Posted on 04/28/2017 7:34:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
“Know it all” noobs are smarter than everyone else
Who asked you to click on the thread, noob? If you want an echo chamber, go to DU or their sister site, jackass liberals.com
You can find more real news in your local Pennysaver than in the Times.
The_Media_never_lie wrote: "What do you mean it didn't????
Truth is pliable in NYTimesland. And on this lying little cretin's college campus. 😀
won’t happen this time in the USA but in South Africa it has—they are headed to civil war.
To the extent that a fact is a fact that is true, but fake facts can certainly be accepted as true by the people and they become a workable truth even though they are a lie.
Our lives are regulated by what we believe to be true whether we have the real truth or not.
It’s an absolutely nonsensical idea. How does one steal an idea open to all?
Critical theory is pretty much the norm in the humanities these days as I understand it. You hear its jargon every time a snowflake opens zir mouth to complain about free speech or privilege or whatever.
Yes, it’s especially entrenched in English and history departments.
I operate thusly:
There is an objective reality.
Everything is knowable.
Anything that can’t be measured doesn’t matter.
If you make an assertion that is other than the general consensus and/or my observation, incontrovertible proof must be provided.
The person making the argument must provide the proof, the other party is under zero obligation to accept any argument without proof.
The NYT is just as guilty as religious folks in asserting that people who disagree are under some sort of obligation to prove anything; be it religion, conspiracy theories, economics saying ‘nope, you haven’t proved it to my satisfaction’ is an absolutely ironclad response to any argument as far as I am concerned unless there is physical proof to the contrary.
Hmm, I'll have to remember to try that next time I get in an argument!
Forget Marx and the 19th Century, this whole crap started with Voltaire, Diderot, and D’Alembert in the 18th century. All Marx did was continue what they started. Just read up Barruel’s book:
https://archive.org/details/BarruelMemoirsIllustratingTheHistoryOfJacobinism/
Heck, just read up on Timothy Dwight’s sermon, which is essentially a summary of that bit. Horace Mann and even Jefferson, Paine, and Barlowe attempted to implement something similar into our own education system.
Sorry, forgot to post the reference regarding Paine and Barlowe:
https://thekeep.eiu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4779&context=theses
As far as Timothy Dwight, you misunderstand me, he actually wrote a sermon pretty much condemning the French Revolution and directly tied it to Voltaire and Diderot’s antics, essentially a summary of what Barruel wrote condemning the Jacobins and exposing what instigated their actions.
Here’s the sermon:
As far as Horace Mann, I’m mostly referring to this bit, especially when he essentially brainstormed America’s public education system: https://www.theblaze.com/contributions/why-liberals-think-being-educated-means-being-liberal
Thanks for the links and for clarifying on Dwight—that makes more sense.
You don’t have to read it.
Why track up a thread with a stupid garbage post of your own?
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