#BrandMarvelComics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sisVFkFXMv8 #TechArtificialIntelligenceAIGenerativeChatBotChatGPT #TechArtificialIntelligenceAIGenerativeMidJourney #BrandMarvelComicsMartinGoodman ^[Wikipedia] #BrandMarvelComicsJimStarlin ^[Wikipedia]

#BrandMarvelComicsStanLee

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Supplementary #2023_TheWizardOfAI https://alanwarburton.co.uk/thewizardofai #PhenomnVideoEssay by #IRLAnimatorAlanWarburton offers up a technological #TheoryInstrumentalism.ist view of generative AI framed according to an #MetaphorVersusUsThem logic. His #TheoryDeterminismFatalistic perspective describes the phenomenon in terms of a supposed 'wonder panic' (which appears to be simply a rebadging of the #NarrativeUtopianismTechnological concept), which he contrast with #TheoryAffectNarrativeTechnophobia. #TheoryModernityLiquid #PleaAuthenticity_ #MetaphorVersusLegitimateIllegitimate #VlogAIInsightsExplorer (review of the above) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZxzradL_GY He makes mention of the concept of #TheoryImaginarySociotechnical i.e. "the 'technological imaginary' refers us to the way that new technologies are taken up within a culture and are hooked into, or have projected onto them" Martin Lister, Jon Dovey, Seth Giddings, Iain Grant, Kieran Kelly (2003). 'New Media: A Critical Introduction'. https://www.routledge.com/New-Media-A-Critical-Introduction/Lister-Dovey-Giddings-Grant-Kelly/p/book/9780415431613

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Addendum https://www.newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes/the-uncanny-failures-of-ai-generated-hands And https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/ai-generated-art-hands-fingers-messed-up

#OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPRonDeSantisRDS #IRLPresenterJillCaseyDeSantisAKAWalmartMelania

"THE 'GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE' PEOPLE SURE SEEM TO THINK A BOOK CAN MAKE YOU GAY. @NoahGarfinkel" #CatchcryGunsDontKillPeoplePeopleKillPeople #PhenomnCensorshipBookBanning #TheoryInstrumentalism #IRLWriterNoahGarfinkel ^[imdb]

#CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM #TauntLeftist #PhenomnResponsibilityBlamingVictim #CatchcryAskingForIt

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Context tweet responding to #NMUSCNBCClarettaBellamy "A woman whose wig was ripped off her head by a man as she was walking in New York City early Monday said she now wants to take legal action. The woman, known online as Lizzy Ashliegh, posted a video on TikTok of an incident that she said took place near Penn Station around 1 a.m., when a man ripped off a turquoise wig from her head. In the video, which had over 500,000 views Wednesday evening, Ashliegh, who is audibly distraught, asks the man, 'For what reason did you take my wig off?' The man appears intoxicated and laughs when he is questioned." https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/new-york-man-fired-woman-accused-ripping-wig-street-rcna87079 #IRLMusicianLizzyAshliegh

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Addendum this appears to be the slightly redacted #CharacterisationDerivativeWorkCoOption version of the #MemeHowToRuinACity, the full version has the #OtheringCaricatureSlaveryNWord on the shaker instead simply the letter 'N'. The symbol of #BeliefTheismJudaismStarOfDavid is also visible (as per the circle with the star inside visible on the edge of the sleeve). Assuming this is so, the sum of the collected symbols adds up to the #OtheringHateAntisemitismCaricaturePuppetMaster canard, where in this case supposedly #IdentityJewish people are behind a conspiracy to corrupt cities through promoting #PhenomnMulticulturalism. More directly in terms of the illustration, to transform an (assumed) #PhenomnMonoculturalism.ural society into one based on policies of #PolicyDiversityEquityAndInclusionDEI, which would logically include people with #IdentityAmericanBlackAndAfricanPOC heritage (among others).

#MassShooting2022NewYorkCitySubway ^[Wikipedia] https://abcnews.go.com/US/killed-10-injured-nightclub-shooting-downtown-cedar-rapids #MassShooting2022Sacramento https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/arrest-made-in-connection-with-sacramento-mass-shooting-that-killed-6 #PowerControlViolenceGunShootingMass #ReasoningFallacyOfIncompleteEvidenceCherryPicking

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Addendum noticeably, such memes generally focus the perpetrators of gun crime while failing to mention a key precondition - that of easy access to firearms as guaranteed by the #LegislationUS1791ConstAmdt2RightToBearArms. #TheoryOfAffordances i.e. guns are lethal devices whose design are intrinsically linked to their violent potential e.g. ^{[academic source] [pdf]} Versus #TheoryInstrumentalism 'value neutral' arguments such as those of the #AdvocacyUSNationalRifleAssociationNRA e.g. "guns don't kill people; people kill people" (thereby absolving gun advocates, gun manufactures etc. of any responsibility). #CatchcryGunsDontKillPeoplePeopleKillPeople

#NewspaperUSBrdshtChattanoogaTimesFreePress "A look at the 32 suspects authorities called 'worst of the worst' criminals in Chattanooga" #ToponymAmericaNorthUSTennesseeChattanooga #PhenomnCulturalFormPhotographyMugshot #CaricaturistScottAdamsAKADilbert

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Context ^{[pop culture wiki]}

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Supplementary http://redgreenandblue.org/2023/03/02/cartoonist-climate-denier-scott-adams-endorses-segregation-loses-job/ #PhenomnEnvironmentalSocialAndCorporateGovernanceESG https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6TnAn7qV1s&t=941 #PowerControlSegregationDiscrimination #OtheringDiscriminationRacismExclusionary

#IRLActivistDavidHogg #EDUUSUniversityOfHarvard #2000_

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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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Addendum #TheoryInstrumentalism argument in support of #LegislationUS1791ConstAmdt2RightToBearArms e.g. something along the lines of "a gun is just a tool (which is therefore neutral of cultural influence and consequence)". The argument runs contrary to the #TheoryOfAffordances where it is the fact that guns afford killing/injuring when used whereas a pencil only affords writing and neither failing/passing an exam. Because doing so, is the affordance of the exam-sitter's ability to interpret and understand the answers the exam expects and to use appropriate communication in order to do so. #CatchcryGunsDontKillPeoplePeopleKillPeople

#ReasoningFallacyReductioAdAbsurdum

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Addendum presumably this is at attempt to re-characterise inadequate US firearms controls in the wake of #MassShooting2023NashvilleCovenantSchool i.e. a #TheoryInstrumentalism argument in blind support of #LegislationUS1791ConstAmdt2RightToBearArms.

"'Guns don't kill people. People kill people' Well, no shit. We want mandatory safety courses for people, not guns. We want more thorough background checks of people, not guns. We want stricter negligence penalties imposed on people, not guns. If you're stupid enough to think activists are pissed at guns, you're too stupid to own one." #TheoryInstrumentalism

#MetaphorDiseaseMindVirus #PolicyDiversityEquityAndInclusionDEI #PhenomnEmancipation #CauseEqualityMarriage #OrgClassifPPUSPOTUSAbrahamLincoln #OrgUSNtlWomanSuffrageAssociationSusanAnthony #PolicyUniversalSuffrage #IRLActivistJudithHeumann #IRLActivistMartinLutherKingMLK #IRLHistoricalFigureHarveyMilk #IRLHistoricalFigureRosaParks #OrgClassifPPUSPOTUSGeorgeWashington #BeliefTheismDeityGodAllahYHWHJesusChristMessiah #PleaMAGA #ConspiracyTheory_Conspiracist #EpistemologyAmateurExegetePatternSeeking #CaricaturistMattWuerker #MetaphorRedYarnAndCorkboard

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Supplementary #MagazineUKTheSpectatorPatrickWest "Many on the left decry with airy disdain that complaints of 'cancellation' and 'wokery' are just antediluvian grunts of conservatives who don't like, or don't understand, the modern world - with its new, strange manners concerning matters race and gender. Then there are the shopkeeper-type conservatives, who think the culture wars are all a silly hoo-ha about pronouns, toilet usage, dramas about Cleopatra and the Royal Family as seen on TV. They scold that we should be properly concerned with material materials: the cost of living, inflation, mortgage payments, industrial disputes, the future of the Conservative party. Both conclusions, from the complacent left and bean-counting right, are based on misapprehensions. They derive from a double falsehood. The culture wars are really taking place, whether the left likes or not. And the culture wars are a bread-and-butter issue, whether the right likes or not. " https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/lets-stop-pretending-the-culture-wars-arent-real/ #BeliefTheismChristianityBibleAntediluvian

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Addendum #IRLAuthorCharlesLeadbeater's #2009_WeThink #TheoryImaginarySociotechnical manifesto for the (then) seemingly unavoidable #EpistemologyAmateurParticipatoryCulture / #EpistemologyAmateurCulturalProduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiP79vYsfbo over-optimistically and #TheoryInstrumentalism.ally imagined only the potential advantages of such a sea-change: breaking down legacy, siloed ways of thinking/working would automatically lead to mass creativity. What was missing however, was the realisation that such conceptualisation assumes a common cultural understanding and objectives i.e. the #PoliticsStatusQuo - essentially, the further spread and reach of #OtheringElitesLiberalCulturalEducated values / a #TheoryHyperculture perspective - not the flourishing of divergent perspectives and with it, the surge in #ConspiracyTheory_.ies, the emergence of #EpistemologyAmateurParticipatoryDisinformation, #EpistemologyAmateurExegeteAutodidactDilettantism and charges of #MetaphorWarfareCulture and #CatchcryCancelCulture, supposedly mobilised as a singularly, unified attack against #ReasoningFallacyAppealToTraditionValues - representing a manifestly binary duality of #MetaphorVersusEverydayPeopleLiberals. #TheoryModernityReflexive

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Addendum the #PhenomnStudentLoanDebt comments seems to point to #ReasoningFallacyBiasCognitiveConfirmationIToldYouSo styled claim i.e. something about the stupidity of doing a degree, which doesn't serve a purely #TheoryInstrumentalism purpose (something like #LiteralFieldGenderStudies etc). The #IdentityLGBTQIATransgenderYouth / #PhenomnGenderReassignment related comment points to an overly simplistic i.e. #PleaAWorldOfSimpleStableFixedOperations worldview. And the fact that the image is #1947_PyrexBirthdayCakeAdTheSaturdayEveningPost / #BrandPyrex https://retrorenovation.com/2015/04/20/pyrex-100th-anniversary-thank-you-bessie-littleton/ Specifically: ^[jpg] depicting a #IdentityWhite 'mother and daughter' points to #PleaNostalgia i.e. #TheoryPoliticsOfEternity.

"ChatGPT must be decolonized because the data was selected by 'white men from the USA'. Is @BarbaraBleisch aware that without the technology of 'white men from the USA' their show could not be recorded, edited or broadcast? woke" #TechArtificialIntelligenceAIGenerativeChatBotChatGPT #PhenomnColonialismDe

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Addendum this tweet assumes that the engineering and operation of such technology is the sole purview of 'white men from the USA' i.e. #PoliticsNationalismAmerican. In doing so, it misunderstands (or ignores) #IRLScholarBarbaraBleisch's central thesis about algorithmic AI bias. As this Lexalytics article explains it: "There are two types of bias in AI. One is algorithmic AI bias or 'data bias,' where algorithms are trained using biased data. The other kind of bias in AI is societal AI bias. That's where our assumptions and norms as a society cause us to have blind spots or certain expectations in our thinking. Societal bias significantly influences algorithmic AI bias" ^[blog] Significantly, the idea that technology is not neutral / has a bias represents a cultural understanding of technology i.e. because AI is a cultural product, it necessarily #TheoryOfAffordances.ords bias. This perspective sits in contrast with the tweet's #TheoryInstrumentalism perspective, which imagines that technology is able to be removed from its socio-cultural context (and therefore, avoid bias). Additionally, the response's #TheoryAffectExpressionAnxiety points to #TheoryVictimhoodWhiteThymos

#OrgCHSchweizerRadioUndFernsehenSRF ^[Wikipedia] https://www.srf.ch/play/tv/sternstunde-philosophie/video/chatbot-gpt

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#VlogTRIGGERnometryKonstantinKisin #BrandTheDailyWirePolemicistMattWalsh #VlogTRIGGERnometryFrancisFoster #TauntWokeCulture

"Put 100 women and 10 men on a deserted island. In 100 years you will have a community of men, women, boys and girls. Put 100 trans women and 10 men on a deserted island. In 100 years you will find the skeletons of 110 men. It Is Science." #NarrativeTruthHypothetical #TheoryExnominationHeteronormativity #IdentityLGBTQIATrans #PleaFollowTheScience #TheoryInstrumentalism

#TauntBrainwashed #TauntIndoctrination #MetaphorWarfareCultureLiberalEducation #TheoryInstrumentalism

#TheoryInstrumentalism #MetaphorWarfareCultureLiberalEducation

#MetaphorWarfareHeroWhiteKnight #PowerControlViolencePhysicalBrutality

#ToponymAmericaNorthUSLouisianaNewOrleans #NMRURussiaTodayRT "Black culture is violent, aggressive, criminal, sociopathic, narcissistic, corrosive, contagious, and detrimental for any society." #OtheringCaricatureSlaveryBrute

#ReasoningFallacyOversimplificationCausalReductionism #NMUSPublicBroadcastingServicePBS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0u5MA31T6I https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/despite-high-gun-ownership-scandinavia-remains-largely-free-of-firearm-violence #MassShooting2022ThailandNongBuaLamphuMassacre #ToponymAsiaThailand #ToponymEuropeNordicScandinaviaNorway #ToponymEuropeNordicScandinaviaSweden #OtheringOutGroupGangMob #OrgClassifPPSESverigedemokraternaSD #LiteralWeaponFirearmAR15

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Addendum what's missing here is any mention of #OtheringDiscriminationRacismStructuralSystemicInstitutional e.g. #PhenomnDeprivationPoverty etc. #PhenomnDemography The headline: "Despite high gun ownership, Scandinavia remains largely free of firearm violence" seems to allude to a 'value neutral' i.e. #TheoryInstrumentalism argument such as those of the #AdvocacyUSNationalRifleAssociationNRA e.g. "guns don't kill people; people kill people" (thereby absolving gun advocates, gun manufactures etc. of any responsibility). #CatchcryGunsDontKillPeoplePeopleKillPeople #TauntAmmosexual ^[Wiktionary]

#2022_FIFAWorldCupQatar #TauntHypocrisyWestern 

#BrandTheDailyWirePolemicistMattWalsh  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ypFc7wZMu8&t=84s #IRLJournalistGrantWahl #TauntArrogance 

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Context #NMEUEuronews https://www.euronews.com/2022/11/22/us-sports-journalist-says-he-was-detained-at-qatar-world-cup-over-lgbt-rainbow-shirt

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Addendum this appears to present a criticism, which is wholly based on #TheoryCulturalImperialismWestern however the argument actually sits within a broader frame, one positioned in terms of #TheoryInstrumentalism - that #CatchcryDifferingOpinionsAsNeutralPerspectives, when in reality criticism of #ToponymEastMiddleQatar's outlawing of #IdentityLGBTQIA rights is actually about #IRLPhilosopherKarlPopper's #TheoryToleranceParadox - that supporting such laws, makes you complicit in promoting intolerance, which by its nature undemocratic i.e. anti #CatchcryFreeSpeechFreedomOfSpeech - anti the very thing, which Walsh consistently argues for. So, in this sense, Walsh's argument can only be interpreted as disingenuous (and likely, opportunistic).

#MassShooting2022RobbElementarySchool / #IRLMurdererSalvadorRamos + #ToponymAmericaNorthUSTexasUvalde verus #IRLPrivateCitizenKyleRittenhouse + #ToponymAmericaNorthUSWisconsinKenosha #PowerControlViolenceGunShootingMass #TheoryInstrumentalism #PhenomnMisdirectionScapegoating #MetaphorVersusSideBySideDiptych

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Supplementary "a number of risk factors are more closely associated with gun violence than mental illness, including adverse childhood experiences, gender and age demographics, and, most importantly, access to firearms." https://www.americanprogress.org/article/debunking-myths-the-gun-lobby-perpetuates-following-mass-shootings/ #MetaphorVersusSimpleComplexAnswers #AdvocacyUSNationalRifleAssociationNRA #LegislationUS1791ConstAmdt2RightToBearArms

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Addendum guns afford violence i.e. #TheoryOfAffordances and so, the act of carrying a gun, regardless of one's intention, brings with it violent potential.

"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.

#OrgClassifPPAUSLiberalPartyOfAustraliaPeterDutton #OrgClassifPPAUSAustralianLaborPartyALPAnthonyAlbanese #CatchcryIdentityPolitics + #TheoryMarxism = #PoliticsFascismWoke ?

#NewspaperAUOnlineWAtodayNathanHondros "Data released by the federal government this week on the causes of death for Australians between 2012 to 2016 has revealed a higher suicide rate in the Kimberley than in any other part of the nation. And in the Kimberley, which includes towns like Broome, Kununurra and Halls Creek, the suicide rates are higher than Sri Lanka, Guyana and Mongolia, the nations with the worst rates in the world, according to the World Health Organisation." https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/if-the-kimberley-was-a-country-it-would-have-the-worst-suicide-rate-in-the-world-20190207-p50wem.html #ToponymOceaniaAustraliaWAKimberley #OrgClassifPPAUSAustralianLaborPartyALPMarkMcGowan

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Supplementary "Earlier this month, Australian politician Mark McGowan received harsh criticism for a video campaign ^[forum] intended to disseminate COVID-19-related information to Aboriginal people living in the state of Western Australia (WA). Several political commentators within and outside of Australia ridiculed the video, even deeming it racist, for including an interpreter to speak in Kriol, a language which shares much of its grammar and lexicon with English -- however, it's likely that the outrage comes from a deep misunderstanding of Australian Aboriginal people and their languages. MultiLingual spoke with Lawson Stapleton, an Australian language services professional who developed South Australia's first interpreting service for indigenous languages, about the video and why the outrage against it is largely unjustified. 'Kriol is widely unknown to the general Australian public and is often labeled as 'broken English' in a derogatory way,' Stapleton said. 'What's really important is that often critical words or adjectives in Kriol take an English word and change the meaning.' As its name suggests, Kriol is a creole language, which is derived from English and various Aboriginal languages spoken in Australia. It's quite mutually intelligible with English, a fact which likely contributed to commentators' misunderstanding and outrage surrounding McGowan's video. The video, developed with the Aboriginal Health Council of Western Australia, was created in order to share information about the pandemic with Aboriginal people groups living in WA, as a means of providing adequate language access services to the community. McGowan, the premier of WA, is seen side by side with an interpreter reading a message about COVID-19 vaccination efforts; after each line, the interpreter renders the message in Kriol. Because the message sounds so similar in both languages, it may sound like the interpreter is simply speaking English, especially to viewers who are only familiar with English. While the video was first published in Dec. 2021, critics like Matt Walsh began sharing the video earlier this month, ridiculing what they believed to be a racist and simplified version of English. There are several words in Kriol that are pronounced similarly to English words with similar meanings, but the words have different connotations. For example, Stapleton noted that the word 'deadly,' is often used in Kriol to mean 'awesome' or 'amazing' -- having a Kriol interpreter to render McGowan's message into Kriol ensures that there is no confusion when describing COVID-19 as 'deadly.'" (29 January 2022) https://multilingual.com/aboriginal-kriol-interpreter/ i.e. #EpistemologySociallyConstructedKnowledge #BrandTheDailyWirePolemicistMattWalsh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSFmZSNa-As i.e. #TauntArrogance / #TheoryInstrumentalism

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"A more enlightened approach to journalism practice might explore ways of negotiating with indigenous public spheres in the same way as journalists learn to move easily within and between more familiar information networks as part of the everyday practice of newsgathering. It suggests the need to understand the impact of the omission and invisibility of indigenous people, stereotyping, notions of identity, and the use of derogatory and imposed labelling, the aim being to enable indigenous speaking positions, and to negotiate conflicts like the ownership of knowledge versus notions of editorial control. Sensitivity to such issues might invoke reporting strategies such as using an indirect approach in news interviews, consultation and negotiation over meaning, acknowledgment of the existence of indigenous English and local languages, and making use of translators or subtitles where appropriate - in other words, negotiating indigenous identity through dialogue with indigenous public spheres (Langton, 1993)" (Michael Meadows, 2005, p.39). Meadows, M. (2005). Journalism and indigenous public spheres. Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa, 11. ^{[academic source] [academic source]} https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/download/828/1029/

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Addendum the following statement: "Because it seems that the minister looks at the Aborginals as some 'uneducated folk who cannot understand plain Australian English'" is presumably a reference to criticism of the use of #IdentityFirstNationsAborigianalKriol ^[Wikipedia] to translate #ConditionVirusCOVID19 information as explained in the #BrandMultiLingualMedia piece above. #IdentityFirstNationsAboriginalAndTorresStraitIslanderPeoples #TheoryLinguisticsContactPidgin ^[Wikipedia] #OtheringEthnocentrism ^[Wikipedia] #OrgBEUnionOfInternationalAssociationsUIAEncyclopediaOfWorldProblemsAndHumanPotential https://encyclopedia.uia.org/problem/cultural-arrogance

#TheoryInstrumentalism #IRLHistoricalFigureJimJones #LegislationUS1791ConstAmdt2RightToBearArms #ReasoningFallacyFormalNonSequitur

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Addendum this argument follows the logic common to groups such as #AdvocacyUSNationalRifleAssociationNRA , which goes something like: "guns don't kill people; people kill people". #CatchcryGunsDontKillPeoplePeopleKillPeople Instead, both poison and guns #TheoryOfAffordances.fford lethal consequences. Additionally, just because poison kills, doesn't mean that guns won't i.e. it's a #ReasoningFallacyFalseDilemmaDichotomy

#MetaphorWarfareSocialJusticeWarriorSJW #TauntAngryArmy #MetaphorDeceitLugenpresseMainstreamMediaMSM #MetaphorWarfareCultureLiberalEducation ? #TauntBigTech #TauntBigPharma #OrgIntlOlympicCommitteeIOC #OrgIntlUN #IdentityLGBTQIAGay #IdentityLGBTQIA

#MassShooting2022RobbElementarySchool #TauntIndoctrination #CatchcryCancelCulture #PolicyDiversityEquityAndInclusionDEI #TheorySociologyCriticalRaceTheoryCRT #MetaphorWarfareGender #IdentityLGBTQIATrans #OtheringDiscriminationRacism #IdentityLGBTQIACodingHypersexualizationGrooming #CatchcryGunsDontKillPeoplePeopleKillPeople #TauntLeftHardFar #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticParty

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Context "Why more shootings lately? I suspect the increased indoctrination of kids in classes and social medias on with WOKE ideologies, CRT, cancel culture, diversity politics, racial hate, gender war, trans grooming..etc for 2 decades or more. What MOTIVATES hate in a kid or young adult's mind to pick up a weapon to kill, starts by what's shoved into a CHILD's immature mindset to comprehend and understand. Bad situations start with bad ideas too young for kids to understand, and worst if he or she suffers from mental illness. WE ARE looking in all the wrong places to blame that on Guns. Guns DID NOT PUT THE BAD INTENTION IN THE KIDS OR PERSON FIRST, it is what was taught or shared as an idea or an idea of hate initially. Instead of teaching kids academic subjects (Math, Science, Technology, Geography, History..etc) ADULTS as TEACHERS fill their heads with mature problems, adult subjects, politics, all forms of sexual freedom, grooming them to pick a side from even their parent..etc. KIDS are too young to understand or should be burdened to think about at their young age. Thus confuse them and when some has mental illness as well, THIS IS LIKELY WHAT HAPPENS AS AN ENG RESULT. GUNS DO NOT KILL PEOPLE. PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE. AND THEY START WITH A BAD IDEA OR INTENT. THIS IS ON THE EXTREME LEFT AND THEY HAVE MUCH TO ANSWER FOR OR THIS WILL KEEP HAPPENING. The DEM do not care. They just want to use this shooting as an excuse to take away guns. As that is simpler to do then admit, they MIGHT BE THE REASON WHY THIS IS HAPPENING TO BEGIN WITH. THINK ABOUT IT. "

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Supplementary "although other weapons are involved in homicide, firearms are not only the most deadly instrument of attack but also the most versatile. Firearms make some attacks possible that simply would not occur without firearms. They permit attacks at greater range and from positions of better concealment than other weapons. They also permit attacks by persons physically or psychologically unable to overpower their victim through violent physical contact." ^[Government]

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Addendum #PhenomnMisdirectionScapegoating #LegislationUS1791ConstAmdt2RightToBearArms #TheoryInstrumentalism i.e. a #TheoryIndividualism worldview, which deems such issues to be the sole responsibility of the individual. This is the opposite position to the idea that we are primarily the product of our circumstances, that our perspectives are #EpistemologySociallyConstructed. An individualistic perspective is convenient because it removes any notion of shared responsibility for negative events such as mass killing such as this most recent #PowerControlViolenceGunShooting.s; with the corollary being that all success and failure is also only attributable to the individual (as well as making the archetype of the #TheoryIndividualismCompetitiveSelfMadeManArchetype possible).

#LiteralWeaponFirearmAR15 #CatchcryGunsDontKillPeoplePeopleKillPeople

#LegislationUS1791ConstAmdt2RightToBearArms #ReasoningFallacyFalseDilemmaDichotomy i.e. both are weapons #TheoryOfAffordances.fford and are intended for killing. #WebsiteIAmTrump

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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/

#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.

#SymbolHairstyleDreadlocks

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Context "Now is it cultural appropriation when BIPOC call their plica polonica dreads or dreadlocks? I have no idea and I don't care because that woke toxicity isn't my thing." #IdentityIndigenousBlackPeopleOfColourBIPOC #PhenomnCulturalAppropriation #MetaphorMatterToxin_ ^[Wikipedia]

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Addendum this feels like a #ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism argument seems to point to #NarrativeTruthImmutableUniversalIncontrovertibleAbsolute position i.e. that regardless of contemporary issues and debates, there is ultimately a singular truth (and that the presentation of such should end any further, subsequent discussion). From this perspective, truths take no account of cultural contingencies as we ultimately live in #PleaAWorldOfSimpleStableFixedOperations #TheoryInstrumentalism

"Is the trend now racist (because it apparently disadvantages 'white art')? Or NiritTakele because she wants to stand out with this theme? (I've been wanting to create a woke theme too?, imagining 'white men or dreadlocks are in'?)" i.e. #TheoryPoliticsOfFearAnxietyOfVictimisation #SymbolHairstyleDreadlocks

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Supplementary tweeter is perplexed by the fact that is acceptable to frame discussion in terms of race when the subject is black (in this case of the article's title i.e. "Black art is trendy") but (seemingly) not when they are white (as that might result in criticisms of #PhenomnWhitePrivilege - or worse). The tweeter presumably sees this as a #BehaviourDuplicityDoubleStandards - that "it's not racist to classify yourself as a black artist but it is racist if you classify yourself as a white artist". In this way, the tweeter clearly fails to recognise that language is a cultural construct; where language is deeply embedded with cultural significance (that the meaning of words is the consequence of patterns of everyday use #TheoryDialogic.ally, which informs how their definitions are defined in dictionaries). This is known as a #TheoryInstrumentalism conception of meaning.

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Addendum this 'dictionary definitions' point reminds me of the Basil Bernstein quote: "When children fail at school, drop out, repeat, they are likely to be positioned in a factual world tied to simple operations, where knowledge is impermeable" (2000). ^[Folksonomy]

"Nirit Takele is currently one of Israel's most sought-after artists. From the beginning the Ethiopian was an underdog, in her homeland she was 'the Jewess' and in Israel 'the Ethiopian'. But the artist doesn't give a damn about it. For them, identity is simply a matter of attitude. an encounter. " https://www.welt.de/kultur/kunst/article237313923/Identitaet-ist-fuer-sie-schlicht-eine-Frage-der-Einstellung-Wie-Nirit-Takele-die-begehrteste-Malerin-Israels-wurde.html #IRLArtistNiritTakele #ToponymEastMiddleIsrael

#LiteralSchoolCollegeUniversity #MetaphorVersusEducationApprenticeships ? #TheoryInstrumentalism

#IRLEconomistThomasSowell

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Supplementary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMU2udkoBsk #OrgSyndicateAccordProtectionismDisciplinary #TauntLeftist #LiteralSchoolCollegeUniversity #LiteralFieldHumanities versus #TheoryInstrumentalism

#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

#EpistemologyAmateurExegeteAutodidact i.e. romantic myth of #TheoryInstrumentalism

#2015_ModernEducayshun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKcWu0tsiZM #TheoryEthnomathematics #LiteralSchoolCollegeUniversity #OtheringDiscriminationRacism #ReasoningFallacyReductioAdAbsurdum #PhenomnWhitePrivilege #TheorySociologyIntersectionality #MetaphorWarfareSocialJusticeWarriorSJW #ToponymOceaniaAustralia #PhenomnResponsibilityMoral

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Addendum the film operates as a heavy-handed polemic on the perils of #PolicyAffirmativeActionDiscriminationPositive. In doing so, its unsubtle message fails to recognise that we are all products of societal agendas and biases and that despite the (naive) insistence that achievement is solely and #TheoryInstrumentalism.ally the product of #TheoryIndividualismCompetitive the reality is that #EpistemologySociallyConstructedKnowledge i.e. that as much as we have freewill to shape our own circumstances, we are also situated within a socio-cultural context that exerts a force, which we must act in relation to - we are, as much as anything, products of our circumstances.

#TheoryAffectExpressionPanic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC0O-4sjMx4 #TauntLeftist #PoliticsSocialism #SlurWhiteSupremacy #TheorySociologyCriticalRaceTheoryCRT #TauntIndoctrination #OtheringDiscriminationRacismStructuralSystemicInstitutional #TheoryInstrumentalism #2020_CapitolSiege #CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM PINKNEY, A. D., & TAYLOR, M. L. (2011). 'Sit-in: how four friends stood up by sitting down'. New York, Little, Brown. ? #PhenomnHolocaustShoah #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump

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

#IRLDeceasedGeorgeFloyd #CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM Incredible #ReasoningFallacyFalseEquivalence argument being presented here: "that it's admissible to murder someone who is innocent (until proven guilty) for a suspected crime if they have previously been charged with (or even convicted and presumably, who has also served the sentence for) a crime". This points to an idealogical perspective, which is antithetical to the contemporary perspective, which divorces our actions from whom we are as people - that we are all fundamentally good/just - and that all is redeemable. In this way, the perspective is a highly individualised one - that locates responsibility as a solely individual issue as per #TheoryInstrumentalism and that we are not in anyway a consequence of our circumstances - where the world we inhabit is #EpistemologySociallyConstructed (as per the theory of socio-constructivism). "In modern society power is imposed not by the personal presence and brute force of a caste of nobles as it was in earlier times but by the systematic scribblings in discourses, by the continual monitoring of daily life, adjusting and readjusting ad in finitum the norm of individuality. Modern society may be read as a discourse in which nominal freedom of action is canceled by the ubiquitous look of the other"(Mark Poster pp.90-91). ^[Folksonomy]

tweet responding to #MagazineUKTheSpectatorDouglasMurray promoting his #WebsiteUnHerd article https://unherd.com/2021/06/the-hatred-behind-stop-funding-hate/ criticising #CauseStopFundingHate for their attacks on #NMUKGBNews. The tweet references https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/06/16/brexit-boycott-gb-news-big-business-has-made-fatal-error-declaring/ #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphAllisterHeath about potential consequences for #TauntBigBusinessCorporateCorporations of them demonstrating their #TheoryPerformativeCorporateAllyship

#TheoryInstrumentalism argument where the overt acts of those behind GBNews (namely #NMUKGBNewsAndrewNeil's declaration of a 'war on woke', which is commonly understood to be justification for attacking liberal and progressive values) are seen as inconsequential to their future efforts and that efforts to stall the spread are condemned as being #PoliticsFascism. The argument against the supposed #TauntVirtueSignalling of so-called #TauntLefties is a #MetaphorOutsiderUnderdogDavidAndGoliath one i.e. seeking to imbue GBNews with allusions related to newborn innocence and frailty against the unjust challenge of StopFundingHate activism.

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Context "GB News has secured £60m in funding in order to make it to the airwaves. Of this, £20m came from the American media company Discovery (the people behind such channels as Discovery Channel, Science Channel, TLC, Food Network and Animal Planet). The remaining money came from two other sources; British hedge fund manager Paul Marshall, and Legatum, a private investment firm which is based in Dubai." https://metro.co.uk/2021/06/16/gb-news-who-is-funding-the-channel-and-how-does-it-make-money-14782333/ #BrandATTWarnerMediaDiscovery #IRLBusinesspersonPaulMarshall #AdvocacyAELegatumInstitute

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Supplementary "GB News backer and hedge fund tycoon Sir Paul Marshall is set to be announced as the new owner of the 'bible' of the Conservative Party, The Spectator magazine, within the next week according to Politico. Marshall, who also founded the online magazine UnHerd and is a major investor in GB News, has been in exclusive talks to acquire the publication for about a month, Politico reported on Tuesday (3rd September)." https://bylinetimes.com/2024/09/03/the-bored-millionaire-buying-up-britains-right-wing-media-paul-marshall-set-to-buy-the-spectator/ #2024_ #MagazineAUTheSpectator #OrgClassifPPUKConservativeParty #WebsitePolitico #AdvocacyAELegatumInstituteChristopherChandler ^[Wikipedia]

"What is most important here - PC culture and affirmative actions based on race and gender make these people achievements smaller - as the public thinks that she got where she got not because of the qualities of her character or her talent but because she is a woman or black or whatever is now a "special group"." https://gab.com/bpsnb/posts/106316386292545611 #BrandTechSocialMediaAltGab #PoliticallyCorrectPC #PolicyAffirmativeActionDiscriminationPositive #TheoryInstrumentalism

#IRLCelebrityKendallJenner #IRLStudentAlyssaCarson ^[forum] #MetaphorVersusSideBySideDiptych

#NMUSFOXFNCTuckerCarlson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOw-efmw_qU #EDUUSTheBrearleySchool #TheoryInstrumentalism #MetaphorPurityRace #IRLActivistMartinLutherKingMLK #PolicyAffirmativeActionDiscriminationPositive #TheorySociologyCriticalRaceTheoryCRT #CauseCivilRightsMovement #OrgClassifPPCNChineseCommunistPartyCCP #PolicyDiversityEquityAndInclusionDEI #PoliticsNationalismConservative

#MetaphorLightTruth #TheoryInstrumentalism #NarrativeTruthImmutableUniversalIncontrovertibleAbsolute by #CaricaturistPatrickCross https://patcrosscartoons.com/2021/04/03/killing-the-light/ for #WebsiteTheCollegeFix https://www.thecollegefix.com/about/ #OrgUSStudentFreePressAssociationSFPA ^{[SourceWatch] [forum]}

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Context https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/02/07/betsy-devoss-connection-college-fix-conservative-higher-education-news-site #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPBetsyDeVos #LiteralSchoolCollegeUniversity #MetaphorWarfareCultureLiberalEducation

response to tweet by #OrgClassifPPUKTheTimePartyRobertKimbell criticising the wearing of #SymbolHijabNiqabBurqa. In doing so, the tweet makes the assumption that what we wear / our clothing has no cultural function - that it has a purely functional purpose. This is good example of #TheoryInstrumentalism. Curiously, I wonder what this tweeter would think if criticism was made of clothing, which had cultural significance to them? #TauntWokePolice

#PhenomnCulturalFormPhotoComic ^{[Wikipedia] [pop culture wiki] [encyclopædia]}

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Supplementary that #BrandSelfridges reference is from #2013_ https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/jul/15/selfridges-robbery-two-men-burqas (I guess that for some, such stories resonate so much that they almost become part of a folklore). Reference to #IdentityMuslim - motivated by #OtheringHateIslamophobiaAntiMuslim

catalogue of crimes published by #AdvocacyUSMiddleEastForumMEFDanielPipes

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Context the Middle East Forum http://www.danielpipes.org/ is an American conservative think tank, which was founded in 1990 by Pipes.

#_Riled reaction to article i.e https://www.mensdayout.com/in-the-social/myntra-to-change-its-logo-after-complaint-calls-it-offensive-towards-women/ i.e. argument between two #ToponymAsiaSouthIndia.n #PoliticsConservatismSocialSoCon groups - one, which is offended by sexual interference implied by the #BrandMyntraBrand 'M' shaped brandmark/logo and secondly in the tweet here, a denial that the brandmark makes any interferences at all - commenting that it's similar to Gmail's 'envelope' logo (presumably, because both represent the letter 'M'). This feels like classic #TheoryInstrumentalism i.e. that the brandmark is "just a logo/reconfiguration of the letter 'M' - no cultural meaning/interferences" (an argument, which undermines the central function of communication i.e. to 'communicate' and not simply to 'represent' meaning).

#BrandTechSocialMediaAltParler CEO #BrandTechSocialMediaAltParlerJohnMatze #CatchcryFreeSpeechFreedomOfSpeech #PhenomnCensorshipOfSocialMedia #NMUSFOXFNC interview: https://video.foxbusiness.com/v/6210699238001/#sp=show-clips Technological #TheoryInstrumentalism #IRLCommentatorBillMaher

classic bit of Technological #TheoryInstrumentalism': ^[Folksonomy] i.e. that the pandemic is wholly a medical issue (that its effects are located within a social/cultural context).

#NMUKBusinessInternationalTBIMarkLayton "Harjeet Chhokar, commissioning editor for factual at Channel 4, said: 'The high percentage of BAME frontline workers in the NHS who have died from Covid is a shocking stat. And we don't really know why. With Dr Ronx's medical background, they are the perfect person to investigate the reasons behind these shocking statistics but also to tell the stories of those who have lost their lives and the impact it has had on those around them.'" https://tbivision.com/2020/08/24/uks-channel-4-asks-is-covid-racist-in-new-doc/ #NMUKITVChannel4

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

#2015_ModernEducayshun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKcWu0tsiZM #TheoryEthnomathematics #MetaphorCultWoke #TauntWokeMob #MetaphorWarfareSocialJusticeWarriorSJW #ReasoningFallacyReductioAdAbsurdum #TheorySociologyIntersectionality #MetaphorWarfareSocialJusticeWarriorSJW #PhenomnResponsibilityMoral

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Supplementary #IRLPhilosopherJohnRawls #1971_ATheoryOfJustice ^{[Wikipedia] [blog]} #IRLHistoricalFigureImmanuelKant

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Addendum the film operates as a heavy-handed #PhenomnPolemic on the perils of #PolicyAffirmativeActionDiscriminationPositive. In doing so, its unsubtle message fails to recognise that we are all products of societal agendas and biases and that despite the (naive) insistence that achievement is solely and #TheoryInstrumentalism.ally the product of #TheoryIndividualismCompetitive the reality is that #EpistemologySociallyConstructedKnowledge i.e. that as much as we have freewill to shape our own circumstances, we are also situated within a socio-cultural context that exerts a force, which we must act in relation to - we are, as much as anything, products of our circumstances.