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

On the contrary, the observation that black and Hispanic kids perform poorly on a particular test more likely suggests that there’s something lacking in their educational preparation that will be difficult to overcome.
Mark Goldblatt • I Feel, Therefore I Am: The Triumph of Woke Subjectivism
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.
Mark Goldblatt • I Feel, Therefore I Am: The Triumph of Woke Subjectivism
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.
Mark Goldblatt • I Feel, Therefore I Am: The Triumph of Woke Subjectivism
Kant, like Berkeley, believes that our perceptions, not things-in-themselves, are the only things we experience directly. “…everything intuited in space and time, all objects of a possible experience, are nothing but phenomena, that is, mere representations; and that these, as presented to us…have no self-subsistent existence apart from human
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To repeat: there is no democracy of truth.
Mark Goldblatt • I Feel, Therefore I Am: The Triumph of Woke Subjectivism
Transgender people pose no threat to us, and the vast majority of gay men and lesbians wholeheartedly support protections for transgender people. But transgenderist ideology—including postmodern conceptions of sex and gender—is indeed a threat to homosexuality, because it is a threat to biological sex as a concept.
Mark Goldblatt • I Feel, Therefore I Am: The Triumph of Woke Subjectivism
To summarize: The realist says that we can know the world beyond our perceptions, and that truth consists of thinking and saying things that correspond with the state of that world. The idealist says that our perceptions are the only things we truly know, and therefore that truth cannot be a correspondence. That’s the traditional debate between
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Still, if a black person feels victimized, she is victimized. Such are the rules of the road once you’ve bought in, once you’re Woke.
Mark Goldblatt • I Feel, Therefore I Am: The Triumph of Woke Subjectivism
Let me tell you the many ways you are oppressed so that you may be a river to the unwashed masses.