Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Cancel Culture and the Arc of the Moral Universe by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. Done. That doesn’t seem to have increased the post’s popularity, however. A conjecture as to why: (1) Many people would rather stick to the right-wing narrative to the effect that “cancel culture” i…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Cancel Culture and the Arc of the Moral Universe by Roderick T. Long
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on the right sort of intrinsic desire to avoid doing morally wrong things by David Potts
In reply to boydstun. Ahh, that explains some things. I never saw a YouTube channel before that didn’t have at least some info about the host, the channel, what they hope to accomplish, etc. (“Subscribe! And don’t forget to click the …
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on the right sort of intrinsic desire to avoid doing morally wrong things by boydstun
In reply to David Potts. He is a regular participant at the online posting forum I use, which is named Objectivism Online. He keeps his name secret, but his user name is Louie spelled backwards, and he lets us know this birth date, which puts him at ab…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Gap Week: October 22
Hey all! This week is going to be a gap week; I have quite a bit of teaching related work along with several projects all coming together at once and something had to give. With luck, next week we’ll start a series on the principles of fortifications. In the meantime, of course, I wouldn’t leave…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Cancel Culture and the Discourse of Ad Hoc-ery by Cancel Culture and the Arc of the Moral Universe | Policy of Truth
[…] best of all, to act in a systematic way, by legal and peaceful means, to shut it down. But the way contemporary discourse is set up, “cancel culture” is exemplified by arbitrary terminations and shouting down unpopular […] L…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on PornHub: Cancel and Destroy by Cancel Culture and the Arc of the Moral Universe | Policy of Truth
[…] of every cancellation or every cancellation-oriented group or movement. But I’m curious (once again) to hear what anti-cancel-culture warriors have to say about the Trafficking Hub’s campaign […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Cancel Culture and the Arc of the Moral Universe
I’ve heard so many whining, incoherent complaints about the evils of “cancel culture” over the past few years, usually from the same old suspects saying the same damn thing over and over. I wouldn’t offer a blanket endorsement of every cancellation or every cancellation-oriented group or movement. But I’m curious (once again) to hear what…
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(QC RSS) Proportional Response
The end (not really)
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on the right sort of intrinsic desire to avoid doing morally wrong things by David Potts
In reply to boydstun. Thanks for the video link, Stephen. I’ve only watch a few minutes so far, but I’m enjoying it. Who’s the interviewer? LikeLike
Got any book recommendations?