High school students learn calculus. I apply only grade-6 level reasoning in culture analysis yet most adult experts are doing even worse. …
maybe it holds up if 'KKK' is a particular value of the set 'Really Bad People'? I mean I doubt it, but
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Was thinking of Things-Endorsed-by-KKK rather than KKK itself. KKK endorses many things, not all of them objectionable.
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ooohhhhh derp.
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Language has limitations. I struggle with it all the time. …
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… especially when forced to divide it into 140 character chunks. …
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… I was going to give a nice example but the quote is 138 characters long, I think. …
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… It's this. The statement is obvious in retrospect but it took me a while. …https://twitter.com/fivefifths/status/802578177730166784 …
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is your point that the author probably would no longer agree with the statement if (say) 'Stalinists' were substituted?
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the latter of which is probably pretty close to the kind of algebraic logic you describe, as I think about it
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heh perhaps you're restating the Meaningness critique of contemporary humanities ed :) https://meaningness.com/metablog/stem-fluidity-bridge …
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Started reading this. BTW I don't remember school ever teaching me to be rational. I got that from reading stories instead…pic.twitter.com/muiQvxrhxj
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… "You cannot move from stage 3 to stage 5 without passing through stage 4." Disagree. Young children can be very rational.
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… The article is doing a good job reinforcing my lack of respect for the average academic working in humanities however.
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… "Dualism—insistence on precise boundaries—is characteristic of stage 4" No. Just no. …
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