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Re: Critical Race Theory Isn’t a Threat for Presbyterians

saiyr — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 11:58:36 -0000

Perhaps the "does not always" is the key to finding some agreement here? CRT does not always become a "totalizing ideology," but it sometimes appears to manifest as one, in the mainstream. In my opinion, to follow Adam's physics example, it sometimes looks more like "what hath string theory to do with GameStop?" We don't see the different "string theorists" in debate with each other in its most popular appearances, but we do find authors saying you can't be anti-racist without embracing the sexual revolution. I can see Adam's point that academics often look very different from its portrayal in any form of media. How that plays out with CRT, I don't know.

Re: Critical Race Theory Isn’t a Threat for Presbyterians

saiyr — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 13:50:34 -0000

Hypothetically, I find myself in agreement with Dr Bradley—we should be able to distinguish between the good and bad in any ideology. Given the influence of "Political Visions and Illusions" on the author, this thinking is in line with the idea the ideologies essentially elevate one facet of creation to an idolatrous state. If that is true of CRT, then one should be able to find the goodness in the kernel of creation before it was distorted. Bavinck, another known influence on the author, was able to interact with doctrine/persons in a manner that would likely cause scandals today. By my own estimation, he did so quite well.

In practice, I struggle at two points. First, I simply don't see, concretely, what the "limited usefulness in pointing out analytical blind spots" is. In Dr Bradley's own words, there is a sense in which CRT is not necessary in addressing racism. Given this sense, I'd like to understand how it's supposed to be useful in more than abstract terms.

Second, the effect of CRT plays out very differently in each person's thinking. It is clear that some are able to leverage CRT to their benefit, while still having clear criticism about its idolatrous nature. I think Dr Bradley has demonstrated that with this article. However, it's not clear to me that the same can be said of all presbyterian ministers. I heard the other day of a PCA minister who sounded like he was re-evaluating the entire story of redemption in light of whatever he had learned from CRT. Maybe it's an overblown story, but it certainly doesn't alleviate worry.

All this to say, perhaps it shouldn't be a threat in theory. In practice, I wonder.

Re: Better Relationships in Hugo

saiyr — Thu, 30 May 2019 16:16:12 -0000

This article was really helpful, but I wanted to point out a flaw: includeNewer is not per index, it's one setting for all indices. I was having trouble figuring out why one page showed another as a related page but not vice versa, and it's because of that.

Re: Micro-Tip: Using Subclipse on OS/X with Homebrew | Ted Wise

saiyr — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 12:27:00 -0000

For posterity, there are two possible reasons that I stumbled across: First, if you haven't manually installed the Java Developer Update at http://connect.apple.com/ you probably need to do that. Supposedly you don't get JNI headers without it. Second, setting JAVA_HOME messes up the configure. If you need JAVA_HOME set, you can set it to $(/usr/libexec/java_home), which should fix it. I saw in a thread that you weren't supposed to do this, so I just unset JAVA_HOME.

Re: Ch-ch-ch-changes | inzain.net

saiyr — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:46:22 -0000

nuuu, i'm too lazy to even move off of blogger. :(

Re: Ch-ch-ch-changes | inzain.net

saiyr — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:38:45 -0000

Grats, buddy. PS, your RSS feed links are broken. Dunno if that was the last thing I mentioned or not. It has HTML tags in it too.

Re: A blog resurrected | inzain.net

saiyr — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:40:44 -0000

<3 I need to do this too. I'm still on blogger because I refuse to use Wordpress.

Re: A blog resurrected | inzain.net

saiyr — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:42:59 -0000

your blog leaves html tags in the rss feed. :(

Re: Single vs. Multiple Computer Setups

saiyr — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:11:17 -0000

I use kind of a similar setup. My server is on-site, though, because it's also my router (it's a really, really powerful router; let's just say it has an Athlon64 3000+ and leave it at that). It has similar functionality in hosting repositories/easy-to-access webspace. I do a lot of development on it as well, when it comes to non-C# programming.

My desktop has everything non-programming related (and everything Windows programming related) and it's more or less my everyday use computer. I don't like using a laptop much due to size/lame keyboard. I also have 2 17" LCDs for it. My desktop and laptop usually carry mutually exclusive data. I can X forward from my server as well, if I need/want it.

I actually have two laptops that I use right now (one is borrowed from CS). I usually take my own laptop home with me, since I'll be using it for extended periods of time. It has Windows and it's bigger, which makes it easier for me to use. That laptop is a mess and it has stuff lying around everywhere. The other laptop is a 700m, so it's tiny and easy to carry around. It runs Linux, so I can do local development when needed (which usually is connected to Subversion or Mercurial). There's not much more than programming-related things on it.

There's nothing special about my network, though. Too lazy set any of that stuff up.