Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Critical Race Theory – standpoint epistemology" video.

  1. Pretty much. But it doesn't have any legs under it. It's just a new religion that's sprung up amongst those who most vehemently deny God. We're at damn near 'peak stupid,' in terms of how long we'll let it go on. We'll see how it turns out. Our political and intellectual leadership seem bent on messing up so they can present themselves as the ONLY solution. I think their many blunders are creating a counter culture on a scale that we have never seen in our lifetimes. It's hard to measure and hard to predict. But things should've fallen apart 50 years ago, but somehow we the people stay ahead of the bumblers who think they're running things. We invent cheaper ways to do things. We invent communications networks that dwarf the legacy networks that dominated the landscape for so long. Those legacy networks still wield a disproportionate amount of influence, but the actual amount of real influence on hearts and minds is shrinking rapidly - ALARMINGLY, to the heads of the networks and the politicians and others who know how to manipulate those networks for their own benefit. I think things are getting bad, because the establishment is panicking that the public are reaching herd immunity to the blandishments of lying socialist politicians and their minions in media. The one good thing about the failing public schools is that it doesn't take much to un-do the 12 or 13 years of indoctrination. One good job. One attempt to start a business. One accidental click on a Jordan Peterson video.
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  2. I think it's pretty easy to make common-sense arguments against the lunacies they push when they push them. I took a "white privilege" training at work, and I started lecturing everybody on The Enlightenment, and how hard-won our freedoms are, and how this nonsense is divisive and demeaning to all concerned. Nobody stood up to me. We went on with the training exercises, but I made sure they all heard "Hobbes and Locke" before they left. There was an age-ism exercise. You don't describe the little old lady as a little old lady, because that's age-ist. My response to that was "So you're going to outlaw adjectives?" If there's a 70-year-old standing next to a bunch of tall young people, "little old lady" perfectly picks her out of the crowd. It's almost as if you're using language to convey precise meaning to the person to whom you're speaking! LOL! I mean shake my head It was age-ist to use the term "old" to describe the woman and size-ist to use the term "little." One of the exercises is to collect a bunch of paper clips for every privilege you enjoy as a white person. I had a very short paperclip chain, mainly because I'm a handicapped person who never took any help for being handicapped. They'll have to re-think that part of the exercise. LOL! I think I probably got talked about at work for my white supremacy or regressive beliefs, but I was never confronted about it. I think part or all of our humanities department is all-in on the postmodernist lingo and belief system. I think most of what's driving it is the human desire to be part of something bigger, to give meaning to life. Some call it the "God hole" that people will fill with ideology or other obsessions once God is rejected or set aside. I'm not very religious, myself, but I was immersed in the Jesus archetype growing up, so it represents my idealized human, without sin. Something to aspire to be more like. But the whole life after death thing? Probably more of a hook than a reality. Still, that archetype of the ideal - Jesus Christ, himself - whether it be made-up myth, it's the striving towards that unreachable perfection that we take ONE step towards, TODAY, and go from a bad situation into a little bit better situation, over time. That unrealized, but imagined ideal is key to human progress and probably human happiness. You first have to imagine that what IS could be BETTER.
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