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As a part of its anti-racism program, the European Union will start to offer regular unconscious bias training for its employees. Gee whiz. @ConceptualJames #CynicalTheories #EU #rasismi #intersektionaalisuus ec.europa.eu/info/sites/inf… 
Unconscious bias training to remedy the ills of racism is basically the modern version of using leeches to cure disease.
Not only does it not work, but if you happen to be an employee of the European Union, I can assure you that there's a 99.9% chance that you're not racist.
Not only does it not work, but if you happen to be an employee of the European Union, I can assure you that there's a 99.9% chance that you're not racist.
Furthermore, the HR staff will be subject to mandatory unconscious bias training.
Ok so #CynicalTheories Chapter 2: Applied Postmodernism. This chapter out of the gate feels thick with hyperbole. We are told: “The postmodernists sought to render absurd our ways of understanding, approaching, and living in the world and in societies.”
The heavily anthropomorphised ‘Theory’ is also up to no good. Bored with its adolescent stage of deconstructing everything, it has now entered its moody teens & wants to mess things up properly.
Lest the anthropomic metaphor be too subtle we get treated to an extended Agent Smith-esque rift on how postmodernism is actually like a contagious virus that mutates into new forms. Why do I get the feeling this is a James-heavy section & he was smirking all the time he wrote?
So kicking off the chapter by chapter #CynicalTheories review/reaction-a-thon with a look at the Introduction. There’s quite a lot of ground covered over 9 pages so strap in.
The introduction starts with a rousing paean of ‘liberalism’ defined as a political philosophy that advocates political democracy, limitations on the powers of government, universal human rights, legal equality, freedom of expression, respect for viewpoint diversity & debate...
...respect for evidence and reason, the separation of church and state, & freedom of religion.
And this is contrasted against the opposing (evil) systems of ‘theocracy, slavery, patriarchy, colonialism, fascism, and other forms of discrimination’.
And this is contrasted against the opposing (evil) systems of ‘theocracy, slavery, patriarchy, colonialism, fascism, and other forms of discrimination’.
