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You're also operating with hypotheticals here, except you don't get challenged 'cause you're supporting the average viewpoint which is to by-proxy use the very
by ploppyploppy 4y ago
You're also operating with hypotheticals here, except you don't get challenged 'cause you're supporting the average viewpoint which is to by-proxy use the very power of x-isms to reject the main point without engaging in debate, i.e. you can get away at rejecting the article's premise because of potential "x-isms" they're guilty of and because they're x-isms you don't have to debate.
I would direct you to Vaclav Havel's book "Power of the Powerless" - where dictatorship of the ritual is spelled out and how he amazingly identifies the traits of post-totalitarian societies. I believe heresy is one such trait.
I would also add that my main issue is with this flippant attitude towards the greater issue: that heresy is alive and well and trumps everything from science, truth, evidence and context.
Answer me: who defines x-ism/x-phobia? Remember if such a tool (heresy) exists and it is effective then your enemies get to use it too.
- DelaneyM 4y agoI can name all kinds of sexist statements I've heard first-hand in just the past few months (none, I might add, which incurred any consequence). I bet you can too. Sexism, as an example of an "x-ism", is endemic in tech. If you must have an example let's just go with the Damore memo. You're the one saying that there are some sacred truths which cannot be uttered on pain of ostracism. Citation required, because I can't prove or demonstrate a negative. I would direct you to "Basic Logic", an introductory textbook by Raymond J. McCall.