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@Max_V I disagree here. I have some autistic tendencies as well, clumsy/anti-social etc, and I don't think the move is to just accept them and move on. @Max_V I realized during a few psychidelic trips that you can dramatically change your personality/perceptions/coordination etc with spiritual practice. I've had trips where once I felt into certain tension points in my being it felt like I aged 100000 years in terms of maturity/coordination and a number of other aspects of myself that I thought i was stuck with. I think looking into chakra imbalances and how they related to issues you're struggling with can help you. There's a direct link between the energy centres/chakras and our personality/how we operate in the world

@Forestluv Agreed, what you're pointing is the problem imo. I'm aware of my own bias and prejudices and there are certain ethnic features I clearly prefer. It seems harmless until you consider how that affects your social status, jobs, networking etc. If there's a beautiful girl with a classic desirable western appearance vs the opposite the way i interact with both people are going to be very different, and that difference becomes significant when you extrapolate to the entire population. Do you think preference for features in dating is dramatically different for preferences in friends/relationships? It seems like one is acceptable and one is not but when you drill down I think any preference with respect to ethnic features/culture is going to create problems. Once people start verbalizing and understanding their preference things start to get ugly lol. But if you don't question it and just go off instinct you can completely miss this.

@wwhy I think the school fired her right away, but she claimed she was intending to resign. She would be disgraced if she returned anyway. She's a racist in the eyes of most of the faculty and students I can't imagine her quality of life as a professor after that.

@Tetcher I think for most people having a positive view on something carries some implicit inherent negativity towards its opposite. Take dating preferences. I like woman with straight hair and fair skin, and the preference seems harmless enough when you consider there are significant portions of the population that desire these traits, theres going to be a negative effect on this groups lacking these characters. If you have 10% of a pop with curly hair and darkskin but 95% of the pop prefers the opposite features that disparity is going to have real effects and in the modern climate this is a racist issue.

@Forestluv Do you or your colleagues ever fear you will be In the place of this disgraced professor? The bar for what's acceptable I'd constantly changing, and I'm assuming theres a growing witch hunt vibe where some people are eager to attack their peers so they look more innocent. Do you feel there are things you believe to be true but are unable to Express due to fear of being ostracised?

@Derek White I think the main driver for the difference in performance is due to affirmative action in admissions. If you have URM status in the USA you can get into schools way above your left and Gpa. Law school grading is blind and on a curve so when you have a group of students not as academic and qualified as the their peers you get disparate outcomes. Imagine if the NBA had affirmative action for short players below 5ft8, it wouldn't be a shock if all else being equal these players performed. I'm not saying there aren't underlying racist causes for why black students are underperforming big picture. But I strongly disagree with the idea that these disparate outcomes are due to professors being racist and if only the curriculum was less racist there would be better outcomes.

@Leo Gura Yeah I agree, there's an element of devils advocate in my post. I didn't sense any hatred or anything in her tone, I'm just saying given the optics shes gonna get hit hard. I think the bar for being a racist to be vilified is being set too low by lefties, her comments were mild and based on a very real phenomenon in law schools.

@Epikur I think there are elements of her tone and word choice that indicate some underlying racism. Calling black people the blacks is an outdated phrasing and there undertones that don't sit well with people of color

@Raze The content of what she said is completely innocent imo but it's the words she used and her accent that doom her. She's talking about the effects of affirmative action admissions on the quality of students programs graded on a curve. But the way she said blacks, the fact she's white etc there's no way you can bring her back to a major university in today's climate. She's done socially. She probably has a successful social identity as a law professor but no one will touch her with a 10 foot pole or they'll be labeled racists. No one's gonna defend her and she'll likely be shunned by lots of her former colleagues. @Forestluv Has anything like this ever happened at a place you teach? What do you think would be the response of your peers?

@Regan MMA is modern gladiator fighting.

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right-doing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.” Rumi. Is a Rumi a man-child haha?

@Rilles How many beliefs do people hold that are due to a lack of experiencing love? Seems like meditation is the thing that would be best for going to the root of negative core beliefs. Where is the room for racism when you are in love

I'm hoping it something that falls away on it's own with more meditation. I'm pretty selfish here I live in a first world country and racism isn't something that majorly affects me

@Rilles What level should we tolerate though, I think that's the tough question. The most salient example for me is dating preference, and I bet it's heavily ingrained in a lot of people to have some bias. But at the same time it's really not fair to certain groups who drew the short end of the stick based on culture. On the surface it seems harmless but then when you consider stats like either 25 or 50 % of black woman will not get married because of subtle racism and racial bias. I can see a lot of racial witch hunts coming in the future, especially politically, and because most people have some bias things are going to get ugly haha

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@m0hsen What if your heart is telling you to commit the rape? Or is there some kind of implicit morality inherent to living from the heart

Excellent post

@kerk I second this.

1. Breathe Hold in the middle of the meditation. Do a long enough in breathe so you get a full breathe quickly, and you get a nice flow on the out breathe. 2. Double dorsal wave. Breathe in and hold for 10 seconds, and then breathe out for 10 seconds. Do this at least 10 times, do it in a row. Mix it up with the outbreathe through the mouth and the nose. 3. After the breathe hold relax and watch the breath, let go of control. Look for the breathe to fall into the shallow breath rate.

Has anyone seen this? Bret Weinstein was attacked as a bigot by a bunch of lefits on a clubhouse chatroom. It's pretty entertaining and it's interesting to see how green ideals can be hijacked by zealots of the cause At one point of the speakers declares love for the chatroom but only the black people lol

It seems like most men, myself included, want beautiful and attractive woman for relationships. But it seems like most woman aren't beautiful and attractive, so most man won't get what they want. But looks are subjective and how we view each other is dependent on the person viewing/judging the other person. Is it possible to adjust your perspective so every woman you meet is a 10/10 attractiveness and you don't judge any woman as ugly or unattractive? I know i want to be with a woman who is conventionally attractive but it would be cool to if i was with someone who was morbidly obese but i found her equally attractive because i had a god tier view of reality and people lol

Wa-Ha-Mahumma

In Breathe to fill the stomach and abdoment/sharp in breathe during the day: During the meditation do a gentle sharp in breathe to fill abdomen and make a very elongated gentle/gentle/calm out breathe Do This 10 Times Use the out breathe to let go. The out breathe makes it easier to let go and sink in to the here and now

@Emerald Yeah I agree with a lot of what you said. I don't have any real relationship experience outside of one off's, escorts, and dating apps. I'm sure my tastes will change once I form a real relationship. I feel like given where i'm at in life the woman i would be interested in would not be interested in me, so i'm waiting until i get my self together before pursuing relationships. I'm curious how my tastes/standards will change as i mature, part of me doesn't want to lose the ideal of a beautiful, smart, classy, etc woman as my partner but only time will tell if that will be reality.