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21 Mar, 6 tweets, 1 min read
Surprising to hear this — one would think woke Protestants would want to brand him as the wokest man ever
He was for sure way ahead of his time on sex workers rights
Isn’t wokeism basically an extension of the Beatitudes?
Blessed are the morbidly obese — they are healthy at any size...
I've seen trans ideology described as a form of gnosticism; there are for sure other heresies that presage wokeism, would like to see someone versed in this history summarize the relevant antedecents
You are yourself the sinless son of God who dies horribly in expiation for all of humanity's sins and you're still problematic...

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21 Mar
People want this conversation to be about certain approved things and not about other forbidden things
Q: Is the reason Stuyvesant High School was more than 70 percent Asian and that Lowell High School in SF was 56 percent Asian before the SF school board dismantled its admissions test "white supremacy"?
Virtually everyone authorized to answer this question will tell you "yes", since the "model minority myth" is used to make Asians a "wedge" to justify continued oppression of blacks and Hispanics
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21 Mar
The biggest Substack accounts tend to belong to people who started blogging in the early 2000's, accruing large email lists over the decades. Writers that didn't do that can't hope to compete.
They are fulfilling an essential function and mostly doing it quite ably:
Those who want the independence of Substack but don't have enormous pre-existing mailing lists can't be merely duplicative of what the big fish do.

There are other areas besides challenging the narrative enforcement that need doing.
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21 Mar
Once you see the media as the orchestrators of an ongoing passion play expressing the values of a new quasi-theological monoculture that it has become, its behavior becomes more readily explicable andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/when-the-nar…
What's interesting is that in addition to the 16 pieces of propaganda restating the dogma, there is still that one piece of reporting that undermines the other 16 that still runs in their pages. You can still reconstruct reality based on what appears in the mainstream press.
It just takes a lot of effort of critical analysis that is most visibly being done these days on four Substacks -- Greenwald, Taibbi, Sullivan, and Yglesias
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21 Mar
The cathedral at the Loyola campus of Concordia University in Montreal has been converted into an ecumenical religious observance site with symbols from Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, wiccan deities, etc. superimposed atop the stained glass
One would think that arriving at this place of post-theological diversity and inclusion meant the complacent repose -- the terminal boredom at the end of History -- that Fukuyama foresaw in 1991....
But he also saw that people would become nostalgic for struggle and sacrifice and the heroic deeds it summoned up rather than perpetual tendency to the museum of history
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20 Mar
Should I be more "above the fray"
Late night results may differ from early morning ones
These results are genuinely helpful, I might otherwise listen to the civility mongers in my mention. (not really)
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20 Mar
I haven't really sent out anything on it yet, but 100 percent of my Twitter followers should sign up for my free Substack mailing list: wesleyyang.substack.com
And all my followers willing to pay for content should become micro-patrons of my personal venue where you can $1 (or more, at your discretion) for an essay by myself or a group of interesting contributors patreon.com/m/selectedcorr…
There is a paid option on my Substack, and a handful of people have chosen it even though I'm not posting any content.

For now, it's a way to give me a tip for the unpaid content I produce here and on Clubhouse, though if enough people joined, perhaps I'd start.....
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