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TimmyCatChores wrote

I mentioned this to Tequila_Wolf.

The thing about administration is that whatever is allowed is a reflection of the ideology of the page.

If you allow nonsense, you are nonsense.

I'm trying to move away from a Facebook collective I've helped to facilitate over a bunch of years.

As an admin, if I'm allowing a 'anything anyone says is true' sort free-for all, that's the ideology of my group effort.

I've already been trolled by what I feel is completely unfair and nasty characterizations of what it means to explain yourself.

Asking someone to explain themselves is not an attack, but in response I was attacked by bandwagon of unfair labeling, aspersions and insults.

That's not activism to me, but a hipster group identity cult.

Unfair attacks went on, and no one seem to notice, but gave me only concern trolling and tone policing, because everyone seem to think truth is what the group says, not what the truth actually is.

It's really the difference between mature work and kiddie playtime for youth cults.

The way you admin reflects the ideology of the website.

I'm not terrible interested in fighting my way through this place to find a space for rational discourse.

just my impression after a few days.

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________deleted wrote

You can't accuse all anarchists of being racist anti-feminist kiddies for no reason and then call yourself 'rational'. As a staunch collectivist who is often critical of anarchism, I'm completely befuddled by your attacks on anarchists. They don't seem to be based on anything other than your personal biases.

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TimmyCatChores wrote

Bullshit argumentation is bullshit argumentation.

Words mean things, and if you get reactionary when someone asks you to explain yourself, you don't get to attack them as 'not a real anarchist'.

I'm only here to serve the truth.

Are you willing to examine your own beliefs? If not, I can't engage that sort of discourse that has no chance of going anywhere. It's a waste of time for everyone.

Words mean things.

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________deleted wrote

Bullshit argumentation is bullshit argumentation.

Agreed. So "people who value the individual as much as the collective are racist anti-feminist rightwing kiddies" is bullshit argumentation and should be called out. See?

Words mean things.

Agreed. So maybe don't throw around words like 'reactionary' and 'racist' when the people you're accusing have done literally nothing to warrant those labels?

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TimmyCatChores wrote

If you speak against child development psychology you do not speak for feminists and civil-rights activist who focus on child-development.

You really need to look at that line of argumentation.

What do you know about child-development as it related to social justice?

Child development is about psychology. If you speak against psychology, you speak against a rational pro-feminist and anti-racist child-development for urban communities.

Racism isn't always conscious. Sometimes it;s just through well meaning incompetence.

Latent racism is real racism. It's not whatever anyone thinks it is.

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________deleted wrote (edited )

if you speak against child development psychology you do not speak for feminists and civil-rights activist who focus on child-development.

Please quote me doing that because I have no idea what you're talking about.

What do you know about child-development as it related to social justice?

I don't understand why you're asking me this. I know nothing of child development.

Child development is about psychology. If you speak against psychology, you speak against a rational pro-feminist and anti-racist child-development for urban communities.

I don't believe I've ever spoken about psychology on raddle. Very confused.

Racism isn't always conscious. Sometimes it;s just through well meaning incompetence.

Please quote me being unconsciously racist because this is starting to feel like gaslighting.

Latent racism is real racism. It's not whatever anyone thinks it is.

Not sure what that has to do with your attacks on raddle anarchists, especially since a lot of us here are PoC.

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TimmyCatChores wrote

I was explaining the problem I was having the RadMentalHealth thread. Not you personally. Sorry, I should have made that clear.

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TimmyCatChores wrote

'Please quote me'

I have one thread in the RadMentalHealth.

I won't post again until I figure out if I can coexist.

Mental health is connected to feminism, civil-rights and community organizing. So my experience in this mental health forum is related to those issues.

These guys are saying what I'm saying, which is across many disciplines, is "Scientism'.

That is basically anti-science, which is completely off-the wall when it comes to working in real life education and social science.

On facebook I needed to separate myself from the anti-science people, who disrupt any community-based feminism and anti-racism.

That's a thing.

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________deleted wrote

Being critical of scientism doesn't make someone anti-science. It makes them anti-scientism.

Dictionary:

Scientism describes (for example) the dogmatic endorsement of scientific methodology and the reduction of all knowledge to only that which is measured or confirmatory.

Science and scientism are 2 wholly different words.

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BlackFlagged wrote (edited )

I won't post again until I figure out if I can coexist.

You can easily coexist by not insulting everyone that has an opinion that differs from your own and accusing them of being bigots for being anarchists.

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elyersio wrote

What if there's no such thing as truth, just ideas that many people agree on?

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TimmyCatChores wrote

Good question

Truth is conditional on the scope of attention. Some truths are easily known to a deterministic degree and some truths can never be known.

Human truth is indeed dependent on shared ideas.

Humanity evolves through the collective sharing of ideas.

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