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23 Jan, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Seize the means of race production!
To use Bo’s favorite emoji: πŸ˜ƒ

Ted is correct.

Oh, OK.

I use a humorous tone. It’s a coping mechanism. This stuff is fucking sinister. Image
As I said before, unity is when you insist others have to wash your feet. Image

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Dr. Katja Thieme πŸ‘€ Profile picture
25 Jan
Helen lectures on systems of power and falls on her face.

You see, it's ridiculous that "critical social justice" or "the woke" believe that there are systems of power that are hard to see. That sounds like dew-pearled faerie webs, doesn't it. You say you see them? Really??? 1/ Image
Balderdash, says Helen. Most people don't see such webs. Webs of power are therefore an ideological hallucination. There; done with that argument.

Now, as for racism more particularly. It does exist!, Helen assures. We'll know it when we see it is the implication, I suppose. 2/
When we see racism, springing like a predatory animal into the circle, we may recognize its bloodthirsty face, unsheath our individual swords, & individually slay it for the good of all. That's liberalism! Ra ra ra!

Or, slay it because you like slaying. You libertarian, you. 3/ Image
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25 Jan
Iβ€˜m not certain my nagging about foregoing a few hours of Roblox in order to pursue other projectsβ€”maybe even make something!β€”is to be credited.

But.

My child designed this set of cards.

And devised the rules to a game called *1...2...3...Page!* Image
The rules are meant to prevent players from holding onto cards β€žlike a wall of rock,β€œ and instead make the game β€žflow like water.β€œ And they do.
One of the rules is that the card(s) with the higher number always beat the card(s) with the lower number. (This means that pigs always beat humans, unless one plays the human card combined with another card above 2.)
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23 Jan
I'm glad Helen is saying this.
I'll note that her ongoing confusion about the concept of free speech is concerning. Nobody is limiting James Lindsay's right to speech. What is at stake in this case is how wrong and harmful his speech is. I hope she recognizes that. That is the point I hope she's making.
I'm not glad that she's deflecting from the point that she can't condone his views anymore. She does so by implying his right to speech has been limited (it hasn't) and that her help is needed to protect it.
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13 Jan
This is pretty clear.
I would help us if we tried to be more disciplined in our use of these terms. If what we're talking about is the co-regulation of speech among participants in public discussion, we're talking about conditions for public discourse, not about questions for free speech.
Once we think of it as conditions for public discourse, it becomes much clearer that participants can indeed attempt to regulate each other. Including by shouting over each other. Or by telling someone else that they want them to stop speaking.
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12 Jan
When "I will take my sword to defend this scholar's academic freedom!" means "I will stand on principle when no principle stand is required because it serves my own shoddy thinking in advancing harmful ideas."
I'm referring to the fact that we have yet to see evidence that #KathleenStock's academic freedom has been hampered in any way. She has secure employment. She got an OBE. Her university publicly celebrated her OBE. Her position is safe and secure.
Yet people write & sign a petition that her academic freedom is in peril.

It isn't.

She produces bad & harmful writing.

She shouldn't do so. She should take the responsibilities of her academic freedom more seriously.

But her right to to advance shitty arguments is no danger.
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12 Jan
Yep. Can confirm.
This is an excellent point. And a useful phrase.

The problem with Jesse Singal is Jesse Singal.
Likewise.

The problem with Kathleen Stock is Kathleen Stock.
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