I Feel, Therefore I Am: The Triumph of Woke Subjectivism

If you want to know what a thing is, you’re inquiring about its substance. If you want to know which specific thing you’re referring to, you’re inquiring about its accidents.

Lia Thomas, when he swam for the men’s team at Penn during the 2018–19 season, was ranked 65th nationally in the 500-freestyle.117 Now, competing as a woman against women, he’s blowing away Olympic medalists.

Theories are falsifiable beliefs that are logically analyzed and empirically tested to determine their validity. If a theory doesn’t hold up, it’s either revised or abandoned altogether. Axioms, on the other hand, are systemic starting points; they are methodological givens.

She’s right, but with an if. It makes no sense, scientific or otherwise, for Thomas to compete against female swimmers…if you believe that women’s sports should exist in the first place.

Let’s run through that one more time: If transgendered Lia Thomas is allowed to compete against women, but the cisgendered men’s champion is not allowed to compete against women, then by definition the cisgendered men’s champion is being discriminated against on the basis of his gender.

Fryer also found that the police were 50 percent more likely to use non-lethal force against black suspects. Cops, in other words, were more likely to rough up black suspects than white suspects, yet no more likely to kill them.

You and I are inward beings, creatures of consciousness. Whatever, if anything, is outside, has to pass through our sense organs in order for us to become aware of it. So our awareness of it is never direct; it is always mediated by our perceptions. We know our perceptions of things, not things-in-themselves.

Worse still, the mere presence of men who identify as women in women’s events will prevent an equal number of hopeful female athletes from achieving, or even glimpsing, their full athletic potential.

Whatever may be said about America’s sordid racialized past and the socioeconomic factors that underlie street crime, the unfortunate reality is that at this moment black people commit a vastly disproportionate share of street crime. For that reason, and for that reason alone, they will necessarily be contacted by the police more than other ethnic