Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
I am actively attempting to deradicalize myself. I dislike puritanism and intolerance. DM me if you want my Discord, Twitter, Reddit, etc.
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Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
I heard that one of the Red Scare people had a role on this show. Do you get the impression that the show's writers are sympathetic to anti-idpol leftism? If so, that'd be reason enough for me to watch.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
When I discuss Critical Race Theory with leftists, I often make the point that, while I'd rather public schools not encourage students to speculate on the causes of racial disparities, I'd be amenable to a compromise where systemic racism is taught as one possibility, alongside cultural and biological explanations.
The response to this (when it's not an accusation of racism on my part) is that I'm just like the creationists who wanted their psuedoscience taught alongside evolution. This is kind of true, in that I am asking that ideas I like be taught alongside ones favored by the academic establishment. However, when you take social desirability out of the equation, HBD is more similar to evolution because it literally IS just applied evolution, and systemic racism/CRT/disparate impact/wokeness/social justice/anti-racism/whatever label we're using this week is analogous to creationism in that we have little direct evidence it exists, but we assume it must exist because the current state of affairs would make sense as its outcome, even though it would also make sense as the outcome of other processes.
I doubt that I'm the first person around these parts to say that the Pastafarian explanation for gravity (an invisible, non-corporeal Flying Spaghetti Monster physically pushes us onto the ground) has no less evidence supporting it than the woke explanation for half-Asian, half-white children having a mean IQ between that of Asians and that of whites (stereotype threat impacts them half as much).
I also doubt that I'm the first person around these parts to draw a comparison between creationists who acknowledge microevolution while denying Darwinism to leftists who acknowledge within-group heritability while denying between-group heritability.
However, a thought occurred to me today that frightened me, and my hope is that when I voice it, you will unanimously dismiss it as ridiculous, because if it's in any way true, then I'm going to be devastated.
What if the truth value of Darwinism had little, if anything, to do with its acceptance by the academic establishment, and the falsehood of intelligent design had little, if anything, to do with its rejection by the academic establishment? If truth was that important, we'd expect CRT to be seen as equivalent to creationism, but it's not.
You know the Schmitt meme about how all disputes can be reduced to friend vs. enemy? Well.. maybe that's what happened with the debate over evolution in public schools. Maybe evolution was pushed specifically because the religious right objected to it, and not because it was real. That evolution actually WAS real was incidental at best.
Promote evolution and CRT because they hurt the right. Eliminate intelligent design and HBD because they hurt the left. This is how a Schmittposter would describe what happened, and maybe that literally is what happened.
Please tell me I'm just mindkilled. I'm not being rhetorical here. I would find that reassuring.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
Why do many people find it more upsetting to see animals suffer than humans? I don't like seeing any living creature suffer, but my rankings, from worst to least bad, are human children, then animals, then human adults.
On a conscious level, I know that animals can't be entirely innocent, because they kill smaller creatures, but I think maybe they're just innocent enough that they remind me of children on a subconscious level. Or maybe they literally don't realize the meaning of their actions.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
Is anyone familiar with the YouTuber Ryan Chapman? He has a number of videos on socialism, fascism, etc, but I'm not sure what his ideological bias is. (I assume he has one, as most people do.)
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
..If I didn't know better, I'd say this means that to the key to defeating wokeness and returning to the culture of 2003 is actually to let wokeness win.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
It's a trans protest, specifically, though. Maybe if it was a pride parade I'd buy it as a gay thing.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
That's very disappointing. What I loved about the article wasn't just that it was funny, but that it seemingly signified a cultural change, that we were once again allowed to laugh about differences and not take everything so seriously. I want to go back to the 00's so much that it's physically painful.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
I see. There was at least one trans rights protest where someone has a "less hate, more bussy" sign, but I suppose it is an outlier, like my friends who use the term.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
This Wikipedia article has not only amused me greatly, but provided hope, something that I didn't think a Wikipedia article could ever do. I thought we had reached a point where saying "trans women are men" was socially equivalent to using a racial slur, a signal that you oppose trans rights and/or hate trans people outright. Now, there is a popular meme that plays on the fact that trans women are men, while acknowledging that it's okay for them to live in a way that's consistent with who they want to be.
I think that's what's happening.
See, I mainly know the word "bussy" in the context of discussing hypothetical sex with trans women, but that's because of the kind of people I talk to and the kinds of things I read. Is this use of the word an outlier? Is it mostly used to refer to homosexual cis men (which makes the joke much less funny)? Would a lefty who uses the term to refer to cis mens' anuses be offended if I used it to talk about trans women's anuses?
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
Great post, but one short question: what kind of affirmative action would they want, if not what Harvard is doing? The only alternatives I can think of are explicit race quotas (which are unconstitutional) and class-based affirmative action (which would create disparate impact).
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
I didn't KNOW that there were 3 guys, let alone that only one of them was white! Damn!
In this NYT article, race isn't mentioned, so I assumed it was either a black-on-black or black-on-white killing, but apparently it was white-on-black! It's unusual for the NYT to not mention race in such a situation. Could it be that they're finally downplaying all races in their
crime reporting, and not just the ones that it's offensive to speak negatively about? That sounds too good to be true, but I want to believe.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
It very well may! I have only interacted with teenagers individually since leaving high school.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
Yes, I am autistic. That's likely why I have more interests in common with teenagers than I do people my own age, and it's also why (I believe that) I am worse at hiding my emotions than other people. I appreciate your reassurance, and this goes for everyone in this thread saying something similar.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
Dude, talk about a coincidence. I'm studying to take the A+ right now! Not making progress nearly as fast as I want, but I am working on it.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
I can read and write. I'm able to talk for a long period of time. That's about it.
Wait, why do you generally advise against teaching?
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
English, because it was my favorite subject. I'd love to lead a discussion on Animal Farm or Catcher in the Rye.
Being a substitute teacher is a great idea. Thanks!
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
I'm nearing 30 with a useless degree and no full-time job, and I'm trying to figure out what might be a good path for me. The thought of being a public school teacher has occurred to me, and while there are several potential issues, this one is the hardest to talk about.
I am somewhere on the spectrum of ephebophilia. I am not PRIMARILY attracted to 16 year old girls, but once a girl has physically matured, I am attracted to her whether she's 16 or 36. Making it more awkward is that I sometimes have more in common with teenagers than I do people my own age. I developed a crush on a 17 year old when I was 25. I'm obviously not going to make any moves on a kid, but I don't have a poker face, and I fear that when I find a student attractive, people will know.
Does this seem like a reasonable reason not to teach high school students? (Obviously middle school is fine, but let's assume high school is what's on the table.)
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
To be fair, voting Republican because of immigration didn't work under Reagan, or Bush, or even Trump.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
If I accept that it's "bad and futile", then I'm accepting that society will always be hostile to free thinkers. I don't like that. Which is why my question was rhetorical.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
Feces is referenced in cartoons all the time. It's almost never showed on screen because of S&P stuff, but it's talked about.
You say that "you can engineer someone to develop a preference or fetish based on what shows you shill them when they are young", but isn't that anecdotal? I'm not disagreeing with you, I'd just love to see research on people who watched Willy Wonka as a kid and developed inflation fetishes.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
You make a good point. How wide can we make the Overton window before anti-free speech norms take hold? (Crap, this is that Karl Popper thing, isn't it)
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
Now that references to periods are considered acceptable in children's media, why weren't they before? Everything Disney has done so far on this subject has been pretty tactful. (Turning Red, the Baymax short, the Molly McGee episode)
My best guess is that it's because periods are associated with sexual maturity, making it a casualty of the larger taboo of references to sex in children's media (which is a perfectly understandable taboo). But my mental models of how other people think are usually wrong, especially in regards to Culture War topics, so I figured I'd ask you guys.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
I do conflate them, because I think the Overton window is absurd and should not exist. I don't want to move it to the left or right, I want to smash it into pieces.
I didn't even know she was vaguely conservative until recently. I thought it was the feminine Chapo Trap House and the home of Sailor Socialist, but apparently they had nice things to say about Alex Jones and Ann Coulter? I'd listen if I knew where to get episodes Without paying.
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