"About Pap Ndiaye's 'racialist' speech in a Washington University. Reaction from Eric Zemmour: 'France is universalist, it ignores and superbly ignores races'" #IRLScholarPapNdiaye #TheoryRacialColourBlindness #EDUUSGeorgeWashingtonUniversity #PleaNeutrality

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Supplementary #MagazineUSTheAtlanticRachelDonadio "In the aftermath of the French Revolution, the ancien régime in which lives were entirely circumscribed by economic capacity inherited at birth (peasants, landowners, aristocrats, clergy) was replaced with the universal category of citizen. France reinforced its commitment to its universal ideals after the Second World War, during which the Vichy regime had singled out Jews for deportation. And so today, unlike the United States, where the census tracks race, France does not formally keep statistics about race or religion, recognizing only two categories of people: citizens and immigrants." ^{[digital archives]}

#FictionalCharacterBuzzLightyear #2022_Lightyear #NewspaperUSTabloidNewYorkPostKyleSmith "Hollywood was founded by, and for generations run by, pure showmen who were fanatically devoted to giving the audience what it wanted. Today Hollywood's message is, 'Let us entertain you! But first, a brief lecture on what's wrong with you, the audience ...'" (25 June 2022).

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Addendum this follows the argument that entertainment is paradoxically intrinsic to, and simultaneously removed from culture i.e. that it is somehow possible to occupy a #PleaNeutrality position. This logic seems to echo a #PoliticsLiberalismClassical position, one where choosing *not* to intervene maintains a #PleaOrderNaturalEquilibrium. This can be understood additionally in terms of #PoliticsStatusQuoBias, which parallels #TheoryDragonsOfInactionSystemJustification, as applied in a climate change context.

"My teacher told me guns kill people... I told her my pencil failed my math exam." #LegislationUS1791ConstAmdt2RightToBearArms #TheoryInstrumentalism #ReasoningFallacyReductioAdAbsurdum

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Context "Myth: Criminals will always find a way to get their hands on a gun. Fact: Laws like background checks stop gun sales to criminals every day. Since 1994, these laws have blocked more than 4 million gun sales to people who could not legally own guns." https://www.everytown.org/debunking-gun-myths-at-the-dinner-table/

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Supplementary #IRLAnthropologistBrunoLatour "Each artifact has its script, its 'affordance,' its potential to take hold of passersby and force them to play roles in its story. By contrast, the sociological version of the NRA renders the gun a neutral carrier of will that adds nothing the action, playing the role of an electrical conductor, good and evil flowing through it effortlessly. ... Reversing the dogma of moralism, the materialists insist that we are what we have - what we have in our hands, at least. ... For the NRA, one's moral state is a Platonic essence: One is born a good citizen or a criminal. Period. As such, the NRA account is moralist-what matters is what you are, not what you have" (Bruno Latour, 1994, p.31). Latour, B. (1994). 'On Technical Mediation Philosophy, Sociology, Genealogy.' Common Knowledge 3(2). ^[pdf] #TheoryOfAffordances #TheoryPsychologySchemaTheory #AdvocacyUSNationalRifleAssociationNRA #TheoryPhysicalismOrMaterialism #TheoryInstrumentalism #IRLPhilosopherPlato #TheoryDeterminismFatalistic

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#MagazineForbesTheodoreMcDarrah "You are different with a gun in your hand; the gun is different with you holding it. You are another subject because you hold the gun; the gun is another object because it has entered into a relationship with you." https://www.forbes.com/sites/teddymcdarrah/2021/03/29/how-a-gun-changes-you-a-philosophical-look-at-gun-control/

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Addendum this meme is #MetaphorDeceitFallacious in the way that it seeks to reduce arguments about the responsibilities of gun ownership to materialist conditions of 'gun/pencil as neutral carrier' e.g. #TheoryInstrumentalismAGunIsJustATool - circumventing criticism (as a kind of #MetaphorDeceitBaitAndSwitch) as #ReasoningFallacyStrawman argument, which #MetaphorDeceitDisingenuous.ly sidesteps authentic criticism that guns sit within a socio-cultural frame i.e. #EpistemologySociallyConstructedKnowledge and are therefore not #PleaNeutrality.al.

#MetaphorWarfareCultureLiberalEducation #PleaNeutrality #EDUCAUniversiteLaval

#PolicyAffirmativeActionDiscriminationPositive "Désolé M. Einstein. Nous privilégions seulement les candidatures des femmes, des Autochtones, des persons en situation de handicap et de celles appartenant à des minoritiés visible...[Sorry Mr. Einstein. We only favor applications from women, Aboriginal people, people with disabilities and those belonging to visible minorities...]" #IRLHistoricalFigureAlbertEinstein #CauseEqualityGender #IdentityFirstNationsOfTheAmericas #PolicyRightsDisability #HandleFacebookPerksMedia #HandleTwitterPerks65

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Supplementary #IRLScholarAlanMacfarlane https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XD85mfTbzk&t=24s http://neoliberalismeducation.pbworks.com/w/page/50829895/Competitive%20Individualism And https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSzS5pLaX7s&t=517s

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Addendum this tweet evokes the #MetaphorSpatialMiningFiniteResource, where it makes the assumption that knowledge/intelligence is finite can be objectively measured i.e. as per the logic of #TheoryInstrumentalism. This worldview sits in opposition to more contemporary understanding, which sees that knowledge is cultural contingent i.e. #EpistemologySociallyConstructedKnowledge. So, instead of Albert Einstein's intelligence being solely attributable to his own endeavours as per #TheoryIndividualismCompetitive it would be more correct to say that his intelligence was the product of a combination of factors i.e. his individual efforts (and predispositions) as enabled through the circumstances of his socio-cultural context.

#MetaphorGenerationTheYounger #CatchcryDifferingOpinionsAsNeutralPerspectives / #PleaNeutrality

"We never cared if you were 'gay', until you started shoving it in our face, and the faces of our children. We never cared what colour you were, until you started blaming our race for your problems. We never cared about your political affiliation, until you started to condemn others for theirs. We never cared where you were born, until you wanted to erase our history and blame our ancestors for your current problems. We never cared if you were well-off or poor, until you said you were discriminated against when others were promoted because they worked harder. We never cared if your beliefs were different from that of ours, until you said our beliefs were wrong. THANK YOU FOR NOW MAKING US CARE! Our patience and tolerance for your VirtueSignalling are gone. There are millions of us who now care, and we, have had ENOUGH!!" #MemeYouKnowFolks #IdentityLGBTQIA #LegislationUSFloridaParentalRightsInEducationBillFLHB1557DontSayGay (children)? #MetaphorPurityRace #PoliticsProgressivismSocialLiberalism #TheoryRevisionismHistorical ? #OtheringDiscriminationRacismStructuralSystemicInstitutional ? #PoliticsCapitalism #CatchcryCancelCulture ? #TauntVirtueSignalling #TheoryPoliticsOfFearAnxietyOfVictimisation #MetaphorThreatVeiledHostility #CatchcryShovedDownYourThroat

#MemeAngryWalter ^{[pop culture wiki]} #1998_TheBigLebowski #IRLActorJohnGoodman

#IRLMusicianNeilYoung #PoliticsFascismWoke #CatchcryIdentityPolitics #PoliticsDemocracy #MetaphorPurityRace #PleaNeutrality #LiteralFieldScience

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Context argument distinguishes race from gender in stating that race is an #PhenomnRealityObjective whereas #PhenomnGender is a #EpistemologySociallyConstructed (through being 'performative').

#EDUUSUniversityColoradoState #CharacterisationWeaknessSnowflake #CatchcryFreeSpeechFreedomOfSpeech #LiteralSchoolCollegeUniversity #MetaphorVersusWeaknessStrength i.e. #PleaNeutrality

"The reason I am alternative, and I must make the distinction that I don't mean alt-right, is that I was not provided a sufficient education when I was young and was in a position where I felt rebellious to that fact. My response focused on what I noticeably thrived at or enjoyed. In doing this, I began educating myself alternatively and without knowing it at the time. Most White people take in the same or similar curriculums. The mass idiocy at a certain point becomes no surprise, when you go deeper beyond what they tell you is foundational. You will most likely be punished for it at some end, though, and perhaps often." #EpistemologyAmateurExegeteAutodidact ? #PleaNeutrality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO3k6XyVTNE #PleaNeutrality #TheoryIndividualismCompetitiveLoser #PhenomnManga https://screenrant.com/manga-political-western-readers-akira-attack-titan/ #FictionalCharacterMODOK ^[Wikipedia]

#ToponymEuropeBelgium "Woke thinking is opposed in all its aspects to our way of living together: It's a form of repressive thinking; woke wants to limit our freedom. It is a form of collectivism; After all, no contradiction is tolerated; Anyone who disagrees will be 'cancelled'" #PoliticsCollectivism #CatchcryFreedomLiberty #CatchcryCancelCulture #PleaNeutrality ? #CharacterisationForcedUniformity

#CatchcryFreeSpeechFreedomOfSpeech #OrgClassifPPBEDeLiberaleWereld https://deliberalewereld.be/over-ons/

#AdvocacyUKCounterweight #IRLAuthorHelenPluckrose #IRLDesignerCharlieStanton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FENXpEz8kw0 In defence of #PoliticsLiberalismClassical via an explanation of #TheorySociologyCriticalRaceTheoryCRT (ideologically) reframed as 'Critical Social Justice'

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Supplementary "Therefore, while the CSJ approach advocates for identity politics, liberals advocate for removing social significance from identity - that is, eradicating the idea that one's race, sex or sexuality tells us anything about anybody's abilities, morals or roles in society [ i.e. #PleaNeutrality ]. While the CSJ approach argues that knowledge is relative, positional and tied to identity, liberals argue that knowledge is objective (at least in principle although we should never be too sure of having obtained it) and individuals of any identity may access it, although experiences and perceptions may vary. Where the CSJ approach insists we are all socialised into the acceptance of certain discourses and therefore language must be closely scrutinised and policed to dismantle oppressive power systems, liberals believe that culture has influence but that individuals have agency and can use language to argue for and against ideas and that bad ideas (including bigoted ones) are best overcome by better ideas." https://counterweightsupport.com/2021/02/17/what-do-we-mean-by-critical-social-justice/

#EDUUKUniversityOpenOU #TheoryInstrumentalism / #PleaNeutrality

"Reading about the early intelligence research is always difficult for psychologists because it requires them to face one of the gloomiest episodes in the history of their discipline. However, awareness darker side of intelligence research is important for two reasons. First, it alerts us to the potential problems with interpreting performance on intelligence tests, especially in terms of cultural and class bias. This is a topic that we will return to in Chapter 3. Second, scientific racism, of the kind manifested in the interpretation of the results of the army testing programme, is not just of historical interest. Claims about certain ethnic and racial groups possessing inferior intelligence still circulate in society, and are often found in propaganda of far-right movements (William and Law, 2012). Moreover, far-right movements have been helped in their project by some misinformed and discredited interpretations of psychological research, including The Bell Curve which you read about in Section 1. Such works continue to attribute differences in performance on a set of tests to differences in innate ability, rather than to differences in education, experience or opportunities, or the biased nature of the tests. The history of intelligence research provides a powerful reminder of why it is important to debunk this kind of bad science, which still raises its ugly head every now and then" (p.61). https://www.studocu.com/en-gb/document/the-open-university/investigating-psychology-1/chapter-2-32-3-in-depth-notes-on-the-investigating-intelligence-textbook-from-the-de100-module/16844027 Possible source: Jovan Byford, Jean McAvoy, Philip Banyard (2014) 'Investigating Intelligence', Milton Keynes, The Open University. #OtheringDiscriminationRacism #TheoryPsychology #BeliefPseudoscienceScientificRacism ^[Wikipedia]

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Supplementary ^{[United Nations]} And https://www.wired.co.uk/article/superior-the-return-of-race-science-angela-saini

#TheoryDeclinism #PolicyDiversityEquityAndInclusionDEI #PleaNeutrality #TheoryInstrumentalism #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardian #NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimes #MetaphorVersusSideBySideDiptych

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh0wJy19Y6s #MetaphorWarfareSocialJusticeWarriorSJW #PowerControlMicrofascismBullyingPileOn #OtheringDiscriminationRacism #PleaNeutrality

#PleaNeutrality #IRLScholarThomasSowell

#PoliticsConservatismSocialSoCon #PleaNeutrality of #PolicyStandardisedTesting #TauntLeftist #LiteralSchoolCollegeUniversity #ReasoningFallacyOversimplificationCausalReductionism

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Context response to #OrgUSNtlEducationAssociationNEA article: https://www.nea.org/nea-today/all-news-articles/racist-beginnings-standardized-testing posted by #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyJamaalBowman #OtheringDiscriminationRacismStructuralSystemicInstitutional

#TheoryAffectiveResponseOutrage #PleaNeutrality #PleaOrderStableSocial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjFoxHLN2IM #EDUUSUniversityOfVermont #OtheringDiscriminationRacismStructuralSystemicInstitutional

#CampaignHashtagRhodesMustFall #IRLHistoricalFigureCecilRhodes #PleaNeutrality #PoliticallyCorrectPC

#TauntLeftThe #CatchcryDifferingOpinionsAsNeutralPerspectives #MemeConfusedAnimeDude ^{[pop culture wiki]}

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Context "Confused anime dude is actually supposed to be confused -- because he's an android whose programming isn't quite right. His name is Katori Yutaro, and he's the hero of the 1991 anime Taiyou no Yuusha Fighbird (Brave of the Sun Fighbird). In the scene that spawned the meme, as a newly emerged android, he's making comically incorrect statements and misidentifying various things around him" https://themmacommunity.com/threads/internet-famous-where-are-they-now.68425/page-17#post-1601856

#CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM #IRLComedianBillBurr #IRLComedianDaveChappelle #OrgUKMontyPythonJohnCleese #TVFawltyTowers #PoliticallyCorrectPC #IRLComedianJerrySeinfeld #IRLComedianRickyGervais #PhenomnComedy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1ISlncjCbU #PleaNeutrality #TheoryInstrumentalism

#PleaGetGoWokeGoBroke #PhenomnPropaganda In this case, the search engine #BrandTechDuckDuckGo is seen to have succumbed to the same impulses of #BrandTechGoogle i.e. to present weighted search returns.

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Supplementary this perspective is discussed by #IRLScholarFrancescaTripodi in terms of the practice of #EpistemologyAmateurExegeteScripturalInference: "I argue that practices learned in Bible study are applied to media interpretation. The conservatives I observed all hold the belief that certain fundamental truths exist, and they critically interrogate media messages in the same way they approach the Bible, focusing on specific passages and comparing what they read, see, and hear to their lived experiences. I term this media interrogation process scriptural inference, whereby audiences apply the technique of closely reading 'the Word' to other documents. I argue that these practices are a style of media literacy, whereby those who believe in the truth of the Bible approach secular political documents (e.g., a transcript of the president's speech or a copy of the Constitution) with the same interpretative scrutiny. Through this practice of unpacking texts, inconsistencies between an interpretation of original documents and the stories produced by MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Washington Post are easy to find. Such findings further support their widely shared belief that mainstream media cannot be trusted" (p.6). #PhenomnAlgorithm #ReasoningFallacyBiasCognitiveConfirmation #EpistemologyAmateurExegeteGooglingStuffAsResearch #BeliefTheismChristianityBible #NarrativeTruthImmutableUniversalIncontrovertibleAbsolute #BeliefTheismChristianityBibleScripture #TheoryConstitutionalLawOriginalism #NMUSMSNBC #NMUSCNN #NMUSFOXFNC #NewspaperUSBrdshtTheWallStreetJournal #NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimes #NewspaperUSBrdshtTheWashingtonPost #WebsitePragerU #IRLCommentatorDaveRubin #BrandTheDailyWire

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Addendum implicit belief in the impartiality of search algorithms (and their corruption by their providers) i.e. "algorithms are implicitly neutral, it's the people that make them that give them an agenda". #PleaNeutrality

#2006_Idiocracy

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Addendum #EpistemologyAgnotology i.e. "deliberate, culturally-induced ignorance or doubt, typically to sell a product or win favour, particularly through the publication of inaccurate or misleading scientific data" ^[Wikipedia] ?