Political correctness doesn't exist, cultural Marxism doesn't exist, Pantyfa doesn't exist, "cancel culture" doesn't exist...none of that bad stuff about the left exists, bigot! Except it isn't bad! They're good! Pantyfa is anti-facist activists! What could be better than being anti-fascist? Huh? Like the Allies! And Churchill! And political correctness just means expressing your opinion about stuff like racial slurs! That's all! So it's good! Except...it doesn't exist. But if it did, it would be good. So why don't we do it? Shut up, bigot! And "cancel culture" just means that if you do something against our psychotic, hard-left dogma...like...state facts...then we express our disapproval...to your employer. And anyone who might think about being your employer some day. And local...um...activists who might be interested in your contact information. And if your employer happens to express his opinion by firing you, well, it's just like...uh...free speech or something. Which we are against, BTW. But we're for firing you. And if your employer doesn't choose to fire you, well, then, maybe we'll choose to rally the loon mob and boycott his business until he decides to exercise his free speech in a way that's acceptable to us. Not, again, that we're for free speech. Because we are not.
Anyway.
This guy's experience is basically my own...except I started this blog when anonymity on the interwebs was still a thing.
Oh, also: PZ Meyers has long been a dumbass. It came as no surprise to me at all that he eagerly joined the Lysenkoist mob.
In fact--to my mind--one of the most amusing / horrifying / disgusting / baffling things about the progressive left is that it's rabidly anti-science in spirit and in actual fact...but it constantly trumpets this line that it's the party of science and the other guys are anti-science. In my entire lifetime, the only other faction that has been anywhere near as (de facto) anti-science as the contemporary progressive left was (is?) the religious right. In fact, in my estimation, the PC / progressive left is much, much worse. The religious right always had the status as outsider, and, at its worst, threatened to basically upend and distort a few things here and there--notably how evolution is taught. Even if they'd won, the victory would have been limited and temporary. The progressive left has spread rot throughout public discussions of science, and seems to have driven it down into actual science itself. Imagine what kind of delusion it takes to proclaim that male and female are not biological categories, but that they are simply social statuses that one can change at whim and by fiat? That is probably the single most unscientific view that's become popular with any significant group in my entire lifetime of observing this stuff. It makes intelligent design theory seem like Newtonian mechanics. Hell, at least ID was kinda interesting. At least it was an opportunity to discuss the teleological argument. "Social constructionism" is just magic--but not even honest magic. It's magic that denies that it's magic, pretending that it's science by spewing a fog of bullshit. "Word magic" as one of my old profs used to put it. Nobody'd buy it if it weren't politically correct to do so. I'd say that it's evidence that philosophy is worth something because competent philosophers would never fall for such idiocy...but apparently like all the philosophers on the internet have...for whatever that's worth. If the arguments were even vaguely plausible it'd be one thing...but they simply aren't.
Anyway, remember: the PC left survives by shrieking hysterically, lying, personally attacking dissenters, and generally just shutting down criticism of itself. That's not what a group does if it can win--or even compete--in the public debate.
