Urtica Ferox

  The Cultural Relativist's Dilemma: You End up Speaking Nonsense We ought to respect other cultures and the way they do things, even if they are vastly different from the way we behave. Anyone questioning this assumption would be condemned as a racist, and would be cancelled in whatever form was appropriate to their position. In this article, published in  Philosophy Now (and linked with permission) ,  Dr Ray Prebble not only questions whether this idea makes sense, but argues that it is in fact deeply immoral.  Read more.

  Symbolic D isplays of  the Knee-on-Neck Chokehold Must Stop Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats display the knee-on-neck chokehold. Note the added technique of pinning the arm back, displayed by the unidentified man behind Pelosi  There was widespread belief after the death of George Floyd in 2020 that the knee-on-neck chokehold is simply too dangerous to use, given the horrific results of its over-zealous application. There were many calls for its use to be abandoned, and it was hoped that, with time, the world could come to terms with (but never forget) this appalling incident. Instead, grotesque symbolic use of it has become hugely popular, especially with politicians and sportspeople. The entire team in a Berlin football club display the symbolic knee-on-neck chokehold These displays of violent oppression must stop. It is bad enough that a man died in front of a shocked world, but to continue to symbolically re-enact the event in highly public displays is arguably much...