@FennellJW@White_Janissary@offalfalafel But hey, what does that matter to you? If you simply ban the youth from the internet they'll never find out about it and you can quietly pretend it's not happening ever again.
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@White_Janissary@offalfalafel Groming gangs were a very real problem, scadalously ingnored by local authorities and the police in the name of community relations. However they are not the only paedophiles in the UK, there are many others, such as those operating online targeted by the SM ban for kids.
@FennellJW@White_Janissary@offalfalafel Neither the abuse nor the coverup have been properly investigated, the police & gov still have the same incentives and personnel that would be prone to prioritizing "community relations" over justice. Not to mention, the ethnic enclave is still there.
@VittelMax The value of the EU in rhetoric is only as an example that even the most botched, ineffective attempt at European unity still produces tangible results.
@joanroberts21@9Kings1910 Exclusively German, albeit from slightly different parts of Germany. He has 4 fully german grandparents and 8 fully german grandparents (minor exception, there is a """"Hungarian"""" countess on his mother's side)
@Albanianismvs @deltahunter9000 There's an obvious but suspiciously unmentioned link between the Albanian National Awakening and the total, humiliating destruction of the traditional military landed elite in Albania in the early 19th century. The movement began as an alternative to the work of the Alb pashas
@QvisContraNos@SchattigeDer Practically, its about enlightened despots destroying the ghetto system which removed the insular nature of their community (to a degree).
The subtler meaning is that the emancipation of jews is the only "clean" success story for that sort of liberalism.
@_A_Prayer @IberianMantis If you want to hear it from the horse's mouth directly, this book is a series of essays on what Late Enlightenment figures like Hume, Brissot, Burke etc. thought about it.
Everywhere that we find the "Enlightenment" we find centraliz-ing/ed, absolutist, imperialist states.
@_A_Prayer @IberianMantis Liberalism and rule of law were reactions to the Enlightenment, not its essence. In France where its ethos was allowed to run unchecked, the government became a military autocracy that wanted to conquer the world.
@oecolamp@KEMOgroyper I won't deny that John Rawls himself might have believed that his work has left wing implications. The other side of that is that he was an academic, not a prophet. His writing is a contribution to a dialectic with other works in analytic philosophy, not a political manifesto.
@oecolamp@KEMOgroyper Dealing specifically with the last sentence, that's why he only extracts two principles from the experiment; liberty & equality. Any particularity in law would become archaic or toxic with time as conditions change. Liberty to allow self-rule, equality to prevent civil war.
@oecolamp@KEMOgroyper There are no actual beliefs baked in to the Veil of Ignorance or the Original Position. If you believe in eugenics as just, then there's no contradiction in practice eugenics. Liberals/leftists only use it because their political terminology uses "fair", "equal", "just" and so on
@oecolamp@KEMOgroyper I disagree with Rawls too, but that's why I mentioned what tradition his work belongs to. Social contracts aren't real, they're rhetorical torture devices to disembowel living polities so we can answer abstract questions, like "What is Justice?" or "What is Order?"