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    • How Scientific American Got Woke

    "I think the second-wave feminists I've talked to are very worried about the kind of woke, gender-identity movement because it's reducing women to just body parts," says Michael Shermer. "A guy can say, 'Well, if I just get breast implants [and] then I can have a vaginal plastic made out of a piece of my skin, I'm in. I'm a woman, right?' Well, no, because women are not just tits and ass. There's more to it than that, a lot more." For decades, Shermer has been one of the most popular—and provocative—explicators of science to popular audiences, having authored bestselling books such as Why People Believe Weird Things, Why Darwin Matters, The Moral Arc, and The Mind of the Market. He founded Skeptic magazine in 1992 and hosts a video podcast with leading activists and intellectuals. For nearly 20 years, he authored a widely read column for Scientific American in which he debunked beliefs in UFOs and other paranormal phenomena, explained the rise of the "new atheism," and showed how evolution systematically informs human behavior. Shermer's work is deeply and explicitly rooted in libertarian and Enlightenment ideas about individual responsibility, free market economics, rationality, and the search for something approaching objective truth. In 2019, Scientific American cut him loose, a move he ascribes to the publication's suffocating embrace of the sort of identity politics and wokeness that he says dominates academic and intellectual circles and, increasingly, the culture at large. Last fall, Shermer, who holds a Ph.D. in the history of science and teaches a class called Skepticism 101 at Chapman University, started a weekly Substack where he posts podcasts and the columns he would have written for Scientific American. The 67-year-old former competitive cyclist talked with Reason during FreedomFest, an annual gathering in Las Vegas, about what he sees as the fundamental clash between wokeness and scientific inquiry, how hard it is to overcome the cognitive biases we all have, why he thinks trans athletes should be banned from most women's sports, why we have so much trouble acknowledging moral and technological progress, and why he now identifies as a classical liberal rather than a libertarian. Shermer has sat down with Reason a number of times since 2008, speaking about the future of science, how evolution formed the modern economy, and his "Google theory of peace." He's also spoken to us about the history of modern skepticism, why everyone wants to believe in Heaven, and why self-help gurus aren't the key to happiness.
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    A dialogue like this would have heads rolling in Hollywood today.


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    Kinda funny how being "woke" has taken us blindly into unacknowledged, or worse; socially acceptable racism.

    I've been saying for years that the most oppressed (structurally / institutionally) person today is a white male.



    we now have several years of examples... I wonder when it will matter, or if it will.

    It seems that people are pushing back against the propiganda however, and the outcomes are a bit hilarious.....




    Even the attempts to re-write history (mostly to make whitepeople look worse and obscure the truth of history) are backfiring extremely....

    I see this as a very good sign.

    Go woke, get broke; how is feminizing James Bond going to do anything good other than waste the money of companies that deserve to go under....



    Men are evolving? James bond "in touch" with his emotions??? haha, I smell another boxoffice bomb and yet another ruined IP.

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    Quote Posted by TargeT (here)
    Kinda funny how being "woke" has taken us blindly into unacknowledged, or worse; socially acceptable racism.



    Even the attempts to re-write history (mostly to make whitepeople look worse and obscure the truth of history) are backfiring extremely....

    I see this as a very good sign.
    I watched this critique of The Slaver King, and am conflicted. If people pay money for this film, soak up and even enjoy the revised history, how does that make them anywhere near as offensive as (as per) this guy says the ‘Dahomey’ were? My point is that mental constraint is less imperative than physical constraint/captivity, more a 2nd-order thing. And yeah, I know what Manufacturing Consent is about.

    Off topic, I looked up your bourble dogs, cool. Cool especially, that they love and befriend children. Also that they don’t mouth off indoors. To me, all dogs get compared back to wolves, and I wonder about the many and various selected attributes. We have been manipulating what we can, since forever. OK, so maybe not completely off topic. ~8O

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    I'm more and more convinced that "woke" = cultist

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    Quote Posted by TargeT (here)
    I'm more and more convinced that "woke" = cultist.
    Everything is cultist, that holds to a hierarchy (which “woke” certainly does, they have to be told how). The nicer ones are just nicer, not essentially better.

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    Point blank, addressing bullies the way you think will work (try and talk it through, involve the teacher, walk away, ignore it…) do any of that and I guarantee you will be bullied for the rest of your life. You have to stand up to them, call them out. Scrw those bullies, fight back.
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