This is the Orwellian Environment that gave us CAGW; Identity Politics and Consensus Don’t Belong in Science

This is the Orwellian Environment that gave us CAGW; Identity Politics and Consensus Don’t Belong in Science

https://co2islife.wordpress.com/2018/02/14/this-is-the-orwellian-environment-that-gave-us-cagw-identity-politics-and-consensus-dont-belong-in-science/

And, sure enough, the whole concept of an individual who exists apart from group identity is slipping from the discourse. The idea of individual merit — as opposed to various forms of unearned “privilege” — is increasingly suspect. The Enlightenment principles that formed the bedrock of the American experiment — untrammeled free speech, due process, individual (rather than group) rights — are now routinely understood as mere masks for “white male” power, code words for the oppression of women and nonwhites. Any differences in outcome for various groups must always be a function of “hate,” rather than a function of nature or choice or freedom or individual agency. And anyone who questions these assertions is obviously a white supremacist himself. Continue Reading

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