“The best way to avoid thinking about the incoherence of one’s worldview is to remain in perpetual dramatic conflict with one’s ideological enemies. Group conflict feels like it has its own inherent justification: We need to defeat them before they defeat us. That feels like enough to ground an interpretation of the world for today.”
https://t.co/KWx3m2liKd
When I was in college around 2014, there was a “rape culture” mania, where students would compete to feel the most “unsafe” about being raped on campus (or intentionally hooking up while drunk. What’s the difference?) It was unquestionable that “rape culture” permeated the very bricks of the lecture halls and dorms.
I tried to tell them that I knew a real rape culture, and it was Islamic.
I expected angry reactions. But instead, the rich leftist students couldn’t process my report far enough to get angry. The blankest of blank stares I’ve ever seen. It was as if I told them that the color four sleeps furiously.
This single experience contains at least five lessons about human nature and evil.
Je vais être clair.
Ce qui a produit les viols de masse.
C’est le gauchisme / le wokisme / le socialisme et l’empathie suicidaire.
Les gens vont devoir choisir un camp.
Le premier camp, c’est le camp de la liberté, la responsabilité individuelle, du mérite et les villes qui ne sentent pas le pipi.
Le deuxième camp, c’est le camp dysfonctionnel, où tout se transforme en merde, le camp de l’étatisme socialo-communiste à outrance qui rend les gens malheureux et qui dans sa phase terminal, accepte que 250.000 gamines se fassent violer pour le “bien commun” et la peur de se faire traiter de “rascite”.
Partez. Et ne revenez jamais.
Ceux qui ont participé de près ou de loin aux grooming gangs, en conscience.
Vous méritez l’exil ou le bagne.
Rape gangs are not some kind of aberration. Ask any combat veteran what they saw in Afghanistan. The sexual torture and slavery of children is utterly commonplace in Muslim countries. It’s part of their “culture.” Which is why it’s suicidal to import that culture into the west.
This is the worst thing I've ever read. I don't know how it can be done but the reality is most people won't read the full report. It needs to be made into a documentary and played in every home and every classroom. If someone doesn't know about this by this time next year they should be publicly shamed. It's the worst atrocity ever committed against children.
We have further proof that Dr. Fauci had deep connections to the intelligence agencies. When COVID-19 came about, he leveraged those connections to steer the intelligence community away from the idea that a lab leak took place at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. We now know a lab leak is likely what occurred.
https://t.co/3ZAlT6UAiu
Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine.
In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted.
https://t.co/pLMD0krc69
@christopherrufo Does this imply that San Francisco is collaborating with an intelligence agency proxy to ship in Hondurans?
If not, then by what legal rationale can they redact any information that’s not covered by HIPAA etc?
@MattNoahSmith The lady in the screenshot makes the distinction in order to emphasize that sociologists do BOTH. That’s what “BALANCE” between scholarship and advocacy means: distinct and both essential to the ASA president’s goals.
Why lie about this?
Or do you need remedial reading classes?
@RedLeaderRobby@GreeneMan6 It’s really the same thing. Look at all of the evil characters in Lord of the Rings (wraiths, gollum, etc). They were normal people, but lost themselves by chasing the allure of unearned power. That’s precisely what the twisted face of the generic millennial girlboss shows.
I have been seeing a certain archetypal commenter in the spotlight recently; all women my age, progressive, and employed at mainstream institutions. I don't know them. Yet in every case, I can intuit their origin story.
It goes something like this:
> be an older millennial female, no strong passion, but strive hard in school
> reach High School
> steer clear of the kids who like talking about “far out” philosophical issues
> also steer clear of student government and debate club, which seems too contentious and vaguely threatening
> focus on getting perfect marks, complying with college reqs. Get into top uni based on those marks
> get introduced to politics in freshmen social justice class, instantly floored
> the appeal of college politics is just how cut-and-dried it is. Unlike other fields, it has a clear “good” and “bad” side, no ambiguity. The “good” side always wins in classroom discussions, you feel like a hero for validating consensus with "The Conversation"
> politics becomes your religion, “this is my passion!”
> graduate with top marks and recs. Your degree is essentially in “Current Thing-ism”. Have no broad understanding of history or philosophy.
> Your concept of human events is just people being oppressed for 4000 years until feminism and progress happened in the 20th c.
> despite the Global Financial Crisis, immediately get hired by a government/media org because they want someone who “understands the role of female politics in our new digital era!”
> most of your colleagues share your perspective, the ones who don't are older guys on their way to retirement, not looking for the confrontation that disagreeing with you would certainly involve.
> great awokening happens, double down on Current-Thingism politics
> organe-man-bad and COVID happens, triple down on politics.
> you are 15 years deep in your career, you have never once genuinely engaged with a peer who didn't validate your worldview or who you didn't consider a "token" opposition to placade your political enemies
> vibe shift happens, establishment uncertain, time to have a "conversation" with the people you've considered deplorable
> have conversation, hear non-progressive opinion that is common in the modern world, historically ubiquitous
> react with schock, umbrage horror. "Can you even believe this is happening?"
> confident that non-progressive opinion is trivially easy to refute, somehow have no idea how to actually refute it
> unaware just how deeply you have been betrayed by your education, such that the average educated man on the street has more practical understanding of what politics is than you do with decades of "experience."
Last night, I read the entirety of C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters. It's a novel told in the form of letters written by a demon to another demon instructing him on ways to manipulate his "patient" to do evil.
This one quote sounded familiar.
@AmericanALCHMY I usually love this show, but the this episode is absolutely full of insufferable AI writing. The information is good, but the AI writing style made me cringe for a straight hour and 40 minutes.