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Buy the book now, there’s no better time than pub day:
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If she has receipts proving the bike was hers, then what actually happened was a bunch of youths ganged up to harass a 6 months pregnant woman—as you might have guessed from the beginning, if you actually watched the video and heard them laughing at her.
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Even though things are mostly back to normal after lockdowns, I still haven't regained my sense of America as a free country. I saw what people were capable of, with the slightest excuse, and now it just feels like a return to that kind of social control is only a matter of time.
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A standard vaccine passport app is coming—maybe this week—so now is the time to decide whether an American social credit system is something you want. You have a very narrow window in which to resist it.
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“Only 12.3% of South Africans pay income tax, and this figure is diminishing. Meanwhile 47% of all South Africans draw state grants, rising to 62% of the black population, and this is growing.”
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The rule of law will not survive the legal profession becoming majority female.
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I was trying to remember which early American religious leader died from a vaccine, but instead of giving me the answer, Google uselessly gave me page after page of VACCINES DON’T KILL PEOPLE MISINFORMATION KILLS PEOPLE. (It was Jonathan Edwards.)
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The medical examiner who did George Floyd’s autopsy got a call from DC on June 1: “Mitchell said, you don’t want to be the medical examiner who tells everyone they didn’t see what they saw… he said neck compression has to be in the diagnosis.” From 2021:
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A reproductive endocrinologist told the NYT last year that she gets female doctors in their 40s coming into her office expecting to get pregnant right away. Even medical professionals don’t know the basic biological limits on their own fertility.
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"Stop fake crying."
"Your baby gonna come out retarded."
"I’m not touching you. You’re putting your stomach on my hand."
Would you be shocked if it turned out that the people in the video grinning and saying 'stop hitting yourself' were, in fact, the bullies?
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This is hardly the worst thing about this statement, but I can't get over the fact that the president of Harvard sounds like a 6th grade teacher. To give a sense of the decline, here is a speech from a Harvard president in 1961 saying roughly the same thing about free speech:
New message from Harvard President Claudine Gay:
“Our university embraces a commitment to free expression. That commitment extends even to views that many of us find objectionable, even outrageous. We do not punish or sanction people for expressing such views.”
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Update: Nearly 40 fare jumpers in five minutes this morning.
I asked the Metro attendant if he cared about people stealing. He said, verbatim, “That’s not my job.”
Today I decided to wait an extra five minutes outside the gates when I took the Metro and see how many fare jumpers I could count. I did this four times at stops on the Red and Yellow/Green lines.
Average number of fare jumpers spotted in five minutes was 22.
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Also, and I say this as someone currently on maternity leave, I don't want to hear a word about "fake" tears from anyone who has never been 6 months pregnant coming off a long shift at work, much less a 12-hour shift as a nurse at Bellevue.
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Daniel Penny learned the lesson of the Jake Gardner tragedy, that staying quiet and trusting the legal process doesn't work anymore for defendants like him. You have to make your case to the public.
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My parents were liberals, but they inoculated me against a lot of wokeness just by teaching me that narcissism is a form of immaturity.
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If the rainbow LGBTQ flag is more legally protected than the American flag, if you can be prosecuted for disrespecting it, if our embassies fly it overseas, then which one is really the flag of the regime?
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Have you ever dealt with a serious hypochondriac? I have. I’m not going to tell that personal story, but I will share some lessons I’ve learned, because I keep seeing the same behaviors among the covid-conscious.
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Controversial but correct. Everything you think of as "wokeness" is just a reflection of demographic feminization. When professions become majority female, they change in predictable ways.
Controversial piece. Discuss. “Put more simply, men are relatively more interested in advancing what is empirically correct, and women are relatively more interested in advancing what is morally desirable.”
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Maybe using civil rights law to make all-male spaces literally illegal was a bad idea.
@BradWilcoxIFS
Men have experienced a much steeper decline in the number of close friends they have. It's dramatic.
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I’m going to keep repeating “It’s not ideology, it’s demographics” until I am blue in the face.
A striking feature of polling is the generational divide, with younger people far more likely to be hostile to Israel than older people. This is true from the U.S. to France. If you are wondering why, I have a piece you might want to read:
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The big "Der Spiegel" feature on South Africa (which is as good as everyone says) marvels at hearing a black South African express nostalgia for apartheid when at least the country worked, etc., but if you look at polling it's not that unusual.
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One fare jumper came up and asked what I was doing.
“You know the train costs money, right?” I said.
“I ain’t paid for a train or a bus in three years.”
“Three years”—interesting detail. Supports the theory that this new normal in antisocial behavior was caused by lockdowns.
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The argument “how would the U.S. react if China put missiles in Mexico” may feel trite to you, but apparently to the geniuses who run our foreign policy it’s a revelation. “Damn, I never thought out what we’re doing to Russia in that light.”
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A police car parked outside our church at Easter to make sure no one tried to go in and worship God. As a pregnant woman, I was shooed off park benches where I was sitting alone, catching my breath. That was in 2020, but I remember it, and all these people still have their jobs.
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So if it seems like I'm not interested in debating mask mandates beyond "I'm a free human being and I won't do it," this is why. /END
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This book about the successful struggle to integrate amusement parks ends with a discordantly sad final chapter, in which “the majority of traditional urban amusement parks closed by the late 1960s and early 1970s.” Some stories from the book:
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The author of this column is descended from Ashanti nobility on his Ghanaian father’s side.
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This is why the truth about Brian Sicknick’s death came three months too late to do any good. The lie served its purpose, establishing the Capitol Hill protest as uniquely egregious and deadly, and that line will be repeated even after all the facts supporting it are corrected.
Biden to refer to Jan 6 insurrection as “the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War” in speech tonight.
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Here it is, the definitive debunking of “King Leopold’s Ghost” that we have long been waiting for:
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After her $250 GiveSendGo donation was leaked, "We got a call from the team saying, 'We're getting phone calls here . . . They’re threatening to throw bricks through our window. They’re threatening to come and get us.'" The gelato shop is now closed.
The owner of Stella Luna says she regrets making her $250 donation to the truck convoy, saying she thought it was a “peaceful, grassroots movement.”
She made the donation Feb. 5, when police were calling the protest“volatile and dangerous." By
@GetBAC
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Notice the timing. Elite schools dramatically changed who they admitted and, almost immediately, campuses exploded. The student protests of the 1960s were the result of changes in demographics, not ideology. The same is true of today’s radicalism.
“George Bush sailed into Yale in 1964, thanks to his family connections; but seven years later, when Yale had belatedly embraced the SAT revolution, his brother Jeb went to the University of Texas instead.”
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I'm glad I read this book, because it offers a glimpse of what the legal profession will look like when it becomes majority female, which I think is at this point a demographic inevitability.
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Maybe you oppose a social credit system but think a basic vax passport is fine. That's just not possible. As you should know by this point in the pandemic, once the QR code system exists, it will be captured by deranged Covid hawks & it will never go away.
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I am begging Atlantic writers to consider another explanation for populism besides that the 21st century has had winners & losers and the winners pulled too far ahead. Trump voters don't resent your success. They resent the ways you actively harm them.
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“Residents in apartment blocks locked-down by NSW Health are having their alcohol deliveries policed… Residents are allowed to receive one of the following: six beers, one bottle of wine, or one 375ml bottle of spirits. Excess alcohol is confiscated.”
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At this point a lot of irrational Covid restrictions are about trying to establish precedents. Build up as much surveillance as possible now, then in the future, if anyone questions some new coercive condition for participation in public life, you can say, “We did it for Covid.”
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Counterpoint: The anti-woke liberals are the very last people who should be expected to save us. The anti-woke liberal is someone who says, "I was betrayed," when he should say, "I was wrong."
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"Gen. George Patton said that women who wrote Dear John letters 'should be *shot* as traitors.'"
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Remember that poll in Jean Twenge's new book showing that 4 out of 10 in Gen Z say the Founders "are better described as villains" than as heroes? Is that because Gen Z has been brainwashed into leftism, or because Gen Z is more diverse? Let's look at the numbers . . .
What the man Vivek is saying here strikes me as just factually undisputable. The least patriotic groups in the USA are almost invariably white liberals and urban Black guys, whose ancestors have mostly been here for hundreds of years.
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My rule of thumb is that if someone doesn't have the backbone to publicly embrace at least one genuinely low-status opinion (like "Donald Trump is good"), then they may be a nice person but they won't be a useful ally. Many anti-woke liberals fail that test.
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The infuriating thing about the open borders left is the lying. Everyone from Mayorkas down swears they want (or already have) a secure border when they clearly don't. They claim, implausibly, to believe these migrants might be real refugees. How to argue with such brazen liars?
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"Calling 911 on someone is not 'literal violence.' Raping a woman in a crowded train car is."
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Among white respondents, only single digits say the Founders were "villains." Even among white women with college degrees, it's 6%. The people most likely to say the Founders were villains are non-whites, including 35% of non-white women of all ages.
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Black residents of Athens, Ga., spent 53 percent of their money on “miscellaneous,” compared to German laborers who spent more than half of their budgets on food, according to a study by Thomas Jackson Woofter in 1913.
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One historical point to add to this: At his peak, Ta-Nehisi Coates was untouchable even on the right. Criticism of his views was almost always prefaced with "Of course, he's a brilliant writer with a beautiful style." Very few had the guts to say, actually, he's just terrible.
2023 was a bumper year for anti-woke publishing. In my latest, I survey the major contributions to the genre from left, right, and center—by Freddie deBoer, Walter Benn Michaels and Adolph Reed, Richard Hanania, Chris Rufo, and Yascha Mounk:
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@L0m3z
White South Africans kept telling this American author about their "charmed" childhoods, by which they just meant they didn't have to live in barbed-wire fortresses and could ride a bike down their own streets.
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Remember when Gov. Inslee mandated that restaurants keep a record of the name & number of every person who came in? He backtracked in less than a week. People can resist these measures. You just have to do it right away before we all get used to complying.
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Stupid covid rules that encourage law-abiding people to lie (gimme a test I'm uh symptomatic) or ignore the law (NY quarantine) will yield a country where people assume following the rules is for suckers. Many cultures do operate on that assumption—just not many First World ones.
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Meanwhile
@TheAtlantic
, having failed to unseat the democratically elected president with Russiagate, impeachment, etc., is now preparing the ground for something harder.
What’s happening in the streets—and with officials refusing to cooperate—is a lot like the revolutions that toppled dictators in Serbia, Ukraine, and Tunisia.
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If we don't stop the vaccine passports launching this month, then a social credit system will eventually result. It will be impossible to stop it later. We have to do it now.
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What a paradox that the era of meritocracy has led to such an obvious decline in standards.
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Lithwick says many female attorneys she knows feel this way about the law: no respect for its majestic authority ("I didn't go to law school because I had a deep respect for the rule of law"), but a canny appreciation for its usefulness in getting people to do what you want.
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The Portland Art Musem abolishes its docent program due to an excess of white ladies, joining the Art Institute of Chicago, the Oakland Museum of California, and several others mentioned in this article that have ended docent programs for equity reasons.
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This moment of clarity on immigration is too important to waste on such tepid breakthroughs. "We need a conversation about cultural compatibility"? Time for conversation is over. I want to know what we plan to do about it. If we can't act now to reverse course, we never will.
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My general rule is that public resignation letters should be avoided and are almost always bad when attempted, but this one is both well executed and, under the circumstances, warranted.
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Cancel culture started with gay marriage. They threw out all norms of political fair play to achieve it—for example, posting an online map of Prop 8 donors with their names and home addresses—and now the old decencies are gone forever.
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A recent Princeton freshman class was ~16% white male (not counting international students).
A recent Stanford freshman class was ~11% white male.
The current Johns Hopkins freshman class is ~9% white male.
Numbers go from can’t-be-right to real pretty quickly.
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@davidpgoldman
On each of The Atlantic’s four main themes—Covid, Russia, Trump, and race—the magazine routinely publishes things that are deranged to the point of editorial irresponsibility. It’s a magazine for hysterics.
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@L0m3z
She scolds them that all the nice things they had then were "tainted" and "a function of inhumane laws." Naturally they agree. It's as if they don't believe they deserve to be able to walk down the street in physical safety, like that's an unreasonable demand to make of society.
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I can't believe the stupid bird renamers won. | These American birds and dozens more will be renamed, to remove human monikers: NPR
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In 1956, anthropologist Philip Mayer asked traditional Xhosa interviewees what they liked and disliked about white people. Some interesting answers. “The White doctors kill you to remove something from inside your body and then bring you back to life. I do admire this.”
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THERE'S ONLY ONE CURE. You cannot talk someone out of hypochondria. There's no argument you can possibly make. It just doesn't work that way. The only cure is to make a decision that you want to live like a normal person. This decision takes place at a pre-rational level. /6
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Today I decided to wait an extra five minutes outside the gates when I took the Metro and see how many fare jumpers I could count. I did this four times at stops on the Red and Yellow/Green lines.
Average number of fare jumpers spotted in five minutes was 22.
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I don’t understand the word “openly” here. “Openly gay” made sense because people might have been closeted. But is anyone suggesting some earlier four-star officer was passing?
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Breaking Emmett Till news (for real): Carolyn Bryant Donham’s memoir, “More Than a Wolf Whistle,” was supposed to be sealed until her death, but someone leaked it to a reporter and the full PDF is online:
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Calling social decay "the literal price of freedom" is a self-deception to make us accept declining living standards—the same way Russians during the Cold War knew the U.S. had better stores but told themselves it's OK because Soviet wealth goes into industrialization & Sputnik.
Stewart is right, in a sense: Social decay is the price of the dominant liberal conception of freedom. That's why modern liberalism is directly at odds with our ability to maintain a decent, functional civilization.
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Here is her description of the encounter. It sounds like Timothy Tyson was indeed wrong to claim that she had recanted her story.
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“Am I wrong,” asked Aaron Wudrick of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, “or have more people been arrested in Canada this year for going inside a church to worship than for burning one down?”
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With so many Millennials ending up childless, why didn't other women warn them to have families while biology was still on their side? Because in many contexts it is literally illegal to do so. From my bomb-throwing speech at Claremont, transcription here:
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Far from being "distinctively weird," this mix is typical of the Third World, which we are coming more and more to resemble.
America’s distinctively weird amalgam of petty corruption, bureaucratic ineptitude, and state incapacity.
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The Army retroactively pardons the black Houston mutineers of 1917, who rampaged through the city shooting white civilians at random, including a teenager who was just sitting on his porch—what part of their actions are we rehabilitating exactly?
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Glenn Loury's excellent reasons for not signing the Harper's letter:
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From the lack of outrage, I’m going to assume we’re all on the same page about Steve Sailer being a reasonable voice who belongs in the mainstream.
Leading the TAC homepage today, from the print issue:
@Steve_Sailer
on the Russian, Armenian, Persian, etc, immigrants who have been filling up his corner of LA. Call them the Peoples of the Three Defunct Empires—or alternatively the Men With Gold Chains.
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IT'S SERIOUS. Hypochondria is a real disease (ironically). It can make someone blow their life savings or turn into a recluse. Think of it like compulsive gambling or any addiction. It can take over a person's life. /2
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Virginia is erecting a memorial plaque to the Martinsville 7, who were posthumously pardoned by Gov. Northam earlier this year. Only one problem: They were guilty. Definitely & unquestionably. They gang-raped Ruby Floyd for hours and left her in a ditch.
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Ross advises conservatives to concede that the theory of "structural racism" is basically correct. Don't worry, he reassures us, crazy CRT-type solutions "don't follow necessarily from the theory of structural racism." To which I can only say: are you joking? Of course they do.
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REASONING WILL GET YOU NOWHERE. Hypochondriacs aren't irrational. Quite the opposite. They are too rational. Going to a concert is fun, going to the store is useful, but they're not worth dying over. "The risk may be small but it's not worth my life" is invincible logic. /4
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Lots of the people on the internet today saying the only correct attitude to small-scale theft is to chill out and say it's none of my business. Interesting! This is not the approach they take in, for example, Nigeria.
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“I have been a family doctor for nearly 34 years. Until recently, I saw no connection between politics and parenting… I’ve noticed something new. It is now much less common to find left-of-center parents who are both strict and loving.”
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“I recently turned 64, and I’m not getting any smarter,” he says. “On the other hand, the conventional wisdom is getting dumber even faster, so I suspect I’ll hang around until I drop dead.” I wrote about Steve Sailer for
@compactmag_
:
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IT STARTS SMALL. Maybe a chemical sensitivity or a food allergy. If you humor them, thinking the accommodations are too small to object to, the requests will escalate. There is no limiting principle. Their health trumps your minor inconvenience every time. /3
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This is consistent with long-understood differences in male and female attitudes to rules, systems, conflict, hierarchy, and objectivity. So what happens when the law becomes majority female? Do those subjective, informal, empathetic norms prevail? I guess we'll find out . . .
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Everything smells like weed and urine, and nobody pays the fare—our WMATA stop wasn't like this when we moved here. It's all gone downhill very fast.
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“I used to get a laugh from students by quoting a Soviet citizen I talked to once. He said to me, ‘Of course we have freedom of speech. We just don’t allow people to lie.’ That used to get a laugh! They don’t laugh anymore.”
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Resist vaccine passports every way you can, especially in the first month. This isn't about being vaxxed or un-vaxxed (though passports make no scientific sense in light of what we know now). It's about stopping a social credit system before it's too late.
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FACTS WON'T EITHER. Because they'll always know more than you. Why wouldn't they? It's their obsession. Assuming you don't collect medical facts compulsively, because you are a sane person, you'll never win on that ground. /5
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Not many people know that if Congress had not passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Chief Justice Earl Warren was prepared to step in with a Supreme Court decision that would have accomplished much the same thing. A thread from Boomers. 1/7
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The so-called "Battle of Bamber Bridge" is the latest in a long line of military race riots that have been recast as heartwarming morality tales decades later. But rewriting history isn't harmless, even when it's well intentioned.
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When East Germany rebuilt the statue of lady justice outside the Dresden courthouse, they deliberately left off her blindfold, because impartiality is a bourgeois ruse and real justice should take into account whether or not someone is a class enemy.
What makes a fair trial? As Kyle Rittenhouse's trial unfolds, some observers have been struck by the judge's apparent deference to the defendant.
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The inciting incident was a black soldier pistol-whipped by Houston police for intervening in the arrest of a black woman. When word of it reached the soldiers back at camp, they grabbed their rifles and marched on Houston. But their victims were mostly innocent white civilians.
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The famous Harvard happiness study, which followed undergraduates from 1938 for decades, found that at age 45 their average income was very high but “fewer than 5 percent of them drove sports cars or expensive sedans.”
Black people on average spend 30% more on luxury goods and brands than White people in the same income group. Why? Because wearing designer and luxury brands is necessary for affluent Blacks to gain respect and status in the White world🧵
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Importing millions of people who vote 70-30 Democrat is a pretty big gamble to take on the chance they might start voting for Republicans eventually.
This week, my
@ManhattanInst
colleague
@CharlesFLehman
and I considered whether conservatives should oppose Asian immigration because in recent decades, Asian Americans as a group have tended to vote Democrat.
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It is hilarious that this article implies the Pill's health risks are underappreciated because of patriarchy or something, when it is obviously because birth control is sacred to liberals.
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Asked if life was better under apartheid or the ANC, 50% of black adults over 40 (i.e. who had lived through both) said life was better under the old regime, only 40% better said now, in a survey taken in 2019 in a municipality outside Johannesburg.
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For the first time ever, I just saw Metro police stop people from jumping the fare gates without paying. A couple of teenagers made a scene when they were stopped, shouting & drawing a crowd for at least 10 minutes, but the cops responded with professionalism. The best part was…
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The answer to the question why did the WASP elite collapse so rapidly is, literally, changes to undergraduate admissions at a few elite universities. Which makes this week an interesting time to publish this column.
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Relax, everybody, “the data” says shoplifting in SF is not a big problem.
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I think some of you don’t appreciate just how poor we’re all about to be.
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Why rename military bases but not Yale? I think this fallacy is very common: The Yale name "has come to mean something very significant to its alumni," whereas military bases "are mostly just stand ins for places" and "the names mean little to people."
@jessesingal
If you’re not a socialist there’s a simple and obvious argument which is that the costs would outweigh the benefits, the association with him is virtually meaningless but Yale as a name has come to mean something very significant to its alumni
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