There is a not insignificant segment of the New Atheists who *have* to believe that there are no such thing as qualia, because otherwise a great many of their assertions would collapse.
From there it's not exactly a long drive to get to the notion that one person's lived experience must be intrinsically comprehensible to another, and from there it's a skip and a jump to some of the very worst examples of human behaviour, starting with victim-blaming and jumping all the way to straight-laced eugenics.
And all in service to a god named objectivity.
Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊
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