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Wesley Yang

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13 May

You tend to get canceled for the attempts to make an anodyne, blameless statement rather than a detailed, specific, impassioned argument. They won't want to re-circulate the latter if it has a chance of being persuasive.

Never make anodyne, blameless statements except as a form of satirical performance art clearly intended to bait people into overreaction.

Anyone smart and effective will know not to take the bait; only freakish spazzes will go for it

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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

11 May

https://twitter.com/MonicaCKlein/status/1392091392290217984

Holy shit

https://twitter.com/MonicaCKlein/status/1392091392290217984

Andrew Yang got it exactly right

Must have been super fun for Gay to dunk on other people's numeracy

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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

10 May

What do the practitioners of CRT, which holds that white people in a white supremacist society only permit progress for nonwhites when doing so also benefits whites, say about their own elevation to cultural hegemony?

This is not meant as some rhetorical gotcha. TNC was genuinely confused and troubled that so many white people wanted to genuflect at his feet, and rather than step into the role of guru, withdrew from public disputation and went to write comic books.

Do CRT exponents see the sudden cultural dominance of CRT as itself an example of interest convergence that ultimately benefits whites or do they see it as a break and deliverance from this process?

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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

8 May

Calling intersectional Kendi-DiAngeloism "Critical Race Theory" was always going to fall prey to the selective pedantry of the left professoriat

It had to become much coarser, stupider, and more propagandistic to arrive at this point where this is being taught to STEM teachers...

But really all the fundamental errors in reasoning and proportionality were present in those articles appearing in Harvard Law Review in 1983

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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

4 May

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.

desertnote-97667.medium.com/open-letter-re…

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...

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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

3 May

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

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