Objective truth is a racist myth

[Mountain Man]

That would be anti-intellectual.

Welcome to liberalism.

[guacamole]

Did you read the actual letter (link in the OP)?

It was off the charts. full of liberal buzz words and jargon strung together like they were trying to sound like a parody. But they were serious. Where did we go wrong with these kids?

Yeah, I had to re-read parts of it to guess at what they meant. Started hallucinating. The big irony of course is that it is self-defeating. A critique of objective truth is an epic fail on every level.

fwiw,
guacamole

[Sparko]

Yeah, I had to re-read parts of it to guess at what they meant. Started hallucinating. The big irony of course is that it is self-defeating. A critique of objective truth is an epic fail on every level.

fwiw,
guacamole

The professor should grade the letter and send it back to them with an F-

[Jedidiah]

Methinks there is a problem with the logic of their position... Are they suggesting that 1 + 1 sometimes = Wednesday, sometimes = green with blue spots, sometimes = 34 ? If 1 + 1 sometimes = 34, sometimes 71, how do they propose to prescribe medicines, or build houses ?

Society collapses and becomes impossible if truth is not a reality, and is not able to be expressed, and is endlessly variable. There are serious philosophical issues here, and they cannot wish them away. That would be anti-intellectual.

It is not as bad as all that. Objective truth is only a problem if it is something they don't like.

[Sparko]

It is not as bad as all that. Objective truth is only a problem if it is something they don't like.

Just like free speech.

[Catholicity]

Are people named Sparko Racist Myths?

[Bisto]

Are people named Sparko Racist Myths?

As in "Sparko the Mythical Racer"? "He Who Captains The Ship Of Legendary Haste"?

[myth]

But....but....I'm not racist.

[Sparko]

Are people named Sparko Racist Myths?

I do like NASCAR.

[Sparko]

But....but....I'm not racist.

Ha! Myth, you have been busted!

[Mountain Man]

But....but....I'm not racist.

That's exactly what a racist would say.

[tabibito]

Columbusing
v.
When a white person claims to have 'discovered' something that already existed. Like Columbus did with the Americas. It usually entails taking credit for something that may be part of someone's culture and might already have been there, such as black fashion, African American slang, or twerking and dreadlocks.

Christopher Columbus is acclaimed for having 'discovered' the new world. Him, an European white guy backed by the Spanish crown just waltzed in and took over the land and the people who had been there for thousands of years with their culture and form of life. Him and his men brought illness and suffering and Christianity to the 'savages'.
A similar trend is seen when white, middle-class people move into neighborhoods that are predominantly non-white and of a lower socio-economic level and hype up the prices, kicking out the inhabitants who've lived there for generations. Gentrification is a form of Columbusing.
Whenever a white dude wear dreads, like most white people who don't know the cultural and religious implications of doing so, they are guilty of Columbusing.

The site also defines Christianity as "the belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever ..."

I won't bother to post the link

[Darth Executor]

When a white person claims to have 'discovered' something that already existed.

How do you discover something that didn't exist?

[tabibito]

The definition indicates that Columbusing just means a white person does something.

[Sparko]

The definition indicates that Columbusing just means a white person does something.

yep.

like "cultural appropriation" is a white guy eating a taco.