Cancel Culture and Progressive Iconoclasm: The #Blackout Edition w/ extra "Guidance"

Terthna said:
Funny you should mention that; because if you trace it back far enough, what's happening now can all be connected to the Soviet Union and their effort to try and spread Communism to America, in the hopes of destroying our country from within.
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I feel like this pamphlet has aged really, really well.
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LordsFire said:
You know what?

I'm actually digging that. Use that name. Slap the bloody intersectionalists in the face with the PR hit that a name like that would give.

Make it clear exactly how stupid and destructive what they're doing is.
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They dont care. They are doing it to humiliate, not out of principles. PR is irrelevant. You cannot shame them because they dont share your conception of right and wrong. And they dont care what much of the population thinks because they hold the power.

Keep in mind, the modern left is consequentialist..essentially they believe the ends justify the means. Any means. Thier morality is that anything goes if they think it will make them win in the end. The think the sacredness of thier cause renders any action moral and anyone committing it is moralised, no matter how terrible they or their actions are.

There is reason they ramped up their dehumanisation campaign in the 2010s.....
 
My favorite Worldly Philosopher, the Father of Capitalism, Adam Smith is being targeted by these progressive iconoclasts now. The Edinburgh City Council apparently formed a group to investigate the cities statues, street names and other icons of heritage for potential trigger warnings.

Fortunately some are speaking out against such stupidity.

www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com

'Don't tear our statues down' says Sir Geoff Palmer amid controversy over Edinburgh's historic links to slavery

A leading anti-racist campaigner has hit back after several commentators accused him of wanting to ‘tear down’ statues and ‘defile’ Adam Smith’s grave.
www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com

Just to be clear, Adam Smith had nothing but contempt for the Institution of Slavery and always critical and condemned it. He was also critical of the Mercantilism system as well which had a large focus on expansion of the exploitation of colonies for wealth. Of course this should go without saying, as Adam Smith helped found the system that replaced Mercantilism.
 
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LTR said:
My favorite Worldly Philosopher, the Father of Capitalism, Adam Smith is being targeted by these progressive iconoclasts now. The Edinburgh City Council apparently formed a group to investigate the cities statues, street names and other icons of heritage for potential trigger warnings.

Fortunately some are speaking out against such stupidity.

www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com

'Don't tear our statues down' says Sir Geoff Palmer amid controversy over Edinburgh's historic links to slavery

A leading anti-racist campaigner has hit back after several commentators accused him of wanting to ‘tear down’ statues and ‘defile’ Adam Smith’s grave.
www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com

Just to be clear, Adam Smith had nothing but contempt for the Institution of Slavery and always critical and condemned it. He was also critical of the Mercantilism system as well which had a large focus on expansion of the exploitation of colonies for wealth. Of course this should go without saying, as Adam Smith helped found the system that replaced Mercantilism.
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It has nothing to do with slavery. He's white, he's not a communist, gay, or minority therefore he has to go.
 
Have you heard of the Biologist Francis Galton who coined the phrase "nurture versus nature"?

Or have you ever heard of Ronald Fisher who advised "correlation is not causation" in the field of biology?

Well don't worry, thanks to Progressive Iconoclasm you'll soon have less of a chance of knowing anything about these individuals in the future and todays intellectuals, including in those fields, are praising the removal of their names from various institutions.

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Why? Because they supposedly endorsed eugenics. But did they? And how accurate is the criticism of these two in general?

Sean Fisher, a PhD in Philsophy, penned a good article with lots of scientific history in it and should be read for full context. But in the conclusion he summarizes his argument as best he can, as another variation of judging people of the past in hindsight using Today's standards when the science and thinking of the time lent to how their supposedly "baleful" opinions and theories arose.

Quillete said:
They [Fisher & Gaston] conducted research and published the implications of their research on policy. They never had the power to enact policy. Galton died three decades before Hitler came to power. Neither Fisher nor Galton proposed or supported the genocidal extremes of Nazi policy. Fisher focused on voluntary sterilisation and recommended policies to encourage smart people to get married and have babies. Galton suggested monastic celibacy.

The complex truth is that brilliant ogres like Fisher and Galton helped lead us out of ignorance. Their overwhelmingly important contribution is knowledge. They were not flawless. And, like all people, no matter how brilliant, they made mistakes. Fisher was wrong to argue that the link between smoking and lung cancer was one of correlation not causation. Politics was neither his core competence nor his core interest. People like Fisher are remembered and honoured for their contributions to knowledge not policy. They should not be condemned because of what politicians and dictators did with their science. If they are to be defenestrated, it should be on the basis of a proper vote, not on the say-so of a social media campaign or an institutional kangaroo court.

Instead of airbrushing history into good guys and bad guys, when it comes to intellectual giants, we should learn to take the rough with the smooth. Aristotle was a xenophobic and sexist defender of slavery. He also invented logic, biology, and what moderns call virtue ethics. We remember him for the latter not the former. We should seek to understand how great thinkers came to believe the rough rather than indulge in lazy smartphone critique informed by hindsight.
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>We remember Aristotle for being the founder of modern science, not for being an xenophobe and sexist defender of slavery!
For now. It's not going to be long before the deconstructionists come after the very foundation of western civilization.
 
Urabrask Revealed said:
>We remember Aristotle for being the founder of modern science, not for being an xenophobe and sexist defender of slavery!
For now. It's not going to be long before the deconstructionists come after the very foundation of western civilization.
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I know, and you know, and most of the people here know and understand, but we still have millions of normies that want to belive in the delusion that they can just grill and these people will leave them alone. That delusion has to be shattered in mass the good news is that the process has started.

The bad news is that I don't think things will be fixed on that front for another 80 years.
 
Yinko said:
Even if they did, so did most serious scientists from about the late 1800's to the 1940's. Condemning them for being men of their times is really quite culturally insensitive, shouldn't this count as a form of ageism?
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The most deranged thing about this is that eugenics was invented by the left and considered a mainstream part of leftism until the 1940s ...
 
And here I thought they'd like her for being a fellow socialist. :sneaky:

That reminds me of a joke, though: "Why can't Helen Keller drive?" *pause while other person makes assumptions about blindness or sexism* "Because she's dead." ;)
 
Captain X said:
And here I thought they'd like her for being a fellow socialist. :sneaky:

That reminds me of a joke, though: "Why can't Helen Keller drive?" *pause while other person makes assumptions about blindness or sexism* "Because she's dead." ;)
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She's a pacifist and they're violent, thieving scum.
Whaddaya think m8?
 
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