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17 Apr, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Literally never reading about whatever it is Bari has done. Thank you.
I just don’t get this whole cohort of people. What are they? Why are they? How come they get to be here? Who can stop them?
I will also tell you a secret: about 60% of the time I have to google who you are talking about when the internet blows up with one of these. I don’t know one from another.
And don’t bother explaining it to me. You actually sound high. I don’t really know what the new republic was or how that one time an editor dated that one woman who hates that other guy and it’s all fought through media jobs and secret code in columns about war.
Why yes I’m not from New York. How did you know??

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I believe this strongly, as a writer and just as a public person. I never — I mean never — google or search my name. People have the right to talk shit about me! It’s absolutely right that they do so without me creeping up in their mentions. Have at it.
I don’t login into goodreads. I don’t go see what Twitter people said about my book. I don’t troll the anon sociology boards. It doesn’t mean I don’t care about my audience. It means I care about myself, my work and my reader.
Some of this started for good reasons. The mean girl wars of the early 2010s. But it’s become a good practice. People with whom I haven’t entered into a covenant aren’t responsible for how I feel. I let them be.
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I have no idea what is happening on Black Cap and Short Soldier. None. I’m still watching but I lost the thread.
The. Dora. Took. His. Arm. And. That. Fools. Toy.
I don’t care what else happens, that’s the entire series for me. It’s all I’m gonna watch.
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I wish every educator did this. Being a devil's advocate makes the discourse poorer and thinner and cheaper. You think you are being Robin Williams in Dead Poet's Society with some carbon copy of the socratic method. In reality, you are a Reddit reply-guy soldier an info war.
Learning to evaluate arguments is a skill. Learning to teach other people how to evaluate arguments is a meta-skill. You likely do not have the skill to do that and you certainly are not doing it in the architecture of media/platforms that does not allow that kind of skill.
A few notes on invoking 1) high school debate and 2) OED. 1) Ask any teacher who ACTUALLY teaches high school debate how much prep work and management it takes to establish an environment conducive to "devil's advocate" argumentation. Then ask yourself if you do that.
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I have serious decision fatigue. Every time someone asks me ANOTHER DAMN QUESTION I have to breathe so I don't snap. No one is *wrong*, I'm just tired.
Anyway, the absolute kindest thing you could do for me - if we have that kind of relationship - is to just take care of whatever it is yourself and tell me about it later. I would truly appreciate it!
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This is a very generative discussion. So, “social class” is supposed to resolve some of these tensions but it is worth asking if it does that for us in practice. It may have become too flat for a really dynamic process.
I have hoped that sociology would evolve this vocabulary by seriously theorizing platforms and power and race. Not that this other only use case. But I think its the best use case right now.
I won’t shamelessly plug my review article on platform capitalism and racial capitalism here but I can if you make me by behaving badly.
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