Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
This is not a sneer so much as a sneer request; anyone know of any good articles written about the total hypocrisy of the Free Speech brigade since the inauguration? By far the most anti-speech environment in decades and most of them are still just whining about pronouns on campus or whatever.
(Yes; FIRE has passed this very basic test and has occasionally switched topics from whining about āleftist professorsā to saying stuff like āitās not great that weāre deporting people for writing articles for their school paper about how genocide is badā. Literally everyone else is a hypocrite)
TechDirt has posts about this quite often.
Biggest examples I know of is Shaunās 4-hour review of the āWar on Scienceā book, and the backlash to the Riyadh Comedy Festival (the whole drama here was hilarious, and not because of the comedy).
Hereās a written review of that book which covers its problems fairly well, I think. (Which indirectly reminded me that last year I wrote a blog post about how Sokal and Bricmontās Fashionable Nonsense wasnāt such hot stuff. I guess I hadnāt shared that here before.)
I also found this Reddit comment that lays into Sokal and Bricmontās treatment of Lacan, but not having read Lacan, I canāt vouch for it:
https://old.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/rsbx6e/are_there_any_contemporary_thinkers_who_are/hqnelw7/
Iāll just note the sneerability of how Sokal contributed to sex pest Kraussā War on Science book, right alongside Jordan Peterson, who has said plenty of things as batshit as Sokal accused Lacan of being.