#Wokeness

Christopher Barrie

cbarrie

After an initial exchange re this article and tweet, @epkaufm agreed to share some crosstabs of the original data with me. below visualizes these data and lays out my

Ben Burgis

BenBurgis

(Thread) Just read this good sharp essay by @jessesingal from last year on the over-the-top reaction to Dave Chappelle's special "Sticks and Stones."https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/when-we-argue-about-dave-chappelle He touc

Caroline - Real Feminists XX 🇿🇦

radicalhag

Transition, 'inclusion' etc all have political ramifications. Instead of buying into the remarkably masculinist assumptions of queer theory that the dissolution of boundaries is always good, we should be examining

Virginia Heffernan

page88

A word about intellectual diversity and dissent.https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/substack-and-medias-groupthink-problem/617102/ When I was in graduate school at Harvard, I failed the oral exams on the grounds that I was too

Liana (censored) Kerzner

redlianak

Now some in the media are blaming Twitch streamers for the bad user scores for Last of Us 2. The lack of accountability is staggering. TLOU2 makes an early controversial

Shany Mor שני מור شني مور

ShMMor

I’ve been reading newspapers compulsively every day since about the age of 8. Since the 1990’s, when the internet made it possible, I’ve been bingeing on a steady daily diet

David Dubrow

davedauthor

THE CLASSICSThere's been a bit of talk lately in reaction to a number of YA authors publicly trashing the classic works of literature that have been traditionally given to schoolchildren

Shó

shokillem

The 3 Different types of OneitisWe all have that one pathetic friend... Or maybe this describes you sef 1. Friend zone Oneitis - these guys immediately stop focusing on all

Omar Baddar عمر بدّار

OmarBaddar

THREAD: a couple of thoughts on Bari Weiss’s NYPost ‘anti-wokeness’ piece:1) Despite raising legitimate concerns about growing intolerance of dissent on the left, the hypocrisy here is horrifying, given her

Ana Mardoll

AnaMardoll

I'm weary of privileged people insisting that the worst possible crime on this planet is saying, "You're an asshole, Jo, and I don't want to be associated with you."That's not

Jesse Singal

jessesingal

1/ This is SUCH a good piece by @ProfFortner on the elite hijacking of the police-reform discussion. I found myself wanting to quote almost every line, especially in the back

Shadi Hamid

shadihamid

This is a brilliant, detailed piece by @EmilyYoffe on what "cancel culture," increasingly a misnomer, actually means in practice—self-censorship, safetyism, contamination by association, narrowing of Overton WindowIncludes some

jonstokes.com

jonst0kes

As a way to think about the stakes in the AI debate:A language model like GPT-3, which trains on a corpus of text & produces new text in response to

Patrick Kniesler🙂

patron_vectras

Today Jan 6th, or some day very soon, will be a watershed moment between two rivers of chaos.#Conservative, #Trad, #Constitutionalist - the #populist movement has carried a raft to the

Wokal Distance

wokal_distance

1/One of the most common tricks used by woke Social Justice activists to defend their view is to de-legitimize criticism by attacking the motives of the person who is opposing

James Lindsay, increasingly relevant

ConceptualJames

A lot of Very Smart blue checks are still busy accusing me of anti-Semitism when, in fact, I was pointing out that this particular narrative is rapidly growing right now.

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