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Thu 2 Jul 2020 13:06

@DogfoxStudios @girlziplocked agree about Quakers; perhaps focusing on the Abolitionists as origin was problematic, but “social activism” in the US traces back to puritan origins & sensibilities, & those who were heirs to the puritans did take over Abolitionism soon enough

Thu 2 Jul 2020 12:37

@JanneRantala10 @fake__monkey the authors survey all major European languages iirc – but anyway, most texts at the time were written in Latin https://t.co/hXxQcKFeIr

Thu 2 Jul 2020 12:34

@Bivver5 @EESprite @leftyjew what about all those people who said they’d vote Trump or Sanders but never Biden?

Thu 2 Jul 2020 10:38

@OneVenusThrow yeah except the silly editors changed “solidarity used as a scourge” to “solidarity viewed as a scourge” which is a completely different statement.

Thu 2 Jul 2020 10:35

@William10212260 @blacknbluebird9 @Noahpinion oh and classic service jobs like retail or the hospitality industry, are NOT likely to be considered bsj by those who have them so I make a big point of I’m not talking about them. Hard to get anything as wrong as you seem to be doing.

Thu 2 Jul 2020 10:33

@William10212260 @blacknbluebird9 @Noahpinion the book is about people who think their OWN jobs are bullshit. It mainly argues people like you are condescending to say you know better.

Tue 30 Jun 2020 21:47

@LaColoc62298968 @hapoelorient well the “leaders” of the Jewish community don’t seem to much care either

Mon 29 Jun 2020 23:43

@thisweb @BFlankinson @CrispinPodcast My friend Mehdi Belhaj Kacem is working hard on a secularised philosophy of original sin – but his stuff never comes out in English

Mon 29 Jun 2020 23:41

@SamuraiElf he wasn’t a practicing Quaker! He was a Quaker like the Marquis de Sade was Catholic.

Mon 29 Jun 2020 21:02

@girlziplocked @BenjaminVanDyne well I did read something by Emerson when checking out the matter (admittedly superficially) saying that the abolition movement was ultimately a child of Puritanism, in a good way, but it was both an offspring & inversion maybe?

Mon 29 Jun 2020 20:49

@girlziplocked well I’m sure you know your facts, I was using “puritan” in the most expansive sense – but probably too expansive, yeah. (Also I’d forgotten about the role of the Transcendentalists -I must have known that once! Interesting.)

Mon 29 Jun 2020 20:45

@api_kakayou I don’t think everyone is going around trying to maximise something that could be described as “capital”

Mon 29 Jun 2020 19:46

@jeremy_data an excellent example! Yes, precisely: if someone says something offensive, is told it’s offensive, & thinks about it & apologises, an almost instant reaction in some activist quarters anyway is to express skepticism that he “really” feels the guilt in his heart.

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Mon 29 Jun 2020 19:43

@chuckwiller absolutely – when I got kicked out of Yale, everyone signed a document in solidarity, and no one at all offered to help find me another job. The only exceptions were actually African-American

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Mon 29 Jun 2020 14:15

@Timlagor @RKemb I believe it is literally accurate in this case. I am not however interested in a long conversation about the matter

Mon 29 Jun 2020 12:35

@RKemb yeah the kind of tasks that are least well rewarded are also the hardest to automate. The technical problems that’d have to be solved to make a robot that can tidy up the kitchen are exponentially more difficult than making one than can assemble cars

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Mon 29 Jun 2020 12:33

@adambb76 @EclecticRadical um, you think Amazon doesn’t hire people? And you’re the one pronouncing other people wrong? Wow.

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