The left follows a few rules of thinking that when consistently applied are completely disconnected from truth: Truth is determined by whatever an authority says Except if that authority is racist or sexist or x-ist If that's the case that institution should be taken over 1/
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You can see a middle brow example of this in wikipedia. Wikipedia is implicitly in the business of accurately describing the world yet their standards for inclusion in an article aren't "is this proveably true?" it's "has a 'reliable source' reported it". 2/
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The conflicts then become "which sources are considered reliable?" and "how can I get a certified source to say something?" Strange implicit epistemology, no? The twitter feed of NYT reporter is "original research" but the same author writing in NYT is writing ex cathedra 3/
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The first hurdle excludes any source that might say something that the leftist egregore finds objectionable. The second allows it to make pronouncements that are then taken as true by mirrored rules in other institutions ("we follow industry standards") 4/
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @charlesmurray
Does the leftist egregore have a name?
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This is an important gap in our vocabulary.
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Replying to @RokoMijic @RokoMijicUK and
just Blue Egregore works http://unremediatedgender.space/2019/Aug/the-social-construction-of-reality-and-the-sheer-goddamned-pointlessness-of-reason/ …
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Replying to @zackmdavis
Great essay. It's too bad they're so immune to logic b/c this could make a great counter troll. When a woman 2.0 claims that straight men are required to be attracted to him b/c only gender matters it logically implies that gay men are required to be attracted to masculine womenpic.twitter.com/ezK213vsuS
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon
I'm glad you liked the essay (M.T.S.-W. is my not-Secret-just-differential-visibility pen name) but feel kind of nonplussed at the "they're so immune to logic" takeaway—I'm trying to do Serious Social Commentary, not just sneer at a designated ideological outgroup
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Replying to @zackmdavis @CovfefeAnon
like, I agree that your ideological enemies are insane, but I think it's MOSTLY just a trivial special case of humans in general being insane
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Nah, humans are pretty sane - they have to be to survive and thrive. It's just that a large portion of what they're sane about is conforming to the state religion properly and the state religion is insane so sanity looks insane. Having a sane state religion solves this.
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