Comments by "Acid Joke" (@PWMoze) on "Warren Smith - Secret Scholar Society" channel.

  1. Like many people this was how I came across Peter Boghossian and the whole Spectrum Street Epistemology phenomenom. What a wonderful way to illustrate the madness of the woke mindvirus, the lack of capacity for critical thought, the thought supressing cliches and the arrogance expressed by the individuals involved. You can't argue with people who refuse to accept there may be a different view point that is a valid as their own. Peter is great, SSE is an amazingly valuable tool and well done Warren for furthering the debate. Great content Warren.
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  2. As an ex-classroom teacher I was surprised to see you film and Youtube a real interaction with a student, even though you clearly had taken pains to obscure their identity and focus upon yourself. Even though you did not identify the school in which you teach it was obvious you would eventually be identified and possibly the student too. If you had presented the video privately as a 'learning resource' or 'an aid for teachers in how to have difficult conversations' it would have been entirely appropriate and probably have gone unnoticed. But of course you were using facts and logic to defend an issue of free speech (always difficult nowadays) using the particularly sensitive issue of JK Rowling and her perceived trans-phobic statements (a subject which seems to attract irrational hysteria amongst certain people) on a global public forum. I'm sure you are somewhat surprised that this has now attracted so much attention. I'm sure JKRowling felt the same! I expect the school governors have now asked you to distance yourself from the school, making it clear they don't share your logical and quite reasonable position (not opinions) and that you do not speak for them or represent their values, in case of a public backlash. School governors are always cowardly and the public are mostly dumb, but on trans issues it seems even more than usual.. I feel for you. The video was excellent and clearly so are you as a teacher. If they threaten your position as a teacher, let them. Keep doing what you have been doing. Check out Peter Boghossian. He has had to suffer the same kind of thing, for similar reasons. He would probably help you if you needed guidance as to how to proceed independently if you were forced to leave the school. Good luck.
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  3. I feel sorry the students who don't seem to realise you need to demand evidence before you decide what you believe. It seems we in the West have been happy to allow our youth to be indoctrinated rather than educated, their capacity for critical thought, how to construct and argument and how to support a proposition is woeful.
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  4. Great content Warren. It is so important to encourage critical thinking at this time...or any time. Fry and Peterson are a classic example, mention their names and people groan and close down the conversation, "Please don't ask me to question my certainties, let's stop talking about it!" Let's keep this conversation going...
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  5. Fools believe in some stupid things but somtimes very intelligent people are capable of believing in very stupid things. Post modernism is a perfect example.
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