Rockslider,
Can you dumb down what your point and position are? I’m having trouble figuring out just what it is that you’re trying to state, especially given the links (5 hours!) and subsequent thread.
- Doc
I wish I would not have linked Sam Harris. The title (Can we pull back from the brink) and he somewhat started into the self destructive direction, but then turned to his 'data' presentation.
I tried to give a summary of interesting timestamps here:
http://mormondiscussions.com/viewtopic. ... 3#p1229443
Weinstein suggests a movement started with 'Occupy wall street' around 2010 a group that morphed evil overtime moving to a 'critical theory' cult that joined up with Black Lives Matter. This hit him personally at the college he had taught at for 14 years when they declared a 'Day of Absence' where only blacks should/could be on campus for that day. Bret opposed this coming event and sent a campus wide email containing the following:
There is a huge difference between a group or coalition deciding to voluntarily absent themselves from a shared space in order to highlight their vital and underappreciated roles....and a group encouraging another group to go away. The first is a forceful call to consciousness, which is, of course, crippling to the logic of oppression. The second is a show of force, and an act of oppression in and of itself.
He showed up on the chosen day that he was expected, because of his color, to not be on campus. Because of this he was accused by a group of students of being racist. This immediately escalated to an irrational and verbally aggressive crowd who refused to dialog with him, but instead started a 'critical theory'/occupy like protest that ended up involving the police and a shut down of the campus (2017). The crowd basically took the school's president hostage, swearing at him and verbally abusing/controlling him to a point that he totally submitted to their demands. You need to see these videos to grasp the depth of crazy that was going on at a very liberal and exclusive private college. At the students demand, Bret was fired (but sued and won with a 500k settlement).
At the time Bret predicated what is happening today in what he calls 'occupy-2', which is a critical theory cult like leaderless movement that will bring about a Mao revolution that attacks and topples America's institutional structure. Black issues is the facade of emotion hiding an underlying anarchist movement. (gee no wonder EA got after me hehe).