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

Notice, however, that Einstein isn’t arguing for the plurality of truth. Rather, he is saying that from any specific position, there will still be one and only one true measurement of the motion of an object, and that that one true measurement is calculable and in no sense open to negotiation.

CRT, again, has three legs: Collective grievance. Subjective historiography. And racial essentialism. The glue that holds it together is the postmodernist rejection of rationality as an arbiter of truth.

Believe the accuser, clearly. Unless the accuser is white and the accused black, in which case disbelieve the accuser and believe that the accused is a victim of systemic racism. Or unless the accuser is male and the accused female, in which case take into account the contributions that the accused has made to her field. But if the accuser is a whi

Saying true things, in other words, is not your only job if you’re attempting to produce a fair and accurate account of the past.

So, for example, if the video feed from security cameras at the local shopping mall shows a disproportionate number of black people shoplifting, then the video feed is racist. But how can an unedited video feed be racist? What does the word mean at that point?

The meaning of “is” is distinct from the meaning of “feels”…or “identifies”…or “expresses.” That which is, is. That which could be, should be, or in a perfect world would be, but isn’t, is not.

The law of intension and extension holds that the further you extend a term, the vaguer it becomes. As you overuse it, the term necessarily means less and less.

The surest sign of a decadent culture isn’t its readiness to license varieties of personal abuse and degradation, or even its elevation of immediate pleasure over long-term sobriety. The surest sign of cultural decadence is a readiness to reject as hateful what is demonstrably true.

Remember that the purpose of a safe space is not to protect people; it’s to protect people’s feelings, to set their feelings beyond rational debate. To render them true by virtue of their being sincerely felt.