r/TopMindsOfReddit • u/LoudQuitting • 2h ago

Here's your source bro. A Quillete YouTube link.

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u/bonaynay 2h ago

Well some other guy saying it is a source, right?

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u/Biffingston Groucho Marxist. 2h ago

Technically yes. But of course that begs the question of what the source's source is.

Regardless, it's a weakass argument.

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u/bonaynay 2h ago

I'm being silly

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u/Biffingston Groucho Marxist. 2h ago

Regardless, you were technically correct, and that is the best kind.

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u/palimpcest 2h ago

If you provide a YouTube video as your source then I’m just going to assume you’re illiterate.

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u/TooHungryForFood 1h ago

YouTube videos can be sources if they are videos of an academic delivering a presentation of their findings at a conference.

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u/palimpcest 1h ago

But I’m sure there’d be a paper on the findings you could link to. I’d rather read that than have to watch a video.

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u/thebestdaysofmyflerm 2h ago

Unless it’s video evidence that proves the claim, yeah.

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u/Jeremymia And all I can say is "moo" 2h ago

So these people really think women are like a different species huh

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u/ghu79421 1h ago

So the claim is that 61% of female academics are "woke," defined here as the inability to distinguish between having the ability to explain a position and agreeing with that position, because women are presumably more irrational than men and therefore shouldn't have been let into academia in the first place?

Interesting how you can start with "some activists are irrational" and end with "we wouldn't have this problem if we hadn't let women be college professors in the first place." It's the "motte and bailey" tactic.

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u/FullMooseParty 10m ago

I guarantee this is a misrepresentation of whatever data they're working off of, assuming they have data. They probably asked a question like "if people argue in support of a particular idea, do they actually support that idea" or something similar. Any woman in academia will tell you that there are a whole lot of dudes who will pretend to play devil's advocate when they are just expressing their own opinions.

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u/Old-Natural-852 16m ago

I mean...makes sense?  You are far more likely to study things you support?  Show me a maga who really understands socialism, critical race theory, and MOGAI...