1/ I don't understand the claim that this election will cause introspection among the woke regarding their ideology. They're incapable of viewing problems from a POV outside their ideological framework. In their minds all outcomes are are perfectly consonant with their ideology.
2/ Their ideology has never aligned with reality, and that has never stopped them from doubling and tripling down. It is beyond falsification *by design*. It is not a correspondence theory of truth. It only pretends to be one when some bit of data happens to lean in its favor.
3/ It is fundamentally about power, not truth. It doesn't matter one bit whether *we* view certain outcomes as falsifying woke narratives. We can only hope that those who haven't already succumbed to the ideology will be inoculated against it.
4/ Just look at all the mental contortions prominent woke ideologues are engaging in, redefining Latinos and Cubans as white, etc., just to maintain the narrative.
It's hard to square Sam's take on this with his past insistence that we start actually believing what people openly tell us they believe instead of hunting for increasingly cryptic yet more palatable explanations for their utterances.
Whether Kamala was lying, ignorant, or meant what she said, we should hold people to their actual words. As a rule I believe what people tell me they believe. I'm no psychic. If they sound nuts, ask them to clarify. If they still sound nuts, accept they may believe nutty things.
A lot of people accuse Sam of having TDS. I really don't think this is accurate. His takes on Trump have, IMO, been entirely reasonable. There are plenty of legitimate reasons to be extremely anti-Trump. But I do think he doesn't take the woke left as seriously as he should.
People aren't talking nearly enough about the Equality Act that Biden says he'll enact within 100 days of taking office.
This act changes the definition of "sex" in the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include "gender identity." This will make all sex-based rights impossible to enforce.
By including "gender identity" WITHIN the definition of "sex", as opposed to making gender identity a separate protected category, all sex-based rights and protections will be based solely on the sex someone merely "identifies" with, regardless of their actual biological sex.
This "study" looked at whether external qigong, an Ancient Chinese practice involving waving your hands over someone to guide "qi energy" through them, could reduce chronic pain.
Might be good to have a sham control, right? Nope! That would impose "Western biomedical concepts"!
What the hell is the point of even doing a study and submitting it to a journal if you refuse to use the methods that would enable you to determine whether or not the effects were real and infer a causal relationship between treatment and outcome?
By the way, their EAT treatment they used as a "control" (it's not) stands for "equal attention time" and consisted of someone just chatting with the participant for 30 mins.
In humans, as in most animals or plants, an individual’s biological sex corresponds to one of two distinct types of reproductive anatomy that develop for the production of sperm or egg cells and associated biological functions in sexual reproduction.
This is our plea to the scientific community to "stand up for the empirical reality of biological sex", for denying biology is harmful to those most vulnerable in our society. wsj.com/articles/the-d…
And see my @Quillette essay below that explores in more detail the science of biological sex and exposes the pseudoscience behind "sex spectrum" ideology. quillette.com/2020/06/07/jk-…
1/ ATTENTION: I posted this tweet following the publication of @AsraNomani's article in Quillette where she first broke news of Kendi's contract. I made a very significant mistake in not allowing Asra to break news of this contract herself on Twitter. She deserves all the credit.
2/ Please read her fantastic essay below where she details the current admissions situation developing at Thomas Jefferson High School, and where she broke the news of Kendi's $20K contract. quillette.com/2020/09/23/ral…
3/ My sincerest apologies to Asra for stealing her thunder on this. She has put in so much work on this project, and deserves 100% of the credit.
To anyone following the story of Thomas Jefferson High that may have new info or leads, please contact @AsraNomani directly!