Relativism is toxic. We should meet every new assertion of it with skepticism and demands for evidence.
I've seen enough of it to confidently claim that relativism is associated with sickness. In all but the most scoundrelous it has neutered conviction; we are forbidden to make even the most unambiguous value judgments lest we sound "…
Relativism is toxic. We should meet every new assertion of it with skepticism and demands for evidence.
I've seen enough of it to confidently claim that relativism is associated with sickness. In all but the most scoundrelous it has neutered conviction; we are forbidden to make even the most unambiguous value judgments lest we sound "just like the religious right."
I had a coworker who could not utter a sentence that didn't include "from [my | your | his | their...] perspective"; we were developing software and this added nothing to any discussion. One day I asked him privately to stop saying it. He instantly became a savagely nasty enemy and did everything he could manage to get me in trouble on the job.
This guy was a mess. At 5'10" he could not have weighed more than 110 lbs and he pulled all-nighters with a sack of candy bars. I could see the bones of his eye sockets if he stood under the lighting, something I had only seen before in people near death from AIDS or cancer.
The intensity of his hatred of me was just shocking. Just because I asked him to stop adding "from my perspective" to every sentence. It was really critical to his Weltanschauung.
I just had some guy on Facebook tell me that one in 120 is "trans." Medical criteria say one in 65,000. This is way way out of control. Even going to gay clubs in Norfolk where the gay scene was completely centered on transvestites the ratio was lower than that.
Unfortunately, idiocies rarely collapse under the weight of their absurdity.
I've got some chick on Twitter claiming to be a scientist and a Ph.D. arguing with me that we're not a two-gendered species because other species aren't and bonobos, I don't know, behave homosexually or something. And I'm like, yeah, but none of them, to our knowledge, have ever exhibited 'trans' behaviour. She think it's *all* GD, I think it's *mostly* ROGD.
Oh, I doubt the doctorate. And the scientist shtick.
When I read someone saying that there are really 78 genders I usually just click block. A lot of fanatics are saying that developmental defects like X0 and XYY are genders. That is crazy.
I really hope the backlash coming from places like Netflix picks up momentum. It's really chilling that even soldiers are being put through sensitivity training for "they."
You might be right about the doctorate, I think she doesn't have it yet. I'll look more closely when I get on Twitter later this morning, but you can't always tell a lot from a Twitter bio. OTOH, she uses her real name.
The problem is science has become tainted by this crap. Not so much because the real scientists are bending to this nonsense, but because they're under attack whenever they publish a paper or a study that contradicts gender ideology. The other day I read a study supposedly 'refuting' Lisa Littman's multiply-peer-reviewed research on the rise of Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria and at least one of the lead authors was an LGBT etc. proponent. I didn't have time to check the creds of the psychiatrist quoted as another contributing author but I'll bet he's LGBT-connected too. I did say to this Twitter woman that she can't be much of a scientist if she can't tell the difference between a boy and a girl.
What I'm still trying to figure out is the underlying agenda with the activists, so insistent on going into the schools to screw up and seemingly 'recruit' childeren, along with the insistence that you have to hurry and get them on damaging blockers et al before, they, I don't know, grow up and change their minds? Or just have a few talks with Mommy & Daddy and realize they shouldn't waste headspace on those crazy people in dresses? There was an interesting article at The Federalist (not my fave right-wing source, not factual enough) about the medical/healthcare Big Money behind gender transitioning but it looked very good, with lots of links to respectable sources. So I think the medical profession is happy to generate new lifelong dependent patients on them early, but I don't think that explains activist mania. There's something else going on underneath and I haven't figured it out yet - nor, possibly, has anyone else.
The signs are early that the backlash is coming, and Netflix is one of the first shots back across the bow. The reference to Lia Thomas throughout an article as 'he' and 'him' I found a few months ago on a news site is another. The closure of the Tavistock Clinic in the UK is another good sign (they got sued by a patient who grew up and realized she should never have been put on puberty blockers at sixteen). We need to see the revolution hit social media, though, where too many people are being banned because they dare to question the gender nazis. I'm keeping an eye out for if there's ever a public fuss about Medium - you can be sure I'll be there tweeting and commenting my own experience - along with (now outdated) article Too Hot For Medium :)
Correction on the Twitter chick I'm talking to: She doesn't claim to be a scientist or a Ph.D. in her bio; I looked at it more closely. She's an Australian mom who is a 'science consultant' with a 'Ph.D in computer games', clearly meant humorously. I *have* been hitting her on the science angle.
Medium is the worst. I got it again ... same "Roger (he/him)" only this time my offense was nothing worse than advising a father to not be too hasty with the hormones and surgery for his newly-announced "trans" son, since it's a lot more likely that he's gay, not "trans."
I always got Roger too. I thought you said you'd got kicked off? I wonder if there's someone above Roger you can complain to about him? Say something like, "What's his hostility to children's health? Roger is too extreme." There may not be a way to go over their heads but a little Googling might find something.
Only takes a few seconds to create a new email address.
This last time though I didn't say a thing about the "trans" crap being fake or anything, just to not be too hasty in affirming his son's likely haste to destroy his health. Pointing out that "trans" is commonly a temporary adaptation toward recognizing oneself a gay.
There is no point appealing this stuff. There are no contact emails on Medium and they never answer responses to a banning email. I tried anyway and pointed out that they are expelling good writers to appease some of the nastiest people on the Internet.
I think they just triage all the reports and he/him gets all the "transphobia" reports since he's so passionate about making medium a "safe space" (spits) for the "trans" radicals.
I hope this whole thing gets some serious backlash soon.
Wow! I occasionally say "in my opinion" when I wish to make clear that I don't think my thought is truth from the lips of God, but in normal speech opinion is implicit. I guess I've been privileged to not have people openly hate me in the workplace.
Relativism is toxic. We should meet every new assertion of it with skepticism and demands for evidence.
I've seen enough of it to confidently claim that relativism is associated with sickness. In all but the most scoundrelous it has neutered conviction; we are forbidden to make even the most unambiguous value judgments lest we sound "just like the religious right."
I had a coworker who could not utter a sentence that didn't include "from [my | your | his | their...] perspective"; we were developing software and this added nothing to any discussion. One day I asked him privately to stop saying it. He instantly became a savagely nasty enemy and did everything he could manage to get me in trouble on the job.
"neutered conviction"--- precisely!
That goes to the heart of the matter. Generating controversy that contributes nothing to a work related issue should not be tolerated.
This guy was a mess. At 5'10" he could not have weighed more than 110 lbs and he pulled all-nighters with a sack of candy bars. I could see the bones of his eye sockets if he stood under the lighting, something I had only seen before in people near death from AIDS or cancer.
The intensity of his hatred of me was just shocking. Just because I asked him to stop adding "from my perspective" to every sentence. It was really critical to his Weltanschauung.
Apparently Netflix recently told 'woke' employees that if they can't handle 'offensive' content, maybe Netflix isn't the best place for them to work.
I'm definitely seeing the beginnings of pushback in the corporate world re this 'woke' nonsense.
https://nypost.com/2022/05/13/netflix-tells-woke-workers-to-quit-if-they-are-offended-culture-memo/
I just had some guy on Facebook tell me that one in 120 is "trans." Medical criteria say one in 65,000. This is way way out of control. Even going to gay clubs in Norfolk where the gay scene was completely centered on transvestites the ratio was lower than that.
Unfortunately, idiocies rarely collapse under the weight of their absurdity.
I've got some chick on Twitter claiming to be a scientist and a Ph.D. arguing with me that we're not a two-gendered species because other species aren't and bonobos, I don't know, behave homosexually or something. And I'm like, yeah, but none of them, to our knowledge, have ever exhibited 'trans' behaviour. She think it's *all* GD, I think it's *mostly* ROGD.
Oh, I doubt the doctorate. And the scientist shtick.
When I read someone saying that there are really 78 genders I usually just click block. A lot of fanatics are saying that developmental defects like X0 and XYY are genders. That is crazy.
I really hope the backlash coming from places like Netflix picks up momentum. It's really chilling that even soldiers are being put through sensitivity training for "they."
You might be right about the doctorate, I think she doesn't have it yet. I'll look more closely when I get on Twitter later this morning, but you can't always tell a lot from a Twitter bio. OTOH, she uses her real name.
The problem is science has become tainted by this crap. Not so much because the real scientists are bending to this nonsense, but because they're under attack whenever they publish a paper or a study that contradicts gender ideology. The other day I read a study supposedly 'refuting' Lisa Littman's multiply-peer-reviewed research on the rise of Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria and at least one of the lead authors was an LGBT etc. proponent. I didn't have time to check the creds of the psychiatrist quoted as another contributing author but I'll bet he's LGBT-connected too. I did say to this Twitter woman that she can't be much of a scientist if she can't tell the difference between a boy and a girl.
What I'm still trying to figure out is the underlying agenda with the activists, so insistent on going into the schools to screw up and seemingly 'recruit' childeren, along with the insistence that you have to hurry and get them on damaging blockers et al before, they, I don't know, grow up and change their minds? Or just have a few talks with Mommy & Daddy and realize they shouldn't waste headspace on those crazy people in dresses? There was an interesting article at The Federalist (not my fave right-wing source, not factual enough) about the medical/healthcare Big Money behind gender transitioning but it looked very good, with lots of links to respectable sources. So I think the medical profession is happy to generate new lifelong dependent patients on them early, but I don't think that explains activist mania. There's something else going on underneath and I haven't figured it out yet - nor, possibly, has anyone else.
The signs are early that the backlash is coming, and Netflix is one of the first shots back across the bow. The reference to Lia Thomas throughout an article as 'he' and 'him' I found a few months ago on a news site is another. The closure of the Tavistock Clinic in the UK is another good sign (they got sued by a patient who grew up and realized she should never have been put on puberty blockers at sixteen). We need to see the revolution hit social media, though, where too many people are being banned because they dare to question the gender nazis. I'm keeping an eye out for if there's ever a public fuss about Medium - you can be sure I'll be there tweeting and commenting my own experience - along with (now outdated) article Too Hot For Medium :)
Correction on the Twitter chick I'm talking to: She doesn't claim to be a scientist or a Ph.D. in her bio; I looked at it more closely. She's an Australian mom who is a 'science consultant' with a 'Ph.D in computer games', clearly meant humorously. I *have* been hitting her on the science angle.
Medium is the worst. I got it again ... same "Roger (he/him)" only this time my offense was nothing worse than advising a father to not be too hasty with the hormones and surgery for his newly-announced "trans" son, since it's a lot more likely that he's gay, not "trans."
I always got Roger too. I thought you said you'd got kicked off? I wonder if there's someone above Roger you can complain to about him? Say something like, "What's his hostility to children's health? Roger is too extreme." There may not be a way to go over their heads but a little Googling might find something.
Only takes a few seconds to create a new email address.
This last time though I didn't say a thing about the "trans" crap being fake or anything, just to not be too hasty in affirming his son's likely haste to destroy his health. Pointing out that "trans" is commonly a temporary adaptation toward recognizing oneself a gay.
There is no point appealing this stuff. There are no contact emails on Medium and they never answer responses to a banning email. I tried anyway and pointed out that they are expelling good writers to appease some of the nastiest people on the Internet.
I think they just triage all the reports and he/him gets all the "transphobia" reports since he's so passionate about making medium a "safe space" (spits) for the "trans" radicals.
I hope this whole thing gets some serious backlash soon.
Wow! I occasionally say "in my opinion" when I wish to make clear that I don't think my thought is truth from the lips of God, but in normal speech opinion is implicit. I guess I've been privileged to not have people openly hate me in the workplace.