tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post8861250167837412582..comments2024-03-06T06:34:42.881-05:00Comments on EconoSpeak: Thoughts I am Not Allowed to Think in the Totalitarian World of PCUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-76368643792532267132018-05-13T20:23:15.127-04:002018-05-13T20:23:15.127-04:00"I did resonate, however, with the plight of ..."I did resonate, however, with the plight of Sam Harris, one of the luminaries it profiles. Harris apparently got into trouble for the unspeakable claim that some cultures are inferior to others, which of course violates relativist orthodoxy. But what if he’s right?"<br /><br />I was upset by this passage and stopped reading, but now I find and understand the sarcasm that follows and relent. I have trouble recognizing sarcasm.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-71338067626534336292018-05-13T20:18:22.743-04:002018-05-13T20:18:22.743-04:00https://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-I-Escaped-th...https://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-I-Escaped-the/243399<br /><br />May 11, 2018<br /><br />Why I Escaped the ‘Intellectual Dark Web’<br />Pissing off progressives isn’t intellectual progress<br />By Alice Dreger Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-15340388343228186272018-05-12T12:15:33.594-04:002018-05-12T12:15:33.594-04:00Actually, Sam Harris is criticized because his arg...Actually, Sam Harris is criticized because his arguments make little if any sense, he cherry picks like crazy, and his response to valid, detailed, critiques starts with ad hominem and doesn't go much further.JDMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16385434976791599640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-46966231607846120732018-05-12T10:42:35.696-04:002018-05-12T10:42:35.696-04:00"Thoughts I am Not Allowed to Think in the To..."Thoughts I am Not Allowed to Think in the Totalitarian World of PC"<br /><br />Rubbish, but I am distressed that you feel so beset. Poor, Dear.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-15330735512746601622018-05-11T14:35:58.924-04:002018-05-11T14:35:58.924-04:00I, for one, welcome our even more oppressive and b...I, for one, welcome our even more oppressive and bloodthirsty overlords. Those politically-correct <a href="http://econospeak.blogspot.ca/2015/08/politics-of-pastiche-voters-need.html" rel="nofollow">thought police</a> totally harshed my mellow.Sandwichmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11159060882083015637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-84625669228710342852018-05-11T14:17:57.995-04:002018-05-11T14:17:57.995-04:00Well, we are all supposed to oppose colonialism an...Well, we are all supposed to oppose colonialism and imperialism, but I do think that when colonialists overthrew regimes that engaged in human sacrifice rituals, maybe that was a good thing in the longer run, even if their new regime may well have led to at least as much overall oppression and bloodletting as occurred under the overthrown regime.rosserjb@jmu.eduhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09300046915843554101noreply@blogger.com