Cowardice in face of BLM

Vincent J. Curtis

5 Feb 21

RE: Former student trustee calls for removal of officials.  Hamilton Spectator of this date.

Thanks to the excellent reporting of Fallon Hewitt, the intellectual bankruptcy of the report that accused the School Board of racism was make plain.

Nearly everyone has heard of the classic syllogism: All men are mortal; Socrates is a man; Socrates is mortal.  It contains a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.  Now consider this one: All human lives matter; Black lives are human lives; Black lives matter.  The second syllogism is identical in form and validity to the first, yet the bankrupt report maintains that the conclusion is true, while the major premise, an uncontroversial statement of Christian belief, is false and antagonistically racist.  The report holds, in other words, that a true conclusion is validly drawn from a false premise.  It further maintains that a characteristic of the major premise, i.e. racism, is not present in the conclusion.

The argument that Black lives matter, while all lives matter is a racist rejoinder, comes from the BLM movement and its evil parent, woke-progressivism.  It says something that no one takes the BLM movement seriously enough to evaluate its philosophy, which is incoherent through and through.  People bow before BLM not because of the power of its argument but because of the physical power it can bring to bear against persons who reject it, as serious intellects must.

The intellectual bankruptcy of the report derives from the cowardice, physical and intellectual, of its authors.

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