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> It’s no longer a theoretical discussion; Americans have lost their lives because they believed the politics, and to be able to articulate that is really threa

> It’s no longer a theoretical discussion; Americans have lost their lives because they believed the politics, and to be able to articulate that is really threading a needle there. > But others are real people tuning into Fox News every night who totally fall into the rabbit hole because they seem to worship these contrarians. The other piece to this is a lot of Nazi imagery and fantasies, a lot of antisemitism, because they know I’m a Jewish scientist. And that’s yet another dimension to all of this. Watching Scientific Materialists trying to unravel metaphysical causality is a sight to behold.

pjc50 4y ago
? What does causality have to do with anti-semitism here?
- aww_dang 4y ago
  Nothing. Some critics of Hotez are antisemites. Therefore according to the principles of guilt by association, critics of scientism are generally antisemites. It follows that it is all hatespeech worthy of censorship. https://jonathanturley.org/2021/08/04/baylor-professor-calls-for-prosecution-of-criticism-of-fauci-and-other-scientists-as-hate-crime/ https://jonathanturley.org/2021/08/04/baylor-professor-calls... >Baylor Professor Calls for Prosecution of Criticism of Fauci and Other Scientists as Hate Crime >Yet, what is healthy debate to some is criminal dissent to others. Dr. Peter Hotez, a professor of pediatrics and molecular virology at Baylor College of Medicine is calling for federal hate-crime protections to be extended to cover criticism of Dr. Anthony Fauci and other scientists.
- mistermann 4y ago
  Anti-semitism is an action conducted by human beings, thus it has underlying causality. A big problem is that both anti-semitism and observations of "it" are based on subjective perceptions that are typically perceived as objective reality. Causality is kind of "culturally sub-perceptual" (depending to some degree on one's geographical location and cultural/metaphysical training), I like thinking of it like the water in this classic parable: "There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes “What the hell is water?"

pjc50 4y ago

? What does causality have to do with anti-semitism here?

aww_dang 4y ago
Nothing. Some critics of Hotez are antisemites. Therefore according to the principles of guilt by association, critics of scientism are generally antisemites. It follows that it is all hatespeech worthy of censorship. https://jonathanturley.org/2021/08/04/baylor-professor-calls-for-prosecution-of-criticism-of-fauci-and-other-scientists-as-hate-crime/ https://jonathanturley.org/2021/08/04/baylor-professor-calls... >Baylor Professor Calls for Prosecution of Criticism of Fauci and Other Scientists as Hate Crime >Yet, what is healthy debate to some is criminal dissent to others. Dr. Peter Hotez, a professor of pediatrics and molecular virology at Baylor College of Medicine is calling for federal hate-crime protections to be extended to cover criticism of Dr. Anthony Fauci and other scientists.
mistermann 4y ago
Anti-semitism is an action conducted by human beings, thus it has underlying causality. A big problem is that both anti-semitism and observations of "it" are based on subjective perceptions that are typically perceived as objective reality. Causality is kind of "culturally sub-perceptual" (depending to some degree on one's geographical location and cultural/metaphysical training), I like thinking of it like the water in this classic parable: "There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes “What the hell is water?"