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A brief era of rationality is ending

• The_Founder 6y ago
  "If you think Darwin’s preeminence will save him from the mob, look at the scientists and philosophers who have already been canceled for holding the views of their own age rather than ours: Sir Francis Galton, Sir Ronald Fisher, H. C. Yarrow, and Carl Linnaeus. Voltaire is condemned because he saw Africans as "children," Immanuel Kant because he ranked the races of the world, with whites at the top and indigenous Americans at the bottom." I've been doing the Census in the evening for a little extra cash, driving around rural Ohio my observations have been that people in the US are not a rational bunch. What I am seeing is a backlash against recent liberal advances. I'm feeling it myself. The other day I was describing a book to my girlfriend and used the word "female" for the female character. She told me, and I QUOTE, "You need to stop using the word female, its derogatory, especially when a male uses it." I think this quote perfectly sums up the end of reason in the US.