Posted on 10/26/2021 11:37:21 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
George Orwell famously said that “there are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.”
His adage now applies to anyone associated with academia in any capacity.
The New York Times ran a report the other day on the canceling of University of Chicago geophysicist Dorian Abbot for his dissenting views on affirmative action. The paper quoted a Williams College geosciences professor, Phoebe A. Cohen, who supports Abbot’s shunning. She explained her dim view of academic freedom thusly: “This idea of intellectual debate and rigor as the pinnacle of intellectualism comes from a world in which white men dominated.”
Ah, yes, that poisoned fruit of the patriarchy — intellectual debate and rigor.
This idea isn’t new, even if Cohen expressed it in a memorably pithy and direct way. Of all the faddish notions blighting college campuses and the broader culture, it is among the most indefensible and self-destructive.
Start with the fact that to reason is deeply human.
Steven Pinker points out in his new book “Rationality” that one of the world’s oldest people, the San of the Kalahari Desert in southern Africa, don’t survive by happenstance. These hunter-gatherers make closely reasoned, evidence-based judgments about their prey; without the use of logic, they wouldn’t be successful. If someone told them they needed to give up all this reasoning and cede it to white males, they’d presumably react with fury and incomprehension.
Needless to say, other cultures and civilizations are capable of great intellectual rigor. It doesn’t require endorsing the fashionable theories that the West invented nothing and rose to preeminence through colonialism and theft to acknowledge the historic achievements of China, India and the Islamic world.
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>> Steven Pinker points out in his new book “Rationality” that one of the world’s oldest people
Unfortunately Pinker has expressed allegiance to the Marxists. Damn shame.
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I think she just proved her point.
It’s all fun and games until the champions of “intellectual debate and rigor” decide to go full Cut-Arm Sioux on the offenders...
I would say that we’re a couple of generations beyond logic already.
I have lived all over the world
No question some groups reason better than others....no question whatsoever
To the idiotic Left, anything and everything is racist or white privilege, etc., etc.
Striving with each passing day to make flat-earthers look more and more sane with each passing day......
Hey, don't discount the flat-earthers. Their membership is growing, all around the globe.
Those who didnt think rationally in the distant past died. Especially those who shared their space with beasts that would eat them. So Africa would have been full of rational thinkers.
we sit and entertain this lunacy time to make the donuts!
White people can’t dance, but apparently are the only ones that can think.
Wasn’t Jimmy the Greek and Jimmy Breslin gaslighted for expressing the same viewpoint?
It doesn’t have anything to do with intellectual rigor as a white male thing. This woman wants to eliminate white males as competitors. She’s jealous of white male success. Not complicated.
Another example of a low IQ human who is jealous of high intellect
FINALLY! Something a liberal says, that I can AGREE with! Although I would adjust the statement slightly, to include 'heterosexual'.
White heterosexual men are rational.
Women are irrational.
Minorities are irrational.
Gays are irrational.
ONLY WHITE HETEROSEXUAL MEN ARE RATIONAL.
Some white heterosexual men are rational
ALL white heterosexual men are rational.
Even when they are crazy.
Ok. Coming from you one can’t argue. :)
The only way to defeat these people is to eradicate them.
There can be no co existence
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