According to recent reports, a gay Spanish politician who belongs to the country’s left-wing governing party has been forced to resign after pictures surfaced of the municipal councilor eating his own excrement. While disgusting, the existence of yet another degenerate politician would be unremarkable, if not for the fact that he was defended by an unlikely ally: Peter Boghossian.
I used to think out of the IDW ‘triad’ (Lindsay, Pluckrose, and Boghossian), Boghossian was by far the best. He just seemed very measured and reasonable, compared to Lindsay’s liberal fundamentalism and Pluckrose being literally just Woke.
Your problem is with postmodernism and moral relativism, not classical liberalism, which is perfectly consistent with social shaming and enforcing cultural norms against behavior that triggers our disgust response - especially for those who hold public office.
Auren - Just listened to you on Timcast IRL today. I believe you had LaBonte a bit flustered and he didn’t know how to come at you. I’ve long argued that “classical liberals” are far more tolerant of their communist cousins than they are from the right because on some level, they buy into the “right wing bad” dogma.
Most libs will be more fearful of the so-called right up to the point that a revolutionary is handing them the blindfold.
Im often a few steps ahead my fellows in my disgust for newly "based" crypto-woke "classical liberals". I have a 6th sense. I was never on board with Dawkins and Hitchens, even when I was an actual centrist classical liberal, and the adjacent crop of "antiwoke" rub me the wrong way still; Haidt, Schellenberger, Taibbi., but most of all Boghossian.
What gets me about them is their continued fall back on "defending LGB(T)", when in fact they often edge right up to defending "queerness". Im in the "LGB community" and their verbal depictions of poor helpless, fragile people disgusts me.
All I wanted was decrim and maybe "domestic partnerships" (we dont need to call it marriage, thats a Christian term), as a tool for personal responsibility for consenting adults to dispose of their estates and secure very durable power of attorney; i.e. not a victimology but a measure of personal responsibility.
Granted, this is a more male perspective, vs the female perspective of the lesbian queer contigent in the movement, that endlessly sseeks more and varied victim status(es).
I did not want "hate crime laws", no set asides. Just leave me alone.
And I certainly didnt want coprophagia to be equated with my goals, and made worthy of "tolerance".
Boghossian recently stated, out of nowhere, that he thought there were far too many people on the planet. Perhaps he isn’t what he appears to be.
I used to think out of the IDW ‘triad’ (Lindsay, Pluckrose, and Boghossian), Boghossian was by far the best. He just seemed very measured and reasonable, compared to Lindsay’s liberal fundamentalism and Pluckrose being literally just Woke.
Boy, do I take that back now.
Yea but Auron, have you tried it?
On a progressive website I read that deep fried is the most popular variety.
Your problem is with postmodernism and moral relativism, not classical liberalism, which is perfectly consistent with social shaming and enforcing cultural norms against behavior that triggers our disgust response - especially for those who hold public office.
Hey. Go with your strong suit:
"...Boghossian reflexively strikes out at Christianity, which he still perceives as his true enemy."
Auren - Just listened to you on Timcast IRL today. I believe you had LaBonte a bit flustered and he didn’t know how to come at you. I’ve long argued that “classical liberals” are far more tolerant of their communist cousins than they are from the right because on some level, they buy into the “right wing bad” dogma.
Most libs will be more fearful of the so-called right up to the point that a revolutionary is handing them the blindfold.
Im often a few steps ahead my fellows in my disgust for newly "based" crypto-woke "classical liberals". I have a 6th sense. I was never on board with Dawkins and Hitchens, even when I was an actual centrist classical liberal, and the adjacent crop of "antiwoke" rub me the wrong way still; Haidt, Schellenberger, Taibbi., but most of all Boghossian.
What gets me about them is their continued fall back on "defending LGB(T)", when in fact they often edge right up to defending "queerness". Im in the "LGB community" and their verbal depictions of poor helpless, fragile people disgusts me.
All I wanted was decrim and maybe "domestic partnerships" (we dont need to call it marriage, thats a Christian term), as a tool for personal responsibility for consenting adults to dispose of their estates and secure very durable power of attorney; i.e. not a victimology but a measure of personal responsibility.
Granted, this is a more male perspective, vs the female perspective of the lesbian queer contigent in the movement, that endlessly sseeks more and varied victim status(es).
I did not want "hate crime laws", no set asides. Just leave me alone.
And I certainly didnt want coprophagia to be equated with my goals, and made worthy of "tolerance".
Boghossian disgusts me.
Yes.