I went to go hear Derrida speak once. The talk was about murmuring. He murmured the entire speech. You could hardly hear it. Everyone was craning to tell even what language he was speaking. We were bored by all the murmuring. It was also amazing. It was at NYU.
The French word for the murmur is le murmure, & I think he said, or maybe the program said, that the word is onomatopoetic in both languages. So it’s possible he just said the title of the lecture over and over for a full hour.
I feel sorry for anyone who skipped a Derrida lecture because they’d been told he was a fraud & believed they could always tell a fraud from the real thing, especially when it came to philosophy, but I hope they enjoyed non-murmuring by non-fraud philosophers.
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It’s tedious to keep posting these — I’m tweeting about 10% — but, more than a month after Tucker Carlson attacked me by name & photo, they keep coming. Many to my mailbox. All with threats.
Somewhat astoundingly there’s a Seattle return address on the envelope.
And there are email addresses, Twitter & Instagram handles, Facebook accts, & all kinds of digital signatures associated w this campaign. Should someone in law enforcement see this treasure trove of hate?
I appreciate the suggestion that I go to employers. A few weeks ago I sent some signed threats I received to the Manhattan Institute, where the harasser had once worked, and his name—Bill McGowan—was swiftly removed from their site.
What motivation besides homicidal racism and misogyny would drive someone to dehumanize Asian American women as temptations that required elimination by murder? latimes.com/opinion/story/…
George Floyd, detained for a negligible petty crime, got killed by police.
Robert Aaron Long, who confessed to multiple murders, got their sympathy.
Putting aside even the white supremacy: Maybe police are just terrible at their jobs.
24% of the apparent murderer’s HS classmates in Georgia identify as people of color. Why weren’t they asked about the his character?
They might not have seen his passion for guns & God as evidence he was a “nerd.” To them he might have seemed like a “murderer.”
Ditto women who knew him from his porn and massage haunts. The ones he murdered.
I’ve crossed the street to avoid men who look like Brett Kavanaugh & this guy for decades bc on the data they’re the only ones who have ever attacked me.
As long as it’s same-race same-sex cops & classmates who decide who’s dangerous & who’s a good Christian, we’re in trouble.