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The greatest comedy film of the century… or a crushing expose that will destroy any hope you had left for academia.
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Noam Chomsky telling you your left-wing activism is getting out of hand is like Snoop Dogg asking you to ease up on the weed. It's probably time to take a good hard look at yourself.
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If more millennials actually explored third world countries instead of using them as cheap party destinations we would probably have fewer revolutionaries among us.
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New Left identitarians, like Claudine Gay, discovered they could mimic forms of expertise as a means to power for their DEI activism. Her academic work is representative of a vast body of laundered research & credentials that prop up the entire DEI edifice. 1/n
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This is what it's like watching academics try to cure racism.
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"What this issue has revealed is a crisis in the published medical research"
Jillian Spencer, a brave child psychiatrist, has connected the dots between problems within gender clinics & a system-level failure that begins with the academic publishing process. 1/4
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Recent congressional hearings in the US have created a broader willingness to look at higher eds ideology problem. University leadership has reached an inflection point that I’ll try to explain here in simple terms. THREAD
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In an audacious hoax project,
@peterboghossian
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@HPluckrose
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@ConceptualJames
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It gets even more absurd, a hoax paper about dog humping won an award for exemplary scholarship. The research & credentials that prop up the DEI movement are a farce, yet it still informs policy, absorbs vast amounts of state funding, & commands deference in elite circles.
“We rewrote a section of Mein Kampf as intersectional feminism and this journal has accepted it.” You cannot make this stuff up.
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This is what “cancelling” someone would look like if it weren’t taking place in digital space. Human nature isn’t changed by technology it’s just made more efficient.
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The next time you hear or use the label “old white men” just stop for a second, replace it with “Jews”, and see if you recognise any unsettling patterns.
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What explains this amorphous leftish coalition? It's not random - a particular ideological understanding of the world unites these issues. THREAD
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In 6 days Robin Diangelo will forfeit $22,712 to educate underprivileged children of colour by ignoring a debate request from a woman of colour. We've made several attempts to reach her for comment to no avail. If you have a way to get this to her please do 1/2
@Ayaan
@megynkelly
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This documentary is a case study of the ideology & ethos embedded in DEI bureaucracies. It covers the relationship between identity studies, student activists, and the DEI administration of a college in Olympia, Washington. Part 1/3.
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The leader of a major teachers union in the US. If you can't concede something is seriously awry with the educational system at this point I just don't know what to say to you.
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The Reformers (2023) part one. Check the link in my bio to view part two.
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@BillyM2k
@elonmusk
@BillAckman
Im sorry. I can say with 100 pct confidence that anyone who believes “Equity” is “about providing equal outcomes” does not understand what the Equity in DEI is.
“Equal Outcomes” is the disclaimer the Anti DEI movement uses to try to scapegoat DEI as unusable and unsuitable.
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Universities were an ideological wet market through the 90’s. When critical theory met postmodernism it was a pangolin meets bat moment. “Theory” was now optimising for emotion & careerism in an overcrowded labour market. When it came into contact with social media it broke free.
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For over a year now I’ve been documenting
@peterboghossian
@HPluckrose
and
@ConceptualJames
as they secretly submit bat-shit insane papers to peer-reviewed journals. Seven have been accepted and more are still on track for publication. FULL VIDEO:
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@KonstantinKisin
I've been calling this "oughtism". As soon as I realise I'm talking to an oughtistic person I have to change the mode of conversation to accommodate their affliction.
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"This is about a breakdown in the basic logic of civilisation and it's spreading"
@BretWeinstein
FULL SERIES:
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Liberal institutions across WEIRD society are going through an ideological coup set in motion by philosopher activists. Observing these organisations succumb to teleological capture I’m reminded of the Cuckoo. Thread.
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Consider the ramifications of a movement that seeks to redistribute privilege when “privilege” is defined as something that's inside the subconscious minds of a given population.
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Marxist revolutionaries believe power is tied up in wealth & so they set out to seize the means of economic production. New Left fundamentalists believe power is tied up in discourse & so they’ve set out to seize the means of cultural production (education, media, art, religion).
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Activist researchers are essentially laundering political opinions as established facts through the peer review process. The problem is a new form of epistemological (how we know what we know) activism that contorts knowledge resources from the source - academic journals. 2/4
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The people going after "CRT in schools" have a far deeper critique than they're currently able to articulate & their opposition is yet to fathom. They're against the entire Critical Pedagogy enterprise, which is a fundamentally illiberal form of education. THREAD.
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Well, it's all fun & games until a "feminist" geographer is put in charge of town planning. New short featuring
@joerogan
,
@ConceptualJames
,
@peterboghossian
,
@HPluckrose
,
@BretWeinstein
,
@HeatherEHeying
. WATCH IN FULL: . 1/3
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It's difficult to come to terms with how deep woke logic penetrates & how far it's spread. It's not just normative values that are conflated with prejudice but all norms. THREAD
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My Evergreen series cracked half a million views. How cool. I've worked with networks that couldn't achieve that with big budgets and broadcast capabilities. It's amazing what can be done with a couple cameras and an internet connection.
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@realchrisrufo
People aren't going to like this but it's an obvious pattern. It boils down to the more (intersectional) oppression categories one's identity has the less scrutiny applied to thier work. A result of DEI culture. Poke around the work of Indigenous scholars, it gets wild...
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Up until now, laundering poorly researched ideology through peer review to secure legitimacy among elites had a cultural forcefield around it. Activist scholars & their students would level relentless ad hominem attacks & accusations of "isms" at anyone who questioned their
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Robin DiAngelo often opens her talks by encouraging people of colour to challenge her.
@Ayaan
happens to be a POC with some important feedback so let's pledge this thing so high it's impossible to ignore . You won't be charged unless a debate goes forward.
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Claudine Gay, who is fundamentally a DEI activist, stepping down from the top job at the most prestigious university in the world is a major development. She's likely to become a template to take down much more of the harmful activist infrastructure. 4/4
ANNOUNCEMENT: I am contributing an initial $10,000 to a "plagiarism hunting" fund. We will expose the rot in the Ivy League and restore truth, rather than racialist ideology, as the highest principle in academic life.
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This gives activists the appearance of expertise that grants them standing within institutions to make radical changes based on laundered evidence. The 'affirmation model' Jillian mentions is only one downstream effect of this problem & many more will surface. 3/4
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For anyone interested in
@ConceptualJames
account being “temporarily restricted”, he sent me this...
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I've recently released a documentary series about this issue that covers a secret hoax project designed to reveal the problem. Here's part one. Check the link in my bio to view the rest. 4/4
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Marxist revolutionaries believed power was tied up in wealth & so step one was to seize the means of economic production. Foucauldian revolutionaries believe power is tied up in discourses & so step one is to seize the means of cultural production (education, media, art).
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A real-world manifestation of thier digital behaviour.
This is what “cancelling” someone would look like if it weren’t taking place in digital space. Human nature isn’t changed by technology it’s just made more efficient.
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The Pepé Le Pew character was a pioneer of blindspot comedy. A precursor to a lot of what makes
@rickygervais
's David Brent funny. We laughed at Pepé because he models embarrassing behaviour. Behaviour that's ironically similar to the nuance-blind activism trying to cancel him.
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They critique everything, from the way people form couples, to how buildings are designed. Their bottomless body of criticism is now decades old & is so influential that it has changed how the university views its purpose. 9/n
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Critical Race Theory, Postcolonial Theory, & Queer Theory, among others, are large bodies of work devoted to criticising Western society. They seek to dissolve the social expectations, laws, & institutional practices they claim oppress outsider identity groups. 7/n
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A university is defined by what it deems most important, & this can be seen in what it is researching & teaching. It can evolve drastically over time as when modern secular colleges emerged from religious institutions. I posit something new has emerged in recent history. THREAD.
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Google's oddly neurotic AI reveals the ethos of one of the world's most powerful corporations. Ex-employee,
@JamesADamore
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In 2016, social psychologist
@JonHaidt
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Differing from scientific practitioners who attempt to disprove their starting assumptions, they begin with their conclusions & move into the field to accumulate proof & punish dissent. 12/n
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The critical canon is taught to students before they’re given a chance to adequately understand the object of their ire & many imbibe so much of the abstract theoretical philosophy that it forms the basis of their relationship to reality. 10/n
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For my American friends that can't seem to fathom the situation here when I explain it to them.
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A full documentary series on the subject (The Reformers 2023) can be viewed here -
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A civilisation is neither a system nor an ideology. It’s an evolved ecology of meaning & practice that can’t be dismantled & rearranged at will to produce desired outcomes. This reductive, mechanistic conception of culture is Woke’s biggest tell. 20/n
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@RBReich
It's a story people use to motivate themselves to work against the odds & do their best with what they have at their disposal. It's honoring a real-world position & hustling with available tools. I watched my dad (black man) ascend using it. You have munchausen syndrome by proxy.
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Calling something a "system" gives an impression the construct can be engineered. Any "system" that has living participants is better understood as an ecology bound by the law of unintended consequences.
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Where the purpose of a scientific theory is to understand the world as it is, the purpose of a CT is to change the world into something it ought to be. These theories are active in nature & designed to create change. 6/n
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Portland State University has determined that
@peterboghossian
committed a “human subjects” ethics violation for his involvement in the Grievance Studies probe. Further charges of falsifying data are currently under review.
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I’ll start by drawing a comparison between a scientific theory & a Critical Theory (CT), which is the theoretical work that underlies DEI administrations, most student activism, & the disingenuous testimony we heard at the hearings. 2/n
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Polite Society: "Okay, so we now agree that racism, sexism, and homophobia are bad things. How shall we progress to a world with much less of it?"
Critical Theorists: 🤓
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There's an active movement inside academia to mold science into a political tool. It's grounded in a radical postmodern conception that takes science to be fundamentally political. From this perspective, they're simply making science moral by equalising its bias. 1/3
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@realchrisrufo
The real racism lies somewhere in the fact she's been able to get away with what she's done and her narcissistic fantasies are propped up by white guilt.
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While some scholars working with CTs use the theoretical frameworks as starting points to do real research, the standards of the field have devolved so badly that a fundamentalism has emerged from their vast body of work. 8/n
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These critical agents of change move from department to department applying their theory to any discipline they can convert to the cause. 11/n
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Where this goes from here is anyone's guess but I do know the implications for society & culture will be profound. 20/20
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DEI administrators work tacitly with student activists to create an inhospitable environment for conservative academics who seek to defend & transmit the very norms the orthodoxy seeks to dissolve. 14/n
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Conservatives have already lost the battle against the agents of change & pressure is increasingly applied to classical liberals who advocate for free speech & institutional neutrality.
@peterboghossian
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@WomenReadWomen
"The footsoldiers of this movement are the young women who have grown up in Queer Theory in the universities". Yeah, I think the basic shape of this is that (mostly) affluent women have been going through intersectional/gender theory finishing schools & building careers in the
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@BillAckman
Flip any one of these sacred equity rocks over and you find all manner of corruption squirming about underneath.
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Watching
@MrAndyNgo
, a mild-mannered journalist, being savagely beaten by Rose City Antifa today made me think of a historical precedent. The RAF were an Antifascist movement in the 70's. Like the Antifa of today they chased windmills & eventually became what they tried to fight.
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A CT, however, doesn’t hold itself to this expectation. Critical theorists claim that social science must integrate philosophy into its methods so that findings work practically toward a moral end. 5/n
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When people say "CRT is not taught in K12," I'm not sure they're deflecting as much as missing the point. Parents are concerned about a well-documented, influential line of pedagogy that's openly dedicated to engineering revolutionary consciousness (critical consciousness).
The people going after "CRT in schools" have a far deeper critique than they're currently able to articulate & their opposition is yet to fathom. They're against the entire Critical Pedagogy enterprise, which is a fundamentally illiberal form of education. THREAD.
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It started out as social theory in obscure corners of academia before gaining traction with the managerial class & young activists who worked in tandem to set it loose on the world. This is a doc about its origins -
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Medical student (MUSC) training material related to the viral video below.
This is why I homeschool and why I make sacrifices to pay for a private family practitioner.
The world has lost its mind. I’m sharing his video here because I already know his video will be taken down on Tiktok.
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Peter Boghossian resigns from Portland State University after an ongoing battle to uphold intellectual diversity at the institution. 1/4
My University Sacrificed Ideas for Ideology. So Today I Quit.
My resignation letter.
@Portland_State
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A shooting takes place in Portland & I see the tribal narratives arrive before an ambulance. From here the event is swept into a maelstrom of opinion, facts swallowed up by ethics, & what remains is something closer to allegory than news.
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Eventually what you're left with is a shell organisation that has diverted its attention from its primary functions to the cultural engineering enterprise of philosopher activists. 6/6
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The painful personalities that authored this book,
@HPluckrose
&
@ConceptualJames
, are among my favourite humans. I feel lucky to have suffered through its creation with them. Grab a copy right now & help us nudge it into Amazon's Top 100 -
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I joke but Chomsky is an ol’g when it comes to anti-woke. Here’s his take on its early manifestations (postmodernism/postcolonial theory)
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This is because New Left activists discovered they could mimic academic forms to legitimise their social engineering enterprise. Keep digging, casual plagiarism barely scratches the surface of higher ed corruption.
NEW: The chief diversity officer of Columbia University's medical school, Alade McKen, plagiarized extensively in his doctoral dissertation, lifting huge chunks of material without attribution.
Two pages in the dissertation come directly from Wikipedia.🧵
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Social media is a Darwinian machine selecting for the strongest emotional resonance. Having an endless stream of events worldwide to shift collective focus to means tension never abates. Living on Twitter is like having a Shapard tone in your ears (SOUND ON). 1/3
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I've been calling this "oughtism". As soon as I realise I'm talking to an oughtistic person I have to change the mode of conversation to accommodate their affliction.
One of the biggest problems left-leaning people have is that they confuse descriptions of reality with the belief that that reality is how things "should" be. If you tell them "there will always be poverty", they hear "I LOVE poverty". Same with geopolitics:
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A scientific theory emerges from the observation of facts. It’s a kind of story we tell about why certain groupings of facts show up the way they do. 3/n
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I've expanded this short into a documentary series called The Reformers. If politics is downstream from culture then culture is downstream of the academy & the humanities have been dumping Identitarian ideology into the river for quite some time now. 1/2
If you've found yourself wondering why so many on the progressive left perceive Jewish people as "oppressors," there's no better introduction to how this perspective gained traction in academia than through this 6.5-minute film by
@MikeNayna
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There’s an expectation among scientists that if you familiarise yourself with a theory, you should be able to use its principles to predict something new & verifiable about the world. 4/n
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There are many different CTs but they all follow base assumtions that bring them together into a single orthodoxy. 13/n
What explains this amorphous leftish coalition? It's not random - a particular ideological understanding of the world unites these issues. THREAD
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For decades, smart, brave people on the inside have been whistle blowing on activists riding the academy like they stole it. It appears the university has now missed the window to remedy the issue on their own terms. 2/2
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These seemingly different interest groups are held together by Woke Identitarian ideology, which has a grand unifying theory of oppression called "Intersectionality". Here's an explainer montage I cobbled together from different NGO resources. 2/n
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Three camps appear to be emerging from the crisis. The classical liberals, who call for a return to neutral leadership & a truth-seeking mission. 17/n
It is CRITICAL that we derive the right message--and avoid deriving the wrong one--from Liz Magill's "voluntary" resignation. The wrong one is that universities like Penn need more restrictions of speech. The right one is that double standards will no longer be tolerated.
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@EPoe187
I met with a professor many years ago that said "it's okay to critique the western canon but they're taught to tear it apart before they're taught what it is". Stuck with me as poignant. It's a simulation of education.
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@ConceptualJames
Identity studies' contribution to the world has been to convince huge populations that self-absorbed neuroticism around identity is somehow morally advanced.
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Something similar is happening to me and I don’t even have a very big following. It’s extremely difficult to keep up with it all. I take it as a sign there’s a tipping point afoot and that many people’s private converstions are completely different to their public ones.
In the past two weeks, I have been inundated with messages and stories––literally hundreds––from people who are worried about the direction we are headed in as a society. I read as many as I can, but unfortunately I can't always respond. Please accept my apologies.
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I have to say, I felt this,
@GlennLoury
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Glenn Loury on how Ta-Nehisi Coates provides guilty liberal elites the words they need whilst our discourse around race refuses to address the suffering and deaths of thousands of Black people every year
It is a morally reprehensible situation and he gets rightly heated
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Have you ever put a microphone against a speaker and heard that screeching sound? That’s what the internet is doing to America right now.
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It’s worth taking this seriously because we’re living through a widespread Postmodern assault on the concept of objectivity. Objectivity isn’t something we achieve but an ideal we work toward. If we cant agree it exists there’s no arbiter for conflict & war becomes inevitable.
Hi just a friendly reminder that "objectivity" is a white myth™ that erases histories of colonialism from whiteness making it seem like white people are somehow better equipped to talk about your people & culture than you are, because you're "too close" to the subject matter.
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