🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

@geotechland
So few things.. first his comments about the fact that the victim wrt minsky presenting herself as willing makes perfect sense.

First as he said it is no less wrong but because she is being coerced she would not have said so to Minsky. Epstein is the bad person for coercing for sure, and he had said as much,. But since its unlikely minsky knew, and the victim never said anything to the contrary, its a perfectly reasonable assumption and not in anyway hurtful, to think Minsky was ignorant to that coercion and that the guilt of doing so rests on Epsteins shoulders not Minsky's... How does speaking the truth on the matter hurt victims? Its not like he implied the act was ok or that the victim was any less victimized, he simply stated where the blame for corersion rested.

Second what he said on pedophilia needs to be taken in context. What he said was it doesn't make sense for pedophilia to be morally defined by where you live. A 17 year old would be underage in the USA but that is the age of consent in england for example. In fact since he said it while talking about a case where the woman was 17 it is clear he was talking about cases where the age is borderline. He was never talking about consenting 10 year olds being ok. This argument as well is nothing to throw a fit over, his point is entirely valid in that regard.

Im fact nothing he said in those emails were even remotely problematic and in no way should even be an issue right now. In my mind it makes no sense and comes across as just toxic and unnecessary yo blow it up the way people have.

@freemo I think he should step down, but be given the opportunity to apologize, work with an organization and talk to victims of child sex trafficking, then be allowed to rejoin the fsf.

When I say "allowed", I say be allowed without social repercussions.

@freemo His comments in the email thread is assuming that the sexual assault victim might have presented herself as a willing participant, and says the most plausible scenario is Minsky did not know the girl was underage.

That can be hurtful to the victim and could make other victims of sex trafficking more reluctant to come out due to fear of being doubted.

Also, his past comments on paedophilia indiciate he doesnt see anything wrong with it if the teen is willing.

@geotechland I've read his emails and im just left thinking "make a mends for what".. I'm still utterly confused what the issue is at all.

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Strong dislike of articles that espouse phones (and often include computers) being these evil antisocial things that draw us away from "true socialising" and "important interactions" and "life experiences".

Fuck that noise. I have so many friends I provide emotional support to through my phone when they need me, and if they message me that they're in a rough place when I'm out somewhere, they're going to take priority.

My phone is also escapism for me. I have social anxiety-

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USB-C creates a great deal of routing headaches, 3 ESD protection chips and 1 multiplexing controller per port. I wish the diodes can be integrated into the multiplexer, but it seems impossible at USB 3's speed. #electronics

> elderly Thai man is killed by a black teenager
> media and left wingers blame white nationalism

Just cut it out already. Seriously this is just stupid. Only in America, land of the dumbasses, would this happen. This man did nothing to deserve to die and "white people" did nothing to deserve any part of the blame. Neither did black people in general. This one violent man did. It's not necessarily a hate crime when a minority member is harmed and using his death as a political tool is wrong.

@freemo There is a deeper reason why the woke tend to believe absurdity and lie about people:The postmodern philosophy underlying their ideology is anti-realist
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For most of us, the concept of “truth” doesn’t seem terribly complicated until we try to define it. Truth is… what’s true—this is actually the first definition for “truth,” paraphrasing a bit, in some dictionaries. Truth is that which is in accordance with reality is another. Philosophers understand that “truth” is a more complicated topic, and people in different schools of thought have different understandings of what truth is. Some, for example, hold that truths must be in some way transcendent of all human contingencies—that which absolutely holds for all people in all times (sometimes in all possible universes). Scientists tend to use a more pragmatic understanding (sometimes called “provisional truths”) that could be rendered as statements about reality upon which we can bet and reliably win. Most people, including nearly all scientists and many philosophers, generally agree that for something to be a “truth” means its having something to do with accurately describing reality.
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The postmodern school of thought, which profoundly informs the Theory of Critical Social Justice, however, does not see truth this way. In fact, it is openly hostile and radically skeptical of these understandings of truth, which might generally be described as being “realist” in orientation because they see some correspondence between truth and reality. Postmodernism is generally anti-realist in orientation, meaning that it does not necessarily see a connection between “truths” and reality. Truths might happen to describe reality, say as the Earth and the Sun describing a dynamic system in which both travel along eliptical orbits around their common center of mass (which is inside the Sun), or not, say as the Sun going around the Earth. Under postmodern thought, both of these understandings are “true” in the cultures that consider them true. That is, postmodern thought sees truth as entirely a matter of human (social) contingencies. This is what the American postmodern philosopher Richard Rorty meant when he wrote, “We need to make a distinction between the claim that the world is out there and the claim that the truth is out there.”
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Truths, in postmodern Theory, are socially validated statements about reality, which means that they are, ultimately, products of not just the cultures that produce them but of power within those cultures. The French postmodern philosopher Michel Foucault described this as power-knowledge, insisting that knowledge claims (truths) are ultimately only expressions of power. This sound strange, but the logic is accessible. What is considered true is decided by people by some social process of validation, the thinking goes, so “truth” is a social and political status conferred to certain ideas, which is then reinforced by their acceptance as true. Simultaneously, “truths” confer (political) power, as “knowledge is power” implies, because if it is accepted that a proposition is true, then people who accept it as such will behave accordingly. Thus, Foucault Theorized that “truths” are socially constructed by the systems of power (and the powerful within them) in society and then used to dominate, particularly in the attempt to maintain their power and exclusive status (see also, hegemony, episteme, and biopower).
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Most of this anti-realist, political understanding of truth (and knowledge) has been imported more or less intact into Critical Social Justice.
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In Critical Social Justice, “truth” is still considered culturally contingent, but because of the strong influence of identity politics at the core of the Critical Social Justice project (which could be said to use critical and postmodern Theories to do identity politics – see also intersectionality and positionality), the relevant cultures are ones rooted in various identities Theorized to be “minoritized.” Thus, “knowledge” and “truth” as we generally conceive of them are considered shorthand for “cis, straight, white, Western, male knowledge” or “cis, straight, white, Western, male truth” (see also, white science, white mathematics, and white empiricism, and also feminist empiricism), which are just one way of knowing. In fact, they’re a particularly bad one because these dominant groups not at all aware of their self-serving biases or limitations of their own knowing system (see also, internalized dominance and meritocracy).
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Thus, on the other hand, Critical Social Justice generally believes in cultural knowledges (e.g., racial knowledge) that have been marginalized by “dominant discourses,” which are deemed to be straight, white, male, able-bodied, thin, Western, Eurocentric, etc. These are believed to arise because different identity-based cultures have different ways of knowing (epistemologies) thus recognize different knowledges, and dominant ways of knowing (e.g., science, reason, logic, dialectic – see also, master’s tools) are believed to have utilized their greater power to unjustly exclude them from the range of “acceptable” ways of knowing and knowledges (see also, epistemic injustice, epistemic oppression, and epistemic violence).
https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-truth/