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14 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
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What is the Woke logic whereby cultural appropriation is a crime but gender role appropriation is noble?

Is it possible to imagine a world where Wokesters celebrate white dudes wearing dreadlocks and bemoan men wearing skirts?

Is there some asymmetry I'm missing?
The obvious asymmetry would seem to be that "gender roles are assigned by patriarchy" whereas "culture is the organic property of noble savages"

But this is backwards: most culture was imposed by conquest, whereas gender roles are innate and mostly immutable
So is it an accident that the Woke are precisely wrong on "appropriation"?

Maybe there's just a dialectic of Woke, and today the pendulum is against appropriation

After all, Wokesters in the 90s pursued cultural appropriation to the point of fetish (ethnic food! African dance!)

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4 Dec
1\ Having covered itself in shame by reporting fake hydroxychloroquine data, the venerable Lancet has now branched out into junk climate science

They claim a 54% increase in heat deaths among those over 65 over the past 20 years

h/t @MarqueSalamanca

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2\ This is a striking claim, because deaths from weather of all kinds are down 90%+ over the last century

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2 Dec
1\ Classism is FAR more invidious than racism and sexism

I suspect this is because, in our evolutionary past, status gradations were the key to reproductive success, whereas ingroup/outgroup distinctions were malleable and not fundamentally about race
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Usury laws
Sugar taxes
Vice taxes
Building codes
Minimum wages

We are grossed out by the choices faced by the poor, so we "help" the poor by taking away those choices through regulation
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1\ I actually have a funny personal story about COVID-19 urban legends

This summer my in-laws' families were riven by COVID-19 disagreement

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1\ People compare COVID-19 hysteria to the Salem Witch Trials, to various political movements, and to other mass delusions of the fairly distant past

But the best model for understanding lockdowns is 1980s USA, when the world hallucinated a sprawling, satanic child rape pandemic
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Horrible things did happen to a few kids, just as in a world of 7.7 billion, a handful of healthy youngsters have died from COVID-19
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If you can identify the jobs that a policy will "create", that policy almost certainly destroys net jobs

If you can identify the jobs that a new technology will destroy, that technology almost certainly creates net jobs
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E.g. replacing fossil fuels with solar "creates" energy jobs, but destroys net jobs by making society diffusely poorer
3\ In the second case, a technology can "destroy" the jobs it makes redundant, but by allowing resources to be better allocated, it frees society to employ labor in novel roles

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