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World Socialist Party of the United States

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The '''World Socialist Party of the United States''' ('''WSPUS''') is a socialist political organization established in Detroit, [[Michigan]] as the Socialist Party of the United States in 1916 and which operated as the Socialist Educational Society in the 1920s and later the Workers' Socialist Party. The organization is the American companion party of the World Socialist Movement.

The WSPUS defines [[socialism]] as a moneyless society based on common ownership of the means of production, production for use, and social relations based on cooperative and democratic associations instead of bureaucratic hierarchies. Additionally, the WSPUS considers statelessness, classlessness, and the complete abolition of wage labor to be components of a socialist society, traits which are usually reserved to describe fully developed [[communism]].
==Religion==
{{quote|[[Protestant work ethic|Protestantism]] is the form Christianity takes under capitalism. It serves to give a holy tinge to the robbery of wage slaves. Chattel slavery is vile and unchristian, serfdom likewise, but wage-slavery is all right.|How the Gods were Made, John Keracher (1929)}}
{{quote|When knowledge goes into the mind, belief goes out. Science is the best antidote to religion. Science is based upon facts, not upon faith|How the Gods were Made, John Keracher (1929)}}

==[[Economics]]==
{{quote|Modern economics remains but a glorified version of early political economy on the question of science - and its traditional tight dependency on the interests of investors of capital renders each advance more suspect.|So You wanna be a paradigm!, Ron Elbert, World Socialist Review (spring 1999)}}
==Society==
{{quote|Human behavior is variable. There is no such thing as a fixed, constant human nature which will inevitably defeat all of man's attempts to co-operate for the benefit of all.|Socialism & Behavioral Sciences, Stan Blake, Western Socialist (No.2, 1966)}}
===Cooperation===
{{quote|Of all the [[pseudoscience|pseudo-scientists]] in economics, anthropology, history and other fields who have erected so many obstacles to the clear understanding of reality, [[Herbert Spencer]] was perhaps the most outstanding.|Survival of the Filthiest, World Socialist Review 5 (Summer 1988)}}
==See also==
*[[Socialist Party of Great Britain]]
==External links==
*[http://www.wspus.org/ Official site]

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World report on violence and health

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In 2002, the World Health Organization published its '''''World report on violence and health''''' in which it collated statistics from around the world on serious violent crimes, the first time that such a comprehensive exercise has been carried out. 

In particular, the report looked at deaths caused by violence and goes into some detail on the different types of violence and the people committing such crimes. For example, violence caused by intimate partners, child abuse, and sexual violence are each covered in the various chapters.

The report itself is lengthy and detailed and has some interesting statistics amongst its many tables of figures. These are not the sorts of figures that are likely to be reported by American [[conservative]] organizations, as they make uncomfortable reading for anyone advocating gun ownership.

==Death by intentional injury==

Of the 77 countries for which statistics were taken for death by intentional injury, the US was 29th, with 17.4 deaths per 100,000 of the population. This is considerably short of Colombia (65.1 deaths per 100,000), Russia (53.7), [[Cuba]] (23.5), but poor in comparison to the UK (7.6), Israel (7.3) and Greece (4.3)

==Death by homicide==

Death by homicide figures are somewhat less charitable to the US: of the 71 countries for which statistics were taken for death by homicide, the [[US]] was 27th, with 6.9 deaths per 100,000 of the population, putting it in the vicinity of such exalted company as Thailand, Guyana, Cuba and Costa Rica, although far short of Colombia's 61.6 deaths per 100,000. By contrast, Western European countries featured much lower down the list, such as Poland (2.7 per 100,000), Belgium (1.6), Italy (1.1) and the [[United Kingdom|UK]] (0.8)

==Death by firearm==

Anyone against [[gun control]] in the US should look away now. The US is second in national rates of deaths by firearm, with 11.3 deaths per 100,000 in total. Of these, 6.4 per 100,000 were using their [[gun]] to check themselves out, with 4.4 using a gun to kill somebody else. Only [[Albania]] was higher, with a homicide rate of 17.6 per 100,000. Most of Western Europe is below 1 per 100,000, including the UK, with a homicide-by-firearm rate of only 0.1.  Some would suggest that this is related to the number of guns per capita<ref>
Which doesn't hold when Canada, a nation as richly endowed with guns as the US, is factored in
 They still have controls that would make every [[Republican]] cry hysterically in a corner, so...</ref> and is expected, but they are probably looking away right now anyway.

==External links==
*[http://libdoc.who.int/hq/2002/9241545615.pdf WHO's World report on violence and health]

==References==
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Wrong direction

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'''Wrong direction''' is a [[logical fallacy]] that occurs when a cause is mistakenly considered an effect.

The fallacy is a [[Causalation|fallacy of causation]].

==Alternate names==
*reversing causation
*confusing cause and effect
*faulty causal direction

==Examples==
*Chanticleer the rooster crows loudly enough to bring the sun up.
*[[Cancer]] causes [[smoking]].
*The street lights turning on causes the [[Sun]] to set.
*Winds are caused by waving trees.
*Kids that play a lot of video games are the most violent. Clearly, video games make children more violent.
:Not only is this an [[Overgeneralization|unrepresentative sample]], but it's possible that violent children play video games ''because'' they are violent.
*Evolution causes mutation

==See also==
*[[Confusion of the inverse]]
*[[Causalation]]
*[[Correlation does not imply causation]]

==External links==
*{{wpa|Wrong direction}}
*[http://onegoodmove.org/fallacy/wrong.htm Wrong Direction], One Good Move

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X

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*{{wpl|X||,}} a letter of the roman alphabet. Very similar in appearance to the Greek letter {{wpl|Chi (letter)|Χ (chi)}} (not to be confused with {{wpl|Xi (letter)|Ξ (xi)|),}} the Cyrillic letter {{wpl|Kha (Cyrillic)|Х (kha)|,}} and the Phoenician letter {{wpl|taw||.}}
*[[X-Mas]], where the "X" is from the Greek letter chi, abbreviating the word for [[Christ]], Χριστος.
*X is the {{wpl|Roman numeral}} for the number 10.
*In [[mathematics]], ''x'' is commonly the name of an independent variable or unknown value. Also typically the horizontal axis in the {{wpl|Cartesian coordinate system||.}}
*Sometimes a {{wpl|typographic approximation}} for the {{wpl|multiplication sign||}} <code>×</code>.
*Placeholder name for something unknown, for example in [[Planet X]], ''[[X-Files]]'', and [[Malcolm X]].
*Sometimes used as a [[gender]] designator on official documents for [[nonbinary]] people.
*Archaic abbreviation for Χριστος ([[Christ]]) which lives on in [[X-Mas]].
*[[Twitter|X (social media)]], better known as Twitter.
*Indicating [[porno]]graphic content, as in X-rated, or XXX.
*[[Fun:X]]
Xenoglossy

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'''Xenoglossy''' or '''xenoglossia''' is the phenomenon where one can speak or write a foreign language allegedly without having it learned in a normal way. The term is used to describe a type of [[miracle]] in [[Christianity]]<ref>[[Acts of the Apostles|Acts]] 2:1-13</ref> and those "girl hits her head, starts speaking [[Sanskrit]]" stories. A few xenoglossia claims have been investigated,{{cn}} and it always turns out that the claim has been overblown: either the speakers had had previous exposure to the "new" language and/or their command of it was very poor, or they were just making it up, as in the video below.

==See also==
*[[Glossolalia]], a.k.a. "speaking in tongues"
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==External links==
*{{see-wp|Xenoglossia}}

==References==
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Xenophobia

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{{cquote|You came here from there because you didn’t like there. [[I'm not prejudiced, but...|We are not racist, phobic or anti whatever-you-are]], we simply like here the way it is and most of us actually came here because it is not like there, wherever there was. You are welcome here, but please stop trying to make here like there. If you want here to be like there you should not have left there to come here, and you are invited to leave here and go back there.|||Town Clerk D. Kent Young, Stratton, [[Vermont]]<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20220221020726/https://twitter.com/EllenBarryNYT/status/1364412958235893769 Holy moly, Stratton, Vermont’s annual report] by Ellen Barry (7:12 PM - 23 Feb 2021) ''Twitter'' (archived from February 22, 2022).</ref><ref>[https://vtdigger.org/2021/05/04/stratton-turns-the-page-on-its-debate-sparking-town-report-cover/ Stratton turns the page on its debate-sparking town report cover] by Kevin O'Connor (May 4 2021) ''VTDigger''.</ref><ref>''How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them'' by Barbara F. Walter (2022) ISBN 0593137787.</ref>{{rp|171-172}}}}

'''Xenophobia''' is, literally translated, the "fear of the unknown" and generally explained as fear or hatred/contempt of outsiders, i.e. people from different [[culture]]s, [[religion]]s, or a different ethnic background. Empirical research, however, shows that the underlying emotion that is related to "xenophobic" behaviour is actually linked to emotions of disgust rather than fear.<ref>''Evolutionary Perspectives on Social Psychology'', edited by Virgil Zeigler-Hill et al. (2015) Springer.</ref>

What particular kind of outsiders is up to the individual xenophobe, but it is most often used to refer to foreigners or to a minority group strongly associated with a foreign country deemed threatening. However, for a particularly provincial person, it could also refer to people from outside the particular state/province, county, or town.  

Few people will ever admit to being xenophobic, instead trying to pretend that it is some particular, justified concern that makes them want to keep all foreigners away. For instance, they may claim falsehoods that immigrants depress wages, immigrants bring the "bad" aspects of culture with them, immigrants commit more crime, immigrants cannot assimilate into their country, and immigrants threaten their ethnic/racial/national identity.

Not to be confused with the fear of the TV show ''{{wpl|Xena: Warrior Princess|Xena: Warrior Princess}}'' or its title character. Also not to be confused with xenophilia, which is attraction to foreigners. Especially not to be confused with fear of [[Xenu]], the Big Bad in [[Scientology]].

==See also==
*[[Bigotry]]
*[[Friend argument]]: ''"I'm not xenophobic, I have many of them as friends"''
*[[I'm not prejudiced, but...]]
*[[Other]]
*[[Outgroup]]
*[[Racism]]
*[[Secure the border]]

==References==
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Yank

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*a slang term for an [[American]] — plural: ''Yanks''
*a slang term for a member of the [[New York]] Yankees [[fun:Baseball|baseball]] team — ''"Yanks"'' refers to the team
*a slang term for how [[masturbation]] is performed by or upon a [[male]] — [[British]] form: ''wank'', although ''tosser'' is now the preferred term
:Conjugation
::I yank/wank.
::He yanks/wanks.
::She yanked/wanked him/them.  (Whoopee!!!)
Yasukuni Shrine

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[[File:Yasukuni Shrine 201005.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The entrance to the Yasukuni Shrine.]]
'''Imperial Shrine of Yasukuni''', informally known as the '''Yasukuni Shrine''' (靖国神社 ''Yasukuni-jinja''), is a [[Japanese]] [[Shinto]] shrine. The remains of 2,466,532 bodies are interred there, many of whom died during [[World War II]]. Among those are 1,068 convicted [[war criminal]]s, 14 of whom were A-Class war criminals. (Among the 14 are {{w|Hideki Tojo||,}} often called the Japanese variant of [[Adolf Hitler|that Austrian guy]].)

Japan's [[right-wing]] [[politicians]], intellectuals, and academics often come here to pay their respects. Former Prime Minister of Japan, [[Shinzo Abe]], also visited the Yasukuni Shrine each year, before his death.

[[South Korea]], Taiwan, [[China]], some [[Southeast Asian]] countries, and some major Japanese politicians are opposed to paying tribute to the Yasukuni Shrine because all this official paying of tribute at the shrine is indicative that Japan has not fully come to terms with its military aggression and war crimes.

==See also==
* [[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)]] — Many members of the party visit the Yasukuni Shrine each year. Major government figures, including the prime minister, are no exception.
* [[Comfort women]]
* [[War crimes]]
* [[Nationalism]]
* [[Religious Right]]
* [[Reactionary]]
* [[Fascism]]


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Year of the Bible

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'''Year of the Bible''' refers to proclamations by politicians that confirm (at least in the minds of the signatories) that the [[The United States as a Christian nation|United States is a Christian nation]] and that the citizenry should study the [[Bible]] during that year to reinforce this misbelief.

No actual official Year of the Bible proclamations occurred, however, before the establishment of the [[Moral Majority]] that led many previously apolitical [[fundamentalist]]s into the arena of national [[politics]].

Official proclamations of a Year of the Bible include:
* '''1983''' -- [[Ronald Reagan]] signed Proclamation 5018 at the [[National Prayer Breakfast]] held on February 3, 1983.  This proclamation enacted the first nationwide Year of the Bible. Reagan was only authorized to do this after fundies got a law (Public Law 97-280) passed through Congress, specifically allowing it four months earlier.
* '''1990''' -- An "International Year of Bible Reading" was proclaimed by President [[George H.W. Bush]].<ref>[http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/a-proclamation-proclamation-5018----year-of-the-bible-1983/blog-156531/ "A Proclamation Proclamation 5018 -- Year of the Bible, 1983"] -- Includes texts of Reagan's Proclamation 5018, Public Law 97-280, and Bush's 1990 proclamation, posted 21 September 2009, accessed 16 March 2012.</ref>
* '''2012''' -- The [[Pennsylvania]] state legislature passed a law proclaiming 2012 to be the Year of the Bible in that state.<ref>Wilson, Mary.  [http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/item/33315-lawmakers-designate-year-of-the-bible-in-pa "Lawmakers designate 'Year of the Bible' in Pa."], ''NewsWorks.org'' website (operated by public TV station WHYY), posted 30 January 2012, accessed 16 March 2012.</ref>

Some fundies salivate at the idea of many more Years of the Bible in the future,<ref>[http://questioningwithboldness.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/proclamation-5018-maybe-we-can-celebrate-another-year-of-the-bible-again-someday/ "Proclamation 5018 | Maybe we can celebrate another “Year of the Bible” again… someday"], ''Questioning With Boldness...'' website, posted 8 July 2011, accessed 16 March 2012.</ref> if not every year, throughout the years.
==See also==
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Yellow

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*[[Yellowcake]]: not a pastry, but a powdery substance that is an intermediate step in the process of refining [[uranium]] ore
*[[Yellowface]]: [[Blackface]] but [[Asian]]
*[[Yellow fever]]: not the {{wpl|Yellow fever|disease|,}} but the [[hypocritical]] [[white supremacist]] fetishization of Asian [[women]]
*[[Yellow journalism]]: overly sensational or exaggerated journalism, sometimes going as far as [[fake news]]
*[[Yellow Peril]]: [[racist]] [[fearmongering]] about [[Asian]] people
*[[Yellowstone]]: site of the oldest national park in the world and home to an ancient supervolcano
*[[Yellow vests]]: a [[populist]] movement that rose up in [[France]], initially protesting the [[neoliberal]] policies of French president [[Emmanuel Macron]] but soon spreading across the world.
Yoni

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{{sex}}[[File:Cattien stone yoni.png|thumb|left|Carved yoni from Cat Tien, Vietnam]][[File:Linga-Yoni.jpg|thumb|left|Linga-yoni from Cat Tien, Vietnam]]
'''Yoni''' is a [[Sanskrit]]<ref group=note>Sanskrit being the liturgical language of Hinduism.</ref> word for the female genitalia, and can also mean “womb” or “source” and also “vulva,” “life,” “nest,” and even “caste” and “race.”

==In Hinduism==
The yoni is the symbol of the [[goddess]] Shakti or Devi. In many [[India]]n and [[Hinduism|Hindu]] cultures it is worshiped in conjunction with the ''liṇga'' the emblem of the god, particularly ''Śiva''. Small models of the joined ''liṇga'' and ''yoni'' are found in all parts of India. Worship of the ''yoni'' is believed to have begun in the pre-Vedic period in India, about 4000 [[BCE]] or earlier.<ref group=note>Although new discoveries at Harappa suggest the practice might be far older</ref> and continues to be worshiped today, specifically at the Kamakhya Temple.

Archaeological evidence in India have found at least one [[myth|story]] in which Śiva takes the form of a buffalo and is mistakenly sacrificed to the goddess and reborn from her yoni.  In southern India there are numerous places where stones with clefts are worshipped as the goddess' yoni. A symbol of the yoni is the triangle, another from yoga, is the paired hands, in the form of that triangle.

==In alternative medicine==
[[Yoni steaming]] (in which a woman's vagina is steamed) is a modern infusion of [[yoni]] myth into [[alternative medicine]].

==External links==
*http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Alison/lexophilia/coolwords/index.html
*http://www.answers.com/topic/yoni

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Your Logical Fallacy Is

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'''Your Logical Fallacy Is''' ('''YLFI''') is a website detailing 24 [[logical fallacy|logical fallacies]]. The page was constructed by '''Jesse Richardson''', an "ad guy", who attempted to make all of the fallacies as simple as possible.<ref>https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/faq</ref>

==''Ad hominem'' entry==
YLFI:<ref>http://www.yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ad-hominem</ref>

{{quotebox|You attacked your opponent's character or personal traits instead of engaging with their argument.

Ad hominem attacks can take the form of overtly attacking somebody, or more subtly casting doubt on their character or personal attributes. The desired result of an ad hom attack is to undermine one's opponent without actually having to engage with their argument or present a compelling argument of one's own.

Example: After Sally presents an eloquent and compelling case for a more equitable taxation system, Sam asks the audience whether we should believe anything from a woman who isn't married, was once arrested, and smells a bit weird.}}

The entry on ''ad hominem'' on YLFI fails to adequately explain what does not count as an ''ad hominem''. ''Ad hominem'' isn't just being abusive or mean, it is saying that the person is wrong ''because'' of the purported negative characteristic that you attribute to them.

Creationists, for instance, aren't wrong because they are idiots. They are wrong because the evidence doesn't support their point of view. The fact that they persist in believing their point of view in spite of the evidence may be good cause for saying that they are idiots, though. That isn't ad hominem.

Saying "this guy is a wifebeater!" isn't an ''ad hominem'' (no, not even if he’s not actually a wifebeater). Saying "you shouldn't believe what this man says about quantum physics because he is a wifebeater" is. See: [[Argumentum ad hominem#Not ad hom|Argumentum ad hominem § Not ad hom]].

==See also==
*[[Fallacy Files]]
*[[SeekFind.net]]
*[[Nizkor Project]]

==External links==
*[https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ Your Logical Fallacy Is]
:*[https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/poster Posters]
*[http://youarenotsosmart.com/ You Are Not So Smart], their other website

==References==
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Yukihisa Fujita

[[File:Yukihisa Fujita.jpg|thumb|left|165px|Fujita in 2011]]
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'''Yukihisa Fujita''' {{lived|1950}} is a member of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) in the House of Councillors and a [[9/11 conspiracy theories|9/11 Truther]]. Before kicking off his Truther career, he was most known for getting an admission from Prime Minister Taro Aso that his family's mining company, Aso Mining, had used Australian and American POWs as forced labor during World War II.<ref>Yukihisa Fujita (trans. William Underwood). [http://www.japanfocus.org/-Fujita-Yukihisa/3127 Aso Mining's Indelible Past.] ''The Asia-Pacific Journal'', Vol. 16-4-09, April 19, 2009</ref>

In 2008, he decided to go off the deep end and on a 9/11 "truth" tour. He made a presentation to the National Diet of Japan demanding his fellow Councillors question the official story.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOF_pXW84io Fujita questions 9/11]</ref> Fujita repeated a number of [[PRATT|long debunked]] Trutherisms, mostly about the World Trade Center 7 building and the "suspicious" wreckage at [[the Pentagon]]. He then whined about being called a conspiracy theorist but later co-authored a book called ''Seeking 9/11 Truth at Japan's Parliament'' with notorious Truther [[David Ray Griffin]] and appeared on [[Alex Jones]].<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHBpI3OJNwE Fujita on Jones]</ref>

In an interview, Fujita claimed that his initial doubts were raised by internet videos such as ''[[Loose Change]]'',<ref>John Spiri. [http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2008/06/17/issues/lawmaker-takes-911-doubts-global/#.U6ejo_ldWSo Lawmaker Takes 9/11 Doubts Global.] ''Japan Times'', Jun. 17 2008</ref> which should give you a hint as to his credibility.

==External links==
*[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/07/AR2010030702354.html A leading Japanese politician espouses a 9/11 fantasy], ''Washington Post'', Mar. 8 2010

==References==
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