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A workplace pressuring employees to include pronouns in their email signatures is a 21st century form of loyalty oath.
Loyalty oaths are used to control a population, and to expose dissenters. They are not honorable, regardless of what the oath is about. (Thread: 1/8)
Loyalty oaths are used to control a population, and to expose dissenters. They are not honorable, regardless of what the oath is about. (Thread: 1/8)
At his 1871 inauguration as president of the University of Michigan, James B. Angell, widely credited with transforming UofM into an elite public institution, said this:
An institution should “never insist on [the faculty] pronouncing the shibboleths of sect or party.” 2/
An institution should “never insist on [the faculty] pronouncing the shibboleths of sect or party.” 2/
And yet insisting that people pronounce the shibboleths of the new orthodoxy is exactly what is happening, both on-campus and off. The presence or absence of pronouns in email signatures, and in twitter bios, has become an easy tell: woke or not? 3/
#DarkHorseLive9 is now up--@BretWeinstein’s and my on-going conversations on using the evolutionary lens to interpret our modern predicament(s), also available as a podcast.
Now with more telomeres, mushrooms, and sneetches. 1/
Now with more telomeres, mushrooms, and sneetches. 1/
Q&A #9 follows #DarkHorseLive9, in which we discuss cooties and exercise, randy plants and ancestral diets. We refuse a bribe to vote for Biden, and talk about what our leaders should be doing now. 2/
In the #DarkHorseLive9 Q&A, we are also asked how America can become less tribal. Our answer includes shout-outs to some of our friends who are doing great work in this area, including:
@PeterBoghossian & @ConceptualJames, who wrote How To Have Impossible Conversations 3/
@PeterBoghossian & @ConceptualJames, who wrote How To Have Impossible Conversations 3/
