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I agree. Read Lao Tzu. Only 20 pages

Is Lao Tzu the most based philosopher?

>>16582202
You don't need to become anything, you already are

a team will be putting me together

*does nothing in your path*

who is the copleston of chinese thought?

People arguing about political correctness on 4chan have gotten themselves into a Chinese finger-trap. They have a lot of preconceptions about who they’re arguing against, so that gets in the way of rational argument most of the time. You can’t JUST be someone who is against racism and sexism and makes a point of it, you have to be a castrated latte-drinking hipster. You can’t JUST be someone irritated by political correctness, a seeming disparaging of white males and glorification of women and racial minorities, you have to be an overweight asocial incel. And so, more and more of this board degenerates into people who are thinking much too emotionally and criticizing imaginary caricatures of their opponents.

Second, they don’t realize how much they reinforce each other in a loop it’s almost impossible to untangle. Liberals loudly trumpet examples of female and minority success because they want to make all the “dinosaurs” realize women and minorities aren’t inherently inferior and can do great things. However, this is easily interpreted as (and inevitably degenerates to, for a subset of hateful and low-IQ but very loud people) disparaging white men. So some white men, and even some neutral observers, object to this atmosphere. Any person objecting to this atmosphere is lumped in with neo-Nazis and fascists, and/or conceived of as a dinosaur or someone to be stigmatized and not a part of mainstream society. They thus get angrier and radicalize more, causing a subset of the left to get angry and radicalize more, causing THEM to get angry and radicalize more. This gets into layers and layers of hatred, bitterness, and emotional reasoning. Some people point out that a certain atmosphere in leftism alienates young white men, perhaps causing them to rebel against it to assert their masculinity or independence. An angry and mocking portion of the left then responds, “Aw, poor white men, they just hate being told to not be racist and sexist! Sad that the playing field is being leveled out?” This alienates their opposition even further. It’s like the idea in the Tao Te Ching: the more you contend, the more you lose. It’s like children fighting, needing a parent to break them up at a certain point, not caring who started it and not caring who gets in the last blow. It just needs to be stopped.

They should all be put in the gulag.

P.S. If you respond critically to this post ur a faggot and prime gulag material

People arguing about political correctness on 4chan have gotten themselves into a Chinese finger-trap. They have a lot of preconceptions about who they’re arguing against, so that gets in the way of rational argument most of the time. You can’t JUST be someone who is against racism and sexism and makes a point of it, you have to be a castrated latte-drinking hipster. You can’t JUST be someone irritated by political correctness, a seeming disparaging of white males and glorification of women and racial minorities, you have to be an overweight asocial incel. And so, more and more of this board degenerates into people who are thinking much too emotionally and criticizing imaginary caricatures of their opponents.

Second, they don’t realize how much they reinforce each other in a loop it’s almost impossible to untangle. Liberals loudly trumpet examples of female and minority success because they want to make all the “dinosaurs” realize women and minorities aren’t inherently inferior and can do great things. However, this is easily interpreted as (and inevitably degenerates to, for a subset of hateful and low-IQ but very loud people) disparaging white men. So some white men, and even some neutral observers, object to this atmosphere. Any person objecting to this atmosphere is lumped in with neo-Nazis and fascists, and/or conceived of as a dinosaur or someone to be stigmatized and not a part of mainstream society. They thus get angrier and radicalize more, causing a subset of the left to get angry and radicalize more, causing THEM to get angry and radicalize more. This gets into layers and layers of hatred, bitterness, and emotional reasoning. Some people point out that a certain atmosphere in leftism alienates young white men, perhaps causing them to rebel against it to assert their masculinity or independence. An angry and mocking portion of the left then responds, “Aw, poor white men, they just hate being told to not be racist and sexist! Sad that the playing field is being leveled out?” This alienates their opposition even further. It’s like the idea in the Tao Te Ching: the more you contend, the more you lose. It’s like children fighting, needing a parent to break them up at a certain point, not caring who started it and not caring who gets in the last blow. It just needs to be stopped.

They should all be put in the gulag.

>>11275419
we've gone beyond your silly games Ludwig

Been meaning to learn about Taoism. How should I go about this? Go straight into the Tao Te Ching, or should I supplement it with something or start with something else?

>>10847420
Embark with the East Asians