#Pushback

I don't believe that all of the people who signed that Harper's letter are the flavor of rich white person who is mad they're getting dragged for bad Twitter opinions
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This is a very smart piece.https://twitter.com/epicciuto/status/1280976010666749953 This point in particular.Fake free-speechers say they want to let ideas rise and fall in the intellectual marketplace, but what they object to is
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Look at This from Our SideA letter to the GOPers who know there was not massive fraud in the 2020 general election.Imagine the initial joy & relief at the results
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Thoughts on writing putsWas asked about this by @WealthRemedy and figured I share my view with everyone. Sorry if I misjudged public interest in this.For those that care about my
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2021 will be my pushback against the conservative/patriotic non-interventionist. It is a very dangerous stance and one that I am surprised has survived so long. They rely on a handful
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A line in the sand:I get the instinct to fight fire with fire. I get the hypocritical double standard. But trying to get people canceled for what they wrote decades
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One interesting phenomenon re: romanization of Chinese names is sometimes it's very difficult to tell what the original character of the family name is. Especially with SE Asians who trace
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I really have tried not to say much about folks finding things to celebrate in this moment, but I must admit it's weird AF to see all these congratulatory posts
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I'm coding interviews. Today it's someone I'll call S. I've been thinking about something he said ever since I met him. I asked him to draw a timeline, representing the
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A critical lens is not an ideology. Any critical lens invites us to interrogate and examine a phenomenon or site using a particular set of assumptions, which arise from an
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When powerful people and organizations design images of the future, they are desiging a future for themselves. In that process, they leave the rest of humanity with a future that
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So in the early 2000s I was on the leadership board of my college LGBT+ group and we had...an epic fight Basically in April our campus LGBT+ group had a
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"Two, they worry little about popular pushback because they assume that their money, loaded surveys, and Internet and media cartels create, rather than reflect, public opinion."This is the enemy.https://www.nationalreview.com/2020
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Today is TransMonday because, well, because I say it is so. Here are some musings on the gender debate. 1. This debate would simply not be happening if men were
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So, I've made a decision not to include pro-Confederacy films in any fun or light list (like my silent movie map of the United States).I thought I should clarify my
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Art will never be perfect. It can’t be. It’s good to question and criticize, but there’s a limit. Mostly what I see is fandoms morphing into religious congregations, each espousing
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