Terrae Ignis 🇺🇸

You are welcome to change my mind. 𒁹𒉡𒀭𒊏

[Terrae Ignis 🇺🇸 @TerraeIgnis]

Wokeness is elites’ answer to elite overproduction.

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@ilan_wurman Had it not for a friendly court, the lawsuit would have been tossed for lack of standing.

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@glukianoff This is not a 1A case. This is FIRE doing the bidding for its open boarders libertarian backer. Stanford Daily, John Doe and Jane Doe have no legal standing to sue the State Dept. had it not for the friendly court.

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@jeremykauffman These are people who want to test the limit of the paradox of liberty.

[Terrae Ignis 🇺🇸 @TerraeIgnis]

@JoelWBerry You don't have to deny nature to believe in nurture. You can make a moral argument that values of human lives are the same despite their physical differences. But burying your head in the sand doesn't change the reality that human civilization has evolved to favor intelligence.

[Terrae Ignis 🇺🇸 @TerraeIgnis]

You don't have to deny nature to believe in nurture. You can make a moral argument that values of human lives are the same despite their physical differences. But burying your head in the sand doesn't change the reality that human civilization has evolved to favor intelligence.

[Joel Berry @JoelWBerry]

No one says everyone is “born exactly the same.” No one believes that. There are differences between individuals and even some groups as we choose to categorize them. We even have our petty bigotries and prejudice from time to time. So did the Founding Fathers.

But we also believe in the biblical Christianity of the founders: all men are made in God’s image and are born equal in dignity and claim to equal justice before God.

We believe that genetic characteristics are value neutral, and healthy, first-world societies define themselves by values, not DNA.

We believe nurture, culture, values, environment, religion, and individual choices do more to shape a man than his DNA. That’s because we believe man is more than just meat. We believe just judgement looks at the individual and evaluates him based on his choices and character rather than his race.

And we believe there is no scientific or biblical justification for a hierarchy of race, or a biblical or scientific mandate to keep races separate. God made them “male and female.” He ordained sex. He didn’t ordain certain genetic lineages. (No, not even the Jews are a pure genetic lineage. The Bible is clear about this. They were a people defined by covenant, not blood)

This is why the written revelation of God is so important. God tells us what we should care about and what matters. Obsession with genetic differences, disordered overemphasis is psychotic. And the disingenuous claim that those not obsessed with genetic differences are denying them altogether is even more so.

[Terrae Ignis 🇺🇸 @TerraeIgnis]

@lukerosiak Now, if the leading AI companies want to improve their public image and show people that AI can actually do some good for the society.

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@JustinBrannan @Rainmaker1973 Well…

[Terrae Ignis 🇺🇸 @TerraeIgnis]

For moderates, declaring or imply Cofnas being a racist has two obvious benefits: 1. not losing one's place in the polite circle and 2. enhance one's image as a bona fide 1A advocate.

[Dr. Ashley T. Rubin @ashleytrubin]

The ACLU explained it decades ago: if you can defend a racist's speech rights, you are ensuring all speech rights are safe. Saying academic freedom doesn't apply to someone because you think they are racist is an incredibly dangerous argument. https://t.co/hIKszAPUoT

[Terrae Ignis 🇺🇸 @TerraeIgnis]

@JeremyTate41 The criticism of CB dumbing down the SAT is mostly on the verbal section. It should be noted that the math section has been watered down too. Before 1994, calculator was prohibited. Then it was allowed for a portion of the math section. Now, BlueBook has a build-in calculator.

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@helenlewis The post-truth moment started when the differences between men and women were denied, which you yourself played a role in.

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@johnarmstrong5 Universities do support people who are at the center of media controversies, but only those who are ideologically aligned.

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This Wesleyan prof obviously understands what is a good read and yet insists on assigning your kids junk while charging $76K a year just in tuition. In any other business, this behavior is called fraud.

[Steve McGuire @sfmcguire79]

The reader below is for an orientation program (not a full course) at UATX.

Let’s look at the comparable program at Professor Steinmetz-Jenkins’s institution, Wesleyan University.

It runs a “First Year Matters” program, the goal of which “is to introduce all new Wesleyan students to intellectual life on campus by selecting a book, film/documentary, or performance that is thought-provoking and scholarly.”

The reading this year, “Birdgirl: Discovering the Power of our Natural World,” is a 2022 memoir by “birder, environmentalist, diversity activist” Mya-Rose Craig.

According to the book description, she has “seen first-hand the reckless destruction we are inflicting on our fragile planet, as well as the pervasive racism infecting every corner of the world, leading her to campaign for Black, Indigenous, people of color.”

In the book, she “shares her passion for social justice and fierce dedication to preserving our planet.”

Here are, I believe, the previous five assignments:

2025: Origin (film), directed by Ava DuVernay (based on Caste by Isabel Wilkerson)

2024: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

2023: The Loneliest Americans: Finding a Multitude in the Journey of Asian America by Jay Caspian Kang

2022: Guardians of the Trees: A Journey of Hope Through Healing the Planet by Dr. Kinari Webb

2021: The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee

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@jonathanmaze Consumer behaviors are just fascinating. It’s considered gluttonous to munch on a donut in the afternoon, yet it raises no eyebrows to consume a 20oz sugary drink with food coloring.

[Terrae Ignis 🇺🇸 @TerraeIgnis]

PD: Flock cameras improve public safety. Your tax dollars and privacy are the necessary costs.

Also PD: Gang members brandishing illegal firearms in broad daylight “poses no direct threat to the general public.”

[Matt Robinson @mattrobinson]

Hazel Crest Police Department @HazelCrestILPD has made an announcement regarding video

[Terrae Ignis 🇺🇸 @TerraeIgnis]

This is the reading material for orientation, not a syllabus for a course on freedom.

Do you have to be able to read to be an assistant professor at Wesleyan University?

[Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins @daniel_dsj2110]

The University of Austin's syllabus for a course on freedom. What range:

[Terrae Ignis 🇺🇸 @TerraeIgnis]

"Black kids are afraid to go outside."

[Matt Robinson @mattrobinson]

Teenage gang members in Chicago suburb Hazel Crest IL doing a vlog posted outside flashing guns in broad daylight.

[Terrae Ignis 🇺🇸 @TerraeIgnis]

@mattrobinson @HazelCrestILPD "While this video is very disturbing, there does not appear to be any direct threat to the general public."

WTF! Did the Hazel Crest PD just declare that wielding illegal firearms pose no direct threat to the general public?

[Terrae Ignis 🇺🇸 @TerraeIgnis]

@emmma_camp_ @WSJFreeEx Capitalism didn't make products inferior in quality. However, crony capitalism did turn a blind eye on manufacturers' shenanigans of planned obsolescence.

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@RealJamesWoods If she doesn't care about the cows, she could have just gone to LA.

[Terrae Ignis 🇺🇸 @TerraeIgnis]

@washingtonpost As to whether it's justified to close an academic program in a university, answer this one question: Are ideas/beliefs of this field rigorously contested by its own practitioners?

The next question is what other programs have no reason to exist in colleges & must be shut down.