Lef - 2022-05-28
It is bullshit.
The solution is not to blame CRT. CRT is guilty of many things, but CRT is not shooting people.
The solution is to give all teachers and student hall monitors guns.
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Lef - 2022-05-29 Guilty of building up tautologies riddled with logical fallacies.
Some of the basic statements can stand on their own. Most/all of the larger arguments result in internal inconsistency.
CRT took some interesting, even factual, observations of social structure and wrapped them in a word game purposed to prevent a solution.
The arguments presented, when pushed to their conclusion, are circular. The language is used to prevent resolution, not encourage enlightenment.
IMO the argumentative tactics used by the CRT cult have many parallels with the Engels/Marx pairing of key interesting observations/facts, with well crafted emotional triggers having a dual objective of obscuring the circular nature of the argument, and enforcing a political (near religious!) solution that serves the very group being criticized.
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ashtar. - 2022-05-29 Tautologies are arguments which are valid by virtue of their logical form (and are thus usually trivial). Fallacies are deductive missteps which render an argument invalid.
So, "tautologies riddled with logical fallacies" are logically impossible. If it's a tautology it can't have any fallacies in it.
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ashtar. - 2022-05-30 I misspoke. A better definition would be that a tautology is "a statement the converse of which cannot be true by virtue of its logical form."
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Lef - 2022-05-30 Gold Standard:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tautology
The natural selection example is gonna melt some brains!
I like this one:
Tautology: An empty or vacuous statement composed of simpler statements in a fashion that makes it logically true whether the simpler statements are factually true or false; for example, the statement Either it will rain tomorrow or it will not rain tomorrow.
Here's mine:
Pretty word fooling the reader that there is deep truth to an argument.
Tautologies use basic truths setup in a way that leads to itself (Equivalent to Engels). The fallacies come with the larger brush stroke that adds all the emotional triggers and word games that prevents resolution (equivalent to Marx). I am being way to polite towards that genocide supporter Marx.
A lot of modern cultural political gibberish follows the same pattern.
A lot of religious gibberish has been doing this of thousands of years.
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Anaxagoras  - 2022-05-28
This event showed me that I've finally achieved outrage saturation with the Republicans. When they trotted out their bullshit explanations & nonsense recommendations, I found myself shrugging and saying "Yeah... what did you expect?"
The event itself, however, taught me that I'm nowhere near outrage saturation when it comes to the police. Bugger those assholes sideways with an 11 foot barge pole.
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ashtar. - 2022-05-30
"Assless chaps. Chaps by definition are separate leg-coverings; a similar garment joined at the seat would instead be called a pair of trousers."
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cognitivedissonance - 2022-05-31
1. White children are the most important people alive.
2. Raising a white child is the most expensive thing you can do short of opening a business.
3. Therefore, it is of vital importance than white children see to adulthood.
4. The most important white children are Texans.
5. THEREFORE, the only way to expect change on gun laws is if a ton of expensive white Texan children die.
Sorry if you have expensive white Texan children, but in this instance, we're happy to put them on the altar of sacrifice since you've made them so fucking important.
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