Some thoughts on their political dilemma.
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A long post, but worthwhile: Social Justice cannot be reasoned with.
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Academics are really, really worried about their freedom.
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Ed Markey just won a Senate seat by promising a green-socialist revolution. (https://twitter.com/Jacopo_della_Q/status/1300972251832102912)
When he doesn’t deliver, some of his constituents will be angry.
“A long post, but worthwhile: Social Justice cannot be reasoned with.”
Maybe chop it down a bit:
“Debate and conversation, especially when they rely upon reason, rationality, science, evidence, epistemic adequacy, and other Enlightenment-based tools of persuasion are the very thing they think produced injustice in the world in the first place. Those are not their methods and they reject them. Their methods are, instead, storytelling and counter-storytelling, appealing to emotions and subjectively interpreted lived experience, and problematizing arguments morally, on their moral terms. Because they know the dominant liberal order values those things sense far less than rigor, evidence, and reasoned argument, they believe the whole conversation and debate game is intrinsically rigged against them in a way that not only leads to their certain loss but also that props up the existing system and then further delegitimizes the approaches they advance in their place. Critical Social Justice Theorists genuinely believe getting away from the “master’s tools” is necessary to break the hegemony of the dominant modes of thought. Debate is a no-win for them.”
https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=45535
From different link:
“Some of the money quotes:
“We were in a faculty meeting [at Evergreen], and I said that the proposals that were moving through were a threat to the Enlightenment values that were the basis of the institution. And what I got back was something I had never heard before, which was an attack not only on the Enlightenment but on the idea of enlightenment. I was just so stunned. I was a college professor amongst faculty and somebody was actually saying out loud that Enlightenment was a problem and nobody in the room said anything.”
“If you end up in Critical Theory, any one of these fields, Women’s Studies, Queer Studies, whatever, it is you have already foregone this option [of studying STEM]. You don’t end up in Critical Theory if you have the chops to do science. So in effect you have people who don’t stand to personally benefit from opening those doors wider, because they wouldn’t go through them, arguing that nobody should go through those doors.”
“An excellent student, one of the best ones we ever had, was a young woman named Odette. Odette is half black her mom is Afro-Caribbean, she was known to be my student and Heather [Haying, Weinstein’s wife and also a teacher at Evergreen]’s student during the riots. And she was actually confronted and physically bullied by the rioters who accused her of being a race traitor for studying science. This actually happened.”
“If #BlackLivesMatter just simply meant what those words imply, I’d be on board with it. It doesn’t. It means a great deal more than that, and we’re beginning to see that in the last couple of weeks.”
“There’s something in us that thinks that the Great Leap Forward in China cannot happen here. That what happened in Cambodia cannot happen here. That Nazi Germany cannot happen, and that the Soviet Union couldn’t happen here. I don’t know what characteristic it is that people think makes it impossible. I don’t think it’s impossible. I think if there is a characteristic that makes it unlikely, it is the structure it is the Constitution.” (I would contend that widespread gun-ownership and ingrained American individualism make it very unlikely. I also wonder if he means the Cultural Revolution rather than the Great Leap Forward.)
“The proposals that are coming out of this movement are quite foolish. The strategy is incredibly smart.”
“If there’s one most important lesson out of the whole Evergreen fiasco, it’s that the police can be withdrawn from a situation and chaos takes a matter of hours to emerge, which we are also seeing in Seattle.”
“The idea that you could withdraw the police first is absolutely insane.”
“Joe Biden is an influence peddler. He is not an idea guy. He’s the same idea as Hillary Clinton in a different morphology. Who cares? This is not an answer to any known question. This is stay the course at a moment when we could not afford to stay the course less right. How dare the Democratic Party do this to us again at this moment?”
“Hillary Clinton advanced Trump’s candidacy because she wanted to run against him. So if you if you have Trump Derangement Syndrome, you still have to be angry at the Democratic Party for putting us in this predicament.” ”
https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=44809
Here’s one for the SJW’s: Subjective morality is immoral.
Social Justice cannot be reasoned with.
My emphasis.
No. Isolation, quarantine and battle are all fine and good, but if the response is always “the rules are wrong; you’re racist” you end up going in circles, which is exactly what they want. There’s a forth alternative that short-circuits the whole farce: laughter. Taking them seriously, again, is really what they want. Their greatest fear is not destruction, it’s eternal irrelevance. The goal should not be to see them quietly shut-up, go home and learn to pour coffee, as that will never happen. It should be to see them endlessly screaming “I’m Not Irrelevant!”.
There’s a forth alternative that short-circuits the whole farce: laughter.
Well they graduated to violence, death and destruction…I don’t think laughing at them is the best response.
You can laugh your way out of the bank after they close down your account for not being woke enough.
Mocking them might be part of a solution but it doesn’t do anything when they hold real power over the populace. And what good will mocking them do when no one can hear the jokes?
“2) The on-the-ground foot soldiers of the insurrection have no structural imperative to actually heed the Biden plea. They’re in control of the ideological narrative on the Democratic side — remember, this same Presidential campaign has literally been bailing some of them out of jail — and they don’t feel themselves under any particular constraint or pressure from the mostly Democratic city and prosecutorial officeholders in whose jurisdiction they operate. Ending violence means giving up the source of their own power, and no institution is going to do that.”
This guy gets pretty close in many ways but he misses one big point. These “foot soldiers” are not just a bunch of randos. They didn’t spring forth after the latest rain. They have a name and that name is Democrat. These groups are funded and organized by Democrats in service of the Democrat party. This is why Democrat mayors, DAs, and police forces coddle them.
It is very important to name them.
Think on this. Democrats need to get the progressive marxist base to vote for Biden after Sanders getting rigged out of running on the ticket yet again. Democrats also need black people to turn against other races and band together as a single racial block to vote for Biden. In both cases, Democrats are worried that these groups wont vote. Polls show Trump getting more support with black people. Which groups did Democrats mobilize to get in the streets?
“In a 2014 paper by the black feminist epistemology heavyweight Kristie Dotson…”
Tsk tsk. Body shaming. Unacceptable. Here:
“In a 2014 paper by the big boned black feminist epistemology [guru]
heavyweightKristie Dotson…”We won’t get anywhere with this sort of rhetoric…
From the “Academics Are Really Worried” link:
Notice the typical double standard. The cancel culture can object all it wants at even extremely modest slights like using the wrong pronoun or words derived from black. Even if the slights described by the Harper’s letter really were merely people taken to task, it long ago crossed the threshold for cancel culture legitimacy, were it against the right targets!
Some animals are more equal than others.
Here is the real box the Dems have put themselves in:
After 4 years of made up stories about Trump – the latest being that he dissed wounded WWI soldiers – and after they’ve been shot down one after the other, they’ve lost the punch that an “October Surprise” would have.
No one believes them any more except TDS-people