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2017-08-01 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Not Being Stupid Is ‘Cognitive Privilege’ Now, Which Is Just Like White Privilege
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Posted by Fred 2017-08-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 Shove it all up that Professors ass from whence it came.
Posted by newc 2017-08-01 00:46||   2017-08-01 00:46|| Front Page Top

#2 Being intelligent is not a felony. But most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor.

-Robert A. Heinlein
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-08-01 02:43||   2017-08-01 02:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Stupidity is not a crime, but all too often carries a death penalty.
Posted by Procopius2k 2017-08-01 05:11||   2017-08-01 05:11|| Front Page Top

#4 Usually for others.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-08-01 05:17||   2017-08-01 05:17|| Front Page Top

#5 Reminds me of a story where the average and more intelligent were forced to wear headphones which would belt out very loud sounds every 5 seconds or something to jolt them so they could never finish a train of thought.

In other words force everyone to the lowest level
Posted by CrazyFool 2017-08-01 05:42||   2017-08-01 05:42|| Front Page Top

#6 Harrison Bergeron is the story CF is looking for.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-08-01 06:19||   2017-08-01 06:19|| Front Page Top

#7 Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity cannot.
Posted by Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-08-01 07:02||   2017-08-01 07:02|| Front Page Top

#8 Intelligence is finite. There are just more people today.
Posted by Procopius2k 2017-08-01 08:53||   2017-08-01 08:53|| Front Page Top

#9 On the flip side of this, we could force people to go through a simulation and those that can't move well, think quickly on their feet and improvise are killed.

Takes care of 85% of the human population right there.
Posted by DarthVader 2017-08-01 09:01||   2017-08-01 09:01|| Front Page Top

#10 All of their electronic warfare stuff computers and altered food have made it so most if not all of them have no cognitive abilities anymore how stupid do the real research and science!
Posted by Crinegum Ulaigum2776 2017-08-01 09:09||   2017-08-01 09:09|| Front Page Top

#11 Free trips to Venus for EVERYONE!!!
Posted by Pliny Glons2836 2017-08-01 09:12||   2017-08-01 09:12|| Front Page Top

#12  Free trips to Venus for EVERYONE!!!
Management and administrators will be in the first ship.
Posted by Skidmark 2017-08-01 09:26||   2017-08-01 09:26|| Front Page Top

#13 C'mon, they weren't serious when they wrote this. This is satire, right? Right?
Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-08-01 09:54||   2017-08-01 09:54|| Front Page Top

#14 Abu,

One would hope this is satire...

Remember what Albert said "The difference between genius and stupity is that genius has its limits"

Gadzooks, when are the academics going to move on to something new? All of this critical theory stuff is getting BORING
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2017-08-01 11:17||   2017-08-01 11:17|| Front Page Top

#15 If you are share Marxist world-view, Yes, you can be that silly.
Back in 2009 all of the talking heads were in love with the word "reify" and this brought me to look up the Reification(Marxism) wiki. You can agree that everyone can only have 24 hours in a day, but only a Marxist would assert that the this means that all rewards be equal. Or that there are not workers that produce better work if you pay them to go home and stay there...
Posted by magpie 2017-08-01 11:37||   2017-08-01 11:37|| Front Page Top

#16 C'mon, they weren't serious when they wrote this. This is satire, right? Right?

In the milieu where they're going to abolish algebra because 'African-Americans' can't hack it?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-08-01 11:54||   2017-08-01 11:54|| Front Page Top

#17 
Posted by Spike Spomoter7482 2017-08-01 12:01||   2017-08-01 12:01|| Front Page Top

#18 While I was growing up, this was called "Being blessed by God" in Church. The reason Marxists and SJWs don't like this form of attribution is that the one being blessed is accountable to God, excluding the possibility of someone goose-stepping into your life and telling you that you are accountable to THEM.
Posted by Ptah 2017-08-01 12:46||   2017-08-01 12:46|| Front Page Top

#19 #5 - great story; read it if you (or someone you know) has not.
Posted by swksvolFF 2017-08-01 16:05||   2017-08-01 16:05|| Front Page Top

#20 #11. LOL.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-08-01 16:16||   2017-08-01 16:16|| Front Page Top

#21 When freedmen were mustered but collared,
Though calls and responses was hollered,
Attacks on the Saxon
Were not for Judge Jackson,
A C-note whose sense should be followed.
Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2017-08-01 22:32||   2017-08-01 22:32|| Front Page Top

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