Gives a talk on implicit biases / only takes questions from white men
A Scumbag Analytic Philosopher post.
A photo of a bearded young man in clubmaster glasses and a checked shirt, adjusting a pink bow tie. The meme borrows the "Scumbag" format from the 2011 Scumbag Steve meme, aimed at analytic philosophy - the tradition of Frege and Russell, with a love of logic and precise language. The top line is what the philosopher claims. The bottom line is what he actually does. "Says continental philosophy is bad literature" / "spends two hours talking about zombies." "Morally outraged in ethics seminar" / "moral nihilist in metaethics seminar." "Lacks rigour" / "adds 'prima facie' to all his points." It's an inside joke for people who've survived a philosophy department: the reading groups, the job market, the man who changes "intuitively" to "naturally" and calls it progress. He has a counterexample to your counterexample. He'll be happy to explain it. In italics. **Why it caught on:** grad students needed somewhere to put their feelings, and footnotes weren't enough.