Prosthetic Conscience
Jason McBrayer's weblog; occasional personal notes and commentary
Thu, 18 Sep 2008
Links for 2008-09-18 Thu
- Monbiot.com » Bring on the Recession
- Third Party Watch » Blog Archive » “We Agree”
This should be big news: all the minor presidential candidates, from Left parties like the Greens, to Right parties like the Constitution party, agree on a set of statements that sharply distinguish them all from the Democrats and the Republicans.
- Rad Geek People’s Daily 2008-09-13 On class consciousness
- Is J2EE appropriate for developing web apps?
- This is Your Nation on White Privilege | Red Room
An interesting and timely list of examples of white privilege: how similar behaviours are viewed positively or neutrally when done by whites, and negatively when done by blacks.
- Edge: WHAT MAKES PEOPLE VOTE REPUBLICAN? By Jonathan Haidt
On the one hand, this article does a good job of showing how Republicans are successful in relating to the non-rational side of American citizens. On the other, its advice to the Democrats is basically more of “How can we learn to gull the masses that well?”
- Political Compass: US Presidential Election 2008
Note that all of the major-party candidates, and Libertarian Party candidate Bob Barr are in the right-wing authoritarian quadrant.
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