Yes, that’s what it means - if all other factors they list are equal, meaning if the only difference is height.

The purpose is to measure the effect of a single variable, so you make sure to correct for all other variables. For example, to measure the effect of height you might compare white men only against white men, black women only against black women, etc.

In a study measuring the gender pay gap, they would be correcting for variables other than gender.

Houthi Rebels

They are the government.

“Hitler is basically the German Trump”

universally reviled in the Middle East

He is literally a phophet in the Quran.

I’m also trying to fit a SodaStream in my budget if I can

Israeli company that treats Palestinians like shit on stolen land, should be boycotted.

The PFLP has boycotted the PLO for almost a decade, does operate in Gaza, and is participating in the current hostilities.

Their entire family just got murdered and their faith clearly comforts them and helps them believe it’s not all for nothing. Maybe this isn’t the appropriate time to apply atheism.

I don’t necessarily disagree with you, which is why my opinion is that academia in the west has no revolutionary potential at this time. That could definitely change in the coming years as the contradictions of capitalism intensify.

I know all of this. I was replying to your comment, and I didn’t say any of the things you’re implying here. All I said was that western academia isn’t any worse than western society, it’s a part of western society. Often it’s even a bit better.

There are based teachers who’ve been jailed, tortured, murdered and disappeared for protesting fascism. There are also teachers like my old history instructor, a coward who said that the transatlantic slave trade wasn’t a crime against humanity because “it was legal at the time.”

The vast majority of academics in the west are liberals. With extremely few exceptions, none of them are being jailed, tortured, or murdered for anything. That was the point of my comment. In my opinion academia in the west, as a whole, has no real revolutionary potential at this time.

There are based teachers who’ve been jailed, tortured, murdered and disappeared for protesting fascism. There are also teachers like my old history instructor, a coward who said that the transatlantic slave trade wasn’t a crime against humanity because “it was legal at the time.”

In the west, there’s a lot of the latter and almost none of the former. I’m not anti-intellectual, but western academia often only opposes the status quo when it can be sure to do it in a useless way. The most widespread views are liberal because they have the ideological and material support of the ruling class. The problem isn’t that it’s worse than the rest of western society, the problem is that it’s part of the rest of western society.

and if both-sidesing it stops working for whatever reason, China would side with Israel

I doubt that, because Israel’s economy relies on Chinese trade far more than the other way around and siding with Israel in a situation where “both sides” is no longer an option would likely destroy their political relationships with a huge portion of the third world.

The only situation I can think of where “both sides” is no longer an option would be a world war. Siding with Israel would mean siding with Amerikkka, and that option is clearly not possible for China and would be a terrible, self-destructive move even if it was.

When people refer to “protestant ethic” they’re not talking about people choosing or having to work more to make more money, they’re talking about people feeling that it’s a moral failing to stop working for even a moment. It’s possible to need money but not feel crushing guilt when you’re not working, the fact that so many people do is at least partly a result of how widespread this ideology is.

It emphasizes that diligence, discipline, and frugality[4] are a result of a person’s subscription to the values espoused by the Protestant faith, particularly Calvinism.

It doesn’t refer to rich people, no rich person actually believes this of themselves. It’s only something deployed against the poor as a weapon. When this guy tries to make time - even for thing that are strictly necessary like medical appointments - he feels guilt that he’s not making money. Obviously he’s not rich, capitalism doesn’t inflict this kind of psychological damage on people who don’t have to work to survive.

You don’t have to be rich to be infected by ’s protestant .

Eh, idk, there’s a reason they say the petite bourgeois are the main base of fascism.

Because there are a lot of them. The billionaire types also all supported fascism, they just couldn’t be the main base of any movement because there were too few of them and they don’t get their hands dirty. They just finance the rise of fascism.

Cleansed

lol, I bet.

Break the front window, and don’t dignify them with an answer when they ask why.

I’m a little annoyed that OP has commented under this post recently but hasn’t replied to any of the people that pointed out these issues (especially your various comments).