Benji Lampel
Aug 9, 2017 · 2 min read

And I wouldn’t believe you, because you DON’T KNOW!!!!! WOW!111

Did you know that people eat cockroaches every day and enjoy it? I bet you didn’t!

Have you ever been made to feel bad by someone else? Have you ever been bullied? Have you ever been punched? I bet at least one time in your life someone else made you feel bad.

Now imagine that every single day someone makes you feel inhuman. Imagine every day that if you speak out against your bullies, you’ll lose your job. Or your bullies might attack you. You’ll probably say you’d speak out, but just like the cockroach, YOU DON’T KNOW.

When we’re talking about pseudo-intellectual ideas like “we shouldn’t have diversity because of some studies I found” in the face of many studies that show the benefits of diversity, we have to move beyond tit-for-tat “my sources are the more correct sources despite them following the same basic methodology”. Logically, if you want to PROVE something, you have to show that the thing your proving is true, and that NOTHING ELSE CAN BE.

The manifesto author made a claim, provided scant evidence, and did not at all show why his claim must be true and that NOTHING ELSE COULD BE. His argument was lazy, poorly researched, and came from an obvious place of bias.

I do understand why people voted for Trump. It’s because they wanted to believe. They didn’t KNOW Trump would fix things — and he hasn’t, and won’t — they assumed so. They believed so. And they all got duped. Because that is who Trump is. And if you do the real research, and look into Trump’s past, it is clear that he is a barely-literate doofus who couldn’t even hold on to the millions of dollars he was given over and over again.

If the author really wanted to have an open, honest discussion about this, he would have found people willing to talk to him. But it seems what he really wanted was attention, and to prove his own prophecy that the “liberal elite” wouldn’t tolerate his intolerance. He was right about that.

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