This must have been an extremely fun paragraph to be able to write and publish in the New York Times nytimes.com/2021/05/02/bus…
You really should be able to say “henceforth, we will only endorse one candidate per race...”
Imagine living in such a bubble of oblivious self-regard that you need to learn from your own paper’s media columnist what a debacle that dual endorsement was
He gave you a chance to be like “in retrospect, probably wasn’t a great idea...” and at least rescue yourself from lacking all self awareness
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Open letter from employees about Believer editor who resigned after accidentally exposing hisgenitals on Zoom, cites "an expectation to divulge personal stories of trauma."
Rather than wokeness run amok, this may be a kind of revolt against wokeness.
Rather than claim that the genital image "traumatized" them, the workers are in fact revolting against an implicit demand that they trade trauma stories for recognition.
"Freedom from the oppressive demand to merchandise one's personal pain" is probably the most important conceivable intervention in today's literary world...
Right. Every year 1200 high achieving black and Hispanic NYC students receive fully funded scholarships to elite prep schools. nypost.com/2018/06/09/how…
BK Tech was more than half black and Hispanic as recently as 1991. As the scholarship programs ramped up, the highest achieving black and Hispanic students no longer target the SHSAT as they have a more desirable option.
The resulting “under-representation” is then presented as a scandal. But it’s just other groups with better options leaving certain schools to poor Asian grinds.
Blue Cross/Blue Shield sees “not enough depressed black people” as a problem that has to be fixed. bcbs.com/the-health-of-…
Maybe white people are over diagnosed?
Japan basically had no cultural recognition of depression as an illness...until Eli Lilly hired cultural anthropologists to design culturally targeted marketing interventions to persuade them to recognize it as such....
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?