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Wesley Yang

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8 Jun

Land acknowledgments now sweeping through nonprofit sector; Canada was a few years ahead of the US on this but expect the apparatus to go into overdrive from here on out law.northwestern.edu/about/diversit…

“Beds are Burning” came out when I was in eighth grade and was one of the first songs I dubbed onto a cassette tape. “Let’s give it back” was one of those statements that seemed like mere rhetoric but delivered with so much conviction that it seemed he must have meant it

The way we went from Caitlin Jenner on the cover of Vanity Fair to “puberty blockers are a human right” in less than a decade, it seems entirely plausible that “let’s give it back” becomes a real movement in the next few years...

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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

4 Jun

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.”

truthout.org/articles/robin…

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

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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

3 Jun

“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…

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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

3 Jun

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.

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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

3 Jun

I have difficulty believing that anyone has any real emotional investment in these months, including those who these months ostensibly honor

May was "AAPI month"

Why is every corporation posting cringe?
Oh, okay...

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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

31 May

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...

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