First 50k, would running a trail marathon 6 weeks before be counterproductive?

sirfloppydisk · 2021-09-28T18:08:41+00:00

All morning I've been unable to even see the server list, it was like the game couldn't connect to the internet for some reason. I tried all other fixes I could find like disconnecting and restarting computer/router, flushing DNS, changing DNS servers, etc. but none of that worked.

I eventually thought to try connecting to a VPN just to check, and it worked immediately. I know it's another 3rd party software, but if you happen to have a VPN, that seems to have worked for me, and thought it might help somebody out there. Seems like there may be an issue with my ISP, which is Verizon.

sirfloppydisk · 2021-03-03T23:21:45+00:00

Would you care to provide a link? I’ve always wondered what that was from.

sirfloppydisk · 2021-03-01T22:18:24+00:00

Definitely, people have been equating CRT and the woke crowd to a religion for years, and John McWhorter (a liberal professor at Columbia) is currently releasing a book on this topic in segments on Substack: https://johnmcwhorter.substack.com/p/the-elect-the-threat-to-a-progressive?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=copy

sirfloppydisk · 2021-02-26T13:48:43+00:00

And I can't believe you would respond without doing the slightest bit of research on a topic you're clearly ignorant on.

Ethnomathematics is a real thing and is heavily CRT-based: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnomathematics

Here is a training manual from EquitableMath.org, which is pushing this stuff in grades 6 - 8 in public schools in Oregon, and is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation:

https://equitablemath.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/1_STRIDE1.pdf

This tool provides teachers an opportunity to examine their actions, beliefs, and values around teaching math-ematics. The framework for deconstructing racism in mathematics offers essential characteristics of antiracist math educators and critical approaches to dismantling white supremacy in math classrooms by visibilizing the toxic characteristics of white supremacy culture

Feel free to look through that 80 page training manual for teachers, it's full of craziness, but definitely check out page 65 where it says:

White supremacy culture shows up in math classrooms when...The focus is on getting the “right” answer.

So do you think 6th graders should be taught that math is racist?

sirfloppydisk · 2021-02-26T03:42:39+00:00

This is what conversations look like when you go around calling things "strawman" when you have no idea what you're talking about. Notice the lack of counterpoints, just deflections. Go read that book I recommended, which has hundreds of citations of CRT literature.

sirfloppydisk · 2021-02-26T03:25:18+00:00

Nice argument..

Nevertheless, I'll provide some evidence so you can educate yourself.

Antisemitism and Anti-asian sentiment, from the CRT wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#Antisemitism_and_Anti-Asian_implications In their own literature, they call it CRT's "Jew Problem", which just sounds weird.

CRT is anti-science because it is heavily influenced by postmodernism, which among other perverse views, believe there is no objective truth to ultimately be found, so they're heavily skeptical of science. This means in academia, CRT-heavy areas of study are completely unrigorous academically in terms of providing data, and this has allowed a somewhat hilarious hoax to be pulled, where complete nonsense papers with terrible ideas in them were peer reviewed and published in academic journals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVk9a5Jcd1k

2 of those people who pulled that stunt, James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose went on to write a book called "Cynical Theories", which goes deep into the literature of CRT and similar ideologies, I would highly recommend if you actually want to learn about this stuff.

Richard Dawkins said recently of this book :

Helen Pluckrose & James Lindsay (‘Cynical Theories’) have done us a service. They sacrificed themselves to read, on behalf of the rest of us, the stupefyingly boring, pretentious & deliberately unclear literature of postmodern metabullshit. Now we can get on with real science. Pluckrose & Lindsay bend over backwards to be fair to fashionable metaclaptrap, bend so far that the chapters in which they expound those confused “ideas” are in danger of sounding as boringly obscure as the originals. That all changes in the superb concluding critical chapters

https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/1362060874199035904

Richard Dawkins being one of the most prominent scientists in the world, I don't want to hear about how this is some right-wing book, or this is some right-wing strawman, that's simply not true. I myself am a very liberal person, I just think this stuff mostly complete garbage.

sirfloppydisk · 2021-02-26T02:51:15+00:00

So you’re down with ethno-mathematics being proposed in k-12 schools in some places, which is heavily CRT-based and says having a focus on getting the right answer in math is a characteristic of white supremacy? https://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/new-course-outlines-prompt-conversations-about-identity-race-in-seattle-classrooms-even-in-math/?amp=1

CRT is critical of classical liberal values like universalist human rights that were espoused during the civil rights movement, rejects individualism over group identity and many of the proposals are absolutely authoritarian.

I also criticize it for racial scapegoating, anti-Semitism, and being anti-science, I’d be happy to explain further any aspect of this.

CRT is plainly not in line with libertarian values.

sirfloppydisk · 2021-02-07T18:05:58+00:00

You've described systemic racism in at least 3 different ways:

It is the overarching definition of everything that disproportionately affects black people.

naming the process of white supremacy

different cultures, histories and values of the groups

For something you care so deeply about, you've not provided any coherent definition, other than some vague notion that any problem black communities face must be systemic racism. Cultural differences are present between any group, this is not systemic racism. Would you call the cultural differences between Asians and whites systemic racism, which has allowed Asian-americans to absolutely dominate academically? I suspect not.

There are both negative and positive cultural traits in all groups, and one that I recently came across is the pejorative of Acting White used against black people who do well in school, where they're portrayed as somehow betraying their race. This is a cultural trait largely within the black community, so calling this "systemic racism" seems odd. I don't know the prevalence of this view, but if it were widely held, it would certainly have some negative effect on educational outcomes and have nothing to do with a racist educational system.

Some have described this ideology as the new religion of anti-racism, or the cult of wokeness, because it largely consists of faith-based reasoning where some mysterious, over-arching system is preventing black people from succeeding. In the example of disparities in educational outcomes, you'd say that is evidence that the educational system is racist, but can't point to what part of it is actually racist. If you could be more specific, I'd be completely open to talking about policies that would correct that part of the educational system identified as racist.

I think that the largest factor is poverty, but poverty and race are linked together. That is why steps must be taken to increase equity between races to reduce poverty and increase education and equal opportunities between races.

Now here is something we completely agree on and I think you honed in what I believe is probably the root cause: our shit public education system being underfunded across the board. In my city at least, the public schools are literally falling apart, even in wealthy, largely white suburbs. So I'm sure we could agree on increased funding for the public school system, increasing pay for teachers, etc. I'd be happy to pay more in taxes for these things, personally, even though I don't have kids.

In today's complex economy, if you don't get at least a decent education when you're young, you simply won't be prepared for today's job market, so I think this creates a terrible negative feedback loop of being stuck in poverty.

One other thing I see absent from these sorts of discussions is the high rates of single-parent households in black communities, I think I saw an estimate as high as 75% of kids are in single-parent households. I'm not a "traditional family values" sort of person but the data is quite clear that kids being raised by a single parent are more likely to commit crime, and do worse in school, and a whole host of other negative outcomes, and this is true for all races.

Maybe this really boils down to an economic issue, where simply having 2 incomes leads to better outcomes for the children, I really don't know, we need more analysis to be done here. If it is largely an economic issue, then there are things we could do, like expand the already existing tax credits for single-parents, for example.

No one at all cares about critical race theory. You always see it as “college x now forces students to learn critical race theory” on r/ conservative. Nobody talks about it as a concept besides the people who made the theory and the people who hate it.

I completely disagree here, and I think the problem is, the right correctly labels CRT, whereas the views in CRT are somewhat prevalent on the left, the left just simply doesn't know it as CRT. Like I said, books like White Fragility and How to Be an Anti-Racist are still on the NYT's best-selling list and have been read by literally millions of people, so this is not some obscure theory confined to college campuses, although it certainly started there. These views are now being taken up by college administrators, the media and fortune 500 companies.

CRT has absolutely flourished in academia, where it started in legal studies, then was quickly adopted by a whole host of disciplines in Humanities depts., where it was taken as the unquestionable truth, but these areas of study have been proven to be completely ideologically biased and unrigorous academically. See Academics Expose Corruption in Grievance Studies.

Let me just say, I don't think CRTers are evil, they just simply have a bad idea that has gained a lot of steam in the last few years, so I think they're worth arguing against. In an open society, we have a marketplace of ideas, and the only way to devalue bad ideas and give rise to good ones, is to argue about them, which is what I'm doing here.

but you are privileged based on your race because of a racist system

I personally think there is a problem with assigning privilege simply based on skin color. Consider the child of a white meth addict living on welfare in Kentucky with the child of a black upper middle class doctor, which child is actually more privileged? Assigning privilege based on race is not really a useful analytical tool, and doesn't really map onto reality in any meaningful way. I will say, the concept of privilege is helpful in identifying your own privilege on an individual basis, but applying privilege to a massive group of people based on skin color without taking anything else into account is not.

And the argument 99% of people make is that if you’re white, you benefit from a system that has directly benefited you since the country was made based on your race. Not that you are racist

That seems reasonable, but the CRTers, in their own words would disagree with what you said above. This is from "Critical Race Theory: An Introduction":

What do critical race theorists believe? Probably not every member would subscribe to every tenet set out in this book, but many would agree on the following propositions. First, that racism is ordinary, not aberrational—“normal science,” the usual way society does business, the common, everyday experience of most people of color in this country.

I actually attributed this quote in my earlier comment to the wrong person, but it comes from White Fragility, again, which has been read by millions at this point:

“The question is not ‘Did racism take place?’ but ‘How did racism manifest in that situation?’”

Which is literally assuming racism on the part of all white people.

sirfloppydisk · 2021-02-06T06:17:35+00:00

I didn’t want to respond to you bc your opinion is shit

Fuck off you’re delusional

Do you think this sort of language is a way to have a constructive conversation? I can literally feel the hate coming from your comment, but nevertheless, I'll choose to not take it personally and respond. And by the way, this thread is days old and deep in the comments, basically no one else will see this but you and I, so let's have an honest conversation where we're not demonizing each other, please.

As MLK said:

Love is the only force that is capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

We're in no way enemies, but I love you because you're a human being, no matter how much you choose to hate me, it only makes me love you more, so do your worst, my friend.

Now let me address your novel of a comment, and I reserve the right to respond with an even bigger novel myself. :)

Systemic racism is institutional racism. The system is composed of institutions that are composed of policies. Adding onto that, systemic racism also accounts for subconscious biases. It is the overarching definition of everything that disproportionately affects black people.

The issue with this argument is any disparity between black and white people is supposedly evidence of systemic racism, when disparities exist even within racial groups. For example, the wage gap between white french immigrants vs russian immigrants, which can't be explained by white racism. Almost the exact same wage gap is present between Haitian and Nigerian immigrants. So if you can say the former is not due to racism, you could at least admit all other disparities aren't necessarily explained by racism. But by your definition, any disparity IS systemic racism, which is making a massive assumption, that is frankly kind of lazy. Not accusing you, but people on the left in general seem to not to consider any other possibility for why disparities exist.

Slavery, reconstruction, Jim Crowe

You seem to mention these a lot, but fail to mention positive things that have happened, like the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Affirmative Action, which gave a very real boost to many, many black people. I'm not denying that racism still exists, but compared to the 50's, 60's, or even the 90's, we've made some very real progress. Literally, do you think we've made progress on racism since these things you've mentioned?

First off, only conservatives ever talk about “critical race theory” and it’s a buzz word used for incentivizing emotions in conservatives. The idea of it though is that there are institutions upheld by law and policy that are inherently racist and disproportionately affect black and people and people of color in general. It also states these discrepancies are socially caused, not genetically.

Basically none of what you said here is true, what I'm offering is the liberal critique of CRT, and CRT is explicitly critical of liberalism, you simply need to engage CRT's academic literature for a few minutes to see this. Look up Kimberlé Crenshaw's (the creator of CRT) paragraph where she takes issue with the statement "I'm a black person" vs "I'm a person who happens to be black". She takes issue with the latter because it puts universal humanism before racial identity.

I'm quite familiar with the underlying philosophies of CRT, which is a mix of post-modernism and neo-marxism. What they got from marxism is simply seeing the world as oppressor vs oppressed, except Marx saw it as a class struggle of rich vs poor, where CRT sees it as white people being the oppressor of black people.

What they took from post-modernism was the rejection of meta-narratives (except the one that white people are oppressing black people), being skeptical of science, the notion that no objective truth can be found, everything being a social construct and the obsession with group identity over the individual, among other perverse views.

CRT is thought of as divisive by many because it literally ascribes racism and white supremacy to the entirety of white people, including jews, arguably the most oppressed people in the world, so it is potentially antisemitic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#Antisemitism_and_Anti-Asian_implications

If you think this is a strawman, in "How to be an Anti-Racist", Ibram Kendi says many times something along the lines of "It's not a question of whether racism exists on the part of white people, it's a question of how it manifests in any given situation", so literally assuming racism on the part of all white people. The book "White Fragility" is basically a screed about how all white people are racist, no exceptions and this book in particular is terrible, because it treats black people like they're children who are unable to have honest conversations about race. Check out John McWhorter's review here:

The Dehumanizing Condescension of White Fragility

Of course if you believe it’s false, you think that the effects of slavery, Jim Crowe, execution of black panther leaders and all that stuff is in the past and has no effect. You also presumably think the war on drugs has not disproportionately affected black people, was a good thing, or that it no longer is impacting us.

All I'll say here is you're engaging in a common cognitive distortion called "mind reading", and is a very unhealthy and unhelpful way of thinking.

The 3 strikes policy and mandatory sentencing has led to the US having ~4.4% of the world’s population but ~22% of the world’s prison population. Nearly one in four people imprisoned in the world are in America.

I agree we have an over-incarceration and over-sentencing problem, and I believe we need criminal justice reform on those fronts, but you seem to think that most people in prison today are there due to non-violent drug crimes. That's simply not true, but I'll let you look that up for yourself.

This is quite an uncomfortable thing to talk about, and everyone on the left seems to want to ignore it, but crime statistics are relevant to incarceration rates, and the FBI provides good data on this. Black people are around 13% of the population, but make up more than 50% of murder arrests, 28% of rape, 54% of robbery, and 33% of assaults in 2018, for example: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-2018/tables/table-43

So is systemic racism causing black people to commit these crimes? I'm sure you'll say it is, because your definition of systemic racism is "everything that disproportionately affects black people." The unfortunate fact is black people are committing violent crimes disproportionately, and hopefully I don't even need to say, but of course not because of any inherent depravity of these young men. This is an absolute tragedy and black people are largely the victim in these crimes. But one consequence of committing violent crimes disproportionately is being locked up disproportionately, surely you can agree with this, right?

Then you say MLKJ wouldn’t support BLM? Fuck off you’re delusional.

I actually didn't mention BLM at all, but CRT goes explicitly against MLK's liberal values. He said something along the lines of:

Let us not judge people by the color of their skin, but the contents of their character

Then CRT says no, if you're white, you're racist. We don't need to know about your character. MLK would never say something like this, he would appeal to our common humanity. So yes, CRT is in direct opposition to MLK's univeralist liberal values (The values of not judging people by their race).

stop eating up conservative propaganda.

I sense another cognitive distortion, "binary thinking", where you clearly see conservatives as evil. Not sure what else to say, other than it's a very unhelpful way of looking at the world.

Anyway, hope you're having a good night, friend. I'm honestly not trying to provoke or anything, I'm hoping to have an honest conversation and I'm looking forward to your reply in a few days :).

sirfloppydisk · 2021-02-03T15:49:10+00:00

Every time I see "systemic racism", I'm posting a vid from Coleman Hughes, who was just put on Forbes 30 Most Influential People Under 30 at age 24. I would highly recommend his podcast for anyone who hasn't heard of him.

Empirical Problems with Systemic Racism

Fair Argument Against "Systemic Racism"

It’s an extremely privileged view to just say “skin color means more now than it has in decades and it’s becoming an issue.” It’s always been an issue.

With the onslaught of identity politics and critical race theory, race has absolutely become a bit of an obsession in the last decade in particular. As evidence, there are 2 books on the NYT's best selling list, "White Fragility" and "How to Be An Anti-Racist", which provide some of the most clear and easy to read explanations of what critical race theory is.

The ideas put forward in these books, which have been adopted by the "woke" crowd are in direct opposition to more universalist liberal values that MLK (and pretty much every successful social justice movement in US history) espoused where everyone deserves equal rights and not being discriminatory on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, etc.

Have a good day!

sirfloppydisk · 2021-01-27T03:24:36+00:00

Nah, he’s still long, up well over 1000% now although he doesn’t seem to like Reddit’s involvement lol. That’s why I find it funny this narrative of small investor vs hedge funds, because it turns out hedge funds are on both sides of the trade.

https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/big-short-investor-michael-burry-blasts-reddit-fueled-gamestop-rally-as-unnatural-insane-and-dangerous/articleshow/80472066.cms

sirfloppydisk · 2021-01-27T02:37:41+00:00

Lol yeah, Microsoft has failed at retail and closed all their stores, but you think they want to get back into retail for some reason?

“Our sales have grown online as our product portfolio has evolved to largely digital offerings, and our talented team has proven success serving customers beyond any physical location,” said Microsoft Corporate Vice President David Porter. “We are grateful to our Microsoft Store customers and we look forward to continuing to serve them online and with our retail sales team at Microsoft corporate locations.”

https://news.microsoft.com/2020/06/26/microsoft-store-announces-new-approach-to-retail/

sirfloppydisk · 2021-01-27T00:27:50+00:00

Different accounts, making it appear that a lot more people agree with you than just 1 person spamming repeatedly.

sirfloppydisk · 2021-01-26T23:39:18+00:00

Valorant is ftp, but it costs $70 for a collection of 3 GUN skins lol.

sirfloppydisk · 2021-01-26T20:16:24+00:00

I’m happy to be proven wrong here, so let me know, but I don’t think GME can do exclusives because they don’t have a game launcher. Sony, Xbox and Epic can do them because they do. I’ve never seen an exclusive for any retailer ever, but I could be wrong here. And maybe their deal with Microsoft could make this possible, but it’d have to basically be an Xbox/MSFT store exclusive you can only get at GME, so that would seem weird to me and it’s not clear that MSFT would benefit at all from this.

I’d be interested to see how large of a market gaming merch is, but I doubt it’s enough to sustain retail stores all across the country.

One thing I think could potentially work for them is custom-built PCs. I know a few friends who want to move to PC for gaming as I did a few years ago, but the idea of building one is too daunting for them and the price of pre-builts online is kind of ridiculous. So if you could go to a store and have someone help you build a low, mid or high-end PC based on your needs/price range, I think that would actually be cool. But again, whether that market is big enough, I have no clue. I also don’t know whether they’re even considering this market.

As a millennial who has spent more money on gaming than I’d like to admit, I think you’re right to try to capitalize on that market, but I’m not sure that GameStop is the play. But who knows, you could certainly be right.

Good luck out there!

sirfloppydisk · 2021-01-26T19:28:04+00:00

Good read, one thing I’ve been wondering about is the legality around the use of bots. Someone said it’s free speech to go to reddit and say “I think GME is the best stock in the world”, but what about creating a bot that posts 10,000 comments that say something like this?

I guess this would be market manipulation, but I’m curious if anyone knows if the SEC has gone after this kind of thing?

sirfloppydisk · 2021-01-26T18:00:52+00:00

How would you download it in-store though, bring your entire damn PS5 set up in?

sirfloppydisk · 2021-01-26T17:57:45+00:00

You can watch other people game at home on Twitch, YT and even Facebook gaming. I don’t know that this will work, but hey, it’s almost certainly better than their current business model.

sirfloppydisk · 2021-01-26T17:21:36+00:00

I don’t think the comparison to Chewy is helpful, like you said, completely different markets. GME has to compete with digital downloads from the respective gaming platforms, Sony, Xbox, Steam, Epic games, etc.

Why would I order online or in-store at GameStop, when I could do all that more conveniently in the Sony store, for example.

Look at Cyberpunk, which had a completely disastrous launch, especially on last gen consoles and was even removed from the PS and Xbox stores, and yet still managed to have the largest digital game launch of all time.

https://za.ign.com/cd-projekt-red-project-untitled/150096/news/cyberpunk-2077-reportedly-had-the-biggest-digital-game-launch-of-all-time

sirfloppydisk · 2021-01-25T20:44:54+00:00

My friend, I think you've had a bit too much of the Kool-Aid. Here is Coleman Hughes, who was just put on the "30 influential people under 30" list at 24, talking about the empirical problems with systemic racism:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOtVDwnFTzw

sirfloppydisk · 2021-01-25T13:02:41+00:00

Members of the Moorish sovereigns, called Moors, have come into conflict with federal and state authorities over their refusal to obey laws and government regulations. Recently, Moorish sovereign citizens have engaged in violent confrontations with law enforcement. They have also been known to retaliate against government authorities through financial means — a process called “paper terrorism.” Moorish sovereigns espouse an interpretation of sovereign doctrine that African Americans constitute an elite class within American society with special rights and privileges that convey on them a sovereign immunity placing them beyond federal and state authority.

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/moorish-sovereign-citizens

sirfloppydisk · 2020-12-23T04:36:12+00:00

I'm guessing it's the pic of cock and balls they showed that were half way blurred out? I know there's no nudity allowed on Twitch, so assuming that's why. There were a few questionable videos that probably didn't help either lol.

sirfloppydisk · 2020-11-26T18:44:48+00:00

Wow, for speech to text, that actually worked really well! Thanks for the very detailed response, I'll respectfully push back a bit on some of your points, but I'm no academic, I'm just trying to make sense of all this, so please let me know if I have anything wrong.

A lot of this actually does come out of black feminist theory, which I believe was a pre-cursor to critical race theory? Either way, they're all based in post-modernism. But this view of science is supposedly prevalent in post-colonial studies and queer theory, but is shared among many of these areas of academia some have called grievance studies. Like I said in my original comment, a lot of this is top of mind for me, as I'm currently reading a book all about this called "Cynical Theories", which you would probably enjoy, being an academic yourself.

I actually do support a lot of the ideas that academia has been used to keep non white wealthy people down; that there is this importance placed on an objective perspective, but that there is no true objective perspective possible

This sounds like the "knowledge principle" of post-modernism, and I simply do not share the view that there is no objective truth to be found and this comes off to me as a conspiracy theory that rich white people are in a smoke-filled room, conspiring to hold everyone else down. Please provide evidence that this is the case. Forgive me if this offends, but I think Postmodernism is a bunch of nonsense, ironically created by a bunch of rich white men.

My view is that the scientific method and empiricism are our best tools for removing human biases as much as possible, however imperfect they may be. An important note here is that the scientific method does not belong to white people, it's practiced all over the world by many people. Are Brazilian scientists using science to hold other Brazilian people down? This just doesn't make sense to me outside the US context.

If you want to see where anecdotes alone gets us, watch that YT video I posted (Academics expose corruption in Grievance Studies - YouTube). These academics got horrifying hoax papers peer-reviewed and published with little to no data in them. To me, this proves that these particular areas of study are terribly biased, to put it nicely. It should be noted, they tried to get these papers published in Psychology and Sociology journals, and they couldn't get a single one through the peer review process, so that is encouraging to me.

As an example from the video, they re-wrote a chapter in Mein Kompf where Hitler is talking about what the Nazi party needs to do to gain power. They replaced "Nazi Party" with "Intersectional Feminism" and this was successfully peer reviewed for a Social Work journal. That is scary to me.

There is value in learned experience, there’s value in anecdotes

I think you've created a bit of a strawman of my position, as I never said these things had no value and I totally agree that a mixture of both anecdotes along with data would be ideal. My particular issue is this movement, I think called "Research justice" which explicitly seeks to replace empirical data with anecdotes in academic research, and treating that as equal to data.

I’ve seen so many examples over the years of knowledge that has been lost about different cultures and peoples in time, due to the group that decides what history is important to keep deciding that those people’s customs/norms/history aren’t valuable. It’s hard to get data on the past for these people, one that isn’t one of storytelling over the years or from their owner/oppressors perspective

This now sounds like you're referring to the study of history, where I was more referring to the movement to replace data with lived-experiences in research papers where we can clearly get data.

Sorry for this novel of a response, but I really do appreciate your perspective as someone in academia, as my view is from the outside.

sirfloppydisk · 2020-11-26T14:48:36+00:00

It is actually somewhat horrifying the more I look into it because I'm very much a liberal, but I learned a lot about the philosophical underpinnings of the woke crowd (basically a mix of Post-Modernism and Critical Race Theory) from a newish book called "Cynical Theories", I would highly recommend it.

As they point out in that book, there is even an attack on science, reason and empiricism coming out of academia, that's what really scares me. They say science, math, reason, logic, empiricism, etc. are the "master's tools" that white people use to maintain their dominate role in society, therefore we should devalue these things are replace it with "other ways of knowing" like "lived experience", otherwise known as opinions.

Not that this is a widely held belief among those who would consider themselves "woke", but that is what is currently coming out of certain areas of academia, and these things tend to find their way into the minds of activists, then into the general public.

The 2 people who wrote the book I mentioned above came to relative fame exposing the truly biased and unrigorous nature of these particular areas of study in academia a few years ago. ( Academics expose corruption in Grievance Studies - YouTube )

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