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@danielwaweru

3 years

Real origin story right here

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@Oystera6 @nhannahjones

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@danielwaweru

7 months

Direct hit

Matt McManus

@MattPolProf

7 months

My critical take on Bronze Age Pervert is out for @commonwealmag

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@danielwaweru

7 months

Rest of the piece is excellent too

The Nation

@thenation

7 months

In 1984, Edward Said wrote a landmark essay, “Permission to Narrate,” in which he critiqued the Western media’s biased coverage of Israel-Palestine. Now @m7mdkurd picks up where Said left off in his own essay, “The Right to Speak for Ourselves.

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This, I think, is a deeply poisonous legacy of Western expansion: the conviction that everywhere, always, states are established by mass killing or ethnic cleaning. If you will the end—a state—then you must will the necessary means—the mass murder.

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@danielwaweru

11 months

really actually Protagoras

Watcher.Guru

@WatcherGuru

11 months

JUST IN: Sam Bankman-Fried is paying millions of dollars to his lawyers with stolen customer funds, lawsuit claims.

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@danielwaweru

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Replying to:

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@danielwaweru

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@stephenroche73 @GerAmbTLV @CIJ_ICJ A truly exceptional run of bad luck:

Germany asks forgiveness for Tanzania colonial crimes

German forces killed almost 300,000 people during the Maji Maji rebellion in the early 1900s.

www.bbc.com

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@danielwaweru

5 years

@lisafstinson From a previous round on Twitter

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@danielwaweru

4 years

@theswazigirl_ As opposed to Boxing Day, which was made up in Mombasa, amirite?

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@danielwaweru

5 months

Philosophy has its uses

Christiane Amanpour

@amanpour

5 months

Tonight I spoke with @MarkRegev , senior advisor to Israel’s Prime Minister, about the huge civilian casualties in Gaza, why so much aid is reportedly not being allowed into the strip, and whether any political settlement might be possible. Watch our full conversation here.

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@danielwaweru

5 months

Curse of knowledge in the wild.

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@dreezabz

5 months

He can’t fathom that they can’t play one touch footy 😭

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@danielwaweru

2 years

Unlikely: the authorities plotted to kill him in secret because he was popular (John 11); an earlier attempt to arrest him failed because even the temple guards sent bought the story he was telling (John 7); the people here seem to be the religious establishment’s mob

ℜ𝔢𝔰𝔱𝔬𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔉𝔞𝔦𝔱𝔥 (RTC) 🍄

@rtf_media

2 years

“Crucify Him! Crucify Him!”

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@danielwaweru

4 months

@russokrauss Doesn’t English have a v similar problem with a v similar word: “oversight” to mean both “a careless mistake” and “meticulous attempt to avoid a careless mistake”?

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@danielwaweru

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@ariehkovler @Grimezsz @s_r_constantin It isn’t.

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@danielwaweru

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Stunning piece of reasoning here from @TheEconomist .

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@danielwaweru

6 years

@David_Goodhart @DavidLammy @akalamusic If you hadn’t already called @DavidLammy Britain’s Al Sharpton, and then failed to defend the charge, there might be some point in this. At the moment, you seem to be trolling him (and not well).

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@danielwaweru

7 months

Pascal’s wager, but the prize is victory in the culture war.

Melissa Chen

@MsMelChen

7 months

This is stirring up a lot of debate but I think there’s a growing sense among what @KonstantinKisin calls the children of Dawkins that atheism, in @Ayaan ’s words, cannot equip us for a civilizational war, or infuse our lives with meaning. Still, this approach to Christianity…

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@danielwaweru

5 months

It’s quite common in colonial situations. Examples below from Gaita’s “A Common Humanity”.

worms cited

@christapeterso

5 months

I already retweeted this but you guys don’t understand it was genuinely the worst take I’ve ever seen

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@danielwaweru

11 months

@CathyYoung63 @ijbailey Eh: seems obviously false:

Black Rice — Harvard University Press

Few Americans identify slavery with the cultivation of rice, yet rice was a major plantation crop during the first three centuries of settlement in the Americas. Rice accompanied African slaves...

www.hup.harvard.edu

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@danielwaweru

7 years

@Owaahh @kenyanpundit Luise White's "Prostitution in Colonial Nairobi" is as interesting as the title might lead you to expect:

The Comforts of Home

"This history is . . . the first fully-fleshed story of African Nairobi in all of its complexity which foregrounds African experiences. Given the overwhelming white dominance in the written sources,...

press.uchicago.edu

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@danielwaweru

4 years

“We, Lumumba’s children, his family, demand the proper return of the relics of Patrice Emery Lumumba to the land of his forebears, so that we might pay our tribute of filial grief.”

Jacobin

@jacobin

4 years

Patrice Lumumba’s Daughter: I’m Demanding Belgium Give Back My Father’s Remains

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@danielwaweru

3 years

Was stunned by hostility and hatred in comments m under a recent piece in @thetimes about the growing use of Māori in New Zealand. Fair to say settler colonials don’t like to be reminded of the survival or identity of those from whom they seized the land.

Kawsachun News

@KawsachunNews

3 years

Peru's Prime Minister addressed Congress today in Quechua, but the right-wing representatives shouted him down because they don't understand it. He reminds them that it's his constitutional right to speak his own language.

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@danielwaweru

1 year

Also, I just cannot see how Russia isn’t going to win the messaging war in Africa.

Eliud Kibii

@eliudkibii

1 year

The same social media that was praised for the Arab spring?

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@danielwaweru

4 months

(1) It must be tiring, as a liberal Zionist, to be so constantly surprised by events. (2) It’s worth asking which frame (Israel as colonising power/ Israel as liberal state with a persistent security problem) better predicted its behaviour, and the outcomes we can now all see.

Zack Beauchamp

@zackbeauchamp

4 months

I've spent the past month talking about what's happening in Gaza with some of the world's leading experts on military strategy, counterterrorism, and the law/ethics of war. What emerged was a story of a war gone terribly, horrifically wrong:

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@danielwaweru

2 months

A good paragraph to internalise in re the ruckus about Russian disinformation in Africa

Ken Opalo

@kopalo

2 months

More here: In Africa, Russia is playing the West like a fiddle:

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@danielwaweru

2 months

Reminded of the philosopher who weighed himself by intuition:

worms cited

@christapeterso

2 months

There’s a special philosophy derangement where fancy faculty get so confident in their intuitions that they deliver them as counterpoints to empirical facts? You describe something you experienced and they’re like “I expect not” and it’s like right. no one did. But it happened…

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@danielwaweru

9 years

Indifference, @Pontifex tells us, is the sin that makes the Lord vomit. #stmarys #PopeInKenya

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@danielwaweru

2 years

Excellent para

Karen Attiah

@KarenAttiah

2 years

Why Britain's deal with Rwanda on migrants is so repulsive

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@danielwaweru

5 months

Can’t remember who said it first, but: leaving the enforcement of anti-genocide norms to a state which annually celebrates Columbus was never going to end well.

Karina Patrício

@KPatricio_

5 months

This ICJ case has opened a Pandora Box of the intersection between colonialism and genocide. International law, and indeed the international community, will not be the same after it.

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@danielwaweru

2 years

Apparently, the right response to an unrepentant arsonist burning your house is to cheer on another arsonist burning other people’s houses. HTF is this not aid and comfort to imperialism?

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@danielwaweru

4 years

Can’t tell you how much I enjoyed this footnote, @lastpositivist

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@danielwaweru

5 years

@keithfrankish Chidi from “The Good Place”?

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@danielwaweru

1 month

Remedying a very particular neglect

Peter Adamson

@HistPhilosophy

1 month

ICYMI the most recent episode of #HoPWaG looked at Teresa of Ávila and John of the Cross, and how their works fit into Spanish contemplative/mystical literature in the Renaissance.

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@danielwaweru

4 years

Ouch. The old Catholic Encyclopaedia calls Hobbes “an antagonist worthy of any man's steel” — they know a worthy opponent when they see one. No such compliments for Locke, IIRC.

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@BenBurgis The second claim “99.99% of everyone else restricts to Israelis who live in settlements …” is question begging and anyway false. Lots of non-Americans and non-Westerners who’re otherwise competent users of English use settlers to refer to ordinary members of the privileged caste

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4 years

@itaisher

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@danielwaweru

5 years

@JasonPatinkin @bisanjuherself Odd. I thought photography was invented in the 19th century. Do we not know of any genocides before then?

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@danielwaweru

5 years

Swahili archaeology: an epic thread.

isaac Samuel

@rhaplord

5 years

1150AD gede/gedi -kenya <expanded> settled by the bantu-speaking swahili btn the 12th and 16th cent. gede was the innermost of the swahili cities (but weaker than its neighbors malindi and mombasa), the ruins include a five mosques, multi-roomed houses and a city wall #historyxt

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@danielwaweru

6 years

@classiclib3ral See, previously, Harris v Chomsky.

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@danielwaweru

2 years

Honestly, analytic philosophy isn’t as bad as its haters like to think.

Liam Bright

@lastpositivist

2 years

I think it was @christapeterso who relayed to me the quip that Rawls is said to have wrote Theory of Justice as a response to his experience of World War Two and one’s whole orientation in philosophy is given by whether that makes any sense to you.

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@danielwaweru

4 months

Also expelled or killed converts to Christianity from Judaism, and their entire Jewish population; and committed genocide in the new world. Colonisers who want belonging without justice or reconciliation are tiresome, but medieval Spain *really* isn’t a model for decolonisation.

Dwayne Wong

@DOmowale

4 months

The Moors were in Europe for 700 years and when the Spanish took control they expelled the Moors from their country. Just something to keep in mind about Europeans who claim to have a right to land in Africa because their family had been there for several generations.

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Always surprised by this reasoning. If it were true that everyone had always fought everyone else (so colonialism is perfectly fine) wouldn't it also be true that falsely asserting noble savagehood is fine because everyone has always lied about others?

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@danielwaweru

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@nhannahjones @ncbuller @jasonintrator At least some natural-law theorists think slavery (and other kinds of radical inequality) justified. CRT assumes slavery is unjustified. AFAICT, “replacing CRT with natural law” means something like “replacing basic moral assumptions of CRT with inegalitarian ones friendlier …

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@danielwaweru

2 years

Especially evident in Kiswahili, where words for “Greece”, “Greek” &c have come into the language at least twice—from Arabic as “Uyunani”, “Kiyunani”, and from English as “Griki”, “Kigiriki”—and both clusters of words are pretty clearly unrelated

Danny Bate

@DannyBate4

2 years

The names for Greece in Arabic (al-Yūnān), Hebrew (Yavan), Persian (Yūnān) and Turkish (Yunanistan) are very different from and are unrelated to the English or to Greek Elláda. These names (and others) instead go back to the eastern region of Greek speakers in antiquity, Ionia!

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@danielwaweru

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Won’t matter, obvs, but anyone who’s followed his family story will have wondered what triggered his grandfather’s migration to Kenya. A while ago, @thetimes dug a bit and found that it might have been a colonial massacre.

Saul Staniforth

@SaulStaniforth

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"When these groups claim Britain is, & has been on the wrong side of history, we should reject it & reject it again" 4 million dead in the Bengal famine, systematically torturing & murdering thousands in Kenya, a million dead in Iraq, Libya. What can you say?

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Zeus’ eagle: “I have historically eaten Prometheus’ liver and it has turned out OK for him …”

Liam Bright

@lastpositivist

3 years

Now *this* is a spicy meatball

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@danielwaweru

2 years

@Helenreflects Beattie:

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@danielwaweru

6 years

@harufathelamp @mostqualmishly @ortoiseortoise James Beattie's reply, in 'Essay ... ' (1809, see ) suggests that dissatisfaction with Humean racism isn't confined to 21st century readers of the passage quoted earlier.

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@danielwaweru

2 years

Also: reminded me of the best bit of Descartes’ snarky letter to the Theology faculty.

Liam Bright

@lastpositivist

2 years

Ahem

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@danielwaweru

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Excellent

Branko Milanovic

@BrankoMilan

2 months

My today's Substack Should poor countries remain poor? Stock vs flow approach

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@danielwaweru

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@keithfrankish

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@danielwaweru

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@ariehkovler @Grimezsz @s_r_constantin In the relevant letter, he’s talking about what he calls the Germanic ideal, which he’s careful to distinguish that from what he calls “classics” (presumably stuff happening further south) and to mention that it’s a “contribution to” Europe (so presumably not identical to it).

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@danielwaweru

4 years

Arguments for double negation elimination pop up in the unlikeliest places.

Hannah Rose Woods

@hannahrosewoods

4 years

If only there were a simpler word for this

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@danielwaweru

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If in a matter this serious Western elites can’t be persuaded by open public arguments in languages they understand, by rules they wrote, and in a forum they established, then I’m not sure fault lies with SA.

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@danielwaweru

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@Pseudoplotinus @jennfrey Aristotle’s argument for slavery in “Politics” is made *against* (unnamed) others who deny that it’s just. He knows that people argue that slavery is unjust; he takes them seriously enough to argue that they’re wrong; slavery cannot have been self-evidently just in his time.

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@danielwaweru

4 years

@ErrorTheorist Movies:

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@danielwaweru

2 years

Well said.

Matt McManus

@MattPolProf

2 years

My review of @yhazony 's new book "Conservatism: A Rediscovery" is up for @LiberalCurrents . Needless to say I disagree with most of it, but it's an important book operating at a higher level than many competitors

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@danielwaweru

1 year

Lots wrong with the thread, but isn’t this clearly false? IIRC, Obama’s *mother* is a descendant of John Bunche.

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@danielwaweru

7 years

Watching @JohnKerry live in @CNN He's pretty clear that election and @IEBCKenya tallying are legitimate

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@gathara

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@danielwaweru

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@morallawwithin Recently saw “Aristotle (2018)”

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@danielwaweru

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Appiah:

Mythical Africa

@MythoAfrique

3 months

Gold weights, Ghana

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@danielwaweru

8 months

Goldman was right: fake barns destroy knowledge.

Regina Rini

@rinireg

8 months

epistemic backstop crisis (from the NYT) about backstop crises:

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@wma927 @bdquinn @raylehmann Presumably it’s more likely he spent time in the German settler community than with African Namibians.

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@danielwaweru

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Unmatched, except by this I think:

sockdem

@sock_dem

2 months

It’s still crazy that George Bush said this. It seems so on-the-nose that it couldn’t have possibly happened in real life

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@danielwaweru

2 years

Sir, Please display your Native Movement Permit (Kikuyu, Embu, and Meru) prominently at all times. You also appear to be standing on the pavement in a White neighbourhood. Please step off.

Charles Gacheru

@CharlesGacheru

2 years

Walking Chronicles! How 🇰🇪 streets would be if we had remained a 🇬🇧 protectorate 👀

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@danielwaweru

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@Alexand20756066 @bitginger @AbyssiniaLater @Vallamnius @PrisonPlanet Assumes facts not in evidence, especially given discovery that up to 20% of population were migrants

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@danielwaweru

3 years

Twitter is a Calvinist plot to persuade us of total depravity.

Liam Bright

@lastpositivist

3 years

I voluntarily log on to this website. I get up and make the choice to log on. Ain't nobody's fault but mine.

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@danielwaweru

1 year

Must say I’m enjoying what seems a sudden mass conversion to deontology—lots of people in what seemed a totally consequentialist movement now want Bostrom to stay, come what may. Sly pleasure for those of us who’ve no time for consequentialism.

Liam Bright

@lastpositivist

1 year

... The people who would legislate our species' future have not managed to govern their own institution in such a way that it's clear they'll survive till 2025. They must persuade us to trust them and their ideas with investments of monumental importance. Something has to change.

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@danielwaweru

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Fairly standard take from the right: liberalism is the cause of, and liberals bear responsibility for, fascism. Not subtle; not consistent with usual responsibility rhetoric; fervently believed all the same. (Cf RW conviction that racism is caused by its victims.)

Chris Chopping

@MrChrisChopping

1 year

Genuinely difficult to know what side the Daily Mail is on here. For the record I’m still very much in the “Nazis bad” camp

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@danielwaweru

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@teriiiimeriiii @jennineak @sorayashock @nytimes His daughter was on Sky news recently:

Sky News

@SkyNews

8 months

Palestinian Academic Ghada Karmi tells @kayburley about being displaced from Palestine in 1948. Ghada says she went back to Jerusalem a few years ago and found the house she and her family used to live in. 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602 and YouTube

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@danielwaweru

1 year

Reminded of the "non-classical logic is gay" dude. BAP meme come to life.

Liam Bright

@lastpositivist

1 year

Because I'm a genuinely stupid person it didn't occur to me that the odd level of interest in whether Yale has a logic course was anything other than sincere interest in pedagogy. I now saw people debating whether or not this is woke DEI something something and I am like... oh...

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@danielwaweru

3 years

“[A person] must be rich or poor according to the quantity of labor which he can command”.

Branko Milanovic

@BrankoMilan

3 years

What is wealth?

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@danielwaweru

3 years

Rarely agree with @AgnesCallard , but can’t stop reading her. This essay (and Martha Nussbaum’s accompanying piece) are the most memorable philosophy I’ve read this year.

Agnes Callard

@AgnesCallard

3 years

Later in January, I wrote about the reason to be angry forever

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@danielwaweru

3 years

Quite a thread

William Dalrymple

@DalrympleWill

3 years

Clive's loot The loot which Clive lifted from Murshidabad after winning the Battle of Plassey in 1757 made him the richest self-made man in Europe. In 2004, a Qatari royal bought a jade flask from his descendants for £3m. Its now in Islamic Museum in Doha.

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@danielwaweru

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Michael Dummett:

Natural Theist - Tatian the Assyrian

@AleMartnezR1

26 days

How would you define what a progressive Christian is?

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@danielwaweru

2 years

Steaks are tasty. Mathematical objects aren’t tasty. So some things aren’t mathematical objects.

this is fine

@rromea

2 years

The universe is mathematical. Any objections to this? Please explain. Also I think your objection should not be expressible mathematically.

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@danielwaweru

1 year

A good day for this, which is evidence, at any rate, that at least some ancient Greeks weren't as silly as those asking us to read them now.

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@danielwaweru

2 years

A good day to reread @BrankoMilan ’s piece here

Branko Milanovic

@BrankoMilan

4 years

Is democracy old-fashioned? "Democracy or dictatorship: which works better?"

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@danielwaweru

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@gathara Can’t see what the relevance of the public money might be. Matatus are privately, not publicly owned. Public spending on Muthaiga roads doesn’t grant private owners a right of use. (Things might be different for public bus services.)

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@danielwaweru

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One reason I’m sure we’ll beat empire in the end: the arguments never change and there’re all bad. Here’s an old favourite: if I establish a political community that excludes you on your land, you bear the burden of proving that you deserve not to be dominated on your own land.

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@clemenswergin

7 months

@Actuator99 I think the Palestinians have to prove first that they are willing to live in peace with Israel. So far they are failing the test

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@danielwaweru

2 years

Not calling South Sudan "Kush" was a world-historic branding mistake.

isaac Samuel

@rhaplord

2 years

correcting some trivial misconceptions -modern Benin used to be "Dahomey" and is nowhere near the kingdom of Benin -Biblical Ethiopia is Kush not modern Ethiopia -Most North Africans aren't Arab but Berbers and Copts who speak Arabic -Kongo was mostly found in Angola not Congo

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@danielwaweru

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@YairWallach @StefPL This is equivocation: the boycott was important because it showed the ANC that peaceful means would bring recognition and support. That other causes were more important *for the end of apartheid* doesn’t change the former fact. And it’s the effect of peaceful means on the choices

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@danielwaweru

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You don’t need to know very much to know that this is a grave evil.

Philippe Lemoine

@phl43

2 months

My basic model of student protests is that in general students don't know shit about what they're protesting against, they do it because it's cool, makes them feel like they're part of something important and they want to be with their friends. In the vast majority of cases,…

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@danielwaweru

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@BenBurgis One doesn't follow from the other: that Israel is a settler-colonial state doesn't imply that mass expulsion is the answer to the problems it creates.

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@danielwaweru

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Unusually crude case, but this is the typical ideological use of Christianity.

john milbank

@johnmilbank3

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The reparations craze is the result of decline in belief in a last judgement; without that faith, people long for an impossible, final human reckoning. But it cannot purge or rescue the human beings of the past.

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@danielwaweru

3 years

That quite rare piece in philosophy: a non-obvious thesis very quickly confirmed by events.

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@danielwaweru

2 years

Can’t remember seeing a logical connective in a job ad before. Nice touch.

Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

3 years

JOB: assistant professor in logic v philosophy of maths. Do please get in touch if you have questions, &c.

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@danielwaweru

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@Owaahh @kenyanpundit Finally, Kanogo's "African Womanhood in Colonial Kenya", which has some interesting material about Nairobi:

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@danielwaweru

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@AustrianEn

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@danielwaweru

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@CathyYoung63 @LastBehaviorist @KokomoMoe @deonteleologist @ArcDigi Isn't the distinction familiar from defences of free speech? Arguments against hate-speech bans aren't defences of hate speech (or so we're usually asked to believe).

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@danielwaweru

4 years

Take *that* GE Moore.

Mrs Toro-Kisuu

@Cheptum_

4 years

Princess Diana was TWENTY when she married Charles I don't believe it.

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@danielwaweru

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@kenyanpundit

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@danielwaweru

1 year

“Envy thou not the oppressor” is really excellent advice.

Liam Bright

@lastpositivist

1 year

@d08890 It's so transparent and kinda pathetic from the outside, like there's this *very* recognisable genre of nerd machismo which takes the form "oh my God in the seminar room the things I am good at finally put me in the position to slap down others, the power!!!" and it's just sad.

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@danielwaweru

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@Enceladusty @ryanlcooper @BossSeanTN Isn't this kind of self-defeating? If the history of unjust takings means that the most recent unjust taking is justified or at least needn't be remedied, then all you need to do to justify land back is to make sure that the most recent taking is the reparatory one.

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@danielwaweru

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@lastpositivist There is a difference between being philosophically White and racially White, and we all know this. I am not defending Thomists or Kantians, but we all know this, and should stop pretending that we don’t.

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@danielwaweru

2 years

@jasonintrator Give it a little time: European conservatives will converge on the American position.

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@danielwaweru

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Amazing opening to this @FT story re Lord Archer , thanks to @jamespickford2 , I think.

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@danielwaweru

2 years

Pour one out for MacIntyre, who spotted that conservatives are the mortal enemies of the virtues they claim to defend.

Open Source Stupidity (OSSTU) Starfish

@IRHotTakes

2 years

I have many “conservative” inclinations. I think building things is hard but breaking them is easy and character matters. I care about my country and generally respect authority. It’s just that actual cons think none of that’s as important as going peepee poopoo at trans people.

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