When drawing graphs, we always use the x and y axes. Like this.
Whenever you see a graph, it's no surprise to see the x and y axes. It's what we used all through school. It's a simple convention for describing positions in a 2-dimensional space and it's no big deal.
Critical Theory is the same thing. It's a simple convention for describing the world. Whites oppress blacks, men oppress women and straights oppress gays. Those are the Cartesian coordinate axes of Critical Theory. All of society has been designed by the oppressors to maintain their power over the oppressed.
You dress the way you dress because it's a social construct designed to keep straight, white men in power. You consider certain books classics because it's a social construct designed to keep straight, white men in power. You assume sex is a binary because it's a social construct designed to keep straight, white men in power. Everything is a social construct designed to keep straight, white men in power.
I don't recall what it was, but recently I saw a headline proclaiming, oh, I don't know, let's just say margarine is racist. Of course it is. It's in the Critical Theory Cartesian Coordinate System. Just like all the points in our 2D graphs are described by their x and y coordinates, all of life is described by racism, sexism and the various gender-phobias. There aren't any axes other than x and y and there aren't any considerations other than race, sex and gender.
That's it, that's the end, that's all she wrote.
As soon as I realized that, I became bored with the whole thing. That's been happening a lot lately, by the way. I'm a slow thinker, but eventually I can usually figure out what's what.
While the Cartesian coordinate system is useful and makes sense, the Critical Theory Cartesian Coordinate System is obvious bullocks as I've ranted over and over on this blog. Still, it might be useful to see that analogy so when this stuff comes up again and again, you can recognize it as an inevitable consequence of a complete structural misdiagnosis of life.
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| The Cartesian coordinate system is racist. Well, played critical theorists. Well played. |
That's all well and fine, except for math and its insistence that there is only 1 right answer is racist/sexist/genderist. Can't we get one word for that? How about "woppression".
ReplyDeleteAnd remember, no one fights oppression to create equality/equity. They fight oppression to become an oppressor.
You wrote your comment in English. England was a racist, imperialist, colonial oppressor.
ReplyDeleteDo better.
They were ahead of you, or else they read your blog?
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ReplyDeleteFor further explanation of that response/non-response Google ‘Zen koan mu’.
Ohioan,
ReplyDeleteWhat the $*&#) is wrong with your state? I just heard a story of a guy, who walked into a persons garage, stole a $500 leaf blower, and drove off in plain view of the home owner. And the home owner told him to stop.
The supreme court has ruled that that is not burglary, because it was done in plan view and he didn't try to hide or deceive in any way.
This country is doomed.
Apparently, my fine state is passing a law to have our electoral college voters vote by the popular vote of the country.
Did I mention doomed?
Secession, y'all.
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MN - I live in California. If want me to tell you wants wrong with this state, you don’t have enough time for that. If you mean Ohio, well, it has changed a lot since I left. I don’t get what is going on there. Still it’s better than CA.
ReplyDeleteAs to your state (and the crazy lefties that they are) wanting the electoral college voters to have to vote as per the National popular vote is crazy. The whole point of the electoral college (and Senate) was to avoid a true democracy (the US is a Republic!) and the inherent risks of the large states/cities dominating the smaller. Only idiots think that is a good idea.
And as KT said “Secession, y'all.”
Ohioan,
ReplyDeleteYeah, I knew you were in CA. I left it in 1988, it was already too crazy for me.
Apparently, in Ohio, the Supreme Court leans right. But the law was so badly written, or the police made the wrong charge. They did say they should convict the scum of criminal trespass or something. A gross mis-demeanor.
Here in Cali-wanna-be-of-the-north, we aren't alone. I might be wrong on numbers, but I think it is 15 states doing the same thing. 13 of which have the same desease of having the democrats fully controlling both houses and the Governor. They have complained for years about wanting to get rid of the electoral college, and since they can't do it, they are just gutting it.
Like eastern counties in Oregon wanting to leave Oregon for Idaho, western counties in Minnesota are looking into the feasibility to succeed from Minnesota and join the Dakotas. I didn't move far enough away from Minneapolis/St Paul.
Wasn't there a think in California to split into multiple states a couple years ago?
Yeah it was 2017 as a Proposition. The State Supreme Court pulled it off the ballot for further review. Then the backer gave up and the court killed that effort permanently (although it looks to me that we could try again, but the court would do the same thing). It was actually sensible. Wanted to split into 3 states. 2 would be the liberal coasts (solidly blue) and the other would be the hinterlands (solidly red). The net result would be two more Senators for both parties, so it would have little effect nationally. But the conservative sections would actually have some influence on their own state.
ReplyDelete==The supreme court has ruled that that is not burglary, because it was done in plan view and he didn't try to hide or deceive in any way.==
ReplyDeleteDamn! I'd never have heard of this "ruling" if not for MN.
Clearly, the people who got into my house a week ago while I was sleeping -- after all, I'd (accidentally) left the front door unlocked -- and stole some things, including my wallet (with all ID and credit cards and emergency vehicle-door-keys) just 3 feet away from my sleeping self, did nothing wrong.
I now know where the thieves came from ... and I don't expect the police to do a thing about it. Ironically (?), a different set of people, but from the same address, kicked in my front door a few years ago.
I think Harry (the younger, blond, man) has a good theory on *why* the left's "saints" are invariably violent criminals.
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/WLCECnYfWpM?t=881