The only fix for anything you’re stuck on in public life is to learn more languages
The #StopAsianHate curriculum could drop the unscientific sensitivity stuff and have native speakers teach a semester of conversational Korean and Chinese, including slang, and advance the cause exponentially.
It’s not punitive. It’s not politically torqued. It’s just education, deference to expertise. And no matter where you go, even if you speak one of these languages already, it’s useful & a workout for the brain.
I even could have used a demo of far-right language by a native speaker, including dog whistles, red meat & “liberal tears” lingo, also Deep State esoterica, in 2015.

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Also please for the love of god don't say you don't understand the blockchain — "understanding" things is for the rigid olds
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Betty Friedan was there.
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Biden’s infrastructure plan is a beaut.

My column today for a break from sordid Gaetz.

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The idea that dystopia is only a function of “showing papers” creates superstition & madness.

It wd seem it “does not get more dystopian” than a terrified population sick & dying of a plague.

The remedy: read more than that one Orwell novel
I hate to marm it up here, but this is the case for literary education—including in sci fi.

Begin with EM Forster & go through socialist realist satire & up through Huxley/Orwell to Ready Player One.
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These policies are usually figured as ones that ask for *minute sacrifices* from self-styled Great Men.

If dystopia actually interests these readers, LESS AYN RAND.
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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.
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Robert Aaron Long, who confessed to multiple murders, got their sympathy.
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