Peter Boghossian CONFRONTED by WOKE and TRANS Students. SE Inventor is BAD at Sreet Epistemology!
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Newest Mindgasms Quickie on the philosopher, Peter Boghossian’s recent Youtube video in which he was confronted by a crowd of angry woke and trans students at a university for playing a game with and interviewing others about the number of genders that exist. They are all clearly tirggered by the way in which he frames the issue. He is obviously biased, terrible at communicating with them even though that is supposedly his goal, and he is very bad at using the tactics of Street Epistemology, which he himself invented. Street Epistemology, or SE, is essentially using the Socratic method to ask people questions about the reasons behind their beliefs. It’s practicing the realm of philosophy called epistemology, which is investigating how we can gain knowledge, with average people.
Mindgasms Book Review on chapter 1 of the book called Cynical Theories by James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose. Lindsay is a former mathematician, and Pluckrose is a writer who runs Areo magazine. They became famous, along with the philosopher, Peter Boghossian, by getting involved with the so-called Intellectual Dark Web through supposedly exposing what they called grievance studies by submitting fake woke papers to academic journals, a small minority of which got published and not retracted. Cynical Theories is Pluckrose and Lindsay’s book filled with cherry-picking, oversimplifications, misinterpretations and intellectual laziness that lumps a whole bunch of different fields together, some of which are legitimate and interesting, while others really are woke nonsense. They claim that the roots of woke social justice warriors comes from the Critical Theorists in the infamous Frankfurt School, along with “Postmodernism,” Critical Race Theory, gender studies, whiteness studies, queer theory, anti-racism, feminism, Marxism, and basically any other ideology or philosophy that they don’t like. This video on chapter 1 is my detailed criticism of their bullshit claim that Postmodernism is literally the same as Critical Theory.
Mindgasms Quickie on the internet famous clinical psychologist, Jordan Peterson leaving Twitter yesterday because he was so angry about the massive negative backlash in responses to his hyperbolic tweet complaining that the new Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model is too fat for him, which he claimed is somehow authoritarian.
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