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Steve G's avatar

It’s all bullshit. No one wants to just say, out loud, “this is bullshit”. Shhh, don’t say it! You’ll be called a racist, a homophobe, a Nazi!!!! We’ve got to say it, scream it “This is all bullshit!!! I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!!!”

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Frans Susan Phillips Duncan's avatar

Steve G, Very succinct and I agree wholeheartedly! We whites have been intellectualizing and pussy-footing around about the disgusting, nasty, horror of racial integration for more than 50 years. It's time to "just say, out loud, “this is bullshit”! We whites have had to pretend that we're all equal and pretend black violence isn't monolithic and pretend that we don't mind if we're passed over for a completely unqualified, incompetent DEI hire! All this nonsense is destroying civilization and we must stop ignoring, and, thus, enabling it and scream it, as you said, “This is all bullshit!!!"

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Bull Hubbard's avatar

Those who call "bullshit" are typically not of the academic caste and so are denounced as ignorant. I saw this all the time in the early defenses of feminism against critique from outside the university--You're too dim to understand gems like this, from an abstract of a commentary on Judith Butler's theorizing:

'A dual conception of “nature” as “human nature” and the natural world is foreclosed at the moment that inaugurates the textual space in which feminist postmodernism sets to work. This disavowed realm returns on the inside of Butler's theory as a discursive “nature,” which makes constant trouble in regards to the subject's agency, the subject's freedom.'

This sort of stuff gets circulated among those who earn entrance into the hermetic critical studies/feminist academic cult. Nobody reads it deeply because there is no there there. It's all part of an academic edifice designed to generate PhDs in a glutted market. One reason I admire James Lindsay is for his voluntary reading of such stuff in his exposure of the evil that is critical theory and "postmodern neo-Marxism," the ideology these same academics insist either doesn't exist or was invented by people who are too dull to understand "acshual" Marxism and Postmodernism.

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Steve G's avatar

Well, you can bag that up in a neat package and call it “compost” but it’s still bullshit.

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