're interested in a little denser read then I would recommend Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind. It's written by "Dr. Tim Groseclose, a professor of political science and economics at UCLA, has spent years constructing precise, quantitative measures of the slant of media outlets. He does this by measuring the political content of news, as a way to measure the PQ, or “political quotient” of voters and politicians."

>Among his conclusions are: (i) all mainstream media outlets have a liberal bias; and (ii) while some supposedly conservative outlets—such the Washington Times or Fox News’ Special Report—do lean right, their conservative bias is less than the liberal bias of most mainstream outlets.

>Groseclose contends that the general leftward bias of the media has shifted the PQ of the average American by about 20 points, on a scale of 100, the difference between the current political views of the average American, and the political views of the average resident of Orange County, California or Salt Lake County, Utah. With Left Turn readers can easily calculate their own PQ—to decide for themselves if the bias exists. This timely, much-needed study brings fact to this often overheated debate.

As much as I’d like to have the same ad nauseam conversation with a socialist that always follows the same rhetorical formula I’ll think I’ll instead just leave you a link that you might benefit from.

https://www.amazon.com/Against-Empathy-Case-Rational-Compassion/dp/0062339338

Have a nice night.

I read a book about deaths in Yellowstone National Park years ago, and I'm thoroughly convinced that hot springs are the absolute worst way to die.

You're basically boiled alive. I remember one particular story where a guy's dog jumped out of his car and jumped into one of the hot springs. He jumped in to save the dog, and ended up getting third degree burns on the surface of 100% of his body. His eyes were white from being cooked, and when people tried to help him and take some of his clothes off and make him comfortable, his skin came off with it. If you go to that amazon link, it's the first story on the "look inside," at the start of Chapter 1.

I highly recommend the book. It's fascinating, if a little morbid, although the second half is a little more dull after they switch from deaths by nature to deaths by man (car accidents, murders, stuff like that). But lightning strikes, bears, bison, freezing to deaths, poisonous plants, 3 mysterious deaths from poisonous gasses, boiling hot springs, waterfalls sweeping people away, and deadly falls off cliffs... reading about all that definitely made childhood me more careful and respectful to that beautiful park.

You too. I recommend http://www.amazon.com/The-Problem-Political-Authority-Examination/dp/1137281650 .

I promise you I will read your book (I've been meaning to), if you promise to read mine.

Here it is:
https://www.amazon.com/God-Disappointed-You-Mark-Russell/dp/1603090983

If you find comparable versions of the Koran and Tora, let me know! I'm definitely interested.

> ...and say there's no bullying going on at Columbine which is complete nonsense

Sure, there's always bullying. Everyone's been bullied at some point or another. And i haven't personally visited the area, so i can't speak to the local culture.

What i meant to say was that the two guys, at the time of the shooting, were not particularly bullied people.

>I've heard this and always found it strange, it's actually debated to this day. There have been a number of coverups with local LEO's and school staff. It's almost like the school, and local LEO's want to push the problem on mental health

I base most of my stance on the event from the usual menagerie of easily-available sources, but also this book which is, as far as i can tell, the most complete picture of the duo. The author spent a great deal of time interviewing practically everyone in town, and who had any influence on the two shooters. There have only been small bits and pieces of the basement tapes released, with a similar situation for their diaries, so i don't feel comfortable taking those for what they appear, because of how cherry-picked they are.

I feel like i just wrote a pitch for the book, haha. But anyway, that's where i'm coming from.

My favorite book I read this year was Death in Yellowstone which recounts all of the deaths that have happened and have been confirmed in the park since its inception. It's a fascinating and morbid read, and yes, people die in the springs all the time.

If you're talking about the 1981 David Kirwin incident at Celestine Pool in Fountain Paint Pots (and I suspect that you are), I feel obliged to point out that it wasn't his dog. It was his friend Ronald Ratliff's dog. Quick plug for Death in Yellowstone by my friend Lee Whittlesey, former YNP historian.

If you're interested in learning about what I'm talking about:

https://www.amazon.com/Working-Toward-Whiteness-Americas-Immigrants/dp/0465070744

https://www.amazon.com/Irish-Became-White-Routledge-Classics/dp/0415963095/ref=pd_bxgy_14_2/168-2189300-6694546?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=QVMJFTWQ9WRGVNSMMGD1

Or, you can just make jokes and not learn anything, it's up to you.

Read this
http://www.amazon.com/A-Peoples-History-United-States/dp/0060838655
Zinn should be a hero to all of us.

This is a very honest story on why this is.

http://www.amazon.com/Please-Stop-Helping-Us-Liberals/dp/1594037256/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Americans are totally politically uninformed sadly...

Reasoning and the human brain doesn't work the way we thought it did:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

Manufacturing consent

http://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Economy-Media/dp/0375714499

Most have no clue what's really going on in the world... the elites are afraid of political awakening.

This (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttv6n7PFniY

Brezinski at a press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kmUS--QCYY

The real news:

http://therealnews.com/t2/

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X/

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/r

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

Look at the following graphs:

IMGUR link - http://imgur.com/a/FShfb

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

And then...

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnkNKipiiiM

Free markets?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

Free trade?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju06F3Os64

http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Illusion-Literacy-Triumph-Spectacle/dp/1568586132/

"We now live in two Americas. One—now the minority—functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other—the majority—is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. To this majority—which crosses social class lines, though the poor are overwhelmingly affected—presidential debate and political rhetoric is pitched at a sixth-grade reading level. In this “other America,” serious film and theater, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins of society.

In the tradition of Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism and Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, Pulitzer Prize-winner Chris Hedges navigates this culture—attending WWF contests, the Adult Video News Awards in Las Vegas, and Ivy League graduation ceremonies—to expose an age of terrifying decline and heightened self-delusion."

Important history:

http://williamblum.org/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcA1v2n7WW4#t=2551

> I can't keep writing about for ever...

Sad but true. Once or twice, okay, we'll throw you a bone. But more than that, you must be obsessed, paranoid, or delusional -- aka one of those wacko nutjobs.

I'm curious if you, as a member of the press corps, have ever read Noam Chomsky's book "Manufacturing Consent" and what your perception might be as an industry insider.

For those curious about the root causes of government corruption and the solution, I recommend The Problem of Political Authority

>Some of his other points were seriously misconstrued, like "De-emphasizing Empathy"

Yep, Yale psychologist Paul Bloom wrote a book recently about the perils of empathy, which he describes as the way our moral and ethical intuitions can be mislead by our emotions and that, alternatively, allowing data and statistics to inform our behavior is ultimately a more sensical and compassionate route.

That's what this document was getting at.

>Google is absolutely in the right to fire him

I think people are less concerned with whether or not Google was legally in the right to do it, but more if it makes ethical or logical sense to do so. Like you said, it's pathetic and heavy-handed.

This is the book he's holding. History of the National Security State by Gore Vidal.

Having a desire to sell ad space is not mutually exclusive with having another agenda. I would recommend the book Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News by Bernard Goldberg


Goldberg is a 28-year veteran CBS news reporter and producer.

I don't know how to buy a single issue.
You can subscribe for a year through amazon, but its $180.
http://www.amazon.com/Charlie-Hebdo/dp/B00007LMFU/

• When The Irish Weren't White
  
  
• How The Irish Became White
  
  
• When Irish Immigrants Weren't Considered White
  
  Sorry, what was that?

There's actually a book that's sort of written like this. Met one of the creators at the NYCC '15. I think there also other books that are similar in nature.

https://www.amazon.com/God-Disappointed-You-Mark-Russell/dp/1603090983 My brother got me this book for Christmas one year. It might be what you are looking for.

https://www.amazon.com/Vidal-History-National-Security-State/dp/1494887991

The sentiment here seems to be "Not in my neighborhood", which is also a book title.

http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Economic-Hit-John-Perkins/dp/0452287081/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1404390997&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=confessions+of+an+econo+hitman

read it.

Get some of these https://www.amazon.com/Natural-Harvest-collection-semen-based-recipes/dp/1481227041

https://www.amazon.com/Semenology-Bartenders-Paul-Fotie-Photenhauer/dp/1482605228

There's actually an entire book of jizz recipes.

Natural Harvest: A collection of semen-based recipes

Ahh, ok. I looked it up and saw that he also wrote Death in Yosemite. I knew he had written another one. Interesting stuff, though!

This is the exact plot of a young adult fiction from the early 90's. https://www.amazon.com/Obnoxious-Jerks-Stephen-Manes/dp/0553281143

Ridiculous? It's a ban based on sound science and statistics. Isaac Asimov died of HIV from a tainted blood transfusion—and now we're going to put more people at risk, just for the sake of being politically correct.

AIDS carriers have been a favored protected victim class of liberals since the 1980s when the courts found it to be a "handicap" entitling its carriers to special privileges and anonymity to the detriment of public health.

From Thomas Sowell's The Vision of the Anointed:

>As late as 1983, people were being reassured that their chances of catching AIDS from transfusions of untested blood were 'extremely remote.' Secretary of Health and Human Services Margaret Heckler went on nationwide television on July 3, 1983, to 'assure the American people that the blood supply is 100 per cent safe.'

>But just one year later, the Centers for Disease Control began reporting dozens of cases of people who caught AIDS from blood transfusions; just two years after that [1986], the AIDS deaths from blood transfusions were in the thousands."

>The problem was not simply with what medical authorities did not know at the time but with what they presumed to know and to proclaim to the benighted–to those who, in Secretary Heckler’s words, had ‘irrational fears’ and ‘unwarranted panic.’ [According to U.S. News and World Report, it turns out that whereas the Red Cross and others] ‘put the risk of getting AIDS from a transfusion at about 1 in a million. In fact, it was at least 1 in 660–and up to 1 in 25 in high-exposure cities like San Francisco.’]

>It was at one time triumphantly proclaimed that no health-care worker had ever contracted AIDS from patients, but by September 1985 there were the first of many cases of nurses, lab workers, and others who caught the disease from AIDS patients and by 1991 there were cases of patients who caught AIDS from a dentist . . . .

>Precautions to protect the public from AIDS carriers have repeatedly been backed into only after new revelations devastated previous reassurances . . . . Instead of erring on the side of caution in defense of the public, as with previous deadly and infectious diseases, ‘responsible’ officials approached the spread of AIDS by making the protection of the AIDS carrier from the public paramount.

>One political reason has been fear of offending the organized, zealous, single issue homosexual organizations and their allies in the media, in the American Civil Liberties Union, and in other liberal bastions. But this only raises the further question as to why the interest of carriers of a deadly, incurable, and contagious disease should be regarded in such circles as preemptive over the rights of hundreds of millions of other people . . . .


http://www.amazon.com/The-Vision-Anointed-Self-Congratulation-Social/dp/046508995X

Yes, they had a circle of friends. Like a lot of people, they weren't the popular "cool kids" but they weren't loners either. Most of those claims came from a bad information perpetuated by the media.

https://www.amazon.com/Columbine-Dave-Cullen/dp/0446546925/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=columbine+dave+cullen&qid=1573884018&sr=8-1

https://www.amazon.com/Mothers-Reckoning-Living-Aftermath-Tragedy-ebook/dp/B01208WN3G/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=columbine+sue+klebold&qid=1573884050&sr=8-1

The Problem of Political Authority (There isn't any)

The Obnoxious Jerks by Stephen Manes

This is the exact plot of a book I read as a kid, titled "The Obnoxious Jerks". (Or at least the bit I remember, years later.)

Nah that's not really the story of Hampden (or Baltimore) gentrification for the most part. Baltimore segregated via horrific housing policy in the middle of last century (shouts to this book) so gentrification is a bit more natural and less forced/disrupted than New York or DC has been.

Hampden in particular was an all white blue collar Klan holdout into the 80s. Then the artists moved in. Then the hipsters. Then the restaurants. Then the yuppies. Then the families. But it's not over yet. We still have a methadone clinic and some stars and bars flying.

There's a few books about how people have died at Yellowstone. I read through one out of morbid curiosity.

http://smile.amazon.com/dp/B009R6HEF2

It's always the same story with these types, they push policies but don't actually suffer the consequences if they fail.

Economist Thomas Sowell in his book Vision of the Anointed:Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy calls these types out so well.

not blaming the neighbor. i dont blame her, SJWs and their public shame are real. they go after people's jobs. its disgusting SJW modus operandi.

read a book


http://www.amazon.com/So-Youve-Been-Publicly-Shamed/dp/1501231847

John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.

That said, I've heard the Kennedy / Federal Reserve / Executive order 11110 conspiracy. I'm unconvinced.

Pro.

Con.

That looks like Roger Stone to me but that would be ridiculous.

I'm def wrong: https://www.amazon.com/Vidal-History-National-Security-State/dp/1494887991

Sadly they won't make the next edition of Death in Yellowstone. Along with the foreign tourists that put the baby bison in their SUV because it was cold.

Thanks to the internet, the world will now know what little dbags they are. Co-Founder & CEO at High On Life or a narcissistic little attention whore?

Death in Yellowstone is an interesting read. https://www.amazon.com/Death-Yellowstone-Accidents-Foolhardiness-National-ebook/dp/B009R6HEF2?ie=UTF8&btkr=1&ref_=dp-kindle-redirect

It isn't, and OP has his information wrong.

The Columbine shooters made and used pipe bombs in their attack, there's even the famous video of the one going off in the cafeteria. They were not very effectual though. I don't know if anyone was even really injured by them. Pipe bombs and pressure cooker bombs aren't incredibly difficult to make, but they're also not that easy to use for mass casualties (see Boston Bombing for evidence of that). A gun is far more effective.

What did fail was a much larger propane tank bomb that they built and placed at the base of a support column in the cafeteria. They wanted to bring the entire cafeteria roof down on everyone. But that proved to be beyond their ability, and it didn't go off.

They also set another bomb off across town, which they hoped would draw police away from the school. I don't remember exactly, but I believe that was another propane bomb that didn't really work correctly and just caused a small brush fire or something.

I highly suggest the book Columbine by Dave Cullen. It's an amazingly researched look into all the minutia of what actually happened, and its effects. He spent over 10 years working on it and it shows. There was so much about it that I had wrong in my head. Great read if you're interested in this topic.

Dude... It was never great by any stretch of the imagination.

Good primer would be Zinn's "People's History of the United States". In the words of Matt Damon, that book will "blow your hair back".

About the only thing remotely "good" this country ever really accomplished as a whole was assisting the Allied Forces in securing a victory in WW2. And the only real significant part we played in that (as far as the European theater) was materiel. If it wasn't for Operation Barbarossa and the Soviets kicking the ever loving shit out of the German forces we would have been destroyed (or never really got involved in the first place).

Edit: I'd like to add that even the "good" done in WW2 must be tempered by the fact that even General Curtis LeMay commented "I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal". We were most certainly guilty of horrific atrocities and violation of international standards of war (i.e. the Dresden and Tokyo fire bombings that actively targeted civilian populations) among other thing.

That's exactly the "problem of whiteness". First of all, nobody's skin is literally white, just like nobody's is literally black either. So the whole concept of white and black races is inherently absurd, it doesn't make sense. Let's get that out of the way.

Also, Whiteness has an association with purity, so southern europeans who had north-african invaders mix with them, thus black and curly hair, weren't considered "white" by the blonde hair blue eyed people of northern europe. And then, the masses of Irish who came to America were often very poor, (otherwise they would have been able to afford to stay in Ireland), and they were Catholic rather than Protestant; so they were not "White" simply because most middle-class americans looked down on them, even if they were blonde and blue eyed irish. (To this day, we've only ever had 1 Catholic/non-Protestant president!)

The Problem of Whiteness isn't just about color, it's about much much more than that, it's very complex and it means different things to different people. That's exactly why a course like this might be interesting to someone.

edit: you asked for evidence: "In the first half of the 19th century, some three million Irish emigrated to America, trading a ruling elite of Anglo-Irish Anglicans for one of WASPs. The Irish immigrants were (self-evidently) not Anglo-Saxon; most were not Protestant; and, as far as many of the nativists were concerned, they weren't white, either. Just how, in the years surrounding the Civil War, the Irish evolved from an oppressed, unwelcome social class to become part of a white racial class is the focus of Harvard lecturer Ignatiev's well-researched, intriguing although haphazardly structured book."

There are a couple of morbidly fascinating books about just this type of thing. Death in the Grand Canyon, which featured one story of a woman trapped at the bottom where there was a trickle of water, but not enough to allow her to stock up for a trip back out. She'd start off, then be forced to turn back.


http://www.amazon.com/Over-Edge-Canyon-Expanded-Anniversary/dp/0984785809?ie=UTF8&keywords=death%20in%20the%20grand%20canyon&qid=1463458654&ref_=sr_1_cc_1&s=aps&sr=1-1-catcorr


The more gruesome of the two was Death in Yellowstone. Lots of people falling into geysers.


https://www.amazon.com/Death-Yellowstone-Accidents-Foolhardiness-National-ebook/dp/B009R6HEF2?ie=UTF8&btkr=1&ref_=dp-kindle-redirect

Bernard Goldberg, a 28-year veteran CBS news reporter and producer, wrote the book on how biased CBS News is. About a decade later Sharyl Attkisson, formerly an investigative correspondent in the Washington bureau for CBS News and a substitute anchor for the CBS Evening News, reaffirmed it in her book Stonewalled. She alleged that CBS News failed to give sufficient coverage of Obama controversies and stonewalled her investigations into them.

Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News January 21, 2003
by Bernard Goldberg

Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama's Washington – November 24, 2015
by Sharyl Attkisson

"his way of life" was built around the social hierarchy that was slavery. "The average Confederate soldier" didn't want slaves to be on the same class level as him. The vast majority volunteered to fight, only 12% of Confederate forces were drafted.

Ignoring that there were (and still are) racial tensions in the south and that a civil war broke out over something ambitious as "states' rights" is pretty ridiculous. Especially when the states still had their rights to establish and enforce the Jim Crow laws.

edit: anyone who disagrees with this post I made needs to read A People's History of the United States

> At the same time, the author is failing to recognize the intentions behind the rules of the company. Hypocrisy at its finest.

Actually I think he understands it very well: as a thinly-veiled Identity-Political grab for power. It has nothing to do with actual fairness; it's simply "I can't compete so I'll change the rules". The problem is that he doesn't understand the implications of that fact: namely that speaking truth to power isn't good for one's career. If people have abandoned principle in pursuit of power then they aren't going to care when you point out their logical inconsistencies.

>but it strikes me as dehumanizing people.

Again, I disagree with this. It's not dehumanizing people, it's professionalizing them. It's a workplace, not a day care. Also, he made that comment specifically in the context of diversity initiatives. Empathy has many well-known failure modes, and is hazardous when employed for moral reasoning. In fact, a well-known philosopher recently wrote an entire book on the subject.

>Prioritize intention: This strikes me as an excuse for people who are inept at communicating without offending other people.

It's also for people who are clinically sensitive or otherwise emotionally unstable. It's essentially urging people to give others the benefit of the doubt, which how can you argue with that? It's certainly preferable to running to HR every time you misinterpret someone else's [but of course it's always a white male's] 'microaggressions'.

No offense but you talk crazy talk. No serious economist believes going back to the gold standard is a good idea. Oil was pegged as the new gold and the Washington Consensus ruled foreign policy for 50ish years. The result of the Washington Consensus was 9/11, the second war in Iraq, and the current War on Terrorism. Also, the Washington Consensus is dead.

The decline of the American Empire can be pegged to the difficulty in replacing what was very effective (if damaging in the long term) foreign policy.

Should you desire page-turning reading on what really turned America's gears for decades, check out "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" by John Perkins. It's a first hand account. Not conspiratorial and/or misunderstood ideas about macroeconomics. Again, no offense.

at what point has she been punished enough, though? that's the problem with public shaming, the public does the sentencing. plus, Reddit is already notorious for witch hunts. we should just stop talking about her.

edit: tl;dr fuck forgiveness, let em suffer

sending death threats over the Internet is not a natural phenomenon, but mob mentality is. when you invite the public (in this case, anyone with an Internet connection) to punish someone, you invite all the unaccountable variables that the public has to offer (disproportionately harsh punishments, persistent death threats, gossip etc). it's impossible to regulate, theoretically a lifelong sentence, and therefore it's cruel and unusual. how do you feel about the stocks from the old days? there's a reason those have been done away with