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@abigaildisney
Jul 13, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
A beautiful reframe of the Harper's letter, which I frankly think is a slightly less crotchety version of classic conservative grousing about "political correctness." Speech is and should be free, yes, but that is not to say it should not have consequences. 1/
I happen to have experienced this on a personal level. Yes, I got "ratio-ed" on Twitter (and deserved it) and have somehow lived to tell the tale. What I tried to do in the situation is to honestly have a look at what I might have done wrong, learn from it and go forward 2/
With respect for my critics, and with enough regard for my own integrity that it remains my lodestar but not so much that I cannot admit that from time to time it doesn't know enough, hasn't thought deeply enough, or just isn't smart enough to always be right. 3/
Conservatives who complain about "political correctness" are generally griping about the lack of permission they feel to be unvarnished racists, sexists and transphobes. Their fear of being called out as racists, etc for expressing racism, etc. is a tacit acknowledgement 4/
that to be a racist, etc would be a bad thing. That's at least some progress, I guess. What they are mad about is the inconvenience they are subjected to by having to think a bit before they speak. I, for one, have tried to learn from my experience. And it didn't hurt ONE bit

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Jan 8, 2023
THREAD// I'd like to just elaborate on the private jet thing for a moment. Private jets are a cancer. I'm sorry and I know and love lots of people who ride around in them. But I also occasionally fly biz class and I fail to see what is so hard about that. 1/
OK, maybe you are famous. And the airport is hard for famous people. What if airlines could easily handle that for you by creating a service that escorts VIP's through a special line for security and a special lounge for privacy? Still not enough to make you feel cozy? 2/
What if airlines moved the entrance to airplanes to behind first class or put a VIP lounge in the back of the plane with a curtain. Is the airport/airplane experience still too unbearable for you? Because then I just call bullshit on that. Get in line like a regular person. 3/
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May 18, 2022
THREAD: Here's what I think. DeSantis's move was straight up fascist. This is not hyperbole. Just look what the Brazilian, Chilean and Argentine governments did to bring the business community on board with the program. 1/
DeSantis chose the biggest company in Florida and threw a very theatrical monkey wrench into the system. Funny, considering how in lock-step he normally is with the corporate agenda--labor laws, taxes, deregulation, etc etc. 2/
What corporations need, more than anything, is consistency. Predictability. And DeSantis's move is a public declaration that he can take that away any time he wants. He picked this fight, backed Disney into an untenable corner and then everybody went mum 3/
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May 4, 2022
It's hard to know where to start with this. I probably fall into the "over-educated" category, but that just means I read books and learn things, amplifying my capacity to understand the lives of people I do not know and therefore to have empathy for others. 1/
As to "under-loved," if he means ""under-sexed" I would request he have another look at this rationale. In controlling their bodies have conservatives not been working overtime toward the goal of all women being "under-loved?" 2/
If by "under-loved" he means unloveable, that's a sad bit of projection and such a childish shot I feel sorry for him. Tinder's not working out so well for you bud? 3/
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Apr 1, 2022
Well it's true that I don't feel I deserve any of it. Never have. And didn't need a therapist to see that, though therapy has helped. Although if I'm "not morally strong enough to give it away," I do wonder what I've been up to these last forty years. 1/
The problem with a gnawing sense of fraud, which you have brilliantly diagnosed here, is that it never seems to affect the people who should be wondering the same thing about themselves. So often is the the diagnostician who should really be asking about the cure. 2/
I wonder what's the diff between these folks you describe at Georgetown: "the most entitled, narcissistic, status-obsessed people imaginable... who adopt identities and moral causes to project their problems onto the world and "solve" them with their inherited wealth." 3/
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Apr 1, 2022
THREAD/ Like all radical ideologues, the right wing has finally run amok and is coming to devour the hand that feeds it. Business. For my part I am delighted. It is the business world that has been, either by act or omission, feeding the opportunist right wing to distract 1/ Image
Us with culture war nonsense while they rifle through the till and empty everyone's pockets. This "anti-woke" right wing nonsense is unsupported by a large majority of Americans. In fact most Americans are offended by it and wish it would just go away. 2/
You need two things to rule with a minority. First, you need to be constantly looking for fresh meat to throw to the minions, to keep them riled up all the time. That works until the herd thins (remember Scar in Lion King?). So now they've come for American Businesses. 3/
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Mar 8, 2022
1/ Not to beat a dead horse (which is a very un-Disney thing to do anyway) we all know that corporate statements are often merely performative and ineffective. BUT, to claim that "we all share the same goal of a more tolerant, respectful world,"as Chapek does in his internal memo
2/ is at best naive and at worst grotesquely cynical. I have met Dennis Baxley and it does not take long knowing him to see very clearly that if "a more tolerant, respectful world" includes respecting the very basic human rights of the many people of every description...
3/who happen not to fall within his extremely narrow and small-minded definition of what is sexually or even emotionally "correct". The agenda here is to establish an America that would brutalize and eradicate so many of its own citizens--nothing less than annihilation will do.
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