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Daniel D's avatar

Great post, and I look forward to reading what comes next. I have to be reminded of this every so often: you waste your time appealing to logic and evidence when debating the super woke, because theirs is a religious thinking that cares only about power and prestige, Reason and principled communication and Enlightenment values and all that mean absolutely nothing to them. They will feign a commitment to these values only as a means to attack; but they will never defend those values because they do not share them, and they do not care if you point out the contradictory evidence or illogic surrounding their positions; they are not arguing in good faith.

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I was a philosophy major about 8 years ago, and I often wonder what philosophy classrooms look like today. Every single postmodern/woke "argument" relies on fallacy after fallacy. Not to mention the lack of belief in an objective truth. It flies in the face of everything I was taught. I wonder if this gets called out or if philosophy itself has somehow been woke-ified in the classroom as well.

Sam Harris had a great line in a conversation with Jordan Peterson. It was something to the effect of, "If you don't value logic, there's no logical argument I can possibly give to convince you that you should."

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