What grinds my gears

If there's one thing that social justice warriors love to do is to attack and try to discredit notable people who are critical of their ideology, no matter how far they have to go to achieve that. If they have to lie and distort, they'll happily do that. There are two methods that they commonly use that are particularly fallacious. Firstly, the guilt-by-association tactic: If they can't point out any particular "crime" or reproachable thing that somebody has done, they will instead try to discredit that person by associating him or her with the "enemy" (the "alt-right", "right-wingers", "nazis", etc), no matter how tenuous and forced that connection may be. For example, if that person eg. follows dozens or even hundreds of people on social media, like Twitter, chances are that at least a few of them are notorious "right-wingers" and public enemies of the regressive left. Therefore the SJWs can point to those an...

The so-called "me too" movement is, essentially, a social movement that encourages women who have been sexually harassed in some way, especially at their workplace, to come forward and not be too afraid and intimidated into remain silent about it. Because this movement is seen as (and for large part outright is) part of the current social justice ideology movement, and because it has resulted in so many high-profile abuses and false accusations, and because the anti-SJW skeptics have been talking against it so much, it's very tempting to swing to the opposite extreme and put oneself into an extreme contrarian position where one thinks it's all just hogwash and just another ploy by the SJWs to gain power, and to dismiss all of it outright. However, the situation is more complicated and nuanced than that. It would be naive to think that sexual abuse of women at the workplace, by co-workers or bosses, is extraordinarily rare and almost never happens. It shouldn...

I commented in my previous blog post about the outright eerie cult-like behavior of SJW socialists at the Democratic Socialists of America convention. As an addendum, I would like to note how absolutely and completely untenable the world they are trying to create would be, as a functioning society. I linked to a 20-minute summary video of the conference. It gives a glimpse to the kind of world that they want to create. If they were to gain absolute power and control, you can see the future of western society in that video. This future would be completely untenable. Society would collapse into its own impossibility. It would be nothing but people being constantly, and I mean constantly , both afraid to offend others, and complaining about others' behaviors, and inventing rule after rule and requirement after requirement. "Don't do this. Don't do that. Don't use these words. Don't make this kind of noise. Don't say this. Don't, don't, don't,...

The Democratic Socialists of America is, essentially, a bona fide full-on Communist Party in the United States, seriously and strongly pushing for socialism and communism in that country (and with a rather scary amount of political power as of recent years, given that they have several members in congress). Recently anti-SJW skeptics noticed that their latest conference was posted on YouTube, and how utterly ridiculous and cringey it was. Many have made videos commenting on it. The original video is like over 2 hours long, so unless you are willing to sit through that insanity, I warmly recommend watching this 20-minute clip show that shows the juiciest (and cringiest) parts of the entire video. There are plenty of videos on YouTube commenting on how ridiculous it is (many of these videos are quite interesting), so I'm not going to repeat those points. I will, however, talk about something that those videos don't seem to: How this shows how much of a cult the Democratic S...

Whenever there's a majority male representation in something significant, like some leadership role, or some branch of the government or whatever, the SJWs will be constantly whining about "equal representation" and how there's some kind of imbalance that needs to be quickly fixed, and how that particular thing does not represent the population fairly because there's no 50% representation, even though 50% of the population is female. How do we know that's just a lie and an excuse? That they are not actually looking for an "equal representation" that reflects the gender distribution in the general population? Quite easily. Observe carefully what happens when sometimes, in some cases, women become the majority in such a group of people and become over-represented. Do the SJWs then start rallying for more men to be put into those positions, to once again reach the 50-50 representation? Of course not. Suddenly the SJWs fall strangely silent. Sud...

Technically speaking this post contains a few spoilers, so be aware. Avengers: Endgame is the second and final part of the "Infinity War" two-parter, and a culmination of the so-called phase three of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (and in many ways of all the three phases so far). It's a rather impactful entry in the entire movie series in the sense that it has, perhaps, the most radical changes to the entire series (with, spoiler alert, actual permanent deaths of several major characters.) The movie broke a whole bunch of box office records, being not only the most successful MCU film of them all, but in fact becoming the most profitable movie of all time (at least if talking about nominal dollars of revenue, ie. not inflation-adjusted), besides breaking all kinds of other box office records (such as fastest to 1 billion dollars of revenue). Because of all these box office records, one would think that it's one of the greatest movies ever made. Yet... I didn...

In a recent episode of Last Week Tonight With John Oliver the eponymous host presented the case that there's bias in medicine with regards to how doctors deal with people based on their sex and race. In particular, he claimed that there are many extensive studies that show such bias. One such paper showed the result that doctors are less likely to prescribe knee replacement surgery to women than men. Another paper showed that doctors are less likely to give opioid analgesics to women than to men. The presentation of these results was sandwiched between clips of people claiming that doctors regularly believe that women are just "faking it" and making stuff up for attention. Thus, the clear implication was that doctors are biased against women, and thus eg. prescribing less operations and less analgesics to them because they are prejudiced against them. As you might guess, John Oliver was very deceitful in this, as he was simply cherry-picking tiny tidbits from those s...