Pneumenon

That's the interesting part. People are willing to say all kinds of absurd things in the name of social theory, but seem unwilling to follow those sta...

Chinese Muslims aren't being persecuted. Uyghurs are. There are historical reasons for this.

Precisely. Mathematics is mind-dependent because it's not useful to say that it isn't, and "utility" is a worthwhile measuring-stick here because math...

I'm afraid that wasn't an argument.

Ah, so you do have an argument! What is it?

I'll take that as a "no."

Do you have an argument?

Terminology is not terribly important. Instead of complaining that I'm being mean to the paper, why don't you respond to the argument?

Ah! I see the problem here. Platonism is a stance toward the reality of abstractions, so argument against Platonism is argument against the reality of...

I pointed out that your argument is circular. Do you actually have a response?

Okay, so how does my picture have little to do with reality? We need something better than question-begging here.

"I don't care if it's real or not; I'm not interested in reality." Well, okay, then.

Lots of irrealists about math make this argument. "Well, it's not useful, so these abstractions aren't real." Of course, the reality of an abstraction...

Okay, but that makes the KK principle vacuous.

"S knows that P" -> "S knows that S knows that P." "S knows that S knows that P" -> "S knows that S knows that S knows that P" This seems like such a ...

If Being is intrinsically good, then Hume's Guillotine fails. In fact, Hume's Guillotine basically is a denial of the idea that Being is intrinsically...

My take on it? Would you take out $40,000 in loans to take a vacation for "personal enrichment?" No? Then why are you getting a fucking humanities deg...

As an addendum to my prior post, I will note that, in tension with my distaste for skeptical pretense, I have a certain suspicion of "commonsense" phi...

I have often thought that skepticism, given its typical rhetorical purpose in philosophy, can be profoundly misleading. It's all well an good to discu...

No he didn't.

I mean, I don't see any basis for legitimacy of that "fact check" website, but whatever. Anyhow, on a note unrelated to that previous discussion but s...

I did.

"Circling the wagons" is a social phenomenon. The right isn't circling the wagons, as evidenced by its steady advances. Also, I see no response to Tho...

Precisely. "This is an unreliable source, so I won't look at it, so I have no reason to believe it's a reliable source." The Vox point is interesting ...

A good question to ask oneself: if I insist that the world works in a particular way, what happens if someone decides to dislodge my worldview by usin...

The wagon-circling has another component that leads to bad consequences, which is its tendency to shrink the solid base upon which a given ideology st...

I just made an observation about the present behavior of the left. How does this response address that, besides proving my point by being defensive?

Refusal to engage doesn't win points. The suddeb loss of its sociocultural dominance has spooked the left, which is reacting by circling the wagons. M...

Well, a few of you told me I was being mean, so I apologized for it. And now you're angry at me for apologizing! You have invested considerable appare...

Well, no, because Peterson did not specify which belief he thought was a "murderous equality doctrine." I went over this with Maw. You can read that s...

To recap: we have a widespread hysterical reaction on the left, where you've got some harmless middle-aged psych professor telling people to clean the...

No, my point was that calling yourself a "woman's equality" activist doesn't mean that what you are doing is good, or even that it has anything to do ...

I don't see anything hysterical about the three points you mentioned. Your use of "women's equality" is a bit hand-wavey, though. That's like claiming...

That's a pity. I'd hope that a person as well-read as yourself would deign to post his arguments in this thread, if not for my benefit, then for that ...

You've engaged me for several posts so far. Why the sudden reticence? Your post made some assertions but with no arguments. I'm certain that you have ...

Come now, you needn't dig your heels in like this. You said I had a shallow read of his standing, and I asked for an in-depth explanation.

Here are the last two posts:

Cool! Let's hear an in-depth critique.

I dunno. Maybe he'd specify which brand of feminism he was criticizing and why. You seem to be making some serious inferential leaps here, without app...

I'm afraid I do not see the link between "get your shit together and take care of yourself" and "SUBMIT TO THE PATRIARCHY WOOF WOOF." I agree that he ...

Irrelevant, as Peterson never said this. He didn't even directly state what the doctrine was. Herrings within herrings....

*shrug* I'm not a terribly huge fan of Peterson's. But I think the hysterical reaction to some frog-voiced middle-aged psych prof who occasionally cri...

Well, you used a somewhat-strong adverb to modify "wrong" there, so clearly you're an unstable firebrand!

Calling for someone else's murder is "acidic" and "vehement." Calling someone else "murderous" is not.

Red herring. Very few movements are homogeneous. Your opening post made some general criticisms of right-wing politics, and right-wing politics aren't...

I do not think that Maw was using "conservative" in the sense you're thinking. He seems to apply it to right-wing politics in general.

Okay, so criticizing the feminist movement makes you "acidic" and "vehement?" The over-the-top hyperbole you're using here is precisely what you're ac...

Precisely.

I believe we call this process "democratization." I find it interesting that you think that Peterson, of all people, is zany. I find his views pretty ...

Your response sucked. No offense. In all seriousness: if you are convinced that the Right is a pod of unleashed hell-hounds, it would behoove you to u...