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- The Case Of Eric Allen Bell
UPDATE - CUT IN BY PASTORIUS (WHO, AFTER ALL, IS STILL THE GUY WHO RUNS THIS BLOG) ERIK ALLEN BELL IS, IN MY OPINION, NOT TO BE TRUSTED. I HAVE BELIEVED THAT, WITHOUT A SOLID REASON FOR QUITE AWHILE. I USED TO POST HIS STUFF HERE, BUT STOPPED...
- Obama's "god Talk"
From this September 7, 2012 article in the Washington Post, an article that also appeared in the print edition in the "On Faith" section: Obama’s ‘God talk’ was highlight of his convention acceptance speech ...[T]radition requires some God talk...
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Christianity: First Line of Defense for the West?The one solid, inescapable organizing principle that stands as the bulwark against radical Islam is Christianity. Culturism, indeed. From PJM: In a nation consumed with political correctness, there is...
- Carville Poll -- Obama Socialist, Too Liberal
National Review: 55 Percent of Likely Voters Find ‘Socialist’ an Accurate Label of Obama? July 09, 2010 9:13 AM By Jim Geraghty The latest poll by Democracy Corps, the firm of James Carville and Stan Greenberg, has Republicans leading on the generic...
- Culturist Liberals Unite!!!
Gays, feminists and the liberal intelligentsia should adopt “culturism” as their motto. There is a misconception that culturism is only a “right-wing” philosophy. And culturism does advocate immigration restriction and does seek to unify western...
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Social Sciences Comprise a "Tribal-Moral" Community, Inhibiting a Real Scientific Process
From Ace of Spades:
[T]he most talked-about speech at this year’s meeting, which ended Jan. 30, involved a new “outgroup.”
It was identified by Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at the University of Virginia who studies the intuitive foundations of morality and ideology. He polled his audience at the San Antonio Convention Center, starting by asking how many considered themselves politically liberal. A sea of hands appeared, and Dr. Haidt estimated that liberals made up 80 percent of the 1,000 psychologists in the ballroom. When he asked for centrists and libertarians, he spotted fewer than three dozen hands. And then, when he asked for conservatives, he counted a grand total of three.
“This is a statistically impossible lack of diversity,” Dr. Haidt concluded, noting polls showing that 40 percent of Americans are conservative and 20 percent are liberal. In his speech and in an interview, Dr. Haidt argued that social psychologists are a “tribal-moral community” united by “sacred values” that hinder research and damage their credibility — and blind them to the hostile climate they’ve created for non-liberals.
“Anywhere in the world that social psychologists see women or minorities underrepresented by a factor of two or three, our minds jump to discrimination as the explanation,” said Dr. Haidt, who called himself a longtime liberal turned centrist. “But when we find out that conservatives are underrepresented among us by a factor of more than 100, suddenly everyone finds it quite easy to generate alternate explanations.”
“If a group circles around sacred values, they will evolve into a tribal-moral community,” he said. “They’ll embrace science whenever it supports their sacred values, but they’ll ditch it or distort it as soon as it threatens a sacred value.”
- The Case Of Eric Allen Bell
UPDATE - CUT IN BY PASTORIUS (WHO, AFTER ALL, IS STILL THE GUY WHO RUNS THIS BLOG) ERIK ALLEN BELL IS, IN MY OPINION, NOT TO BE TRUSTED. I HAVE BELIEVED THAT, WITHOUT A SOLID REASON FOR QUITE AWHILE. I USED TO POST HIS STUFF HERE, BUT STOPPED...
- Obama's "god Talk"
From this September 7, 2012 article in the Washington Post, an article that also appeared in the print edition in the "On Faith" section: Obama’s ‘God talk’ was highlight of his convention acceptance speech ...[T]radition requires some God talk...
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Christianity: First Line of Defense for the West?The one solid, inescapable organizing principle that stands as the bulwark against radical Islam is Christianity. Culturism, indeed. From PJM: In a nation consumed with political correctness, there is...
- Carville Poll -- Obama Socialist, Too Liberal
National Review: 55 Percent of Likely Voters Find ‘Socialist’ an Accurate Label of Obama? July 09, 2010 9:13 AM By Jim Geraghty The latest poll by Democracy Corps, the firm of James Carville and Stan Greenberg, has Republicans leading on the generic...
- Culturist Liberals Unite!!!
Gays, feminists and the liberal intelligentsia should adopt “culturism” as their motto. There is a misconception that culturism is only a “right-wing” philosophy. And culturism does advocate immigration restriction and does seek to unify western...