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French paper publishes Facebook 'hate speech' from Calais migrant articles. A French newspaper has taken action against what it deems hate-speech posted below reports about Calais migrants, by publishing a series of the most offensive messages from its Facebook page, along with the names of the posters. Calais-based Le Nord Littoral reports daily on the port and the situation there, which has resulted in thousands of people living in a squalid, open-air camp, hoping to reach the UK. Its editors said the offensive comments posted on the paper’s Facebook page had reached such extreme proportions of hate speech that it had to take a stand. Le Nord Littoral published several comments that had been made below its articles about the migrants in Calais, giving the Facebook names of the posters. One had written: “Why not build a concentration camp?” Another, below a piece about people rescued from the water at Calais as they tried to swim to a boat, wrote “they still need some training”, suggesting that with luck “some might die”.

16 novembre 2015. Extreme altruism: should you care for strangers at the expense of your family? | Larissa MacFarquhar. For many years, Julia Wise wondered if she would ever meet another person who thought as she did. Everyone she knew thought her ideas about morality were strange. Some people told her they thought she might be right, but they were not willing to make the sacrifices she made; other people thought her ideas were not only misguided, but actually bad. All this made her worry that she might be wrong. How likely was it that everyone else was wrong and she was right? But she was also suspicious of that worry: after all, it would be quite convenient to be wrong – she would not have to give so much.

Although her beliefs seemed to her not only reasonable but clearly true, and she could argue for them in a rational way, they were not entirely the result of conscious thinking: the essential impulse that gave rise to all the rest was simply a part of her. She could not help it; she had always been this way, since she was a child. Despite her extreme frugality, she is not an ascetic. Je ne suis pas Charlie. Alors, tu lis le nom Wolinksi dans une liste de victimes d’un assaut terroriste. Wolinski, c’est ton adolescence. C’est des éclats de rire. C’est surtout un de tes profs de liberté, de subversion. Tu es au bord des larmes. Et tu te dis qu’il faut que tu écrives. Alors, tu écris. Dans les minutes qui ont suivi l’horreur, le Vlaams Belang (extrême droite belge) a qualifié les victimes de « héros de notre Europe ».

Tariq Ramadan a écrit que les tueurs avaient souillé l’islam. Tu n’as pas non plus envie de céder au subit engouement pour le journal. Ce serait indigne aujourd’hui de te déclarer solidaire de tout ce que Charlie Hebdo a produit alors que tu ne l’étais pas. Ils n’ont pas été tués parce qu’ils auraient insulté le Prophète ou « blasphémé ». Oui, leurs dessins furent bien le prétexte à leur mise à mort.

Tu t’étonnes qu’on veuille étouffer le rire, le temps d’un deuil. Oui, ça doit être ça, tu te dis. Tu n’étais pas d’accord avec ce qu’ils dessinaient. C’est là que tu pleures. Apprenons à penser comme Eric Zemmour (en 9 points)- 21 novembre 2014. Quelque chose a changé chez Eric Zemmour. L’ancien chroniqueur qui réclamait la parole en sautillant s’exprime désormais avec la gravité d’un prophète. Il était intervieweur ; le voilà interviewé. Faisant la tournée des médias pour promouvoir son nouveau livre, il a plusieurs fois déclaré que les thèses qu’il y défend sont «majoritaires dans le pays».

Zemmour, porte-parole du Peuple, remue les lèvres, mais c’est la France qui chante. «Le Suicide français» s’est immédiatement placé en tête des ventes. On l’a lu, consciencieusement. La lecture du livre nous a persuadés que ces honorables entreprises de «fact-checking» ne font pas suffisamment honneur à l’extraordinaire nullité intellectuelle du livre. Eric Zemmour dispose ici de plus de 500 pages pour exposer sa pensée, puisqu’il pense être un penseur. Certains ont reproché aux médias d’avoir fait le succès du livre. Zemmour, lui, reproche souvent à ses contradicteurs de lui «faire la morale». 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

Ou : 8. 9. 'The Love School' Taught Me That Money Is at the Root of Every Happy Relationship | VICE Sweden. Cris and Renato, loving each other intelligently at The Love School press conference Cris and Renato are two glamorous TV presenters with a “bulletproof marriage” who travel the world teaching single and married people how to “love intelligently”. Their last stop off was at Wembley's SSE Arena this past Sunday, where they presented The Love School – an "interactive love seminar" – to no less than 11,400 people. Having seen the happy couple’s faces beaming from the side of nearly every bus in the capital, I was intrigued. What are Cris and Renato’s credentials? What kind of people would pay money for instructions on how they should love each other? Admittedly, The Love School is not aimed at people like me – cynical young men with an inherent mistrust of self-proclaimed experts.

The press conference held beforehand was tightly controlled. There was one member of the press group who I'd assumed was there to ask questions like the rest of us. Macedo has dubbed himself “The Bishop”. Mindfulness is all about self-help. It does nothing to change an unjust world | Suzanne Moore. Most of what is wrong in the modern world can be cured by not thinking too much.

From psoriasis to depression to giving yourself a "competitive advantage" in the workplace, the answer touted everywhere right now is mindfulness. Just let go for few minutes a day, breathe, observe your thoughts as ripples across a pond, feel every sensation around you. Stop your mind whirring and, lo, miraculously, everything will improve "at a cellular level".

Sorry, it's not working for me because I cannot rid myself of the thought: "Why this, why now? " There is nothing wrong with trying to relax: the problem lies in the "trying". And there is nothing new about meditation, so why has it suddenly gone mainstream? What was once the province of people who had backpacked across India has been gentrified and repackaged as a great cure-all, legitimated by doctors and scientists.

The City is awash with bankers trying to quiet their minds. It's even in art galleries. Something here is, well, mindless. Inside the Minds of Mass Killers. Hello there! If you enjoy the content on Neuroanthropology, consider subscribing for future posts via email or RSS feed. Paul Mullen, the esteemed Australian forensic psychologist, gives a balanced and insightful interview on how we can comprehend young men like James Holmes, Anders Breivik, and Jared Loughner who commit public massacres. The interview appeared on ABC News. In eight minutes, Dr. Mullen goes over cultural scripts, individual variation, cross-cultural comparisons, the role of media and gun control, and the links between mental health and violence.

I was particularly impressed that Mullen invokes cultural scripts as central to understanding why these men do what they do. Mullen compares these mass killings to the Malaysian amok, a recognized “culture-bound syndrome” often defined as a “spree of killing and destruction (as in the expression “run amok”) followed by amnesia or fatigue.” As Dr. He expanded on this view in an earlier interview with ABC News: The rebellious psychiatrists who helped me see beyond the myths and stigma of mental illness | David Shariatmadari. "Do you feel you have to agree with what most of the people round you believe? " "Well, if I don't I usually land up in hospital. " It is London in the late 1950s. A woman, Ruth, sits opposite a Scottish doctor in his consulting room. On his desk a tape recorder reels away softly. She speaks with an air of quiet defeat, having already had the bad news, the diagnosis. The doctor, while sympathetic, offers no cure. This one, RD Laing, thinks he can understand even the most baroque madnesses, that they are legible.

Much of the institutional apparatus Laing and Esterson were rebelling against was intact when my parents trained as psychiatrists a decade later. But by that time, the long-stay hospitals were being shut down, frightened patients wondering how on earth they would live outside the suffocating embrace they had been held in for 20, 30, sometimes 40 years. Oblivious to these changes, I simply wanted to know why people went mad. No one could give me a satisfactory answer. Millennial narcissism: Helicopter parents are college students’ bigger problem. Photo by Jupiter Images/Thinkstock/Getty Images Amy (not her real name) sat in my office and wiped her streaming tears on her sleeve, refusing the scratchy tissues I’d offered. “I’m thinking about just applying for a Ph.D. program after I graduate because I have no idea what I want to do.” Amy had mild depression growing up, and it worsened during freshman year of college when she moved from her parents’ house to her dorm.

It became increasingly difficult to balance school, socializing, laundry, and a part-time job. She finally had to dump the part-time job, was still unable to do laundry, and often stayed up until 2 a.m. trying to complete homework because she didn’t know how to manage her time without her parents keeping track of her schedule. I suggested finding a job after graduation, even if it’s only temporary. She cried harder at this idea. Her case is becoming the norm for twenty- to thirtysomethings I see in my office as a psychotherapist.