Here are the "Enlightenment" Commandments. 1. Facts don't care about your feelings.* *Unless those feelings are about "The Enlightenment" or white privilege or something.
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2. Pinker is the smartest person alive. Because graphs.
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3. The only online sources to be trusted are ideologically varied and rich outlets like Quillette.
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4. Where possible, have "classical liberal" or "free thinker" early and often in your Twitter bio.
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5. Throw off the opposition by falsely claiming, "I'm actually left-leaning myself."
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6. Where possible, have an electric guitar in your profile pic. Failing that, an anime avatar will work.
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7. Call everything you don't like "postmodern neomarxist." * *Don't actually know what those mean.
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8. Demand sources and links, even for well known and easily searchable facts.
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9. Respond to every effort at actual progress or justice with a variant of, "where else would you rather live?"
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10. Under NO circumstances actually read any Enlightenment author or study the period. Only postmodernist neomarxists do that.
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