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Professor: Reason Itself Is A White Male Construct
Daily Caller ^ | 7/3/2015

Posted on 07/12/2015 3:05:42 PM PDT by Altura Ct.

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To: Altura Ct.

Interesting! He describes himself more than he describes the white Euro-American; i.e. non-rational.


61 posted on 07/12/2015 3:43:20 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Needs more watermelon...


62 posted on 07/12/2015 3:43:45 PM PDT by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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To: Altura Ct.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWVzHOhGSC0
Law of Non-Contradiction - Ravi Zacharias


63 posted on 07/12/2015 3:43:53 PM PDT by BwanaNdege (.)
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To: re_nortex

I am not a “fan”. I did appreciate how she saw political correctness and socialists though.

Too bad she never did figure out the good side.


64 posted on 07/12/2015 3:45:22 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Noumenon

Uh......uh........uh........uh.........uh........... Just dayamn.


65 posted on 07/12/2015 3:47:18 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: ADemocratNoMore; Aggie Mama; alarm rider; alexander_busek; AlligatorEyes; AmericanGirlRising; ...
Dr. Simon Pritchett ping.

"The philosophers of the past were superficial," Dr. Pritchett went on. "It remained for our century to redefine the purpose of philosophy. The purpose of philosophy is not to help men find the meaning of life, but to prove to them that there isn't any."

66 posted on 07/12/2015 3:47:36 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: grania
I think he's trying to say that the concept of rational argument, having been developed by white males, is naturally filled with suppositions they make about the state of reality. Because Non-white males inevitably do not share those suppositions, the very concept of rationality is therefore flawed.

Essentially he is saying that experiential reality (i.e. that which people experience) supercedes objective reality, because in his mind what we call objective reality is actually nothing more than white-male experiential reality.

The most polite thing to be said about this argument is that the good professor is obviously not a scientist.

67 posted on 07/12/2015 3:49:17 PM PDT by Vanders9
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Overpaid professors with cushy jobs and tenure is a white male construct.


68 posted on 07/12/2015 3:49:45 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: arthurus
It is why white male Europeans developed Western Civilization and made it rich in a historically very short time. No other demographic has accomplished anything close to that.

Which is exactly why the left hates Western Civilization with such a burning zeal.

69 posted on 07/12/2015 3:49:51 PM PDT by samtheman (Trump/Cruz '16)
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To: GeronL

Had Ayn Rand been pro-God and pro-life (plus a better wordsmith), she would deserve a place in the Conservative sphere. But since she hated the unborn and was an unapologetic atheist, when evaluated dispassionately, ultimately Rand was a leftist in the most important of matters. Above all, there is Life and Life is only from Almighty God.


70 posted on 07/12/2015 3:52:00 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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To: Altura Ct.

Toilet paper is white, initially.


71 posted on 07/12/2015 3:53:23 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Using 4th keyboard due to wearing out the "/" and "s" on the previous 3)
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To: Bullish

I think they want everybody else to have a guilt complex about being white. This is pure projection. They love hating the majority of people in their own race. They do not really care about people of color and their head in the clouds ideology only makes their lives worse.


72 posted on 07/12/2015 3:53:35 PM PDT by cradle of freedom
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To: GeronL; samtheman

I read both Rand’s and Vonnegut’s stuff for the first time in my early teens-I’ve been ready for the revolution ever since. Ira Levin nailed socialist “utopia” in This Perfect Day in 1970, too-reading that one will have you making a plan to go to ground, too...

Reason is order-without it everything is chaos...


73 posted on 07/12/2015 3:54:04 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Altura Ct.

Academia is the last bastion of the truly demented. It’s always been the home of leftist nutcases.


74 posted on 07/12/2015 3:54:38 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: Altura Ct.

Hey Affirmative Action Prof: REASON is a CONSERVATIVE CONSTRUCT!! You Lieberals wouldn’t know REASON if it bit you in the Gay Rear!


75 posted on 07/12/2015 3:54:48 PM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: gorush

The first sign of a deceiver is their use and abuse of long understood and accepted terms. They take terms that people have embraced and they distort and redefine them. It is the shortcut to acceptance. Then as you use the terms, people hear one thing while you mean another. Slowly you bring them around to the new definition. It is the art of liars. It is the art of this professor. That’s one.

Second, to lead people into error you do not really have to prove your theory. You only need to place such a heavy burden of doubt on their beliefs that they become ripe for the picking. Then you carry along some security for them by using their old terms, only in new ways and voila: You are a minister of satan the great deceiver.

All this deception became possible because someone laid ground work. They failed to study and understand the truth they professed, or at least to teach it and pass it along to the next generation. So here we are in 2015 with a generation or two of people who have heard all the language of freedom from tyranny but have not been trained in who, what, why and how. They are pigeons for the con men. The con men are many.


76 posted on 07/12/2015 3:56:16 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: hosepipe

OMG!!! OMG!!! My GAYDAR is off the charts!!!


77 posted on 07/12/2015 3:57:33 PM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

I have been bemoaning the lack of respect for the truth for over three decades...and it keeps getting worse. We live in interesting times.


78 posted on 07/12/2015 3:58:37 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

I read “Atlas Shrugged” back in the early ‘70’s and thought it a worthwhile novel. I have read it 6 or 7 times since...it now reads like the nightly newscast.


79 posted on 07/12/2015 4:01:20 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: Altura Ct.

Reason, intelligence, common sense are all symptoms of white male privilege. It is unfair to have an IQ of over 99. There would be a fix for that. Everyone would be prescribed medication where no one would function higher than a moron. The Elite of course would be exempt.


80 posted on 07/12/2015 4:02:32 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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