Sly & Fam have more sensible meaningful advice than most politicos, journos & academics today.
Stand
They will try to make you crawl
..they know what you're saying makes sense and all
Don't you know..you are free
..at least in your mind if you want to be
@sophsa
Lol. Neither.
It's "For fuck's sake" -- with an apostrophe.
And for a work email or work-related correspondence, it is important to precede all expressions involving expletives with the following phrase: "With all due respect..." or "Professionally speaking..."
Cheers! ;)
@thirdbornashley
Making a pass at a woman gets a guy labeled a "sex pest", accused of harassment these days.
Heard a few guys say "Why bother?" that it just isn't worth the hassle.
It's sad, but in the "brave new" radical /intersectional feminist world, men are just backing away from risk.
@Kaepernick7
Followed
@Kaepernick7
and defended his taking a knee in protest against anti-black racism and police brutality, but this latest sentiment is no longer a sane, rational or worthy of respect.
The American project is not one of white supremacy, but of expanding liberation for all.
@NFLNotify
All cultures that exist today are the product of multiple cultures that came before, cross-pollenating over thousands of year.
There is nothing that is "exclusively black culture".
The prominent Michigan-based journalist & sports host is the one "carrying rac|st undertones".
@ManishaKrishnan
Lol. Not a Peterson fan and have openly disagreed with some of his antiquated views on women, but the ninnies working for Penguin Ca need to grow up, or get out of the publishing industry -- maybe go work for a company that makes bubble-wrap so they can get an employee discount.
@ubiquity75
Journalism failed when the field embraced subjectivism and activism, falling prey to the fad of Postmodernism and corporate incentives toward sensationalism and gossip.
The 4th Estate has been "yellow" for some time now.
Those with ethics and integrity left or are leaving.
@realchrisrufo
Folks need to learn the phrases:
"I categorically reject your definition of racism."
"These theories are actual racism."
"These theories are not fact, they are contested ideology, thinly veiled political indoctrination."
"This is racist garbage. You will hear from my lawyer."
@MerrittForTexas
How are you an attorney?
Maybe review the facts of the case, which you most certainly have not.
The matters of Ahmaud Arbery and Cameron Lamb are other cases.
Maybe you should not practice law, or hold any position of responsibility of any sort.
@mrjamesob
Well, James. That's quite the lie you just told.
There is a culture war. There are very few people who "love" racism and discrimination. However, there are disagreements on how to go about ameliorating it.
The so-called 'woke' are pushing for an Orwellian solution... 1/
@liz_hallett
They aren't.
They are responding to anti-Lesbian, anti-Women rhetoric from a radical branch of the Trans community.
Trans Rights Activists (TRAs) pushing radicalized Gender Ideology have been politically attacking Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, as well as Women and Girls.
@proyearner
No story loves anyone back.
Most stories are not written with any expectation of any specific reader.
All stories from everywhere in the world are told from the perspectives of the author and their individual life path.
The human condition has thematic commonalities worldwide.
@APStylebook
While not all manifestos are murderous or racist, the word "manifesto" does not "glorify" anything, since it has such a negative historical connotation, most commonly associated with Communism, a mass-murderous ideology responsible for mass misery and tens of millions of deaths.
@stewartdantec
That isn't true at all.
"Woke" used to mean "aware of social injustice".
And then race-radical activists turned the term into a pejorative, by becoming toxic, racist, sexist, homophobic --all the things they purported to be against.
"Woke" = Hate. Wokeness is a hate ideology.
@RealPrichard
None of that is true.
It is already banned for children.
Every indication is that it is healthy for society, good for men, and empowering for women.
Grow up, Brandon. Get a life.
@yashar
Lol. :) And if you called someone on the phone and they didn't answer, you called them back until they got home.
Or you just went to their house and knocked on the door.
And it wasn't stalking, because your fam, friends and neighbors were welcome to call, or drop by.
Crazy! :)
@EnbyRyan
@FilmUpdates
If it weren't for licensing rights issues, they could just air an episode of this show on Black Mirror with no accompanying comment whatsoever.
@tronisbad
Tribal isn't an "Indigenous" word, nor does it refer to indigenous American peoples.
Tribes of Israel.
Tribes of Europe.
etc.
The entire World has tribes.
The word "Tribe" is from the Latin word "Tribus" meaning political ethnic division, in ancient Rome.
Feel free to use it.
@DerekjAndersen
@BevyHQ
What did the person do?
It is alleged they said something rude, which might be interpreted as a racist or possibly classist remark, however what exactly was said remains unclear.
Was the individual on the job, at work, at a company event? Would a reprimand be more appropriate?
Critical Race Theory is not a credible school of thought.
It isn't even a "theory" -- is a race-radical activist movement masquerading as scholarship.
CRT promotes prejudiced thinking, its concepts and narratives are racist, sexist, prejudiced, even antisemitic. CRT is junk.
@TrumpUndead
@Dictionarycom
There is no point to Dictionary dot com.
They are not a reliable source for word meanings.
And they nixed Oxford.
Anyone who doesn't want to be gaslit by online hacks, should buy a paper dictionary that predates Social Media.
@BridgetPhetasy
I keep saying: "Intersectionality broke feminism".
Critical Race Theory and its identity "conflict theory" broke common humanity.
Critical Theory and its subjectivist nihilism broke politics.
The sooner we remove all that theoretical junk from societal discourse, the better.
@AlecMacGillis
Maybe living in a wokescold world where everyone is constantly prejudiced and judgmental towards each other is miserable existence.
Perhaps time to rethink "social justice" activism, let kids be kids, let them figure themselves out, let them rediscover life, learning, and fun.
@DerekjAndersen
@BevyHQ
No you don't.
And now that the person has been terminated, it never will.
If the person did say rude things, and it isn't clear what exactly transpired, a verbal response by the offended party would be proportional.
The rest of this is vigilantism and a spineless employer.
@Sargon_of_Akkad
Dude, no.
That is not centrism.
If you want to be a hardline conservative, be honest about it. Make your case, but don't be pretending to be a centrist.
Thanks.
Critical Race Theory is what happens when 3rd-rate academics are given a pass from academic scrutiny for 30+ years, b/c of "political correctness", instead of developing scholarship, they create a radicalized political movement in the academy.
CRT = propaganda, not scholarship.
@razibkhan
Gen-X doesn't exist.
They're a myth.
They don't fit the narrative.
Academia skipped over Gen-X because they overwhelmingly rejected racism, sexism, and homophobia.
This would've made so many activist academics unnecessary, so they ignored Gen-X and taught Millennials to hate.
@wrong_speak
The "right to choose" should've always been balanced by the "right to know".
Make a paternity test a requirement before a father's name can be written on a birth certificate --make it standard procedure.
(That way relationships don't get destroyed by the act of requesting one.)
@mrjamesob
..whereby everyone's language is policed, and society is reorganized according to people's perceived outward immutable characteristics, and individuals no longer matter, only group identities.
The actual bigots and white supremacists, who are small in number agree with this..2/
@triketora
The post was racist and sexist.
That is a very obvious fact to anyone in the real world, who doesn't subscribe to Critical Race Theory racist-religious dogma.
Maybe it's time to deradicalize, stop buying sexist and racist nonsense, and treat people as individuals.
Peace 2 U.🙏
@scrowder
In the 1920s, the party was a worker's party, competing with waves of Socialism and Communism.
And then Hitler moved to the right in the 1930s.
In 1934, he purged the left-leaning Strasserists from the party.
Trad conservatives put him in power.
History is a thing, Steve.
@GlobalBC
What Professor Nancy Sin said is untrue.
The concept of so-called "microaggressions" is nothing more than the weaponization of people's own insecurities, uncharitably misinterpreting the words and actions of others.
Promoting indoctrination is not journalism,
@GlobalBC
.
@talltimboy
@ChaddyDubbs
@APStylebook
False.
"Gigolo." That's a well-known term.
"Lecher" (12th century) "Womanizer" (c1816) "Philanderer" (1590/1893) -- all pejorative.
So, it seems there are many well-known terms for shaming men for being sexual.
The last few uptight centuries of history sucked for both sexes.
@_BarringtonII
He said that Sweden was a country run by feminists, and the political and social culture had largely emasculated the men, such that many Swedish women no longer found them attractive.
Masculinity was no longer acceptable in Sweden. Result: Women were bored.
2/
@KalwantBhopal
Your job as an academic is to question, research, analyze, hypothesize, and seek to establish a firm, evidentiary basis for whatever theory or thesis you might propose, all while correcting for your own biases.
The point is to teach, not indoctrinate.
Activism ≠ scholarship.
@Liz_Wheeler
It is not in the "Public Interest" whatsoever to dox someone just because they randomly went viral for some public outburst.
That isn't news reporting. Heck, it's even lower than tabloid gossip-mongering.
The entire field of journalism needs to regain some ethics.
@nytimes
Wow. That ia false framing.
But yes, it is concerning that the religious >far-right< is getting riled up, giving them fuel to swing the pendulum.
None of this would be happening if Intersectionality and rabid Gender Ideology activism hadn't targeted children.
It is reaction.
@DrIbram
You should see if people can float, because ducks float, and if a person weighs the same as a duck, they must be racist, because ducks are racist.
If you call a duck a racist, the duck will call you a quack, which may be true, but is also clear denial, thus proof, because derp.
@realchrisrufo
Inserting the word "Magical" doesn't excuse the "straw man" definition you just put up there.
Per your other comment, both US parties could use a little more centrism -- increasing polarization isn't productive, and gets used by extremes on both sides to justify more extremism.
The story of Mother Teresa, who was widely revered for many years as a kind, caring savior type, but intentionally withheld care because she believed that suffering was good for people, is an important reminder:
Some folks seek power because they want you to suffer.
@NBCNews
@NBCOUT
No one is entitled to know the sexual orientation or even the ethnicity of any person, including actors.
The entire profession of acting, which involves actual training and practice, is about playing characters other than who a person is.
If you want "representation" make docs.
@kennymxu
What is this fiction called "whiteness" when there's no such thing as a "white" culture in the first place?
Yet there is such a thing as being American, and that is inclusive of anyone and everyone in America, who pursues American values, life, liberty, equality, prosperity etc.
Whatever you do, don't subscribe to any ideology or political rhetoric that tells you to hate people by some group identity, or superimpose guilt by association.
No one is a group. Treat people as individuals.
Start there.
Peace. 🙏
@donmoyn
It is absolute garbage.
If anything, the worksheet *should have been discussed* as an example of racist propaganda, the sorts of dishonest, "loaded questions" people should refuse to even consider.
The concept of group "privilege" is highly contentious, and toxic to discourse.
@_BarringtonII
In the mid-2000s, I asked a guy I new why he always went to Thailand for the winter. He said it was a cheap place to vacation, but mostly he went there for the Swedish chicks.
A little confused, I asked why he would go to Thailand to find Swedish women.
1/
It is possible to be Anti-Fascist AND Anti-Communist at the same time. It is called being anti-Authoritarian of both the "far right" and the "far left".
These include actual Liberals, Moderate Conservatives, Libertarians -- really anyone who believes in Civil Rights and Liberty.
@yuhline
False.
Anyone of any skin tone or background is capable of being racist toward anyone of any skin tone or background.
Anyone who denies that obvious fact is being racist.
@yuhline
Only the second statement is true.
The others are false.
The definition of "violence" is to cause physical harm via physical action.
Words can be abusive, offensive, and they can be used to incite violence, so your last statement is almost true, yet, words are not violence.
So utterly disgusted with the people who promote Critical Race Theory.
If you promote the racism, sexism, prejudice, and toxic hate of CRT / Intersectionality ideolgy, and the hate rhetoric of "group privilege", you are not a good person.
Sorry, you just aren't.
@MarkSlapinski
That kid might give Russian Olympic Medalist pistol shooter, Vitalina Batsarashkina (2 Gold, 1 Silver, Tokyo 2020) a run for her money in a few years.
@CBSSunday
Are they books that discuss race and racism, slavery, sex and gender identity?
Or are they books that promote fraudulent historical narratives on race, racism and slavery, derived from fraudulent Critical Race Theory "narratives", and push Gender Ideology onto children?
@XVanFleet
He has everything backwards.
His so-called "Liberation Theology" is what breeds bigotry and his "Antiracism" breeds racism.
"Savior Theology" (as he describes it) condemns the sin, not the sinner, and sees all people as possible to save.
Kendi's ideology is bigotry by color.
@coldxman
That isn't the *modern* definition of those words, it is the American race-activist version of those words.
Race means "a people" a distinctive ethnicity not simply "color".
So tired of American rhetoric on this.
Whoopi isn't an antisemite, but what she said was ignorant.
@wrong_speak
And sharing oxygen with Saira Rao for the duration, it'd be akin to being stuck at a dinner party with David Duke, where he was the keynote speaker, guest of honor.
@HopeGiselle
No, friend.
"Cis" is most definitely a slur.
Also, people's sex isn't assigned at birth, it is observed.
Anyone who has ever used the word "Cis" to me has used it as a slur. It has no other purpose when referring to people.
No one is buying eyor dishonest propaganda anymore.
When people claim that some kind of oppression is "systemic" without pointing to actual programs and policies that discriminate, they are perpetuating conspiracy theory, and attempting to justify their own acts of prejudice and discrimination.
That's the real truth.
@le_shallot
Has she never met any short women?
Can be feisty as all hell.
Besides, what self-respecting person would ever want to 'control' another person anyway?
@math_rachel
@timnitGebru
The above view is held by the most dangerous people in the world.
Postmodernist deconstruction is useless outside of subjective interpretation, ie. aesthetics of thought.
Radical Intersectionalism and 'Critical Theory' are fundamentally flawed, failed, relativist nonsense.
@willwilkinson
Unfortunately, "woke" does not mean "consciousness of inequality and interested in reducing it" -- that version of "woke" hasn't been around since the 1990s.
"Woke" now means racist, sexist, homophobic, rabid activism, according to a toxic, vicious "oppressor-victim" paradigm.
I used to think Social Justice / Woke activist types were well-intentioned but misguided, brainwashed by radicalized narratives, propaganda.
The brainwashing part is true, but they are driven by self-righteousness and vicious desire to destroy the lives of others.
Stasi types.
@dahn_jennifer
And they lie and lie and lie and say "CRT isn't in schools" -- Peggy McIntosh's (fallacious) concept of "white privilege" is central within Critical Race Theory.
@CTVNews
The thing is, it isn't true.
It is a manufactured crisis, as a pretext.
The rising tide of hate and violence is actually coming from the radicals within the TQ+, against LGBH.
In a few years, hopefully people will recognize "Woke" ideology (Critical Race Theory, Intersectionality, and its concepts of "privilege" and group-essentialist narratives) as being toxic, racist, junk ideology and hate propaganda, alongside Communism, Fascism and Antisemitism.
If your feminism is "Intersectional" it isn't feminism anymore.
Intersectionality broke feminism.
Intersectionality isn't about equality, it is about competing claims of victimhood and the false idea of oppressors all around.
Intersectionality is fraudulent and fallacious.
To put it more directly, Social Just-Us activism is vicious, dishonest, self-righteous fanaticism.
Its proponents, be they professors, politicians, or just progressivist activists, they are zealots with zero interest in truth, only power.
Intersectionality is social rabies.
@JasonTheeHuman
@JohnHMcWhorter
@DrIbram
Kendi's framework is ignorant, fraudulent, fundamentally racist, since it perpetuates racialization and racist discrimination.
McWhorter's framework is human, aspirational, ultimately anti-racist -- it encourages treating all people with dignity and discourages all prejudice.
@jaycaspiankang
Prior to 2006, that's all anyone had -- family stories.
Historical records are famously shoddy, scratched down hastily by someone who didn't give a rat's behind. Lots of faked birth certificates for adoptions
If grandma said you were part Cherokee, you were part Cherokee.
@BridgetPhetasy
Which "feminism" are we talking about here?
Egalitarian feminism that believes in sexual equality, between men and women, as different but societally equal?
Or Radical feminism and Intersectional feminism, which spew a lot of toxic nonsense, the latter even undermining "woman".
@thereal_SnS
Fire building (without matches or lighter).
Knowing how to read a map and tell direction without using any handheld devices.
Not freaking out about the fact that SHTF. ;)
@Olas_Truth
No such thing as "cultural theft".
No one "owns" culture. Every culture that exists is a product of multiple cultures before it, cross pollenating, evolving.
Grow up.
Go write a poem or a song. Paint a painting.
When they say "inclusion" they mean exclusion.
When they say "diversity" they mean conformity.
When they say "equity" they want free stuff.
All of it operates via 'group identity' stereotypes thus is 100% prejudiced and ignorant.
DEI is a lie. DEI in schools is child abuse.
There is no such thing as "Indigenous knowledge" nor "Black knowledge" nor "White knowledge" nor "Asian knowledge" --no such kinds of knowledge. None.
There is only knowledge, that which is factual and known.
Knowledge has no skin color, no ethnicity, nationality, race nor sex.
@mattyglesias
That isn't really an accurate assessment of what's going on though, is it?
When language is being intentionally manipulated, policed, and forced down people's throats, that isn't really "words changing over time".
@JohnHolbein1
Cultists.
The pronoun people are signaling that they are religious extremists of an obnoxious, dishonest, rabid, vapid, intellectually-bereft political activist movement.
No one likes "pronoun" culture. They damage everything and everyone around them with their viciousness.
The concept of "microaggressions" is particularly appealing to the stupid and fundamentally insecure.
Mainly because they're so dumb they often don't understand what people are talking about, and so self-conscious they interpret everything as a possible insult.
Often both.
@TheChiefNerd
@elonmusk
"We saw the speech of a small number of abusive users drive away countless others.."
Is Yoel talking about himself?
Or is he talking about Radical Intersectionalist (Woke) activists, who would game the system he created, to mass report anyone who disagreed with their ideology.
Bogus "Theories" that are unscientific, junk ideology:
Critical Theory
Standpoint Theory
Critical Race Theory
Flat Earth Theory
Phrenology
Predictive Facial Recognition
Deterrence Theory (Domestic)
Conflict Theory
Body Language Theory
Geocentrism
Situated Knowledge Theory
@kahntra
The word "tribe" comes from the Romans, the Latin word "tribus", and there have been tribes in every part of the world since the dawn of time.
The brazen ignorance of *some* North American indigenous activists is truly astounding.
@TEDchris
@1AMorey
Beware of so-called "Race Scholarship" and "Sociology" papers.
A lot of them draw upon fraudulent research.
Like stuff from this guy, who was cited by other academics >8500 times over the past 20 years.
@StartsWithUs
It dishonestly misrepresents Centrism.
Centrists will disagree with Side A when side A is being ridiculous.
Centrists will disagree with Side B, when side B is being ridiculous.
Centrists will weigh each issue and proposal on their merits, not by blinkered partisanism.
@MorningBrew
Do people seriously think Acting is simply a matter of "saying lines"?
I see this all the time, where people break down some script, for who said how many lines and they draw some conclusion about it.
Some of the best acting is "listening". Watch Redford, with a good director.
Wanting religion in schools is right-wing political agenda.
Wanting radical gender ideology and race activism in schools is left-wing political agenda
Educating students in math, science, literature, history, reason, rather than indoctrinated left or right, is the better way.
DEI activist academics getting big mad that people are finally questioning their so-called 'work'.
Plagiarism, fake research, prejudiced, lazy thinking.
Soon, people gonna realize the entire CRT / DEI / Intersectional continuum is just a bunch of activist fraud not scholarship.