/edu/ - Education

Does anyone have or can point me in the direction of a PDF of Nidal Hasan's autobiography?

>>25824
>i am being forced to think for myself, please help.
hmm…
>>25825
>rich people are inherently moral
<poor people are inherently immoral
so insightful…
>>25828
What are you actually trying to say? People are immoral, therefore we should not strive to be moral ourselves? At least Plato posits a "greater good" at the expense of conditional immorality, and Aristotle posits a greater good by original causes, yet you have no stated theory of what constitutes virtue so as to disagree with Kant. Kant's notion of virtue is based in necessity, according to practical reason, in that what is best to do must be done for its own sake, and thus be unconditional. Only by this may activity be considered an "end in-itself" and thus allow for positive freedom in man. If elsewise, then the Will is bound to contingency, and thus its ends are separated from its means. In this, man is always enslaved to a higher condition than himself, and so can never be free. So then, freedom is a question of law, but an inward law, like Rousseau's General Will, or the Apostle Paul's Law "written on our hearts". I once spoke to someone who claimed that Kant was promotinhg self-justification, while I viewed Kant as still being protestant, for Man is not taken to be an end in himself, besides his accordance to the Moral Law, which is subjectively revealed rather than objectively mandated. Zizek further attributes this to predestination and the unconscious, as having their inscribed practical reason (e.g. LGBT persons "choose" but do not "choose" their subjective identity, and so what is voluntary is also necessary, e.g. a cat. imp.)

>>25637
>replies to a literal 5 year old post with a baseless claim
What a fallacious post.

>>20073
> there are also many people who legit do not realize they're being oppressed and exploited, like a lot of workers in the West.
2 year old post but worth addressing; class consciousness and helping proletariat understand the position they are in is necessary but it's not what the majority of these "activists" do. These people are lifestylists no different from twitter NAFO-tards and the preceding /pol/fags. They don't truly believe in what they shill, they don't even care about the people they claim to be fighting for and would gladly attack members of the groups they claim to represent. I have seen this shit happen. These people are usually terminally online and very vocal, making themselves the 'face' of such things. /pol/'s memes about feminists in 2016 weren't generated AI video, they were thousands of radlibs making idiots of themselves and subsequently making anyone they claimed to represent look like idiots too.

>>25711
So more “Pink Swastika” nonsense, I am genuinely sick of the frequent comments that any outward display of violence or bigotry means someone is a self-hating closet case. Do people really think no straight man has ever been insecure about his masculinity? Is it really not obvious that queerphobia and strict adherence to traditional gender roles can be motivated by something other than self-hatred?

>>25711
>Arthur Kronfeld
>German-Jewish psychiatrist
>Founded the The Institute for Sexual Science
>He claimed that he had scared the living daylights out of those nasty Nazis.
LOL

>>25784
Nazis were and continue to be gay and insecure

>>25848
Fascism and MLism are brothers jackass

>>25850
and other hilarious jokes you can tell yourself.

>>25661
why defend usefulnesslop

>>25669
it'd like be learning to draw and then never drawing, im a troid and most russians hate them, not to mention it is illegal there

I'm looking for a language with little to memorize outside of the phonology of the word, this means no uninferable gender, uninferable declination, or non-phonetic scripts. I'd like there to be relatively few non-Western European loan words. I'd like for it to be agglutinate, or isolating, but not fusional as this makes forms difficult to determine. I love when words and phrases are built up from consistent morphemes!

I've been trying to learn any foreign language for years, but every time I hit a road block, and it all falls down shortly after. I sort of think my brain just isn't configured to retain another language that I don't have a full mastery of. I even tried glorious Hawaiian but failed once I hit the numbers, and dates for unknown reasons, and after which, even while doing word flashcards, I eventually lost much of my active recall.

Anyway I'm trying to select what to try next, I'm considering: Chinese (pinyin), Turkic Languages, Uralic Languages, and Korean at the minimum along with anything else that might fit the criteria. Mostly just a vent, but if you've got anything for me I'd be happy to hear!

>>25634
>>25631
NTA but learning Chinese now. Useful skill and a huge country to explore as a tourist.

>>25701
Learn Toki Pona

>>25832
Fair, I just think people give undue weight to molestation in the formationm of a persons personality when someone's entire life content are much more important. Dworkins absurd hatred for men came from more than a single event but her context and the choices she made. We often think these experiences have more profound impacts than they do because people who engage in that behavior tend to seek out people who are already in precarious and bad circumstances. To speak from my molesters point of view briefly, I was a good target because I was lonely and severly emotionally neglected and lacked independence. I was easy to manipulate because he was my one of the few sources of "freedom" from my family.

My strange tastes and taboo interests have more to do with my familial and cultural enviroment than what I did with him. I ultimately think our culture is harmful to victims actually recovering from the event. Often victims get trapped in cycles of rumination and blame over the bad experience. Often times these experiences are just that, bad experiences, and ruminating on them is like ruminating on stubbed toe. That's not to be a conservative dimssing victims feelings, the feelings are very much real and cruelty to the victims about it hurts them even more than overemphasizing. One of the big sources of pain for me was that my mother had pratically gloated when she found out the man had sexual relations with me because she already disliked him and now she had an excuse to punish me by getting rid of him.
I'm not sure if Dworkin had a similar experience to me or was exploited in a more heinous way them me, yet either way it wasn't the sole source of her politics. It was the sum of multiple experiences including the assualt that produced her

>>25818
>Reducing Dworkin to "hyperbolic grievance mongering" however is nothing more than an undiluted expression of utter misogyny
The only way you could even begin to believe anything Dworkin wrote is if you believe that women are innocent, hapless, childlike creatures who are entirely incapable of controlling any aspect of their own lives by their own power and whose natural predisposition is to completely submit and grovel before men if they show even the slightest sign of dominance and are not entirely holding themselves back.

I know Dworkinites will deny up and down that she said that all heterosexual sex is rape, but that is simply the natural conclusion of her beliefs. If you define sex partially coerced through massive power imbalance, and also see men strong, dominant and violent while women are feeble, meek, cringing and more or less in a state of perpetual childhood, then you could only conclude that these two groups is a form of rape in the same way that an adult having sex with a child is always a form of rape.

>>25834
Not what was said, nor an argument. Modern ideology is liberal garbage.

>>25818
>I read Dworkin's account of her relationship with Israel as a thinly veiled analogy to her growing disillusionment with the women's liberation movement.
The very term "women's liberation movement" in this time-period and in a Western context (that she is almost exclusively referring to) is so retarded as to be fucking comedic, if not for the fact that there are stupid entitled burger-women and men that actually subscribe to this ideological bullshit.
>"women's Israel"
<Shilling for nationalist-ethno-state but for a specific sex

>she gives a literary expression to the mass suffering of women as a class
Women are not a separate class, but an identity. Take off that Soviet flag, you bring shame to Marxism-Leninism.
>the barely repressed need for their collective vengeance.
What need? Do you even know what 'need' means? Vengeance on whom?
>nothing more than an undiluted expression of utter misogyny
No, it is dismissing pseudo-intellectual projection of a hateful spinster and not giving the long-winded rubbish more time than it deserves. Calling a cunt out for being a cunt is not misogyny you liberal.
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>>25742
The problem with Dworkin isn't that she's wrong but that's she's trivial. Marriage and prostitution are both paid rape. Who cares?

>>25843
Having read some Dworkin, I don't know if she ever directly said that because it seems like she never directly says anything ever. All Dworkin does is complain about men, and all positions she is said to hold seems to be more inferred from the exact way that she is complaining about men in any given work rather than directly stated.

>>10236
that quora thing is basically admitting it was done systematically against certain ethnicities, but waffling pathetically around it. again don’t know why you’d even be so surprised if this is the kind of stuff you think

>>10240
>admitting it was done systematically against certain ethnicities
>waffling
<Let me take a point out of context to portray it as admission!
You argue in bad faith and use a false narrative to try and claim another false narrative, and cry about "le evul Stalin/Beria/tankeez" in the mean time. I'd suggest going to >>>/leftypol/ or better yet reddit, those liberal echo-chambers are more your speed.
>inb4 'N-no u echochamber'
People have discussed Katyn and the debate of it being the NKVD or not before, they also discussed Soviet deportations before, this is acceptable discourse. You are engaging in dishonest fallacies, putting a slight spin on old Cold War myths and exaggerations.

https://espressostalinist.com/the-real-stalin-series/katyn/

This is a pretty good examination of it all, It's important to note though that most Communists are able to admit mistakes and excesses commited by Socialist nations. I don't doubt that when the Soviet Union started taking in Polish officers (Most of who fought in the Polish-Soviet war) they treated them pretty badly, but the idea they spread is that one executioner (Vasily Blokhin) executed tens of thousands of Poles by himself right next to Smolensk (A city of at least a hundred thousand and all with German guns and bullets) and nobody knew till the Nazis came by is just insane.

Relevant to the thread: Yuri Muhin's Катынская Подлость is a video version of his book Антироссийская Подлость: Расследование фальсификации катынского дела Польшей и Генеральной прокуратурой России с целью разжечь ненависть поляков к русским. — М.: Крымский мост-9Д, Форум, 2003. — 762 с.

https://www.veoh.com/watch/v16363590Z2fz4j8s

https://web.archive.org/web/20121030125555/http://www.erlib.com/Юрий_Мухин/Антироссийская_подлость/

The Book and film are a detailed, section by section dissection of Katyn myths and the context of Polish, German and Soviet actions before, during and after the war.

>Katyn Thread
Man I forgot how many effort posts I wrote on >>>/edu/ that are still up.

>>21945
>various other geologists insist they are a natural phenomena
<The mainstream assertion claims the opposite
No shit.

>>16648
>Graham Hancock - absolved
this does not absolve graham hancock's schizo thesis

Man this thread was interesting, it's a shame half the files are dead now.

>>24146
Professor Dave just name calls these guys for 2 hours.

>>25787
>Religious institutions are bad and should be abolished perhaps but until we are feasibly able to secularise people by increasing the quality of material conditions and education (As seen in the more wealthy countries)
The idea that societies will become more secular has history moves on has been more or less debunked. The idea that secularism is somehow neutral, emancipatory, and the normal state of affairs has also come under fire. Western countries haven't become more secular because they are wealthy. They are secular because secularists triumphed ideologically over their rivals. This had practically nothing to do with economic conditions.

The idea that religious people need to be spoonfed a religious variant of socialism until they awaken to socialism is patronizing. Its also so insincere that people can sniff you out from a mile away. I've seen Maoist orgs do this in places like Bangladesh, dressing up some phoney Islamic socialism to pander to the masses. People can instantly tell they are trying to trick them.

>>25796
>>25798
There’s this common assumption that education makes people less religious and less racist.
It’s been repeated so much that people treat academia as the new religion

the key is to not simply be against usury, but also against profit, rent, and wages. Communism seeks to abolish the wages system. profit, interest, rent, and wages are all part of the system of exploitation.

>>25821
depends on the kind of education

>>25823
Education in general