Now that violent hate crimes against Asian Americans are gaining media attention, CCP advocates are seizing the moment to call Uighur concentration camps "a fake genocide."
Racial discrimination against Asians, "model minority" bullshit, etc. don't absolve the CCP of anything.
For one thing, Chinese Uighurs ARE ASIANS, and they're telling the world what's happening to them at the hands of the CCP *themselves.* It's insane to argue that listening to them is, in any sense, anti-Asian or "yellow peril."
"The evidence, including from the Chinese Government's own documents, satellite imagery, and eyewitness testimony is overwhelming." cnn.com/2021/03/22/pol…
"China's extensive program of repression includes severe restrictions on religious freedoms, the use of forced labor, mass detention in internment camps, forced sterilizations, and the concerted destruction of Uyghur heritage." cnn.com/2021/03/22/pol…
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SF school board continues its hot mess streak. I'd like to say that accusing Asians of white supremacy is the most absurd thing yet, but incredibly that is arguable
FWIW, this is the same board member who effectively led the charge to dismantle the admissions process for the city's only nationally-competitive public high school in order to racially rebalance the student body, which is... majority Asian
What I find most irritating about this is that everyone paying attention knew Collins was making comments like this, even in the context of discussions about school board business. Nobody cared until hate crimes against Asians became the hashtag issue of the week.
There's a fundamental misconception about cancel culture that I really think needs to be corrected: the idea that being "anti-cancel culture" means being against very strong social consequences/punishments *in general*
Most concerns about cancel culture have to do with three common features:
- The punishment is vastly disproportionate to the "crime"
- There are critical extenuating factors that are readily ignored
- There can be no redemption, even via sincere apology & demonstrable growth
I bring this up because there's been a recent slew of public figures & wannabe activists outright lying — verifiably, and in public — with the obvious intention of causing maximum destruction to the victims' lives. This isn't hard: people who do this should be fucking cancelled.
@ggreenwald Taylor Lorenz went after me on-and-off for weeks over my activity on Clubhouse, screencapping my invites and rooms and insinuating to her following that I was some sort of racist nutcase. The only woman she's ever given a flying fuck about is herself.
@ggreenwald At one point, she even falsely claimed that I had photoshopped a screenshot that I had taken of a man making a fairly horrifying comment about me. Once she realized that several other people had seen the tweet I had screencapped, she deleted the accusation and disappeared.
@ggreenwald When it's a woman *she dislikes* who's receiving nasty comments online, her first impulse is to claim with absolutely no evidence whatsoever that that woman is lying. She has absolutely no standing to crusade against online abuse of any kind. She's too often the perp or enabler.
I'm listening to a SF school board meeting and the current topic of debate is whether a gay dad with mixed-race kids is diverse enough for a PAC appointment, because he's white
Nobody on this call has even suggested that the guy is unqualified, many people saying he's overqualified, this doesn't seem to matter at all
"Seth would be the only male on the PAC, and the only LGBTQ member. He has a mixed race child.
This notion of 'oh, he is just a white person and therefore we can't have him'
is absolutely nonsense.
There's diversity beyond the color of our skin."
I've been thinking a lot about a Clubhouse I did w @naval when the app was still pretty new. He said (to paraphrase) that in relationships, the only "dealbreakers" that matter concern values, and that most people don't have many values, they just think their *opinions* are values
Values, he explained, are things like what you will actually *do* when one of your parents gets sick or your kid is in serious trouble
The insight I had today is that it's almost impossible to respect someone who doesn't share your few real values. A lot of respect (and disrespect) is performative, but I mean that in the deepest recesses of your soul you will not respect someone incompatible in this way
Elon says he entered a pretty deep existential depression very young re: the big questions, e.g. "why are we here? why do we exist?" Found Douglas Adams. Thought a lot about why civilizations fail, for both external and internal reasons
Elon indicates that he sees a critical threshold re: Mars, where an outpost there can succeed barring resources delivered from Earth. He considers this a passage through at least one version of the "great filter" (Fermi paradox)