The sleight of hand is of course to say these rules are "pretty much true", that anybody who points out that carrots can be purple or apples can be black or grass can be blue is just "being a smartass" Any "truth" that gets undermined is a "cornercase" or an "anomaly"
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Which gets escalated into some pretty specious and oppressive shit Like dismissing intersex people as "an anomaly" because they don't fit into these people's entrenched views of the world If intersex people were relevant you would have learned about them in elementary school
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I mean the thing is that these generalizations aren't even GOOD "Apples are red" is a fundamentally unreliable, culturally constructed statement. "Carrots are orange" is more reliable but represents a historical, motivated effort to construct that reliability.
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These ppl can be made individually to acknowledge exceptions to the rules of their reality, but there's no threshold of exceptions beyond which they will actually critically examine those rules "Apples are red" is part of their identity, their values, their fetish for certainty
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It's not that they don't accept that apples are yellow or green It's that the IDEA that apples are red is of great symbolic importance. It represents a tradition, a shared cultural value, a meeting ground To try and undermine the idea that apples are red is cultural Marxism
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Or "Orwellian". The idea of considering a different "normal"—of reevaluating whether it's helpful to think of apples as being Platonically, iconically red— represents an attack on culture, on tradition, and most absurdly, on truth It's abusive, not to teach kids apples are red
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he's right though i will literally murder a man for suggesting that grass is green, at all, ever
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These days I'd be more worried about the HOA fining me for my grass failing to be the correct shade of green.
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Carrots are orange cause a bunch of Dutch people wanted to suck up to the new monarch
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Wait, really?
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