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The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Together we can…
June 18, 2023 in Religion | Tags: Beat it Together!, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice | by The Arbourist | 3 comments
When your phrasing goes horribly wrong.
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Thought Terminating Cliches – “The Far Right”
June 17, 2023 in Debate | Tags: Debate, Far-Right, Things I've Noticed. | by The Arbourist | 3 comments
Discussing issues about our society in the online world is almost always a contentious affair, but lately it seems that people are particularly unwilling to engage in conversation and debate.
One of the terms that is getting thrown around liberally is the “the Far Right”. Any point of disagreement once this magic spell has been pronounced can be safely disregarded and the conversation considered to be “won” by the person deploying it.
The problem is that, in reality, nothing has been ‘won’ and more importantly the issue at hand has not been discussed or evaluated on any meaningful level.
The only solution is more engagement and involvement, it is what keeps our society free and functioning.
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The DWR Friday Classical Interlude – Mozart Clarinet Concerto In A Major – K622
June 16, 2023 in Music | Tags: The DWR Friday Classical Interlude - Mozart Clarinet Concerto In A Major - K622 | by The Arbourist | Comments closed
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The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Robert Ingersoll
June 11, 2023 in Religion | Tags: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice - Robert Ingersoll | by The Arbourist | 1 comment
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Peter Boghossian on The Authoritarian Nature of Gender Activism
June 10, 2023 in Education, Gender Issues | Tags: Critical Social Justice, Peter Boghossian, Wokism | by The Arbourist | 2 comments
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The DWR Friday Classical Music Interlude – Dvorak – Serenade for Strings
June 9, 2023 in Music | Tags: The DWR Friday Classical Music Interlude - Dvorak - Serenade for Strings | by The Arbourist | Comments closed
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The DWR Passage of the Day – Jo Bartosch – There is no ‘moderate’ amount of reality.
June 7, 2023 in Culture | Tags: Gender debate, The DWR Passage of the Day - Jo Bartosch - There is no 'moderate' amount of reality. | by The Arbourist | Comments closed
Jo Bartosch writes in The Critic about some of the more recent nuances of the gender debate in the UK. Women espousing a defence of their rights and reality are starting to be heard and acknowledged, and it is about damn time.
“Acknowledgment of both reality and personal liberty must be the basis from which progress is made. In the eyes of the self-styled “moderates”, this makes me one of those dreadful extremists — bathing in the tears of trans kids, using pronouns and deadnames as weapons in the (non-existent) “trans genocide” — all because to me, there is no polite middle way between shared objective reality and a subjective delusion, no matter how articulately the argument is presented. It is hard not to see the reaction of many feminists to Went as revealing: a woman would never be praised for meeting such a low bar.
Something as basic as acknowledging sex has been presented as controversial, as a complex academic topic requiring reams of unpicking, and that is pure lady testicles. Go to any farmyard, and it is quite apparent that even beasts bred for human consumption know what biological sex is. It is welcome that a debate is finally happening, and Gender Wars was a fair start. Outside of the television script, though, the burden of proof should not be on “gender critical” people to explain why reality is real. A willingness to listen by trans activists should be taken as a bare minimum. Platitudes about “compromise” must not be allowed to become the end of the start — we deserve more.”
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