Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. “Stephen was defending the ideal of using boycotts as a means of promoting justice” How do you know, aside from his subsequent statements? I explained why I took it that way in my own later reply. Every institutio…

In reply to David Potts. That comment (your first one) seems to me a classic case of a straw man fallacy. Stephen was defending the ideal of using boycotts as a means of promoting justice, and you’ve assumed that what he’s defending is the …

In reply to mlyoung57. For now, I’ll just say that I reject the parenthetical thought in the first paragraph of your comment. I don’t see any reason to think that a negative self-evaluation is necessary for the victim of injustice to feel p…

In reply to wyatttravels592014740. Correct, I see no need to repudiate post-Modernism, any more than I see a need to repudiate Lucifer. I leave such things to people with more time on their hands than I have. I don’t regard Antifa as the “a…

In reply to boydstun. Well, when you use the term “cancel culture,” that does not imply boycotting a business when you don’t like their ad campaign or the owner’s politics. It implies campaigning to deprive someone of their live…

In reply to boydstun. PS – One thing sure does seem a big turnaround since I was first in college. The really big threat was not to professors, but to the male students. If you flunked out or dropped out, you were going to be drafted for Vietnam …

In reply to David Potts. No, I was just thinking of boycotts such as with various companies, though there too, I imagine people might lose their job for some public statement they made. There has never been freedom of speech in private companies, and t…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I consider myself more of an Ayn Rand fan rather than an Objectivist. I even did a show about it. When you say, “Post-Modernism is a vague, ephemeral, fundamentally irrelevant phenomenon, marginal even in academia&#82…

In reply to boydstun. “Delighted”? So for example, this law professor was fired from her job for wrongspeak, and you’re delighted about that? Is that what you mean? https://johnmcwhorter.substack.com/p/so-there-was-a-law-professor-at-…