Doublethink is Doubleplusgood!


It’s easy to laugh at some of the bizarre ideas and concepts that come out of academia, but if you want to really understand just how un-academic these “academics” can be even when purporting to be more serious than usual, you need to get it straight from the tap of (allegedly) peer-reviewed journal articles. There are fewer good sources for pointing out the more insane ones than the Real Peer Review channel on Twitter. The poor writing, fallacies, and lack of logic is discombobulated by them here:
We were informed in DMs that the article on "objectification" we previously discussed is not "bleeding edge of state of the art" and the actual bleeding edge of objectification research is this work (linked), so let's have a field day https://t.co/YSbRBd8AlK
— New Real Peer Review (@RealPeerReview) July 24, 2022
the paper contains more red flags than a Soviet flag factory, with lots of claims that are reminiscent of good old priming. However, we decided to jump right into the fray and see what were the tools for "detecting" the so-called self-"objectification" that were "deployed"/2 pic.twitter.com/na9e92xQxs
— New Real Peer Review (@RealPeerReview) July 24, 2022
So, without further ado, what are these subscales like? https://t.co/fsLmC2lvpJ /3 pic.twitter.com/5V658A0357
— New Real Peer Review (@RealPeerReview) July 24, 2022
Frankly, one can only believe that any context-free answer on these scales can be evidence for Fredrickson and Roberts's self-objectification theory (notion that women are brainwashed into assuming "observer perspective", objectification "brand" authors use) only if one already/4
— New Real Peer Review (@RealPeerReview) July 24, 2022
believes Fredrickson and Roberts's speculations to be correct 😏 (very much like the old chestnut of "in order to perceive the evidence of god's existence you must accept Scripture as true Word in your heart", such a classic scam 🤡), and if one at least tries to be slightly /5
— New Real Peer Review (@RealPeerReview) July 24, 2022
saner about it one would have to try interpreting it in specific respondent context which is 1) very hard 2) wasn't done by authors and
3) is exactly the problem our admin once spotted with another, unrelated "bleeding edge" instrument https://t.co/kuTAt6uKlo
/6— New Real Peer Review (@RealPeerReview) July 24, 2022

Languages change and evolve over time, but forced change to impose correct thinking and make “wrongthink” impossible, as the novel “1984” demonstrates acutely with Newspeak and its evolving—and limiting—totalitarian control of words is very real and is being documented in real time as words are revised to suit the woke agenda and ideology.
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Dictionaries/wikipedia changing the meaning of words in order to help the left win arguments.A thread🧵@Cernovich gives us our first example: wikipedia redefining "recession" to help Democrats👇 https://t.co/vrtdJugxmQ
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) July 29, 2022
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When Republicans put Amy Coney-Barret on the Supreme court the left chaged the meaning of "court-packing" and dictionary .com went along with it. pic.twitter.com/SOblr9EyAP— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) July 29, 2022
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Speaking of Amy Coney-Barret…When Amy Coney-Barret used the term "preference" wbile discussing sexual orientation the left pretended that "preference" was offensive, and Merriam-Webster changed the definition in order to make that lie stick👇 pic.twitter.com/LYjKaXTvWx
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) July 29, 2022
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The transgender people got merriam-webster the change the definition of the word "female" to include "gender identity" (pic 1) when that was nowhere to found as recently as 2019 (pic 2) pic.twitter.com/YWV1AzFE1q— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) July 29, 2022
Ah, that intersectional car crash of critical gender theory and critical race theory! It turns out that White people can’t be “non-binary” because allegedly White people invented the “gender binary” to oppress BIPOC, thus all White people carry with them the sin of cis-gender identity even if they they say they aren’t.
White people can’t be non-binary because it’s white supremacy that upholds the oppressive gender binary pic.twitter.com/JyTEpqWnwc
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 4, 2022
This is an example of “Kyriarchy” where queer White people oppress non-White queer people because of their oppressive privilege of being White. This person emphasizes race over all else, but justifies it by saying that “cis-heterosexuality” was an invention of White people, who are all collectively guilty across space and time, and thus can’t have the same level of purity as non-Whites who are all inherently queer and outside the “gender binary”, but only think they are because of those maleficent White devils. And even if the evil Whites tear down the “gender binary”, they are still benefiting from the “gender binary” despite being non-binary because their sinful Whiteness imbues them with the privilege of the gender-binary and all the evil cis-genderism that comes with it.
So secure in their faith that Gaia is punishing us all, Biden’s “National Climate Advisor” demands tech companies silence the voices of those icky deniers who fail to praise the “values” of “solar energy”!
Biden's National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy says Big Tech should censor people who criticize Biden's "green" energy agenda. pic.twitter.com/wEMWWpTp60
— Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) June 14, 2022
How dare they question what they are told to accept. How dare they interfer in the spreading of this “good word”? Certainly after hearing the desires of the Biden administration, tech companies all on their own of course will censor the dissenters from the governments dictates of proper belief.

Meanwhile, at the UNC School of Medicine…
The entire concept of academic freedom, where tenured professors can’t be fired for unpopular—or even unwoke—ideas fails when colleges and universities prohibit the hiring of anyone who refuses to proactively and enthusiastically endorse wokeness and the “DIE” agenda (diversity, inclusion, and equity). The UNC School of Medicine is one such institution demanding fealty to wokeness.
Thread: For faculty seeking promotion and tenure, the UNC School of Medicine requires both "positive contribution(s) to DEI efforts" and a DEI statement.
The school has tried to downplay these requirements, but its own P&T documents reveal the obvious compelled speech issues. pic.twitter.com/wmtYrKZJiy
— John Sailer (@JohnDSailer) August 3, 2022
According the the promotion and tenure guidelines, these "DEI efforts" include:
Participating in "advocacy groups," engaging in "health equity" research, "promoting social justice," and creating "curricular content that uses inclusive concepts." pic.twitter.com/1uUV7XA4cS
— John Sailer (@JohnDSailer) August 3, 2022
As an appendix shows, at best, the requirement turns all faculty into adjunct DEI officers.
Recommended DEI activities include: applying "material learned in DEI trainings," giving "social justice-focused lectures," presenting on DEI topics at conferences, building DEI curricula pic.twitter.com/XEd4Et8K4g
— John Sailer (@JohnDSailer) August 3, 2022
Ah, the police in the U.K., where police ignore trivial things like rape and instead focus on what’s important: Punishing wrongthink, doubleplusungood utterances, and hunting down thoughtcriminals. Now, they have arrested someone for retweeting a political message critical of radical gender ideology.
Yes, because criticizing an ideology that includes authoritarian if not outright totalitarian behavior be comparing it with an ideology that includes authoritarian if not outright totalitarian behavior might cause some anxiety to people pushing an ideology that includes authoritarian if not outright totalitarian behavior—which is not a bad thing.
Oh, and what was this criminal retweet?
Arraigning four of the plethora of “trans rights inclusive” rainbow LFBTQ&c. Flags into the shape of a swastika to express a political and personal opinion of an ideology that includes authoritarian if not outright totalitarian behavior by comparing it to an ideology that includes authoritarian if not outright totalitarian behavior.

News of the Week for Aug. 7th, 2022
In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.
America is well known as an overly litigious society. This has been the case for decades, as William F. Buckley, Jr. discusses the lawyer problem with Ira Glasser, Kenneth Starr, and John Y. Taggart.

Canada, where poor medical care and lack of hospice has lead to euthanasia being pushed ever increasingly, is now seeing children targeted for indoctrination with the release of a “Medical Assistance in Dying Activity Book” for kids.
“Children are introduced into the medical killing fields by Canadian Virtual Hospice with its Medical Assistance in Dying Activity Book, described as being for children ages 6–12. In it, the child is taught how a person is killed during euthanasia:
“’The three medicines work like this: The first medicine makes the person feel very relaxed and fall asleep. They may yawn or snore or mumble.
“’The second medicine causes a “coma.” A coma looks like sleep but is much deeper than regular sleep. The person will not wake up or be bothered by noise or touch.
“’The third medicine makes the person’s lungs stop breathing and then their heart stops beating. Because of the coma, the person does not notice this happening and it does not hurt. When their heart and lungs stop working, their body dies. It will not start working again. This often happens in just a few minutes, but sometimes (rarely) it can take hours.’
“And if the person asks to die, there is no changing their mind:
“’As much as other people may want to change their mind, the person who is choosing MAiD probably wishes just as strongly that they could change their illness or condition and how it is affecting their life. When someone decides to ask for MAiD, it is usually after thinking very carefully and having very hard feelings for a long time. They may feel that nothing will change their mind because there is nothing that can help their body or their suffering get better.’
“That isn’t true, of course. Palliative care and appropriate emotional and psychological interventions can overcome suicide ideation in the seriously ill and disabled. But those asking for euthanasia are denied this essential hospice service. Moreover, only 15 percent of Canadians have adequate access to palliative care — a true scandal in a country that pushes euthanasia.”