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A fascinating slog thu cancel culture sludge where "accusations of racism & misogyny so freely and casually bandied about seemed pretty intimidating in themselves, and suggest that, whatever the outcome of the vote, the cancel culture won this battle."1/n https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2020/09/08/inside_an_elite_cancel_culture_session_where_leftists_meet_the_enemy_and_it_is__one_of_them_125102.html
Everywhere the IRONY:
"But the Romano matter shows that the real harm is to the suppression of ideas and arguments that might actually BE TRUE." [caps mine]. So let's take a look at what oppression looks like in the minds of the accusers:
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"But the Romano matter shows that the real harm is to the suppression of ideas and arguments that might actually BE TRUE." [caps mine]. So let's take a look at what oppression looks like in the minds of the accusers:
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"[T]he anti-racism pledge cited a survey showing only 5% of the staff in the publishing industry to be black, but it ignores the fact that an additional 19% of jobs are held by Asians, Latinos and other people of color."
Objective reality kinda matters, doncha think?
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Objective reality kinda matters, doncha think?
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About those "erasures"...
"As for the National Book Critics Circle, actual facts and statistics show something more subtle than simple 'culpability in the system of erasure of BIPOC voices.'"
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"As for the National Book Critics Circle, actual facts and statistics show something more subtle than simple 'culpability in the system of erasure of BIPOC voices.'"
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"The anti-racism pledge itself acknowledges that last year 30% of the finalists and winners of the six critics circle book prizes were minorities, up from 22% in 2008."
Apparently, 30% is NOT enough but one wonders from whence the judgment comes...
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Apparently, 30% is NOT enough but one wonders from whence the judgment comes...
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And the kicker stat....
"In the seven years since it began awarding the John Leonard Prize for best first book, five winners have been people of color -- two black women, two Latinas, and one Native American man."
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"In the seven years since it began awarding the John Leonard Prize for best first book, five winners have been people of color -- two black women, two Latinas, and one Native American man."
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Now I don't know Carlin Romano, a man by all accounts both brilliant AND brusque. But I DO know that the evidence bolstering the charges leveled against him--he's rude & feels the anti-racism pledge was poorly written--r insufficient to bolster the facile charge of racism.
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But the more I watch anti-racists in action, the LESS honest and MORE vicious they look. Convince me otherwise.......
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Oh....& start your OWN damned National Book Critics Circle where minorities can be 100% of those awarded [or whatever # you anti-racists have arbitrarily assigned to demonstrate justice!
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