Burying The Politically Incorrect Lede: WHITE SUPREMACISTS CHUG TEH MILKZ...in other news race not "socially constructed"...
On the one hand, you've gotcher basic neo-Klansmen cavorting around shirtless, chugging milk, and bragging about...and I can't stress it enough that I'm not making this up...Neanderthal DNA... I'm gonna just assume, as usual, that there's no reason to pay any attention at all to those guys.
On the other hand, you've got our politicized scientific establishment...caught in a stew of lies, stupid, undergraduate-level reasoning, and bullshitting...claiming, e.g., that race is "socially constructed."
Now:...though "socially constructed" barely means anything at all...if you deny that race is "socially constructed," you're a racist. Even though the claim is at best false and at worst meaningless. If you point out that it's false: racist. Criticize the arguments: racist. Explain the philosophical confusions underlying it: racist. Dare to suggest that truth matters: racist.
The only argument that is permitted is: the theory helps racists.
That is: every acceptable argument must have the aim of countering racism. Merely aiming at truth is impermissible.
Now...there's little doubt that this idiocy will help out racists in the medium-run. The left has colonized any science that impinges on politics and turned it to the left's purposes. And that includes genetics. So now we have a deeply-rooted, vocal, shrill commitment to a loony metaphysics and a bunch of terrible science about race. This is a big, fat, slow, hanging pitch right over the middle, just waiting to be murdered out of the park by the cavorting milk-chuggers. And, to be clear: they'll be right.
One of my guiding ideas has long been: you can be a liberal without being an idiot.
But I have to say, I'm less sure of that every day.
On the other hand, you've got our politicized scientific establishment...caught in a stew of lies, stupid, undergraduate-level reasoning, and bullshitting...claiming, e.g., that race is "socially constructed."
Now:...though "socially constructed" barely means anything at all...if you deny that race is "socially constructed," you're a racist. Even though the claim is at best false and at worst meaningless. If you point out that it's false: racist. Criticize the arguments: racist. Explain the philosophical confusions underlying it: racist. Dare to suggest that truth matters: racist.
The only argument that is permitted is: the theory helps racists.
That is: every acceptable argument must have the aim of countering racism. Merely aiming at truth is impermissible.
Now...there's little doubt that this idiocy will help out racists in the medium-run. The left has colonized any science that impinges on politics and turned it to the left's purposes. And that includes genetics. So now we have a deeply-rooted, vocal, shrill commitment to a loony metaphysics and a bunch of terrible science about race. This is a big, fat, slow, hanging pitch right over the middle, just waiting to be murdered out of the park by the cavorting milk-chuggers. And, to be clear: they'll be right.
One of my guiding ideas has long been: you can be a liberal without being an idiot.
But I have to say, I'm less sure of that every day.
posted by Winston Smith at
3:36 PM
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