These "anti-" movements are simply Marxist authoritarianism under cloak of "goodness". Stoking envy and hatred of those who would oppose their aims to create an "other" class. And as you rightly point out, there is no limit that defines when "whatever" they desire will have been achieved. So the racket goes on and on, forever. Because it's not about achieving anything - it's about keeping us forever in the "struggle" of divisiveness and loathing.
Reading The Free Press (the new name for Bari Weiss's Common Sense) this morning, I encountered Nellie Bowles' mockery of Stanford's new "bad words" list. Most are laughable, some are absurd ("'seminal' reinforces male-dominated language"), but one really told the tale.
"'Submit' ... can imply allowing others to have power over you"
Quite the Kinsley Gaffe - they let on the true purpose of all this.
Unless we consider that they are so deep up their own asses that they actually believe they're doing the world good with this. Which I actually believe, when it comes to the concoctors of most of this stuff. The gag is that they are the useful idiots the cynical power-seekers, who know this is all BS, are exploiting.
They used to call it reverse racism, but the Best-and-Brightest told us a - there's no such thing, b - we're racists for thinking that such exists.
I never got with the term, because as far as I'm concerned racism is racism.
But, just to drill down - I don't totally agree. Anti-racism is, under its veneer, ultimately about power, where racism is not a veneer, it's just racism.
Point well taken, Peter! How did you wind up going from F = d(mv)/dt, to analyzing political motivations? Speaking of math, it is cool you can tell from the form that energy is the integral of momentum, although I don’t have feel for it.
I had a libertarian/individualist bent from at least my HS years, before I even knew about libertarianism. It's also a reality that, at least back in the day, tech/engineering was rife with libertarian thought - especially with such as Robert Heinlein and Poul Anderson and others writing SF that such as me soaked up.
I got sucked into arguing politics on the Internet many moons ago, when James Taranto was writing Best of the Web Today at WSJ. The comments section there became quite a community, and many of the regulars found their way to a Facebook group (that unfortunately became Trumpy to the point of exclusion some years later).
The rest, as they say, is history.
As for the math, there are many neat but unintuitive things that math tells us about the world. A random tidbit from the rocket world - it's more efficient to run a spacecraft's engines when it's going fast relative to the object generating the local gravity (i.e. at perigee rather than apogee, if in Earth orbit). Doesn't seem intuitive, at least to me, but the math says so.
Way cool, Peter! By the way, the three words in the meaning for Tau Beta Pi national engineering honor society are something like “Teknays Bathron Panemomon”. Do you know what they mean? (Maybe your Greek isn’t ancient enough 😂🤣)
Ancient Greek might as well be a different language. I can read it aloud, and translate some words, but much of it is inscrutable to me.
Something like "art is forever" or "technos elevated forever." Bathron reportedly translates to "on a pedestal" (thanks Google) and Panemonon "of all moons."
These "anti-" movements are simply Marxist authoritarianism under cloak of "goodness". Stoking envy and hatred of those who would oppose their aims to create an "other" class. And as you rightly point out, there is no limit that defines when "whatever" they desire will have been achieved. So the racket goes on and on, forever. Because it's not about achieving anything - it's about keeping us forever in the "struggle" of divisiveness and loathing.
Reading The Free Press (the new name for Bari Weiss's Common Sense) this morning, I encountered Nellie Bowles' mockery of Stanford's new "bad words" list. Most are laughable, some are absurd ("'seminal' reinforces male-dominated language"), but one really told the tale.
"'Submit' ... can imply allowing others to have power over you"
Quite the Kinsley Gaffe - they let on the true purpose of all this.
Unless we consider that they are so deep up their own asses that they actually believe they're doing the world good with this. Which I actually believe, when it comes to the concoctors of most of this stuff. The gag is that they are the useful idiots the cynical power-seekers, who know this is all BS, are exploiting.
The word “Islam” in Arabic means submission - so they must be Islamophobes!😲
Concluding so would assume intellectual consistency on their part. We all know that doesn't exist ;)
Anti-racism is simply racism multiplied by -1. It simply changes the direction of the vector arrow by 180 degrees.
They used to call it reverse racism, but the Best-and-Brightest told us a - there's no such thing, b - we're racists for thinking that such exists.
I never got with the term, because as far as I'm concerned racism is racism.
But, just to drill down - I don't totally agree. Anti-racism is, under its veneer, ultimately about power, where racism is not a veneer, it's just racism.
Point well taken, Peter! How did you wind up going from F = d(mv)/dt, to analyzing political motivations? Speaking of math, it is cool you can tell from the form that energy is the integral of momentum, although I don’t have feel for it.
I had a libertarian/individualist bent from at least my HS years, before I even knew about libertarianism. It's also a reality that, at least back in the day, tech/engineering was rife with libertarian thought - especially with such as Robert Heinlein and Poul Anderson and others writing SF that such as me soaked up.
I got sucked into arguing politics on the Internet many moons ago, when James Taranto was writing Best of the Web Today at WSJ. The comments section there became quite a community, and many of the regulars found their way to a Facebook group (that unfortunately became Trumpy to the point of exclusion some years later).
The rest, as they say, is history.
As for the math, there are many neat but unintuitive things that math tells us about the world. A random tidbit from the rocket world - it's more efficient to run a spacecraft's engines when it's going fast relative to the object generating the local gravity (i.e. at perigee rather than apogee, if in Earth orbit). Doesn't seem intuitive, at least to me, but the math says so.
Way cool, Peter! By the way, the three words in the meaning for Tau Beta Pi national engineering honor society are something like “Teknays Bathron Panemomon”. Do you know what they mean? (Maybe your Greek isn’t ancient enough 😂🤣)
Ancient Greek might as well be a different language. I can read it aloud, and translate some words, but much of it is inscrutable to me.
Something like "art is forever" or "technos elevated forever." Bathron reportedly translates to "on a pedestal" (thanks Google) and Panemonon "of all moons."