{"id":8398,"date":"2018-04-12T05:00:39","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T09:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=8398"},"modified":"2024-01-28T17:32:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T21:32:53","slug":"551-still-negative-on-affirmative-consent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/8398","title":{"rendered":"551 – Still negative on ‘affirmative consent’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What do \u2018affirmative consent<\/strong>,\u2019 \u2018indigenous knowledge<\/strong>,\u2019 and the trial of Bill Cosby<\/strong> have in common? In addition to being our discussion topics of the day, each controversy revolves around an epistemological war of words.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a battle of definitions<\/strong>, as efforts to change or affect the social and political environment stretch beyond the political sphere. From the world of TV fantasy, monsters, and superheroes, to the real world that sometimes seems more unreal than the fantasies, the promotion of anti-concepts like \u2018affirmative consent\u2019 has already produced a host of real world injustices, not the least of which have been those directed at Bill Cosby.<\/p>\n

Just as \u2018social justice\u2019 is not justice, so too, \u2018affirmative consent\u2019 is not consent<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

And so too \u2018indigenous knowledge\u2019 is not \u2018knowledge,<\/strong>\u2019 particularly in the context of being used as an argument that \u2018scientific knowledge is offensive.\u2019 Nor are \u2018indigenous\u2019 rights true rights accorded to the individual. Yet these are the very things being asserted by Quebec\u2019s indigenous leaders, at least two Quebec cabinet ministers, and several university law professors.<\/p>\n

When efforts are being made, not to define or offer clear alternatives and choices, but rather to obliterate opposing and real concepts, then you can be certain that choice simply isn\u2019t on the agenda of those creating the fake definitions<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Left has long known that definitions are the mind\u2019s operating software<\/strong>, the programming that determines how one thinks and acts. Control how an individual thinks, and that individual has already become a member of the collective, however defined by he-who-controls-the-definitions.<\/p>\n

Racism and sexism are but two of the natural consequences that arise when governments legislate status according to one\u2019s group identity, instead of protecting everyone\u2019s rights as individuals. Racism and sexism are also quite natural results of thinking with false definitions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In our age of scientific advancement and progress and given the dismal history and condition of collectivist societies everywhere, one would have expected that tribal thinking and its destructive consequences should have faded away ages ago. But that hasn\u2019t happened, and collectivism continues to move us all further in the wrong direction.<\/p>\n

For those wanting to move in the Right direction (towards freedom and not away from it), the rule as always is: \u201cDefine, or be defined.\u201d<\/strong> Because without knowledge of the alternative correctly defined \u2013 individual freedom \u2013 there is simply no way for those trapped in their tribal web of despair to ever discover what is Just Right.<\/p>\n

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What do \u2018affirmative consent,\u2019 \u2018indigenous knowledge,\u2019 and the trial of Bill Cosby have in common? In addition to being our discussion topics of the day, each controversy revolves around an epistemological war of words. It\u2019s a battle of definitions, as efforts to change or affect the social and political environment stretch beyond the political sphere. [Continue Reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,538,596,28,4,598],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-feminism-society","category-ideas","category-latest","category-reason","category-society","issues-affirmative-consent","issues-indigenous-knowledge","personalities-bill-cosby","category-12-id","category-538-id","category-596-id","category-28-id","category-4-id","category-598-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8398"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8403,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8398\/revisions\/8403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}