Comments by "Mark Pawelek" (@mark4asp) on "Exposing Useful Idiots & The Lies Liberals Told Me | James Lindsay | ACADEMIA | Rubin Report" video.

  1. James discovered there wasn't an "independent left" for his ideas. Why not? Because today's left wing ideas are based on notions such as "systematic racism". But that is an abstraction. When we look into it we find it's based on a whole series of other abstractions. Today's left wing ideas are a network of abstractions in our heads, each supporting other abstractions: an empire of fiction. Knock one of these abstractions down (such as 'transwomen are women', or 'living in the wrong body' and the empire of abstractions itself is at risk. James takes a sledge hammer to much of the crumbling abstract concoction of modern leftism. There's no independent left because the left keeps its coherrence by intellectual bullying. Critique one Left idea and they label you as a Fascist. Perhaps they know that their empire of abstractions stands or falls in total? All or nothing. "The Left is either delusional or they're lying" <- It's more the case they can't allow themselves to criticise any aspect of the dogma (this 'empire of fiction'). They are both afraid of thinking for themselves, and afraid of being outed as Fascists, Racist, Climate deniers, ... blah blah. The more anti-Enlightenment the left become, the more they sink into the quicksand.
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  2. Have any CRT activists attempted to validate their belief that "racism is the main organizing principle of society"? In my experience, it is not. In order for me to "believe them", and to accept their ideas I'd need to take a leap to faith. I'd need to believe them ahead of my life experience! By "validate" - I mean to convince, in a scientific way, with actual empirical evidence.
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