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Jeffrey Sachs
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Related to this: it’s amazing how much the claim “ID politics divides people in a way that class-based politics does not” hinges on the assumption that rich and middle-class minorities do not exist.
To say nothing of how a focus on identity-based discrimination can unite groups that might otherwise be opposed to one another, as @jaricheson shows.

spcl.yale.edu/sites/default/…
I'm not saying that ID politics can't divide people. All politics is divisive; if it doesn't, it's not politics properly understood. But that needs to get balanced against (among many other things) the ways it can unite.
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Imagine for a moment an alternate reality. One where SJWs at the highest ranks of the Canadian government hatch a secret plan to infiltrate American college campuses. Their goal? To identify, expose, and silence politically incorrect students and faculty.

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"You have been identified as IDW-adjacent," reads one message. "Publicly renounce the biological basis of sex or else."
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This one's a doozy.

Michele Di Franco is a student at the University of Ottawa and an executive of uOttawa Students for Free Speech. Earlier this month, he brought a $150,000 defamation suit against Michael Bueckert, a PhD student at Carleton University.
The reason? Bueckert wrote a post on Medium about how campus free speech groups, including Di Franco's, helped to advise the Ford government as it crafted its campus free speech legislation. Many of these groups, Bueckert notes, have alt-right sympathies.

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Riddle me this, Twitter: I’m one of those SJWs who tends to feel we don’t think seriously enough about how speech can inflict harm. So what does it mean that my most vociferous critics are also deeply alarmed by Leftwing Outage Mobs and their impact on their target’s well-being?
Bracket entirely for a moment the ways that online speech can have offline consequences, eg reputational, death threats, etc. I’m talking just about the angry trolls and their insults, which it is alleged can trigger real emotional harm (see SSC).
Is this genuine horseshoe theory? Or am I misunderstanding things?
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People are against free college because it would make it harder to use having a college degree as a sign of class disguised as a sign of intelligence
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1/So, lots of people cite this paper by Gilens and Page as evidence that we live in an oligarchy, that rich people control our political process, etc. etc.: scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/…

But that is NOT what this paper finds. Not at all.
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