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Wokeism Treats Feelings As Epistemic Authority
- Wokeism centers subjectivism: sincere feelings are treated as trumping objective evidence and rational inquiry.
- Mark Goldblatt argues this undermines Enlightenment norms and lets identity replace empirical methods as the arbiter of truth.
Subjectivity Becomes Unassailable By Labeling Skepticism Oppressive
- Subjective identity claims become immune to critique when critics are accused of oppression for demanding evidence.
- Goldblatt says that makes debate impossible because pointing out logical contradictions is labeled itself oppressive.
Accept Experience But Test Interpretations With Evidence
- When someone reports experiences, accept descriptive claims but challenge analytic or causal interpretations with evidence.
- Goldblatt illustrates: accept 'six violent crimes happened' but test claims that police bias explains them.