“It’s some of the most shoddy, methodologically flawed research we’ve ever seen published in these journals,” the doctor in the Zoom meeting said, “with sensational conclusions that seem totally unjustified from the results of the study.”bariweiss.substack.com/p/what-happens…
Recall debates I had in 2019 with folx smugly assuring me that the scope of wokeness would remain confined to universities and cultural bureaucracies.
It was always going to infect critical disciplines like medicine.
Many new forms of activism will as a certainty inflict "total disaster", help no one, and accrue a large body count of those who might otherwise have lived as those pushing for them congratulate themselves on pursuing justice bariweiss.substack.com/p/what-happens…
Some debate in the mentions on whether the study referenced in the first tweet is as bad as claimed.
A succinct statement of what I call “the Successor Ideology”, which is the coalescence of every strand of academic radicalism into a single synoptic account of the oppression inherent in what Kelley calls “liberal multiculturalism.”
His identification of slavery with colonization makes sense; his invocation of all forms of gender normativity feels perfunctory and tacked on; but it is this insistence on the unity of all oppression that is the distinctive move
I hate all the companies that advertise on YouTube -- that soap guy, "manscaped", all the financial market scammers
The Amazon sellers...Are they making huge bank off of this crap?
I guess YouTube may have an interest in having the ads be annoying to sell more premium subscriptions. But the brands have an interest in not being annoying.
Reminder that the most thoroughgoing critique of the 1619 Project came from the World Socialist Website
The Trots have their own idiosyncratic line that has in recent years led them into a general anti-PC stance....however, the critique of the project was substantive and painstaking wsws.org/en/topics/even…
What a lot of folks seem to do is wait until the conservative enemy appears on the field of battle and fight them.
Case to be made that conservatives largely exist to consolidate support for certain positions by signaling through their opposition what must be supported...
Both the MAGA and the equity agendas are deconstructed by the existence of a non-white immigrant group that outperforms all native groups, including whites, on certain key metrics.
Both of those tweets are trolls working out the inconsistent inner logic of two ways of looking at something that resists simple partisan framing -- and that calls on us to think harder....
Sorry guys, I'm sure you know MAGA types that are not bigots or xenophobes and only care about the legality of immigration.
But a movement that seeks to end birthright citizenship is taking a big step beyond that.