Curt Doolittle

Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response

  • Reactionaries Drop All Pretense

    http://www.moreright.net/response-to-david-brins-neo-reactionaries-drop-all-pretense-end-democracy-and-bring-back-lords-article-december-2014/Neo Reactionaries Drop All Pretense

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-06 09:42:00 UTC

  • am sorry that Russians hold some of these views even if I sympathize with Russia

    http://souloftheeast.org/2014/12/05/emir-kusturica-interviewI am sorry that Russians hold some of these views even if I sympathize with Russian particularism and am myself an antagonist against western suicidal universalism.

    But the fact is that anyone who sough to invade Russia’s did so to civilize barbarians unsuitable for self rule.

    This is also an uncomfortable truth.

    Russians are still unsuitable barbarians.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-06 09:13:00 UTC

  • “Philosophy is dead, and if it is not then almost every philosophy department ce

    —“Philosophy is dead, and if it is not then almost every philosophy department certainly is.”— Justin Ptak

    (Gem.)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-04 10:54:00 UTC

  • Against “Reverse Racism”

    Guest Post by Michael Phillip

    I don’t think “reverse racism” is a useful or even entirely coherent concept, and I don’t think thought-experiments are a particularly helpful way to think about racism in the first place: in my view, something about the subject demands an “ecological” or “in vivo” rather than thought-experimental approach.

    In other words, the topic demands engagement with the living, breathing complexity of real-live experiences of racism, not with thought-experiments that abstract away from them.

    I also think that if the topic is racism, as it should be, focusing on black-white relations in the U.S. is overly narrow, and problematically distortive of our thinking.

    It doesn’t even capture race relations in the U.S., much less race relations beyond American borders.

  • Against “Reverse Racism”

    Guest Post by Michael Phillip

    I don’t think “reverse racism” is a useful or even entirely coherent concept, and I don’t think thought-experiments are a particularly helpful way to think about racism in the first place: in my view, something about the subject demands an “ecological” or “in vivo” rather than thought-experimental approach.

    In other words, the topic demands engagement with the living, breathing complexity of real-live experiences of racism, not with thought-experiments that abstract away from them.

    I also think that if the topic is racism, as it should be, focusing on black-white relations in the U.S. is overly narrow, and problematically distortive of our thinking.

    It doesn’t even capture race relations in the U.S., much less race relations beyond American borders.

  • Curt Doolittle shared a post

    Curt Doolittle shared a post.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-03 05:18:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    http://blog.independent.org/2014/12/01/income-inequality-is-a-statistical-artifact/

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-02 11:16:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    http://shar.es/1XSGPY

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-02 10:04:00 UTC

  • Michael Philip on reverse racism

    Michael Philip on reverse racism.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-02 03:45:00 UTC

  • Priceless. On Locke

    Priceless. On Locke.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-02 03:44:00 UTC