it seems more like: people who believe Trump's sociopathy is as transparent to everyone in America as it is to them, think Biden is doing well. whereas, if you don't feel that way, or doubt it, as I do, it seems like a disaster for Biden.
it makes sense to silently laugh and shake your head at Trump if the audience sees him the way you do: as a despicable narcissist who cares only about himself. it might not be wise if you're trying to reach people who don't already feel that way.
anyway, back to hoping this shit doesn't matter at all
I have had to adjust my sense of whether Trump's rancid petulance, defensiveness, aggression, and narcissism is a big liability. It should be. But is it?
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we have not become more respectful of others, we've become more afraid of them! but we don't want to say that.
a lot of these ethical flare-ups that purport to be about respecting others' unknown life experiences, vulnerabilities, and statuses have an unspoken premise: that there's no way you could possibly find out anything about them, by I don't know, like, talking to them!
i guess ppl who pushed the gay lover theory of the Pelosi attack (e.g. conservative pundits, Don Jr, the CEO of twitter) will now say the SF police are lying, bc the only remotely honorable alternative would be to feel intense shame and apologize profusely justice.gov/opa/press-rele…
you'll say I shouldn't assume these people have normal brains / real emotions / the concept of honor, but if I had done something like this, and then found out how wrong I was 24 hours later, I would die of shame. I'd be unable to function. that would be it for me
.@DineshDSouza yesterday: “My conclusion? this guy, the assailant, is either a sexual partner or a male prostitute, and this is a sexual rendezvous that went sideways.”
“‘What do you do in this school?’ a teenage student asked her. ‘I’m a social work intern,’ she told him. ‘Oh,’ he said, comprehending. ‘You snatch babies.’” newrepublic.com/article/167627…
in “PMC” terms: Social workers are a disciplinary arm of capital, obviously, but their profession is made out to be something else, something about justice, which is both an authorizing myth AND the terms on which social workers themselves come to resist their assigned role.
i appreciate the Claremont Review for consistently confirming my theses about the right and race
(as ever, C. Murray keeps the flame of biological determinism alive)
Gotta hand it to the editors: Amy Wax on Charles Murray is a savvy commission
I'll keep hammering this: the point of reviving genetic theories of economic achievement is to naturalize the existing social order. The war on the concept of "systemic racism" is perfectly consonant with neoliberal aims: discouraging state intervention to help the underclasses.