Gotta say, there's kind of a deification of Kendi at the moment in the progressive-intelletcual sphere that I definitely don't love. He's one of the scholars that presents lots of analyses, but as far as I can tell, very few solutions.
The Culture Wars
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Please make this nightmare end...
Badenoch condemns London plague study after MP calls it ‘woke archaeology’
Equalities minister has written to Museum of London over a study that examined plague victims’ ethnicities
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...ague-study-after-mp-calls-it-woke-archaeology
Badenoch condemns London plague study after MP calls it ‘woke archaeology’
Equalities minister has written to Museum of London over a study that examined plague victims’ ethnicities
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...ague-study-after-mp-calls-it-woke-archaeology
Any research into disparities of outcome based on ethnicity is unacceptable, obviously.
inscrutable
e - the top replies (all bluechecks supportive of the end wokeness account) are also split, either this is herd behaviour caused by vaccines and CCP, or, this is common courtesy before wokeness.
e - the top replies (all bluechecks supportive of the end wokeness account) are also split, either this is herd behaviour caused by vaccines and CCP, or, this is common courtesy before wokeness.
ask these same people about high taxing, high welfare nordic countries and the answers will be they have it so good "because they are a homogeneous society" or "we shouldn't replicate authoritarian nanny states".
Conservatism as an ideology is a mental spasm. It continues to make the worst decisions based on fallible human desires for neat answers, usually resorting to conspiracy to make people feel like there is a reason for everything and a group to persecute when things feel "unresolved".
Eh? Where's that from?
Bah, paywalled.
Oh sorry. It wasn’t paywalled for me for some reason.
If calls to end the genocide in Gaza makes you feel like an outsider, maybe you should have a word with yourself?
The 'woke' quote seems to be one from anonymous twitter user, such is the Telegraph's desperation to shoehorn that word into every headline, but the fact some people did object is bizarre. The likes of Mia Farrow, Audrey Hepburn and Joanna Lumley were clearly 'woke' before their time.
Miss France in woke row over 'androgynous' winner with pixie cut
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/12/17/miss-france-woke-row-over-androgynous-winner/
Miss France in woke row over 'androgynous' winner with pixie cut
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/12/17/miss-france-woke-row-over-androgynous-winner/
Sweet Square exposed as being part of the elite
Ice Cube with Tucker Carlson.
Surprised Tucker actually let him answer.
The right wing: "how come no one cares about male suicide?"
Also the right wing:
The culture war is seemly a bunch of people that have nothing to do with their lives so they spend their lives trying to divide society so they get some weird personal gratification.
Also the right wing:
The culture war is seemly a bunch of people that have nothing to do with their lives so they spend their lives trying to divide society so they get some weird personal gratification.
The right loves to jump on this.
I wanted to say "You can't be serious" but It's very easy to believe this has happened...
May I have a link for an article or something?
Edit: found it. feck me.
Nothing on him being fired I think but nevertheless still a crazy story.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/10/us/usc-chinese-professor-racism-intl-hnk-scli/index.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-54107329
Still a lot of commotion about Harvard (and other universities ofcourse).
Yeah. I'm far from being a proficient Mandarin speaker,
but I did spend a couple of months in China, and you hear that word practically in every sentence.
it doesn't even sound the same if you ask me.
that ne-ga of the Mandarin word has the same sound as the 'ne' in nerd.
Never in my life have I heard someone pronounce the N-Word beginning with this sound.
But I'm not a native English speaker, and I surely as shit wasn't there in class to hear what they heard. who knows.
Even if the sound was exactly the same, this story is absolutely nuts.
As an aside, you should know that Sein in German has the same sound as Zayin in Hebrew (zayin = penis).
Maybe I can sign up to a German university and also get someone fired...
Or muesli and granola are a bit gay.
This was retweeted also by billionaire Bill Ackman.
By the way, there is a campaign against Claudine Gay from Harvard. Don't know the ins & outs of her plagiarism case but the bigger context here is also heavy anti-DEI sentiment.
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Anyone seen any of the shite put out by Hillbillywood (Hillywood)? Was listening to a podcast review the latest offering from the Daily Wire, 'Lady Ballers', a "comedy" about a former high school basketball coach who reassembles his title winning squad to compete in a women's basketball league by pretending they're trans. It's supposed to ridicule trans people in general and trans athletes specifically, but is mostly just incredibly offensive to women and women athletes. Which is about what you'd expect from that kind of people.
Yup
NYT Pitchbot is one of the best things about Twitter.
Expect attacks on DEI to continue.
The Israeli mafia in the US > the intersectional DEI mafia
The trouble with DEI is that its actually been reduced to an easily attackable acronym that can be used to beat people who have benefited from DEI over the head with. Somewhat similar to the recent re-definition of the word woke.
Wouldn't be surprised if the culture war heats up even more. Billionaire Bill Ackman posted a long tweet criticizing DEI, antiracism as described by the likes of Ibram X Kendi, anti-white rhetoric and so forth.
Conservapedia must be pisstake? A very committed one though, given the amount of bonkers stuff on there.
It's genuine, I fear.