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Is it possible that innovation is not only stalling in non-tech areas, but in tech itself? Could we make an argument to say that the internet itself is, in fact, complete?
Are we required to treat this as a legitimate view deserving of an audience and a debate? Or are we allowed to conclude that Kevin Williamson is a callous fanatic?
A host of experiences answering the same question across Egypt had me braced for a look of pained disappointment.
In theory, these sound like good-natured progressive policies. After all, who doesn’t like diversity?
These are merely tools that help us to accomplish a far greater mission, which is to choose between rival narratives, in the vicious, no-holds-barred battle of ideas that we call “science”.
“To be a man in most of the societies we have looked at, one must impregnate women, protect dependents from danger, and provision kith and kin.”
Where they have raised both eyebrows and tempers among social constructionism’s growing number of critics.
The lack of ideological diversity seems to be vastly more pronounced in social research fields than underrepresentation in terms of gender, sexuality, and race.
Criticisms have some merit, but a stronger case against scientism can be made using the philosophical equivalent of the arid reasoning that scientists admire.
Unlike other minority groups – which now self-organise at the smallest provocation – Jewish organisations try to keep calm and carry on.
Thus, the law exists simply to support the interests of the dominant group and is merely a collection of beliefs and prejudices that legitimise injustice in society.
Protestantism was a movement of protest against the Catholic Church and the severing of ties with its centralised, hierarchical institutions.
Perhaps there is a better remedy: alternate dispute resolution. Have the foursome meet face-to-face with Smith-Pelly (with his consent) in the presence of others. Let the taunters explain what they meant.
Now if a single moral judgment depends on a unit of analysis, then surely a political philosophy that imagines some sort of societal structure that maximizes some moral values (whatever they may be), must also depend on a unit of analysis.
This question was robotically intoned by a dozen or so students led by a young woman in a ‘Stay Woke’ jacket.