Recent content by No_Rush

Not a bad essay, if fairly jejune. Yes, what happened to the Dixie Chicks isn't government censorship. (Bob's wrong, by the way: censorship can occur in non-governmental environments, and what he's talking about is "government censorship." But in this day and age of pixels and print (and...

Fair enough, it has been (mostly) pleasant. I'm not sure what you mean by the Frankfurt crowd: the sources I've been talking about tend to be critical theorists in the U.S. I'm being U.S.-centric because while gaming is international, the Gamergate scandal, Sarkeesian, etc. are very...

No, it is not simply a matter of antidiscrimination law. If you think otherwise, you are simply, factually incorrect. Without the Supreme Court's rulings in Romer v. Evans, to say nothing of Lawrence v. Texas, the baker wouldn't be in the situation that he is. Oregon did not democratically...

You haven't exactly been a bundle of roses either. You just seem to be oblivious as to when you're being insulting. As I have already stated, I'm not concerned about someone's views. The problem with the crits is that they go far beyond "views." You rather proved my point: I analogized...

You are literally the only person I have ever heard state that it's difficult to find left-wing coverage of Wall Street. So, yes, I mean it when I said your own little world on that point. http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2014/01/21/3184691/oregon-bakery-guilty-discriminating-sex-couple/...

I think we can part ways here because you are clearly living in your own little world. It's hard to find leftist coverage of Wall Street? Paul Krugman. Gretchen Morgensen. Matt Taibbi. That's in five seconds off the top of my head, and includes absolutely no academics. Add in academic...

Wait--you're saying that in discussing something political, there might be partisanship? I'm shocked. We have mostly been discussing the U.S. market, so that's how I've framed it. (As for Japan and the EU, I'm puzzled as to why you think it's much different elsewhere. Have you ever spent...

You'll note, of course, that I never used the word "censorship." To the extent I mentioned anything of the sort, it was to suggest that the Tipper Gore-style censorship of the "moral majority" is less of a worry than ever. But the heavy hand of government censorship isn't the only way that...

Analysis itself is great. The only reason I started watching MovieBob was his critical review of SuckerPunch, which made me look at the film in a whole new light. (I still don't like it, but I learned something, and that's worth it.) Ultimately, the trouble isn't analysis. We have had feminist...