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The most extraordinary thing in this story is that UVA's 1st reaction to this student who challenged an article of faith of the Critical Race Theory/Woke consensus was to demand he get a psych eval. This is literally what happened to dissidents in the USSR
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One does not sink lower than this:. Interviewer: "When you built 500 km of tunnels in Gaza, why didn't you build shelters for civilians from the attacks?". Hamas official Abu Marzouk: "The tunnels are for us (Hamas ). The citizens of Gaza are the United Nations' responsibility.".
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@mtracey Do you actually not know that despite the deceptive similarities in appearance in a photograph there is a significant difference? Really?.
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Fascinating piece in its assumption that sexual attraction is a rights issue, a matter of equity and inclusion. The 'Title IX-izing' of sexual feeling. Cis People Are Unwilling to Date Trans People According to This New Study | them.
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The UC Irvine Inclusive Language Guide in all its splendor:.My personal favorite, and I swear I am not making this up, is they tell you to replace 'kill two birds with one stone" with "feed two birds with one scone.".
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Last thing I imagined I'd admire. But the Schwarzenegger video addressed to the Russian people is remarkable.
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Today, The Satanic Verses simply wouldn't be published by any major trade publisher anywhere in the Anglosphere, NOT because of an Iranian fatwa but because of junior staff opposing it & demanding it be sensitized (read Bowdlerized) & management caving in.
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Violence adds to NYC’s 2020 death toll, with 97% jump in shootings and 45% increase in murders — criminal carnage not seen in 14 years
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Depressingly contrarian - in the worst sense of the word - piece about travel and tourism by @AgnesCallard. I don't recall when I last encountered as many straw men in a polemic as one does here.
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Brilliant, uncompromising demolition from the left of the vile 1619 project and of what the author calls its "quasi-biological determinism—that 'races' somehow have greater capacity to understand “their own history” than other 'races.'".
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The trauma of success! Words mean nothing. Sandra Oh talks the ‘trauma’ of meteoric fame and the responsibilities of being a barrier breaker
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And so the immoral morality continues to impose itself:. Not suitable': Catalan translator for Amanda Gorman poem removed
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Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. --- William Butler Yeats.
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The historical ignorance at the level Ibram Kendi exhibits here is really beyond belief. Does the Atlantic not have editors anymore?.America’s Crisis of the Intellectual - The Atlantic
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Until now, France has been the only Western European country not to allow its military power to decline. Any change in thinking in Berlin (& by extension The Netherlands, etc) seemed inconceivable, soft power fetishized, hard power no longer an option. Putin has changed all that.
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Clearly White Supremacy:.Asian woman slapped by teenage stranger on Brooklyn subway train who tells her, ‘You don’t belong here’
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@GailHeriot Latin! So in the name of equity & inclusion they're replacing 'field' word everyone understands - & only a paranoid schizophrenic could associate w/White Supremacy - with 'practicum,' a Latin word ONLY people in the Academe understand. What this is really about is caste privilege.
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@michaelreid52 I think people, including myself, who thought Massa would win narrowly, lost track of the iron law of politics which is people don't vote for a minister of a government that presided over an annualized inflation of 142%, no matter how scary the opponent.
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Murders in Philadelphia. At 524 as of today, the highest EVER. Crime wave, what crime wave? Just right wing panic, obviously.
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Arundhati Roy on Modi:."The crisis-generating machine that we call our government is incapable of leading us out of this disaster. Not least because one man makes all the decisions in this government, and that man is dangerous – and not very bright."
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Appear!."We can say to a patient, 'we can identify whether there are genitalia that appear male or female, but we cannot identify this baby's gender. This child will tell us his or her or their gender, when this child is ready to describe how they feel.'"
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Mi prólogo a la nueva antología española de la obra de mi madre, 'Obra imprescindible. Susan Sontag' (Literatura Random House). El profundo y desesperado deseo de Susan Sontag de perdurar. -
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"Nothing so dates an era as its conception of the future.”.--- Brian Eno.
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Lincoln Isn't Evil. Neither Is the West. Stand Up to the Woke Lies. - Common Sense with Bari Weiss
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It has happened, and even sooner than predicted. God save Mexico, because López Obrador will not. Mexico surpasses Italy to post world's fourth-highest coronavirus death toll
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Brilliant piece by Thomas Chatterton Williams. Those who watch @msnbc will have noted that when the protests began the omnipresent box on the right of the screen with numbers of infected and dead from the pandemic suddenly disappeared.
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Trump's national security pick Monica Crowley plagiarized over 50 sections of her 2012 book.
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@NBCNews I remain fascinated by the fact that, as far as I know, the United States is the only state ever to have allowed monuments glorifying an effort to break up that state by force of arms to be erected well within the lifetimes of those who had fought to prevent that breakup.
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This may be apocryphal but, whether or not Dostoyevsky said it, it perfectly sums up the culture of the contemporary Anglosphere. @SundPamela.“Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles” - Dostoyevsky.
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@realchrisrufo Extraordinary that people claiming utterly imaginary identities such as witches are considered by much mainstream progressive opinion to be oppressed because society won't honor their fantasies. Thus the patently grotesque becomes the normative.
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I'm not making this up:.According to the Australian Broadcasting Corp's Stan Grant, China endured 100 years of humiliation by white powers. He concedes that humiliation was at the hands of the Japanese too, but says the Japanese can't be separated from the project of whiteness.
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The shape of the culture to come. Academic warns 'lack of consent' in Shakespeare scenes could have 'triggering' effect for audiences | Daily Mail Online
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@Tyler_A_Harper Why (seriously, not snark)? The argument is that Ukraine is fighting a just war but Israel isn't. Unless your ideology is rigorously anti-American power/anti imperialist - à la Chomsky or Jacobin where the view is US power is by definition malign - I don't see any contradiction.
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“If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.”.--- Twain.
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Newsome's justification for his outburst threatening bloodshed was that he was "triggered" by a reporter's question. It's a perfect emblem of what I mean by what in my next book I'm calling (with apologies to my father) 'the triumph of the traumatic.'
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@wesyang I'm all for Biles staying or withdrawing as she sees fit. But it's an emblem of how stupid, provincial & self-indulgent @NewYorker now is to call this radical courage. Radical courage is a demonstrator in the streets of Havana, or a frontline worker in a Covid ward, not this.
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Kills six people, feels demonized. The triumph of the therapeutic, indeed. Waukesha suspect says he’s being ‘demonized’ nearly two weeks after driving through Christmas parade
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NPR Editor Speaks Out: How National Public Radio Lost Americans' Trust - Honestly with Bari Weiss | Podcast on Spotify
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Homicides in Atlanta have risen 60% since 2019. Crime wave? What crime wave? Just Rightwing propaganda. Democratic cries to 'defund police' fade in U.S. mayoral races as crime surges | Reuters
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Despairing & infuriated as I am by the direction the humanities have taken in the English-speaking world, I see nothing whatever wrong with this thesis topic or its proposed methodology. It's a subject & an approach w/a long & distinguished history going back to Raymond Williams.
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Courtesy of the invaluable @JuliaDavisNews;. Putin coughs and complains about sanctions in his New Year's address - YouTube
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@wesyang I will give 3-1 odds to anyone who cares to take the bet that within 5 years (and probably much less) Philip Roth's work is no longer permitted to be taught at a significant number of colleges and universities on the grounds that exposure to it traumatizes women students.
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Imagine the changes based on the reports of 'sensitivity readers' that most if not all US or UK publishers today would demand were 'The Satanic Verses' or a book as defiantly bold was submitted to them. The author would be told that words are violence - just as the fatwa said.
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El científico que lideró la lucha contra el coronavirus en China advirtió que no usar mascarillas es un “gran error”
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Jorge Asís sobre Alberto Fernández:.Hay que felicitarlo porque ha dominado el arte de quedar más mal con mayor cantidad de gente en menos tiempo y inútilmente.
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@shashj I lament anyone losing their job. But the magazine has become so full of woke pieties as to be increasingly unreadable.
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This is the 2nd most widely read story on the @washingtonpost (not People or Hola!). website today. Bread & circuses posing as emancipation. In an emotional finale, Bachelor Matt James breaks up with the winner over racially insensitive social media posts
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@GrayConnolly Of course he's right. In my view, this is the underlying cause of all the identity politics insanity: the young know they have no material future. All they can do is take refuge in fantasies of rescue via psychic shape-shifting & pathological nominalism (woke, above all gender).
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My (extremely severe) review of OUR MAN, George Packer's biography of.Richard Holbrooke:.
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The only silver lining I can see in this mindless rubbish is one need no longer feel any regret that university humanities programs are being cut back across the US and are now eroding faster than the Arctic ice shelf.
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Whatever the pros and cons of "defunding the police," the stark fact is that if Congress doesn't pass a fairly lavish aid bill for states and municipalities quite soon, EVERYTHING will be massively defunded and cities in particular will face lasting ruin.
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John Gray, who actually knows something about the Enlightenment, reviews @sapinker who does not. ht @samuelmoyn
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@samhaselby The narcissistic , self-referential provinciality of American social analysis is a perpetual feast.
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“With sufficient perspective, nothing is good or bad. The historian who ventures to judge the past is writing journalism in another century.” .― Emil M. Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born.
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To put it truthfully, the world is f-----g insane. Eight-year-old becomes youngest person charged with blasphemy in Pakistan
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Not sure that praise from a non-leftist like me helps or hinders, but I find that @jacobin and @NewLeftReview 'Sidecar' have now become absolutely indispensable reading for me at the same time that @nytopinion & Washington Post seem to become less and less interesting by the day.
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I think this by Mark Lilla is the deepest, and above all the most adult account of the current American cultural catastrophe:.
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Barbara Ehrenreich: a brilliant writer, a luminous intellect, an intransigent activist moved always by principle, never by fashion, and a great soul. RIP.
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I'm not of the Left, but I'm increasingly convinced it's from the serious Left, not from the Right, and less from the Liberals, that most of the best serious, credible intellectual & moral critique of woke, and principled opposition to it is now coming.
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First, and likely only, footage of French novelist Marcel Proust surfaces .
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The Black Lives Matter Curriculum Has an Unintended Lesson - The Atlantic
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@Scholars_Stage Truly remarkable. Cultural Revolution Lite. Canceled my subscription to @nytimes last year. Should have done it earlier.
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Remarkable piece by John McWhorter:.Kneeling in the Church of Social Justice –
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As over 100,000 rally for Ukraine, Germany announces vast defense spending increase that may upend European security policy
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France's Macron: I won't condemn cartoons of Prophet Mohammad
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The Academe gone mad: the authors denounce whiteboards for reinforcing the assumption that "ideas and experiences gain value (become more central) when written down.".
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In Wokelandia, people want to criminalize everything except. actual crime. Almost half of millennials think misgendering someone should be a CRIMINAL offense new survey finds | Daily Mail Online
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