Thread by @PsychRabble

A Call to Fill Occam's Intersectional Toolbox

As I was finishing up my last blog, An Orwelian Lexicon of Bias, which was a blast to work on, what happens?
This guy posts Occam's Screwdriver!
Thread with examples: You are invited: Let's Build a Toolbox!

https://x.com/ReasonBurger/status/1218058723010043905

As it turns out, he has a whole hashtag devoted to it:
#OccamsScrewdriver

For the uninitiated: Occam's Razor is a real scientific/philosophy of science thing. It is the idea that, all else equal**, a simpler model/theory is better than a more complex one.
** sounds easier to meet than it really is.

But why stop at a Razor? Also, why should Occam's Razor be limited to science? That's like not letting Blacks and Jews into your Country Club. Therefore, we need

An Occam Toolbox for Social Justice

Preliminary Entries:

Occam's Sledgehammer: Simply ignoring all possible alternatives to "bias" as explanations for inequality & triumphantly concluding that bias is pervasive.

Occam's megaphone: What you use to proclaim the data vindicate Social Justice narratives, no matter what the data actually say.

Occam's Boomerang: couching your position in so much self righteous fervor that it repels everything in the universe but you.
ht @KisanetBeyene77

@KisanetBeyene77 Occam's Kool-Aid: Hallucinatory visions of otherwise invisible biases, privileges, injustices and grievances. This state of mind is produced by large doses of Critical Theory and Applied Postmodernism.
ht @DrKrahenbuhl

@KisanetBeyene77 @DrKrahenbuhl Occam's Rapid Response Team: Social Justice Outrage Mob ready to dogpile, ostracize, stigmatize and punish anyone seen as violating intersectionality oppression rules. (See #punchingdown).

@KisanetBeyene77 @DrKrahenbuhl Occam's Intersectionality Calculator: Used to determine where you stand in The Oppression Olympics. Determines who's ideas you can debate/disagree with (only with those who are less oppressed than you). This is a real thing (sort of):

intersectionalityscore.com

@KisanetBeyene77 @DrKrahenbuhl Occam's Word Salad Spinner: Now you, too, can write Postmodern Mumbo Jumbo, with just a little help from this handy tool:
elsewhere.org/journal/pomo/

@KisanetBeyene77 @DrKrahenbuhl Occam's Rising Only Boxing Glove: Insures that you only punch up and never engage in #punchingdown.

@KisanetBeyene77 @DrKrahenbuhl And: #OccamsScrewdriver - Even the best intended, most kind and charitable acts can be twisted, exaggerated and weaponized.

@KisanetBeyene77 @DrKrahenbuhl Occam's Ax: Used to:
1. Cut yourself off from anyone who does not completely share your Intersectional Worldview
2. Prepare to eat your own
ht @TheWhig

@KisanetBeyene77 @DrKrahenbuhl @TheWhig Your Turn: What other Tools can we add to Occam's Intersectional Toolbox for Social Justice?