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...
"Professionalism, formality, and impersonality in the workplace" is a sorely needed reform that all should get behind
That this demand has to take the form of "women uncomfortable", "harassment", "sexual misconduct" etc. is one of the realities of the moment. But its solution is a restoration of pre-therapeutic behaviorial norms of personal dignity.
Now, it should be noted that the literary and artistic worlds have never been places where professional norms obtain. It's a place where charismatic weirdos who don't fit into professional workplaces go to eke out a living.
These institutions do badly with succession because the charismatic oddball who set the tone at first had a special authority that the person who succeeds them does not. (Believer and Paris Review are examples.)
This is right, of course, but the ultimate resolution is a grand compromise where employers and employees on alike behave more professionally and impersonally within work settings and leave the personal trauma to their therapists...
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
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?