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Hey look! The Reuters/Ipsos poll on Millennials from last April is making the rounds again, this time to connect liberal-PC-SJW-etc. to a rightward swing among the young. Why *does* that poll keep getting all this attention?
And why don’t those same people ever cite Pew?

people-press.org/2018/03/01/the…
This isn’t quite a “Trust the average of the polls” situation, but it’s a good rule of thumb NOT to trust anybody touting a single poll. Especially when the poll validates something that person desperately wants to believe is true.
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I’d reframe this. One rarely asked, but quite legitimate, question is this: What do we owe to our allies? If structurally oppressed people are going to say that their allies have an obligation to defer to them (politically, epistemically, etc.), what is owed to them in return?
It’s a big thing, asking someone to entrust their energy and political judgment to you! I think Jade Schaff (Oberlin) wrote something about this, but can’t find it now. Anyway, it’s a legitimate issue that will not/should not go away.
To be clear: I don’t mean “what is owed” in the “what do we get in return?” sense. Rather, what obligation of care, of consideration, of caution does such a relationship create for the allied-with party?
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This doesn't mention me directly, but it's obviously directed at me. And since it reflects the objections that many people had to my thread, it merits a response.
Objection #1: What about Trump/Orban/Brexit/Bolsonaro?

What about them? Yascha knows better than anyone that the illiberal/authoritarian turn in consolidated democracies long precedes contemporary SJW activism. See Brownlee 2002, Wright 2008, Levitsky and Murillo 2013.
As for populism in Europe and the United States, that too predates any kind of social justice activism. In fact, its rise is probably due much more to neoliberal failures (e.g. austerity) than left-liberal ones.

books.google.ca/books?hl=en&lr…
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The SJWs Are Winning and You're All Just Going to Have to Deal With It: A thread.
Reading this @JohnHMcWhorter piece is an exercise in vertigo. The central claim is that "third wave anti-racism" (i.e. the broad nexus of PC, social justice, and ID politics) is doomed to failure. That the aims are good, but strategically it's a dead end.

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
This is a common view among centrist liberals and libertarians: "Yes, racism and sexism are serious problems and must be addressed, but the SJW Left is going about it all wrong. In fact, its tactics are actually making these problems worse, not better."
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Hallmark holiday movie but where Seinfeld sees a resurrection of his career for not being a racist asshole.
I'm honestly surprised that video is making the rounds again. When it first went viral (2015 or something?), I remembering being surprised at the time that Louis C.K. and Ricky Gervais basically went unscathed. I still cringe when someone posts C.K.'s n-word monologue.
If you're not Black: Don't ever say the n-word.

Ever. Ever ever ever. It's not ours. It never will be. It wasn't our blood that paid for it. So, just don't do it.

Very simple.
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