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Jeffrey Sachs @JeffreyASachs
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Peterson didn’t even write Coddling!!! He’s just some guy who read it!

What’s next? Jon Kay sits down with Sam Harris to discuss The Bell Curve, his plan to microchip every Muslim in America, and the baffling resilience of organized religion?
Actually, I’d listen to that. 👆
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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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Jon Kay, Sept. 7: Faith Goldy's Nazi rhetoric gives me the giggles because she makes the libs mad.
Jon Kay, Oct.31: attacks on Goldy for Nazi rhetoric are "spurious"
Jon Kay, also Oct. 31: But actually, Goldy's antics could be dangerous....
I'd strongly recommend reading the last 2 paragraphs of this article as a lesson in incoherence. quillette.com/2018/10/31/naz…
The argument that we shouldn't use the term Nazi to describe contemporary people who adopt Nazi ideology because it lends them"ghoulish historical grandeur" assumes original Nazis had grandeur. They didn't. They were the scum of Europe.
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Ok so, politics. This is a problem. I don't mean the current situation, I mean politics in itself as we conceive of it and carry it out in the west. This is going to take more than one tweet. Basically, very few people seem to even comprehend that political opinions
are NOT the basis of ANY valid thought process. Political opinions are an end result of an integrated worldview (valid ones, anyway). To form any type of sensible political view one must first have the preceding building blocks of a philosophy.
In other words, if you can't first define what is or isn't real, understand how humans can discern what is or isn't real, and apply those things to building ethical principles based on reality, you won't ever be able to independently form coherent political views.
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Gearing up for the #nebulas2018 panel on “How to decolonize your fiction,” with Bill Campbell, Rebecca Roanhorse, Fonda Lee, JY Yang, DongWon Song. This is going to be great!
DS: We’re going to talk about decolonization, and about how to represent other cultures in your writing. But first, intros.
BC: I’m in publishing, and we specialize in SF and comics, with a multicultural flair. And I’m originally from Pittsburgh!
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Next up: #gdc18 microtalks hosted, as every year, by the ever-kindly @rich_lem . This year’s theme, “playing with 🔥”
Opening question from Rich: why are the people in charge of running this world so terrible at running it, and at endangering marginalized people? “Yes, it’s a shitshow, but we have opportunities to spread hope.”
First up @michelle_clough saying the game industry is overdue for a 50 Shades of Grey—not the bad parts, but an acknowledgement that hey, women and queer people like sex too. We could be exploring new potential at the juncture of erotica+gameplay.
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