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Mar 14 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
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 I feel like now is a good time to remind everyone of all the times I have messed up....and apologized publicly and reservedly.

So, this is a thread of me owning uo to my mistakes and apologizing when I get stuff wrong.

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I am positive that is not all of the times I've messed up and had to apologize.

I'm human.

That said, apologizing is only hard if you can't admit mistakes. If you can admit error (even of it makes you look bad, and all these examples make me look awful) then it's easy.
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 So now that I've tweeted out a lot of things my enemies can use agaonst me, I'm going to go about my day as my mentions become chaotic

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Mar 15
1/
 You do not need to internalize the voice of the most pedantic person in your mentions when you write.

You should always listen to careful critique, we all need it.

You do not need to satisfy every single nitpicky objection from people who just want a reason to dismiss you...
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 We all can get things wrong, I know I do (below a thread of all my apologies for when I've messed up).

When someone says "that's not what meant!" don't reply with "yes you did! Admit it. I got you!!!"

Give them some space to say what the mean...

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 Don't let yourself be nitpicked by pedants who are trying to make you look bad. Also, don't become that person.

Don't try to force people into you frame of reasoning by giving tearse answers and demanding they parse your point on your terms so they have to adopt your frame...
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Mar 15
1/
 someone claimed I did not deal sufficiently with the thread done by @scott_m_coley.

So here we go. Breifly

Scott say I go from saying she ignores doctrinal truth, to saying she has unconventional methods for deciding questions of truth.

This is not what I was arguing... Image
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 Kristin has said she did not analyze whether eva doctrines, ideas, or beliefs are true.

This is the first thing I said, I thing it's clear that I was correct.

However.... Image
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How can she conclude that they have a wrong image of Jesus (pic 1) she never inspected evangelical doctrines, beliefs, and ideas for truth? (Pic 2) ImageImage
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Mar 14
1/
 Since my review of Jesus and John Wayne came out three critiques have emerged I want to engage with:

1. I misrepresented Jonathan Culler (@KSPrior)

2. My analysis of deconstruction is wrong (many people)

3. My review of J&JW misses the point (@kkdumez @scott_m_coley)
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 There are others, but I can't deal with all of them, so I will limit myself to those three. I shall attempt to answer each of them in turn, with the idea that each leads into the next.

I hope that I am able to clearly articulate why I disagree with each.

Let's begin...
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 The first critique is:

1. @wokal_distance misrepresented (and misunderstood) Jonathan Culler when quoting him in the piece.

Before I begin my response, here is @KSPrior making that claim in her own words: Image
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Mar 13
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 From behind a block Karen Swallows Prior accused me of googling the Jonathan Culler I used in my article in Jesus and John Wayne.

I want to touch on something here, because this tells us a LOT about @KSPrior and the way she engages.

So briefly....
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 My piece quotes a John Searle article called "The Word Turned Upside Down" several times. The Culler quote @KSPrior accused me of "obviously googling" can also be found there. I'd have cited Searle's piece for the quote but he used it differently than me, so I cited Culler...
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Now, here is the point, and I want you to pay very close attention:
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Mar 7
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 This is how "wokeness" (postmodernism + Critical Theory) is collapsing our society: not from the top down, but from the bottom up.

The top dominos are the last ones to fall...inertia leaves them suspeneded in mid-air until the ones directly beneath them fall...
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The top dominos are things like peace, order, beautiful art, innovation, democracy, fairness, properly functioning institutions, and wealth.
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 It takes time for the dominos at the top to fall. It doesn't happen all at once.

As the woke use postmodernism and critical theory to destroy the foundational societal dominos (merit, reason, objective truth), the dominos of society collapse from the bottom up...
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Mar 6
This tweet by @KyleJamesHoward is a deliberate lie.

Kyle is discussing a conversation between @neilshenvi @R_Denhollander in which Neil said nothing racist. *Nothing*

Also, for what it's worth, Neil is not white he's brown.

But there's another game being played here...
In that converstion Neil says he focuses on bad models for accountibility/transparancy because often anyone who disagrees with a position gets called racist (pic 1).

What does @KyleJamesHoward do? *he calls neil a racist* (pic 2)

He does the very thing Neil was concerned about.
Also, @R_Denhollander says it's a caricature to distill the position to "if you disagree you're a racist." (Pic 1)

She says this *WHILE KYLE HOWARD CALLS NEIL RACIST FOR DISAGREEING*

Do we see the dynamic at play here? It a conversational version of good cop bad cop...
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