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l33tbro on July 2, 2015 | hide | past | favorite


> If we subscribe to the belief that ideas can be judged within a vacuum, uninfluenced by the social weight of their proponents, we perpetuate a system in which arbitrary markers like race and gender influence the perceived correctness of ideas.

What?


I'm not actively trying to denigrate the humanities, but when you go to college to study something which does not rely on objective measures of reality, or even truth, you end up with a highly disordered mind.

This sort of lexical scattergunning--a sentence appearing to follow all the rules of syntax and usage, but which is in reality drivel sprinkled with ten dollar words, is a classic marker.




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