For a LessWronger, the territory is the thing that can disagree with our map when we do an experiment. But for someone living in a "social culture", the disagreement with maps typically comes from enemies and assholes! Friends don't make their friends update their maps; they always keep an extra map for each friend.
I figured this was an absurd caricature, but then this thing floated by on tumblr:
So when arguing against objectivity, they said, don’t make the post-modern mistake of saying there is no truth, but rather that there are infinite truths, diverse truths. The answer to the white, patriarchal, heteronormative, massively racist and ableist objectivity is DIVERSITY of subjectivities. And this, my friends, is called feminist epistemology: the idea that rather than searching for a unified truth to fuck all other truths we can understand and come to know the world through diverse views, each of which offers their own valid subjective view, each valid, each truthful. How? by interrupting the discourses of objectivity/normativity with discourses of diversity.
Objective facts: white, patriarchal, heteronormative, massively racist and ableist?
Sigh.
Logic itself has a very gendered and white supremacist history.
These people are clearly unable to distinguish between "the territory" and "the person who talks about the territory".
I had to breathe calmly for a few moments. Okay, I'm not touching this shit on the object level again.
On a meta level, I wonder how much of the missing rationality skills these people never had vs how much they had but lost later when they became politically mindkilled.
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