Cults of Twitter
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hintjens.comPosted Mar 26, 2016, 6:02 PM UTC
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hintjens.comYeah, I can't take anyone seriously who, in one breath, declares "gender is a construct" to be a cultic belief, then in the next establishes that races exist as real populations but then declares race to be a construct. The sort of mental gymnastics this guy goes through to demonize the right suggests he's a recovering cultist with no clear worldview, operating entirely on sentiment rather than reason.
To put it another way: I find it astonishing that people can accept that clustering algorithms are useful, and bayesian filters are useful, yet somehow if we apply those concepts to grouping humans that's invalid. I'm equally astonished that these same people apparently ignore the effects of sexual selection which can quite readily explain the existence of these supposedly ephemeral races all in the name of political orthodoxy.
Maybe he should focus less on how everyone else is a cultist and instead focus on his own broken epistemology.
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Why are we not one of the Cults of Twitter? I feel mildly insulted.
We're the radical right, remember? Anyone who isn't with them is against them.
I can't find the phrase "radical right" on the linked page.