This is the result of censoring critical thought and creating safe spaces. Instead of an argument, a typical leftist has merely an incredibly sense of moral superiority detached from any actual ethical position. They have certitude that they are in the right, but no idea how they got there or what constitutes right.
There are so many ho…
This is the result of censoring critical thought and creating safe spaces. Instead of an argument, a typical leftist has merely an incredibly sense of moral superiority detached from any actual ethical position. They have certitude that they are in the right, but no idea how they got there or what constitutes right.
There are so many hot takes like this on twitter which present extremely weak and easily dismantled analogies. Then if you present a detailed refutation, they are shocked and outraged. Why? Anyone who opposes anything they assert is -by definition- a [insert popular pejorative - racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, reactionary, counter-revolutionary, petty bourgeois, TERF, blah blah blah].
Sadly, I think there is no easy cure for this. You can't just change a lifetime of moral certitude into humility and critical reasoning. Instead, we just have to remove the people who think like this from any position of authority.
The most sinister part of this analogy is how heavily it leans on the authority figure. The doctors say so, therefore it is so. I was just reading Robert Kennedy's new book and he mentioned a type of psychological experiment in which the subjects would accept directives to electrocute what they thought was a person in another room who was screaming and pleading simply because a man with a white coat told them to. That's what the original tweet shows.
And they mean it, in CA now they can gender reassignment evangelize your child and then send them to get surgery on the parent's insurance with no notification to the parents.
Everyone in the world seemed to be upset by Russia's treatment of Navalny. But how much better do 'dissidents' get treated here, or in Europe for that matter? You see how Austria treats its 'dissidents'. Same thing going on everywhere.
This is the result of censoring critical thought and creating safe spaces. Instead of an argument, a typical leftist has merely an incredibly sense of moral superiority detached from any actual ethical position. They have certitude that they are in the right, but no idea how they got there or what constitutes right.
There are so many hot takes like this on twitter which present extremely weak and easily dismantled analogies. Then if you present a detailed refutation, they are shocked and outraged. Why? Anyone who opposes anything they assert is -by definition- a [insert popular pejorative - racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, reactionary, counter-revolutionary, petty bourgeois, TERF, blah blah blah].
Sadly, I think there is no easy cure for this. You can't just change a lifetime of moral certitude into humility and critical reasoning. Instead, we just have to remove the people who think like this from any position of authority.
The most sinister part of this analogy is how heavily it leans on the authority figure. The doctors say so, therefore it is so. I was just reading Robert Kennedy's new book and he mentioned a type of psychological experiment in which the subjects would accept directives to electrocute what they thought was a person in another room who was screaming and pleading simply because a man with a white coat told them to. That's what the original tweet shows.
And they mean it, in CA now they can gender reassignment evangelize your child and then send them to get surgery on the parent's insurance with no notification to the parents.
Everyone in the world seemed to be upset by Russia's treatment of Navalny. But how much better do 'dissidents' get treated here, or in Europe for that matter? You see how Austria treats its 'dissidents'. Same thing going on everywhere.