#Discourse

Alex Kaschuta Reality Czar

kaschuta

We’re in the Mean Girls era of social & political discourse. The skinny, popular, going-places set is telling you that you shouldn’t try - because you’re just great the way

Adrian Vermeule

Vermeullarmine

As if by the invisible hand of Providence, the self-interested calculations of political actors are making Catholic Social Thought into the new organizing language of our public life. https://www.wsj.com/articles/bidens-win-for-the-american

HankHeIl

HankHeil

The most important thing you can be doing as a dissident in America is helping your compatriots understand the true nature of power. This has to take precedent before all

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xiyangeatgrass

cw // discourse people don't seem to understand that adaptations, in whatever form, is for the companies to earn money.AD production teams will only buy rights and adapt novels if

there is no government like no government

readkropotkin

I think framing the discourse as anti sex work or “anti slut” is always really damaging For one it usually privileges OF sex work and accuses others of not knowing

Martin Belam

MartinBelam

Keep thinking about how Australia is opened up with full crowds at sporting events and never had more than 1,000 new cases per day and over here the discourse is

Aella

Aella_Girl

It's a bit of a weird sensation to realize that the majority of my peers didn't grow up lower class, they mostly went to college and didn't work jobs that

John Scotus

John_Scotus

A company firing someone because their public speech jeopardized other people's jobs is simply not the same as as government throwing someone in jail. The discussion in America on freedom

Alan Cole

AlanMCole

I don't engage on "the letter" because it is obviously about norms within left-leaning institutions and my opinion is irrelevant.But I do find it interesting; almost everyone involved is saying

Darren Mooney

Darren_Mooney

I loathe the idea that “deconstruction and subversion are only valid if the dumbest and most pig-headed audiences can understand them without any ambiguity.”Ignoring the fact that (at their worst)

Mandela Barnes

TheOtherMandela

Very disappointed to see what happened to my friend Senator Tim Carpenter last night. We have a common purpose to bring justice where it has been long overdue and individuals

elizabeth bruenig

ebruenig

i gotta tell you a story about something that happened in my life during the midst of this letter discourse the day all the letter stuff unfolded, i was busy

bue rübner

BueRubner

If the post-2011 generation of leftists had been less "postmodernism is bad" and more "postmodernism needs explaining", it'd be much better equipped to analyse not only Trumpism, "post-truth" politics, and

Louisa 🌈👭

LouisatheLast

A lot of queer people (in the US in particular) are always going to have complicated feelings about straight people using the word “partner,” because for a long time here

Sam Byers

byers90

Since we’re talking about this: one of the things the publishing industry could do quickly and easily to change what kind of work is submitted to them and from whom

Richard Seymour

leninology

We're tempted to pander to bullying on the issue of Israel, because we've pandered in the past. In so doing, searching as we did for a happy medium, we let

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