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Wesley Yang

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13 Jun

The weird irony is that the “whiteness” approach to American history and society, which definitely was once true, became mainstream at precisely the moment when it is provable at a glance that it is no longer true

This, by the way, is why what feels like a weird non-sequitur in NHJ’s 1619 essay, where she takes a shot at the litigants in the Harvard Asian American discrimination lawsuit, is actually at the very center of that project’s concerns.

Students activists at Cornell and Stanford called for tracking of the ancestral American formerly enslaved population at the schools and for set asides specifically targeted for them distinct from black immigrants who tend to take up a large share of diversity admits

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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

12 Jun

When I say that wokeness moves from the pursuit of justice to the redistribution of injustice, one of the things I mean is that where it has succeeded best is in making it as tense and uncomfortable to be a white man in an office as it once was to be a minority or woman

It has managed to do this without making anyone else more comfortable. But by leveling the discomfort level between groups it has created a kind of equality.

Some truly wonderful white men in this thread

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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

11 Jun

The publication of Nazi-like ideas in respectable academic publication is a necessary but not sufficient condition for actual genocide.

Still worth nothing the former when it happens....

Ideally neither condition is ever met. The meeting of the necessary condition should be regarded with due alarm and should raise questions about the antecedent moral and intellectual failures that enabled it

The attitude of indulgence toward dehumanizing rhetoric toward some categories of person, and the hesitancy to condemn such rhetoric forthrightly for fear of being seen to be on the “wrong side” of what is in fact a clear cut question both expose deep pathologies

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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

10 Jun

Imposing ideological conformity onto large institutions does not happen without fully elaborated materials, a cadre of evangelists and true believers, the support of the foundations that fund curricular change, and a willingness to apply coercive power nypost.com/2021/06/08/tea…

What happed in 2017-2018 -- ideological succession -- was the culmination of the patient work of many decades

It happened in thousands of seminar rooms and symposia of obscure, little regarded academic departments.

At a certain point, it suborned those with the power to make change happen at scale and catalyzed into movement that knows that tomorrow -- and today -- belongs to them

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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

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

6 Jun

Homeschooling showed me you can teach the K-5 math curriculum to a 6 year old in six weeks with 1 hour of instruction per day

BrainPOP Jr + top search result on YouTube were sufficient.

She is bright but not some super outlier

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