Documentary filmmaker wondering what the f*ck people are doing in 2020. Everyone's lost their mind. If you’ve been blocked it’s prolly cuz you used a .gif.
The Trucker protest is definitely not my protest but what the Canadian government is doing to quash it is wrong. I’d be absolutely livid if the government froze the bank accounts of BLM protestors or Indigenous environmental activists.
I swear this diversity stuff is making people more racist. There’s a certain set that just doesn’t believe anymore that any non-Asian brown person or woman is actually qualified for a role because the DEI shit has been pushed so far. this is hurting us brown folk.
The privilege walk video got me thinking of how subjective the hierarchy of privilege is. IMO parental privilege is
#1
. Followed by relative beauty, class. Then gender and race compete. This is for 2021, not 1960/1900. Positions will change based on era & categories are squishy.
I don’t think Whoopi is deeply anti-Semitic, but there is a movement amongst the left to recategorize the Jewish experience because it doesn’t fit the paradigm of wokeness. I don’t even think Whoopi knew she was doing this but it exactly demonstrative of the ideology in action.
While race is a social construct & the version of it we experience today stems from colonialism, I don’t get the argument that it 1st appeared in America. Certainly power struggles existed elsewhere & group differentiation was frequently a key to shaping the fight, no?
I think one is the more troubling facets of “wokism” is the absurd language that is used to describe somewhat real phenomena. It is so uncompelling that rational people will reject whatever salient point the woke might have just so they don’t have to hear it!
At COP26, I noticed that at the head of the demonstrations were 2 flags: “net zero” and the Palestinian flag. At that moment, I realized we were working against an effective climate movement by forcing allies to adopt the entire social justice world view.
@demianrb1
@Meighon
She did in fact. Had some consult on her film and give notes. Also the article noted she had Muslim filmmakers (EP and Co-Producer) on her team directly.
@FrankGreenagel
@speechboy71
I like Schmidt but “trying to limit her appearances” is insufficient remorse when he was still actively trying to make her Vice President. I also think it’s fair to criticize since really we are talking about someone’s wisdom on who can win.
A more detailed account of the BTS attempt to quash Jihad Rehab, it also delves more deeply into the Guardian article and CAGE, which is something many critiqued the NYTimes article for failing on. I hope the wider documentary community reads it.
So much angst would go away if the “my/your truth” people would simply revert to using “my/your perspective” as the primary language employed to acknowledge that facts are interpreted differently by people and tend to reflect their own experiences and biases.
@fakechuck
I do not believe that because I can see it happening inside myself. I have spent my life fighting against racism and yet now that I’m forced to reckon with the way diversity plays out in corporate America I can see myself drawing conclusions that feel racist.
@DouthatNYT
One way to think about this era is that political conservatives eviscerated the middle class in pursuit of unfettered capitalism. That this happened to coincide with adecline in religiosity has led you to the wrong conclusion.
@socksnsandal
@ggreenwald
His journalistic strategy here is designed to point out hypocrisy. I interpret Glenn as being concerned about the degradation of journalistic integrity as proved by both Fox and MSNBC arguing the same thing.
The craziest thing about the cancellation of
#JihadRehab
is it would have enlightened average Americans and pushed Biden to permanently close Guantanamo. These people could not get out of their own way.
This logic destroys culture and knowledge production. Content matters:
“When I, a practicing Muslim woman, say that this film is problematic,” wrote Jude Chehab, a Lebanese American documentarian, “my voice should be stronger than a white woman saying that it isn’t. Point blank”
It’s clear that peoples opinion of “acceptable protest” turns on the merits of the protest in their eyes. Tolerance is extended and facts marshalled to back up any circumstance IF you agree. Factual spin and intolerance is rapidly deployed if you don’t.
Being “rational” doesn’t make you impervious to human nature. We all have triggers and biases. The point is to apply a framework that strives to mind these limitations while applying critical thinking as best one can.
@primalpoly
Must they be free speech absolutists to prove that they care about free speech? I really can’t blame people for trying to do what they can personally to stop the harmful spread of misinfo now proliferating from his show. Don’t be mad because they’ve identified a serious problem.
This is the problem with race consciousness - you are playing with fire - bringing back white ethnocentrism which was on death door step until the push for race conscious everything.
@WalshFreedom
I have really enjoyed you the last few years Joe. But I resent the idea that because one party refused any common sense gun measures for the last 30 years now we must “harden” our schools to prevent the inevitable. I will do it, but I resent it. And it can’t be In lieu of reform.
@benshapiro
Right next to the part where Obama just gets up and lies to everyone’s faces the entire time...or in reality where he was denied a speech on immigration by networks because it was considered to partisan. Get over your own brain Ben. It’s not even that smart lately.
@youngbiafra
There are a few folks like Maher that probably haven’t changed their views very much but the world has changed around them. What that means is that they will inevitably land in a different place because they don’t just “go with the tribe”.
@spignal
@FT
Truly cynical. Even looking at unread books brings me joy. If you love bookstores, having your own library feels right. About 20% of owned books I haven’t read (another 20 partially read) but I love deciding to finally read a book I bought 10 years ago!
@realchrisrufo
@marclamonthill
Good for you for not answering the question. It was a lose/lose question designed to provoke you into having white pride and not just being upset by white disparagement.
@profgalloway
You know Scott - Lots of normal people are invested in Tesla because they believe in the product and believe it is helping transform us away from a carbon based economy. We are not using the stock as a political statement. Politicizing markets will be bad in the long run.
@maggierhein
@TulsiGabbard
I’m sad how she went down the drain entirely. I didn’t mind her edge and slight separation from mainstream Dems but now she’s just icky.
Hitting refresh by the minute as a 18 yr old Saudi girl who attempted to flee to Australia via Bangkok and claim asylum (for denouncing her religion) is about to be physically dragged back to her family while the Thai authorities do nothing. She will most certainly be killed.
@SCarrollBrown
Yeah. I don’t buy it because what underlies the problem is the deconstruction of scholastics - including the elimination of the SAT, advanced math courses, and even merit based high schools. People are drawing conclusions imperfectly but based off real data.
@deebelleisle
@FrankGreenagel
@speechboy71
Yes. Should McCain have won and faced health issues, we would have been left with President Palin, that is a major problem and while I welcome him to the fold I don’t think his instinct on leadership is that good.
@SarahTheHaider
Some say intersectionality is needed because of the betrayal by some women of other (non-white women) during the women’s movement. That it in fact arose from feminisms failure to take care of all women. I don’t know what I think but there is some merit to this argument.
@benshapiro
Is the nuclear family the root of all of civilization? I thought the tribal and communal family did the bulk of the work. Yes maybe dad/mom at center but not without larger families to balance and pool together.
It doesn’t bother time that they cast Cleopatra as black skinned even though it’s unlikely that she was that complexion. It bothers me that we are mapping our understanding of race dynamics onto the past in order to placate deficiencies of the present.
“Much of the controversy arises from the desire to impose contemporary notions of race and identity, of whiteness and blackness, on an ancient world that thought very differently about such issues.”
🔥
@kenanmalik
Happy to see Ms Smaker getting more even handed coverage. - some good quotes by Muslims not offended by her film and an overall critique of how identity politics is stifling the industry.
@EPoe187
Your view lacks historical context. If women always had to work and fought for the right to be mothers then you may have a point. Feminism arose out of the fight for freedom and what women wanted to expand the definition into. They were property they wanted Independence.
On reason woke fails concrete definition is because many of its adherents don’t actually know specifics about the underlying philosophy, yet they intuitively understand it’s basic tenants and dutifully carry them out. Outside observers in the same way intuitively spot them.
Who are these people who think the Harvard Presidency is the only academic position that should be held to plagiarism standards? People need to get smarter biases.
@brazenhussyrant
@nhannahjones
@RebeccaBromels
Why do you even care that your related to these people is my question? As someone who knows almost nothing about their ancestors and didnt even know a single grandparent I have to say this ancestral pride is weird anyway.
@asymmetricinfo
It’s true that they gleefully pass the law - were they thinking if the 10 he old as the specific case when they had the glee? No. But that’s simply because the view isn’t that well thought out.
To me a centrist is someone who is willing to compromise, likely because they see sense on each both sides. Or people who mix policy positions in an uncommon manner - say someone who wants higher taxes but less regulation.
Centrists may be the most consistently straw-manned group online. Nobody seems to know what centrism means or what people who identify that way believe.
The mere existence of someone who isn’t on either extreme is profoundly offensive to some people.
If the horseshoe fits…
@SwipeWright
So you don’t think that Jan 6 and the aftermath of congressional leaders refusing to certify the vote is a more imminent threat to democracy than the work media?
@idospeakjive
@WalshFreedom
He’s very contrite about his participation — more than anyone else I’ve seen in the public sphere. We don’t need to keep finger wagging at him just for our own catharsis.
Folks correctly pointing out that I omitted mental health and cognitive capacity. I would put both after class. Please remember these are just my opinion and I have no data.
@LJ198767
@thomaschattwill
know some black folks who have been practicing this already. Check out
@kmele
foster,
@cvaldary
@StrangelEdweird
. I’m not saying it’s easy or that there’s nothing good you can take from your heritage, just that this is the only way forward.
@HistoryBoomer
The amount of assumptions this author is making is mind boggling for the times. They extrapolate from a single tweet an entire worldview in the least charitable way possible. Terrible.
Objectivity isn’t about the “who” it’s about the “how”. It’s a process of external validation, which, when reasonably objective, can be repeated by different groups with different motives and experiences, demonstrating that it is in fact objective.
I’m disappointed by all the people pointing out peaceful marches in support of Palestine as some malicious event. Sure there are hooligans and probably terrorist sympathizers but this is their first amendment right.
@jordanbpeterson
I think you’re versions of “jobs amd freedom” is probably different than Kings. But sure, a cursory glance might confuse someone. But you’re a PhD right?
I have not changed my mind one iota about President Trump. Some incels assassination attempt does not change everything he has said and done. “Find me 11,000 votes”.
This discourse about Atheism being behind the ascendancy of wokeness is sketchy. Some of the best known Atheists are anti-woke: Harris, Dawkins, Shermer, Maher. And many woke are Muslim, Jewish & Christian (though not often evangelical). Data is mixed.
@briebriejoy
@davidsirota
It’s a step. It’s a great step. There is NO Climate bill that is adequate - this is a 100 year or more game. But we started it and we have more work to do to bring more conservatives along to sign off on future bills.
@benshapiro
That’s funny. I was going to say Ben, that’s the most mature idea you’ve had since I’ve been following you! Go figure you were just making fun of someone else.
@S___Elliott
I was thinking of liberals who were pretty good at seeing the excesses of the left and being open to right of center framing on policy and even some culture, who seems to be slipping into Dems are unqiely poisonous blather etc.
@RealSorien
@JohnCleese
Have you ever read what she’s said? She’s in full support of your rights to live and be who you are. She grants you full rights as a woman. She just doesn’t want to diminish the fact that biologically you are not identical to a cis gender woman.
@asymmetricinfo
@bikesalsa
I do think there’s a certain amount smug satisfaction and glee at forcing women they deem irresponsible to the “live with the consequences” - growing up evangelical I’ve felt it. Not everyone, but the sense isn’t that uncommon among hardcore prolifers.
@coldxman
but in some cases it does express an idea. And that's what ElonsJet was actually about. By showing his jet movements it is critical commentary on wealth and status in America.
@sunnyright
@secupp
It’s not just the childless women, it’s offending most women who believe it’s their right to choose what “life liberty and happiness” means to them.
@BearZamboni
@RubinReport
@JessicaValenti
@jordanbpeterson
I have listened to hours of Peterson on the advice of trusted friends and this is the message I hear. I don’t think it’s cherry picking. It’s obvious he believes in traditional gender roles and that men are more capable of being in charge.
I don’t understand when the definition of racism changed. Can someone explain when it did? Why it did? Why it needed to? How did we achieve consensus? P.S. I understand what the new definition actually is.
@sbkaufman
They come from everywhere. They are known as heterodox today and they are probably political centrists or people who are politically homeless.
@factcheckyou1
@AbigailShrier
It’s called understanding what is protected and what is not. Discrimination of protected classes are one thing, removing at will contracts and employment is another.