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  Where to draw the line: how Platonism haunts our discourse and the search for exorcism

  by slimboyfat in

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  in the discussion about race i adopted a position i am not entirely comfortable with.

  i think there is a sense in which it is useful to distinguish categories of description that can be fruitfully defended (apples and bananas) and those that cannot (caucasian or other racial descriptions for example).

  but there is a more fundamental sense in which i believe that everything is socially constructed, every single line you can think of.

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  captaingrl

  How about I got my opinion and you got yours? if it upset you then you can either deal with it or not!
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  Where to draw the line: how Platonism haunts our discourse and the search for exorcism

  by slimboyfat in

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  in the discussion about race i adopted a position i am not entirely comfortable with.

  i think there is a sense in which it is useful to distinguish categories of description that can be fruitfully defended (apples and bananas) and those that cannot (caucasian or other racial descriptions for example).

  but there is a more fundamental sense in which i believe that everything is socially constructed, every single line you can think of.

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  Why are people still discussing this crap? The God Delusion is a decade old and at this point, it is just repeating the same soundbites over and over again like a broken record. Isn't it time to move on to more pressing issues???
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  Flat earth vs round earth

  by Jrjw in

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  my brother has been talking about the earth being flat and some big conspiracy going on to make people beieve otherwise.

  what are people's thoughts on this?.

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  I think the flat earth idea was made up to discredit people who question less proven scientific ideas like whether it makes sense to stop climate change.
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  Where to draw the line: how Platonism haunts our discourse and the search for exorcism

  by slimboyfat in

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  in the discussion about race i adopted a position i am not entirely comfortable with.

  i think there is a sense in which it is useful to distinguish categories of description that can be fruitfully defended (apples and bananas) and those that cannot (caucasian or other racial descriptions for example).

  but there is a more fundamental sense in which i believe that everything is socially constructed, every single line you can think of.

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  captaingrl

  philosophy is just a stupid word game. I pity the people who play it.
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  The Scientific Method

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  Unless you have been living under a rock you will know college campuses are being taken over by far-left activists and filled with safe spaces and other anti-free speech laws. It may not be the case in a few smaller colleges (BTW, if you are teaching without a degree, I am guessing you aren't teaching at Harvard!), but it is happening at top universities like Yale and Berkley.

  Obviously, you won't learn this stuff if you stick with Huffington post or CNN... or you are so far to the left yourself you don't recognize the problem when you see it.
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  The Scientific Method

  by cofty in

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  BTW the problem today is that what SJWs define as "centrist" is in reality far left.

  So when you provide stats compiled according to skewed definitions that should not mean much to a thinking person...
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  The Scientific Method

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  captaingrl

  the guy in the video is a psychology professor and he has way more experience and credentials than you, even assuming you are speaking the truth.

  he even has videos where he encounters SJWs on a campus. That's called data.

  Please go to page one of this thread to see what you should do with data!
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  The Scientific Method

  by cofty in

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  Furthermore, colleges and universities ARE full of marxist ideology. here is an ACTUAL college professor speaking about it:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-7YGGCE9es
  
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  The Scientific Method

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  I keep hearing I am ignorant, yet nobody will answer my question! LMAO.

  About 100 years ago, man discovered many, grand theories that would reshape science. Today, not so much, more like innovation within existing theories.

  Elder cofty weighted in that we discover facts and not theories... except I had a quote of actual scientists saying exactly that scientists discover theories!

  Then elder cofty went into hiding, and now everyone is calling me an idiot.

  Elder DJS promised to call me a bitch, but has settled for "princess"; sticks and stones!

  This is like a goddamn elduhr meeting!
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  The Scientific Method

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  opencrow:

  yah somebody pointed to epigenetics as an example of a recent scientific theory...

  I think that just illustrate my point, as epigenetics is not very important compared to evolution (=a theory) itself.

  do you disagree???

  what other theories would you point to?

  MrRoboto, lmao, I was thinking the same thing!

  "I have a MBA and aaaalmost a phd".

  ha!