ChristopherMast isn't stupid.

Make sure you watch Christopher's video for context before you go accusing him of anything. It's a good video.

http://youtube.com/user/ChristopherMast
http://youtube.com/user/rguy84
http://youtube.com/user/melsbasketcase
http://youtube.com/user/MzNezbit
http://youtube.com/user/CzarnyZazul

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• christopher
• mast
• racism
• discrimination
• linguistic
• obama
• muslim
• christian
• good
• american

[teddyvamp]

And at root I'm just reeling from the novelty (or maybe solecism?) of this use of "behaviorism". I can't recall exactly what a new usage is termed (not neologism - we know that's different) so if anyone knows please shoot that my way, but is behaviorism really the right term here? Can you slide me the signified clinician? (Lyotard joke)

I'm most prepared to class this as a species of attribution error, which gets into capacity attribution theories. I don't know if that's the same.

[azrienoch]

Seriously, what's wrong with it? Two psych courses and a lot of pertinent philosophy later, and the presentation I've given here, while simple, is consistent with what I've learned.

[teddyvamp]

I'm sure some sort of inverse can be formulated against those who form evaluations based on idiolects. There's a latent witticism fused with a pun lurking somewhere in there, I bet.

But as a slack-jawed gape-mouthed drooling Southerner myself struggling to climb out of the crab pit, I have onl to remark that Cormac McCarthy and William Faulkner had quite the drawl, and the Obey Giant campaign was birthed in Charleston, SC.

I'll take those as standing refutations of Mast's idiocy.

[azrienoch]

Yeah, but simply saying those two names hardly makes for a good video.

[teddyvamp]

I still find it entirely disagreeable, if only for the rather crude and calloused gauchery. But perhaps it's only lack of tact and refinement if they agreed. Still, I'd expect better from you.

And why didn't you just go with our old pal against me!?: "whoever thinks in words thinks as a speaker and not as a thinker (it reveals that fundamentally he doesn't think of things or think factually, but only in relation to things, that he really is thinking of himself and his listeners)." -FWN

[azrienoch]

I'm not going against you. I agree with you. But I don't think your opposition here is at all contrary to what I've said. As for expecting more... why? You relegated my book to the blogosphere. I don't know why you're holding me to this standard... I don't even know what this standard is, where it comes from, or what it has to do with me.

[ilovealf]

DAMN .. He just OWNED this dude with facts and he defended his facts with a common sense discussion. And he didn't have to cuss or raise his voice or put anyone down. VERY VERY well done.

[LordCrom]

Absolutely Fantastic! I have nothing but respect for you.

[BenadrylAnnug]

my girlfriend looks a little bit like Charlize Theron and a lot like Dog the Bounty Hunter

[4R1S7O7L3]

wow. you said exactly what i was thinking. being from the south i know exactly what you mean.

[Samura1gamer]

i came (linguistically speaking)

[EllenRussell54]

OMG!!! you're an arrested development fan too? I loved that part! Rita, right? She was so cool!

yet it did take me a while to get what they were getting at...

MRF... mentally retarded female...

also Mr. F, short for Mr. Funke, who is Tobias...

Finally, i've found a youtuber who will know what i'm talking about when i start dancing like an oddball chicken, or say any of the repeated lines like "I've Made a huge mistake." or "Her?"

[gearsgamer1]

wierdo

[trueseeker25]

Excellent point! I myself deal with this issue on a daily basis. Due to a series of traumatic events during early childhood development, I have no problem writing out my thoughts on paper in a very clear and concise way. The problem is when I try to form these thoughts into words and say them to someone, (stutter up the ying yang)! And it's generally difficult to find the right words when speaking. People treat me VERY differently for it. Again, great stuff! Keep it up!

[spotlitkiss]

i'm very animated in my speech and use my body a lot -people who meet me when i'm like this probably don't suspect that i'm actually also pretty intense and thorough in my internal life -it might be easy to think of me as a childlike,capricious clown with barely anything up top.I've been influenced by the notion of intelligent brits too-but what i discovered is simply that their reserved,controlled,unanimated speech is not necessarily reflective of intelligence-in fact,it's quite dull!hehe

[njartimis]

dude i wish i could spend a day in that feakin awesome library you got

[teddyvamp]

"capacity". So, a person's "speech", as well as all other behavior, represents the manifestation of an "intelligence quotient". The whole thing is heinously dehumanizing but with fuckheads like Dennett and Dawkins flying off the shelves - hey, what can you expect?

So, in proper order, we've explored "facutly psychology", "behaviorism", "cognitive psychology", and a more humanist discipline from Gadamer. But it's just simply NOT behaviorism - sorry. But nice video, and as always, thanks.

[teddyvamp]

accuracy and thoroughness): I was right when I originally remarked that this simply cannot be "behaviorism". Behaviorism doesn't give a damn about "internal intelligence"...all it measures is external operations. There would be no "intelligence" short of successful management within the environment. SOOO...

You need to change this around, edit it, etc. A more accurate diagnosis is "cognitive psychology", where outward behavior results from internal "intelligence" defined strictly as...