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Igelau
·5 years ago·discuss
Throw buzzwords! See if they stick!
Igelau
·5 years ago·discuss
Especially with something as heavy as "here's your choice of the last two calendar dates you can expect to be alive"
Igelau
·5 years ago·discuss
I googled him to see if I could find the gist of his claims. I can't find a single thing from him, but I can find a ton of takedown pieces tearing apart this episode.

(Bret Weinstein is leaning hard into the IDW thing. DarkHorse? Really?)
Igelau
·5 years ago·discuss
Moreover, consider the appalling anti-Japanese political cartoons that Dr. Seuss made during WWII. Is there no merit in seeing the flaws of someone we otherwise hold in such high regard? And to understand that maybe something broke in the minds of otherwise nice people when a little incident at Pearl Harbor happened? We're worried about the traumas that words might inflict, but we seem to be discarding the trauma of war and history to do it. These are important discussions we need to have, but people are too scared to have them. It's easier to ban books.
Igelau
·5 years ago·discuss
I understand it's not a very common one and can be kind of confusing. Here's a pretty good definition:

"the acceptance of or mental capacity to accept contrary opinions or beliefs at the same time"

In this case, the conflicting belief that these words are okay in the course you are taking, but that these words are not okay if you are discussing the course material.
Igelau
·5 years ago·discuss
You're trying to make parent doubt their own memory. The only out you have that distinguishes that from gaslighting is that you weren't being subtle about it.
Igelau
·5 years ago·discuss
Gaslighting much?
Igelau
·5 years ago·discuss
Too late. HR has been moving to make us to stop using: blacklist, whitelist, sanity check, and master. It's a frighteningly difficult exercise in doublethink to take a required security course (produced by a third party) that refers to blacklist and whitelist and then having to self censor your own peer discussions about it.
Igelau
·5 years ago·discuss
This is also a terrible idea, because there can be no scholarly analysis if scholars can't get it because everyone has jammed it down the memory hole.

(Edit: I'd really like to see some thought out defense on how censorship doesn't injure scholarship. Downvotes are just limp concessions.)
Igelau
·6 years ago·discuss
"Duck tape" originally referred to tape made from duck cloth. They started using it for duct work, and began to call it "duct tape", to the point where "duck" fell out of common use and was able to be trademarked. They've also stopped using it for ducts.

So call it either one and people will know what you're talking about.
Igelau
·6 years ago·discuss
It's not just that, but we became a culture where your neighbors will call the police if you let your kids walk around the block alone.

The Baby Boomers criminalized and curtailed almost all the risk that made childhood and teenage years adventerous. I got to watch things getting systematically removed as I grew up. My brother is a few years older than me and we went through the same junior high. His experience including shop class, wrestling in gym, and dissecting a frog. Mine didn't.