{"id":512,"date":"2021-07-02T20:49:08","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T10:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevewatson.info\/blog\/?p=512"},"modified":"2021-07-02T20:52:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T10:52:33","slug":"the-ruling-bullshits-of-our-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevewatson.info\/blog\/2021\/07\/02\/the-ruling-bullshits-of-our-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ruling Bullshits of Our Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I put this together in just a half hour or so after talking to a friend who remarked upon how much nonsense we were supposed to believe. Note that I didn&#8217;t even have to talk about the temporary bullshits of the current news cycle, and I haven&#8217;t mentioned any of the bullshits of the &#8216;pandemic&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Western civilisation\/society is White Supremacist<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It suffers from Systemic Racism<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Or maybe it\u2019s Structural<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">White Privilege<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Whiteness<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Implicit Bias Tests measure something real<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Blacks are over-represented in prison populations<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Blacks are killed disproportionately by Police<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Racism is power + prejudice<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Any racial disparity in outcomes is evidence of racism<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2018Critical Race Theory\u2019<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">All\/Only whites are racist<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">X is racist (for all values of X)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Affirmative Action is the opposite of racial discrimination<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The \u2018Stolen Generations\u2019<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Race doesn\u2019t exist<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It\u2019s a \u2018social construction\u2019<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We live in a patriarchy<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Possibly even a \u201ccisheteropatriarchy\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Any sexual disparity in outcomes is evidence of sexism<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There are no differences between men and women\u2019s psychologies, preferences, capabilities<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cBelieve all women!\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Your sexual identity is whatever you say it is<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There are more than two genders<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Gender is a continuum<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Gender is fluid<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Gender is unrelated to sex<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Trans-women are real women (ditto men)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">My pronouns are \u2026<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Diversity is an absolute moral good<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2018Diversity is our strength\u2019<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Multiculturalism is the only justifiable option (ITW (=In the West))<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">All (other) cultures are equal<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Who are we to judge them or criticize?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">All migrants are net positives for the receiving society (ITW)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">No common culture (ITW) is required or possible or should be defended<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There is no upper limit on the number of immigrants that can be accommodated (ITW)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Immigration has no downsides \u2013 regardless of source, culture, numbers, legality, \u2026<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There is especially no problem with unregulated, unrestricted mass-immigration of Muslims from backward countries<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There are no \u2018No-Go Zones\u2019<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ethnic criminal gangs are not a problem\/barely exist<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Migrant assimilation (ITW) is an unjust expectation<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Morality is relative to culture<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The environment is deteriorating<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There are too many people<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The planet cannot support us<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Plastic bags! Plastic bags everywhere! They have to be stopped!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sustainability is a coherent concept \u2013 and an absolute moral good<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Recycling is always worth doing \u2013 and an absolute moral good<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We face Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warning<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Barrier Reef is dying<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pacific Islands are sinking<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Climate refugees<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The North Pole will be ice-free by [current date + 10]<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The world is doomed because of X (X= acid rain\/organophosphates\/ozone hole\/CAGW\/\u2026)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In order to prevent environmental disaster X, the economic system has to be overthrown<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We are too rich (= greedy\/selfish)<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Our material preferences are morally contemptible \u2013 so \u2018middle class\u2019<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the planet cannot support our lifestyle<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Our lifestyle causes environmental deterioration<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We must face the \u2018Limits to Growth\u2019<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Economic growth cannot continue because the planet is finite<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The rest of the world can\u2019t become as rich as us<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It is evidence of structural injustice that the rest f the world isn\u2019t as rich as us<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Our wealth is gotten by exploitation of the third world<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We deliberately keep them poor<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The economy is a zero-sum game<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Coal, oil, and gas power are too dangerous (they cause CAGW)<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Fracking is dangerous<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Our energy needs can be met with wind and solar power<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nuclear power is too dangerous<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cNo blood for Oil!\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We\u2019re running out of resources<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Peak oil<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Organic farming can feed us<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Organic produce is \u2018natural\u2019 and so better<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">GMOs are too dangerous<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Chemicals are bad<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pesticides\/herbicides\/fertilizers\/\u2026 are bad<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Plastics are bad<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Plastic bags are filling the oceans<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Medical drugs are bad<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2018Traditional\u2019 medicines work<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2018Big Pharma\u2019 suppresses effective alternative treatments to profit from sickness<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Modern Art<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2018Continental Philosophy\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2018Post-Modernism\u2019<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThere is nothing outside the text\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Reality is a set of discourses<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Discourses are structured to advantage powerful groups<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There is no such thing as objective truth<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Truth is determined by power (Foucault etc.)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Knowledge is socially constructed<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Islam is a religion of peace<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Jihad is a \u2018personal struggle\u2019<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">They hate us because of the Crusades<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Islamophobia<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We wouldn\u2019t have the Renaissance or Science without Islam<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">One man\u2019s \u2018Terrorist\u2019 is another man\u2019s \u2018Freedom Fighter\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Imperialism\/Colonialism is only a Western thing<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It\u2019s always bad<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I\/C explains why most non-western countries are shitholes<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Most non-western countries are not shitholes<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nationalism is a bad thing and nation-states are bad<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2018Patriotism is the last resort of a scoundrel\u2019<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">(National) flags are problematic<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Any act to secure (our) borders is immoral<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It\u2019s a \u2018refugee crisis\u2019<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2018Push factors\u2019<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">(Other) people have a right to live wherever they want<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The UN has superior moral and legal authority<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2018International law\u2019 is law<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Palestine is a nation<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Poor, poor Palestinians. They only want justice.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Israel is a colonial\/settler\/apartheid state<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hate speech isn\u2019t free speech<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">IQ scores don\u2019t measure anything \u2013 certainly not intelligence<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2018Intelligence\u2019 isn\u2019t a thing<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There are no group differences in intelligence<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There are especially no \u2018racial\u2019 differences in intelligence<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Evolution stops at the neck<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I put this together in just a half hour or so after talking to a friend who remarked upon how much nonsense we were supposed to believe. Note that I didn&#8217;t even have to talk about the temporary bullshits of the current news cycle, and I haven&#8217;t mentioned any of the bullshits of the &#8216;pandemic&#8217;. 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