Religion is a Mental Illness

In calling for a “debate” between prominent proponents of polarized positions, most people just want a cage-match, not an exchange of ideas. The thing with Kendi, DiAngelo and their ilk, though, isn’t that they’re afraid of being shown up or even looking foolish.

Kendi came up through the theoretical hypothetical humanities, which is notoriously a participation-trophy and evidence-optional domain. As such, he’s never ever had to actually vigorously justify and defend his ideas in the way science does. Never had to subject them to hostile peer review, never had to explain how he verified them for others to reproduce his results, never had to contemplate falsification or defeasibility.

He read the doctrine, wrote down his ideas like they told him to, they were politically fashionable and he collected his trophy.

The idea that he should have to actually defend them now isn’t so much insulting as it is alien. He can’t comprehend something he’s never been asked to do before - why would he have to defend or justify them? Especially when the claims his ideas sit atop never had to do this either? That’s not now this domain works. This is how new doctrine is created. It’s always been this way, just now it’s consumed by the popular culture rather than the academic ivory tower.

He wrote them down and they published them, so they’re true, just like at college. People asking him to explain, substantiate, define, justify and defend them must simply not understand them. Why else could anyone legitimately question them?

Have you ever heard his definition of “racism”? Dead serious, it goes like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzuOlyyQlug&t=34m1s

From his book: https://b-ok.cc/book/5229390/e7f343 (p63).

His… “definition,” if we must.. is circular, nonsensical and incoherent.

“A circle is a collection of circular lines that lead to circular shapes that are drawn with circular motions.”

The man has never been intellectually challenged in his life. And we are to take his moral guidance?

It was actually Kendi’s book “Stamped from the Beginning” that jerked me out of the delusions that I carried through most of my 20s, sadly. Got almost halfway through before I realized that I was having way too many “is this dude serious?” - type moments. Since I put that book down, I’ve been rapidly retreating from a lot of liberal ideas that I’ve finally come to realize were just hypothetical deconstructionist theories, not actually substantiated by any testing or proof, and completely lacking in situationally nuanced context. It was his book that was so packed with desperate reaches and empty declarations of racism, that it jumpstarted my awareness to realize that wokeness is SOOO (ironically) far from what it claims to be. This is really going to hurt us….

Absolutely

I’ve been saying for a while that the best arguments against the edicts of the bible and the quran are the bible and the quran. There’s no better defence to the claims of divine benevolence, human degradation, and moral revelation than to peruse the bible or the quran with clear eyes.

And that is just as true with the Critical Social Justice scripture doctrine as well.

Seeing what priests such as Kendi and DiAngelo think in their own words is one of the best inoculations from its influence.

From Kendi’s sophomoric, univariate takes, logical fallacies, sophistry and circular reasoning - not to mention his astonishingly ironic denunciation of capitalism, considering his $20,000 fee for a one hour Zoom session, or the $10m donation from Twitter’s Jack Dorsey.

Or DiAngelo’s endless performative self-debasement where she parades her own racist humiliations one after the other and draws conclusions about everyone else from her problems and cognitive distortions. The following comes from her latest confessional screed.

As you can see this story is on page one. It’s the launchpad and backbone of the entire book.

Given the gazillions these people make within a multi-billion dollar church commercial industry, here’s where you can download them, rather than contribute to their increasingly copious coffers. I’m sure they won’t mind, cause, you know, “justice.”

Take a look for yourself to see if these ideas align with your values -- or raise red flags.

Tauba Auerbach - Alphabetized Bible (2006)

It finally makes sense.