Just putting out there, in preemption, that “he’s a probable incel, not a probable white supremacist, shut up woke-ist!” is not the argument winner that a few people might think.
The suspect said he had a sex addiction. Okay: his actions suggest that he objectified Asian-American women—a behavior that culminated in an act of lethal violence.
We haven’t disproven racism here, folks. We haven’t disproven s––.
At some point in the 21st century, it’d be truly nice to quit insisting on waiting until someone presses up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-1-4-8-8-start before we call their actions racist.
“No, he’s not racist, he just drove to the most burgeoning hub of sex work in the South, skipped the strip clubs, skipped the gay clubs, skipped the sex shops, and randomly made two Asian-owned businesses the targets of lethal violence.”
C’mon. F–– that.
I don’t know if that cop thinks we’re stupid, but I’m pretty darned sure he is.
“He could have stopped at strip clubs, pornographic video stores or … shops lined with wall-to-wall dildoes. But he didn’t. He drove 27 miles to Gold Spa, where he allegedly killed 3 Asian women, and then crossed the street to … allegedly [kill] 1 more.” washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/styl…
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People should note that the billionaire Mercer family, which is financing the resuscitation of Parler — infamous as a hub of 1/6 planning — and which financed Breitbart before that, is also putting its weight behind J.D. Vance’s potential senatorial ambitions.
“The family of hedge fund manager Robert Mercer also donated an undisclosed amount [to a Vance-supporting super PAC], and Lanza [a PAC advisor] declined to specify how much.” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Listening to an @NPRCodeSwitch talk in a Twitter Space right now, and I have to agree with the approach apparent in Twitter’s announcements today: Clubhouse-style chats and Patreon-style memberships are more of a feature, in the end, than a product. nytimes.com/2021/02/25/tec…
Between Twitter’s rollouts, nascent apps like Clubhouse & Dispo, continuing growth @ Substack, and stuff like the Hey email app’s experimentation w/ blogging as a feature (see below), 2021 feels like a year of good ferment in tech — and it’s only February. world.hey.com/jason/hey-worl…
the big geniuses of the ’90s: “well, that’s it! Soviet communism is over. we’ve reached the end of history”
history, for at least 20 years and counting:
I’ve said that the Balkan wars of the ‘90s prefigured the nationalist authoritarianism & ethnic conflict that have come to define our time, and I still believe that. “End of history”? Pffft.
It feels funny recognize, in hindsight, that the ’90s — with a film called ‘Reality Bites’ and a band called Garbage — were as good as things seem likely to get, in my lifetime.
At least I lucked out and had that decade as my youth.
I usually find myself in agreement with Ben Rhodes, but i have to take exception here.
AI is within its rights to withhold its ‘conscience’ designation from people with track records of ethnic divisiveness in their rhetoric — which is incontrovertibly true for Navalny.
I can root for his leadership of the opposition to Putin and acknowledge the presence of moral ambiguity.
We overlooked overtones in Aung San Suu Kyi’s rhetoric when she was a human rights icon—before the Rohingya genocide. We shouldn’t repeat that error. foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/16/mya…
Ehhh …
We lionized Suu Kyi — rightly, we thought — for similar courage and suffering. She rose to power in part on the wings of that reputation — whereupon latent ethnic nationalist inclinations led her to wink at the army’s campaign of ethnic cleansing.