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Matthew
25 Oct
diablog.net/2020/10/shacke… "Shackel’s goal in the paper is to expose the fallacies on which the arguments for postmodernist positions rely. In the process, he gives name to a number of different fallacious rhetorical strategies"
"Humpty Dumptying is when someone redefines a word that is in common usage to mean somthing new. It gets its name from the following passage from Alice Through the Looking Glass: .."When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”"
"A Troll’s Truism is a claim that uses a Humpty Dumptied term, and which is a truism if we are bearing in mind the new definition of the term in question. But it is an absurdity if the term is taken with its traditional meaning...
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Matthew
25 Oct
nytimes.com/2020/10/06/boo… "Messing around with the notion of truth is a luxury that comes with affluence. We have spent the past 50 years undermining the basic institutions of society...
...not just our sense of common purpose and identity, but also normative values like truth and duty and expertise. The politics of consumerism — and grievance — have overwhelmed the politics of unity and responsibility."
"“The counterculture never died,” Lozada writes of the alt-right movement, summarizing the views of the journalist Angela Nagle. “It just switched sides. Transgression now lives on the right, dogmatism on the left.”"
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Matthew
25 Oct
aeon.co/essays/for-han… "Totalitarianism in power found a way to crystallise the occasional experience of loneliness into a permanent state of being. Through the use of isolation and terror..and then appealed to people’s loneliness with ideological propaganda."
"[Arendt] argued that there was an increasing, general willingness to do away with theory in favour of mere opinions and ideologies..‘they want their own theory, underlying their own statements, to be accepted as gospel truth.’"
"when Arendt talks about loneliness, she is not just talking about the affective experience..she is talking about a way of thinking. Loneliness arises when thought is divorced from reality, when the common world has been replaced by the tyranny of coercive logical demands."
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Matthew
23 Oct
spiked-online.com/2020/10/23/the… "Today, many lesbian, gay and bisexual people feel bitterly let down by the charity they once trusted. Stonewall stands accused of campaigning against women’s rights as defined in the Equality Act, and of bullying those with whom it disagrees out of jobs"
"The key moment in Stonewall’s transformation arrived five years ago, when a ‘T’ was added to the ‘LGB’. As Stonewall co-founder Simon Fanshawe told me, this embrace of trans rights was an error...
...Those who are same-sex attracted, he explains, have ‘very, very different aims’ to those who identify as transgender."
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Matthew
8 Oct
I'm a fucking bog cleaner from Bristol. My main job is cleaning toilets. I don't expect people to seek me out for my views on art or literature. But it would be nice if people could mention me by name at least when they are quoting stuff I put on here. Its all I have.
Im not "somebody"
Just because we do shitty jobs we're not lesser humans than you.
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Matthew
8 Oct
Happy #InternationalLesbianDay
Someone's washing their socks in my thread 🤣
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