"I'm so exhausted" is a form of credentialing, qualifying oneself as suffering from one of the mental ailments (OCD, self-diagnosed autism spectrum disorder, in this case depression, etc.) that allows implicit self-identification as "disabled"
The percentage of students considered "disabled" at America's most expensive liberal arts college increased from 5 percent in 2014 to 22 percent in 2019
Some people this is because rich people are gaming the system to get extra time on tests -- and no doubt there is happening. But it may be that what began as a cynical expedient eventually came to reshape the subjective experiences of a generation. The latter is worse!
The most cursory perusal of the Twitter bios of various DSA-adjacent he/hims will bear out the first tweet. People proudly brandish their self-diagnoses as a credential.
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So interesting that a major scholar must describe "one of the most robust findings" in criminology -- that "more police officers in the street leads to less violent crime" -- as one of its "most uncomfortable findings."
I mean, it *is* uncomfortable to have fifty DSA members in your mentions yelling at you that police don't prevent crime but in most other settings the idea that this "uncomfortable finding" could possibly not be true hasn't even occurred to most people.
You see the way he's trying to "pace and lead" an audience of presumed "defund" enthusiasts back to reality here...not sure if the WaPo really consists of such enthusiasts...make it does?
List of charges against Andrew Yang in open letter by a group of progressive Asian activists includes "you’ve called for increased funding for the NYPD hate crimes task force instead of community-based alternatives."
"Asians Against Yang" is an inherently funny name for a URL, credit where due
Of course a robust majority of Asian New Yorkers support Yang because, say it again kids in unison, kids, "progressive activists do not represent the people they claim to represent...:
I met a guy in SF in 2018 who said he had dropped out of college in order to work for a startup to earn money to buy Bitcoin. Bitcoin was at $20K then. I asked if it wasn't at its peak. He said "the right time to buy Bitcoin is always now."
The price collapsed soon afterward.
But it's nearly $70K now.
People that bought Bitcoin early feel like they have escaped the matrix, transcended society, and live among us without being of us
A teacher at a Manhattan private school who questioned whether "individualism" and a "right to comfort" were "characteristics of white supremacy" was accused by the head of school of causing "neurological disturbance in students' beings and systems." nypost.com/2021/04/13/nyc…
This really should not be a hard call.
It's extremely tedious to keep having to say "the insane thing is insane."
I think a lot of polarized online politics are presaged by punk/hardcore/post-punk youth subcultures of the 1980’s and 1990’s
Straightedge, skinhead, riot grrl etc
This essay by Aaron Lake Smith discusses the origins of call out culture in the anarchist/punk subculture and seeing it go mainstream oldwaysways.com/tryhard-lateco…