Warren Smith

And I, in my art class required to take modern art, right?

Oh, we go in there.

She's explaining to me, very nice professor, but she's explaining to me that the banana nailed to the wall is of equal aesthetic value.

beauty as the david michelangelo or whatever it is there are no objective standards for beauty beauty is purely a social construct which actually goes against biology that there are actual there has to be a yardstick that drives us to see a hierarchy of beauty so we have a target to pursue

And every postmodernist you speak to has these claims, what you're describing is not postmodernism.

And that gets very frustrating.

This is the technique that I see the most often.

We know what strawmanning is.

They claim, no, you're misrepresenting my argument.

But what will happen, Destiny, for example, he will misrepresent your argument, claim, no, what you're describing is critical race theory.

That's not what critical race theory is.

All critical race theory is is thinking,

critically about the structures of group dynamics and power in the past and how that's... And they make it sound completely harmless.

So circumvents say, fine, going off the non-verbal thing.

then what I'm talking about, call it whatever you want, is what led those students at Emerson to do this and what led that professor to tell us to surrender our white privilege.

That's what I want to examine, the ideology that leads to that.

You can call it whatever you want, and they're going to try and go off on this thing.

Just keep them on the rails.

Yes.

Yes.