Message from @Timcast
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it is to confuse people... you take a bad word, broaden the scope, call someone on the fringes of the broadened definition out and the layman assumes that the person called out is part of the initial definition
yeah but i don't see that as confusing, i see it as staying vague so a person will fill in the gaps of information themselves
Or narrow a bad word to apply to specific kinds of people
"they change the meaning of words on purpose to confuse the layman" this is a happy side-effect of post-modernism. you can deconstruct any text to give it any meaning you want.
Like "racism"
nah... staying vague is not really the same as broaden the meaning of a word, i think
like that Jesse Lee Peterson interview where he asks a woman wheres the proof of "white privilege" and she responds with "All around, i just wish i'd seen it before"
And when he asks to define it, she can't, and only gets appalled that he "can't see it"
The above audiobook is a great resource for anyone wanting to really understand how we got here.
On quora every person "discovering white privilege" seems to have a personal story, and nothing else
well its not the same, staying vague is a tactic
You broaden the meaning, but don't define the outer bounds, so that when you don't give any extra information, a layman will use their own definition to apply at what you're pointing to
"I was waiting for a taxi with Tyrone and the taxi only stopped for *me*"
"I went to a mall with my brown friend and the cashier asked *me* for cash"
i'll summerise that audiobook in 1 image for you Atkins 😛
Have you actually read the book or listened to the audiobook?
Because that's not the the summary at all.
I didn't bother, but its the gist of Post-modernism is "You can't be an authority on something, because i with my experience might have a different take of events, so your view of things can't be the right one"
aka, "I feel like i'm right, therefore you can't say i'm wrong"
aka, like that image
"I can't be WRONG because i have a different viewpoint"
thats the problem with pseudo anarchists
it does
if a cop says "this area is a frozen zone"
like they did in NYC
thats total bullshit, they made that up
there is no legal frozen zone
however
when someone is bleeding and a doctor looks at you and says "put pressure on the wound" you say "ok"
postmodernists might as well be flat earthers and anti vaxxers
Post Modernism would've worked if Cognitive bias didn't exist
because the original idea was "well, Science for example keeps changing due to new evidence, so no one can ever be the DEFINITIVE authority on an answer".
Hence we can't discount an idea because the smart guy said he doesn't like it
But people have re-read that as i stated earlier "I see things differently, and since no one can ever be the definitive authority, i feel like my view has merit too, because yours could be just as wrong, hence I get to chose what i believe, and i believe in my things, despite what evidence said because the evidence could turn out to be wrong"
There are infinite ways to interpret the world, but only a couple that keep plains in the air, cure cancer sometimes and keep the lights on
Cause what you believe you act out
Otherwise you just thinking about something
the far left is anti science
i think even bill maher said it
science is dangerous to people that deny that there are biological differences between men and women.
(which in itself is a statement that is even more absurd than what flat earthers are saying)
>There are no differences between men and women
>Gender dysphoria is real
isn't this the video that lindsey shepard got into trouble for?