#woke nonsense

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/specious

1 : having a false look of truth or genuineness : sophistic specious reasoning 2 : having deceptive attraction or allure 3 obsolete : showy

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Noam Chomsky: If you look at what's happening, I think it's pretty easy to figure out what's going on. I mean, suppose you are a literary scholar at some elite university. Or, you know, anthropologist or whatever. I mean, if you do your work seriously, that’s fine, you know. But you don’t get any big prizes for it.

On the other hand, you take a look over in the rest of the university and you’ve got these guys in the physics department and the math department and they have all kinds of complicated theories, which of course we can’t understand, but they seem to understand them. And they have, you know, principles and they deduce complicated things from the principles and they do experiments and they find either they work or they don’t work. And that’s really, you know, impressive stuff.

So I want to be like that too. I want to have a theory. In the humanities, you know, literary criticism, anthropology and so on, there’s a field called theory. We’re just like the physicists. They talk incomprehensibly, we can talk incomprehensibly. They have big words, we’ll have big words. They draw, you know, far-reaching conclusions, we’ll draw far-reaching conclusions. We’re just as prestigious as they are.

Now if they say, well look, we’re doing real science and you guys aren’t, that’s white male, sexist, you know, bourgeois or whatever the answer is. How are we any different from them?

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I worry that when I describe this idiocy as "fraud," people think I'm exaggerating, being hyperbolic or otherwise overstating it.

I'm not. If anything, I'm understating it.

All of this postmodern crap we're dealing with is completely fake. All this ridiculous intersectional jargon is a big grift. All of these domains producing this ridiculous nonsense are bogus and corrupt. All the scholarship they produce is fraudulent. It's fake from top to bottom.

All of it.

These people are cloaking asinine retardation in fancy words to cover up how asinine and retarded this asinine retardation is.

The people producing it are shallow and stupid. Not to mention, envious and spiteful about the status and authority of science. They just use absurd jargon to hide that fact and trick you into thinking it's too deep and profound for you to understand. But when it's decoded into simple English, à la the Tweet summaries above, the retarded, moronic nature becomes obvious.

The response to this kind of ridiculous shit needs to be laughter and derision, not tenure or a tertiary qualification.

We have to get rid of it because it's destroying our societies.

[pointless-letters]

“Nobody seems to think reality matters anymore.” says Karen, complaining about what she sees as a lack of realism in…*checks notes*…Doctor Who.

[zee-man-chatter]

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[jccheapalier]

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[chinatzuify-blog]

New challenge:

Try to watch Helluva Boss or Hazbin Hotel, if you see something "offensive" in any way, turn your device off and do something else. Deal? ☺️

[theboyonthehighcastle]

I HATE My Adventures With Superman The Super Shallow DC Anime - S1 S2 R...

You know what, this ain’t my superman! This show is so stupid, no originality and a perversion to the glorious anime. Superman should be strong and compassionate, not some weakling from Mt. Tralala. And why is everything have to be diverse? Is Same white race couple already illegal!? 

Fuck the woke. 

[domina-honoribila]

lmao cis

Cue the inconsolable weeping.

[xrayspec]

me and my housemate have been having thermostat issues for like a month, right after she changed the batteries. i just changed the batteries, different brand, in desperation bc i was so cold and it instantly worked perfectly. put the other batteries in the other thermostat and it instantly started fucking up and flickering. she bought low power ones so it was struggling to connect to the boiler AAAAHHHHHH

[erebusvincent]

One notable difference: The committee suggested that fat-free or low-fat dairy foods be de-emphasized as items for inclusion in a healthy dietary pattern and be taken off the primary list of foods.

The change came from this committee’s new emphasis on health equity in nutrition, Gardner said. To accomplish that, a subcommittee was tasked with making sure research considered other races and cultures besides White and Western.

“Previous committees in 2015 and 2020 included low-fat dairy,” Gardner said. “But when you factor in race and ethnicity, dairy isn’t even in the picture, and that totally makes sense. A lot of the world is lactose-intolerant.”

For fuck’s sake, just stop at the legumes. What the fuck is “health equity?”

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Richard Dawkins

Published: Jan 3, 2025

In a recent interview, I imprudently said I was a “cultural Christian”, and I haven’t heard the end of it. I find myself unwillingly counted in the Great Christian Revival (translation, “We don’t actually believe that stuff ourselves, but we like it when other people do”) which is the subject of so much wishful thinking these days.

Of course I’m a cultural Christian. Always have been. Packed off to Anglican schools, I was confirmed when too young to know better. Large chunks of the English Hymnal were imprinted in my long-term memory, and duly pop out when I’m fooling around with my electronic clarinet. I know my way around the Bible, at least well enough to take an allusion when I encounter one. I love mediaeval cathedrals. I’ve never met a parson, of either sex, that I didn’t like. But none of that undermines my conviction that what they believe about the nature of reality is nonsense.

An irritating strain of the Great Christian Revival is the myth of the God-shaped hole. “When men choose not to believe in God, they then believe in anything.” The famous aphorism, which GK Chesterton never uttered, is enjoying one of its periodic dustings-off, following the vogue for women with penises and men who give birth. Whenever I sound off against this modish absurdity, I’m met with a barrage of accusations. “Frankly Richard, you did this. You defended woke BS for years” (of course I didn’t: quite the opposite but, for this believer in the God-shaped hole, discouraging theism is indistinguishable from encouraging woke BS). “But don’t you see, you helped to bring this about.” “What do you expect, if people give up Christianity?” Then there’s this, from a Daily Telegraph opinion column:

“New Atheists allowed the trans cult to begin. . . By discrediting religion, Dawkins and his acolytes created a void that a new, dangerous ideology filled.”

And here’s Debbie Hayton on The Spectator’s website, writing (mostly reasonably) about a recent episode in which Jerry Coyne, Steven Pinker and I resigned from the Honorary Board of an atheist organisation that’s been taken over by the trans cult:

“An atheistic organisation worth its salt would oppose these movements in the same way that it opposes established religion, so Coyne, Pinker and Dawkins are right to walk away. But maybe the key lesson from this sorry debacle is that it is not so easy to expunge the need for religion from human beings than atheists might like to think. If there is a God-shaped hole in us then without established religion, something else is likely to take its place.”

And from the comments following her article:

“Why is Richard Dawkins surprised that people who reject Christianity have rejected its moral values also? Those values have stood us in good stead for two thousand years.”

Christianity provides reasons for rejecting trans nonsense. Therefore Christianity provides the only reasons for rejecting trans nonsense. Some syllogism!

The scientific reasons are more cogent by far. They are based on evidence rather than scripture, authority, tradition, revelation or faith. I’ve spelled them out elsewhere, and will do so again but not here. I’ll just support the claim that the trans-sexual bandwagon is a form of quasi-religious cult, based on faith, not evidence. It denies scientific reality. Like all religions it is philosophically dualistic: where conventional religions posit a “soul” separate from the body, the trans preacher posits some kind of hovering inner self, capable of being “born in the wrong body”. The cult mercilessly persecutes heretics. It abuses vulnerable children too young to know their own mind, encouraging them to doubt the reality of their own bodies, in extreme cases inflicting on those bodies irreversible hormonal, and even surgical damage.

Far from playing into the hands of these preachers, my colleagues and I are opposed to all faith creeds, all non-evidence-based belief systems. This includes traditional supernatural religions, but it also includes younger faith systems such as that in which a man literally becomes a woman (or a woman a man) by fiat. Or by legal decision (you could as well legally repeal the laws of thermodynamics so we can have perpetual motion machines).

How patronising, how insulting to imply that, if deprived of a religion, humanity must ignominiously turn to something equally irrational. If I am to profess a faith here, it is a faith in human intelligence strong enough to doubt the existence of a God-shaped hole.

[ Via: https://archive.today/Mh8cV ]

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[richarlisonny]

they're not showing the spurs game on TV

[ivovynckier]

In London, a pathetic statue was unveiled with trans and non-binary faces.

Gilbert Chesterton: "I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees."

[jccheapalier]

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Welcome to Helluva Boss fandom! We have:

- People who complain about racism ALL. THE. TIME.

- Haters who watch the episodes even when they hate the entire series

- People who complain about characters being a something-phobic stereotype

- Social Justice Warriors who think an adult show should be less "offensive", "racist", "fatphobic", etc

- People thinking a trans character voiced by a trans VA who came up with the idea of making sexy merch of said character somehow is transphobic

- Thinking non-human characters with literal red skin are somehow "black coded" so everything about them must be race centric

(Seriously, why the obsession over the character's (supposed) race?)

Anyway, enjoy your stay before you get cancelled over some nonsense I guess

[thearbourist]

The Death of Science - "lived experience"

Either you follow the evidence and the scientific method, or you do not. The hard sciences are a bastion of sorts against the bullshit that is running wild in the humanities. It isn’t for lack of trying on behalf of the activist bullshiters.   If you dare, go read the full article here.