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Wesley Yang

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28 Jul

Ideological succession refers to the bourgeois moral revolution that flowered at the midpoint of the decade, composed in equal measure of new political propositions, new moral premises, and new psychological underpinnings, in pursuit of what it declares to be "social justice"

We would have said that it was understandable or urged people to empathize with Biles’ pain at any time prior to the summer of 2021; only today do we speak of the “radical courage” of withdrawal

You can see older people zealously seeking to put themselves in alignment, but what matters more than those overdetermined performances is a younger cohort who does not know any other way

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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

28 Jul

https://twitter.com/jaypgreene/status/1420112932059418632

DEI staff ostensibly are there to "diversify" the university. It is itself a jobs program for those who majored in grievance studies. Rather than change the faculty, they now command a larger share of university resources for themselves.

https://twitter.com/jaypgreene/status/1420112932059418632

Their role is to intimidate the rest of the faculty and staff into compliance with ideological mandates, and inculcate students into the cult of grievance to extract further sinecures for themselves

It is bureaucratic entrepreneurialism that has captured the power of moral compulsion -- these two forces in alignment with one another cannot be stopped

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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

27 Jul

Osaka was no fluke. Gen Z really is redefining heroism for the Age of Self-Care .

Will becoming dominant in the sport and then quitting on the big stage for vague mental health grounds become the path to the big sponsorships?

Each day brings stories that only depraved visionaries like Kafka could dream up at the turn of the 20th century, but that are utterly predictable and inevitable now

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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

27 Jul

Living in a vast, prosperous, technologically advance empire means that foreign wars, financial crises, domestic wars on terror, pandemics, and the largest protest movement in American history can all go on unabated with little direct impact on hundreds of millions of Americans

Tens of millions of Americans are affected.

Hundreds of millions are not.

Millions of people are affected by the opiate crisis. I don't know one person who has overdosed. Some people know multiple people who have. I would have zero awareness that this mega-event was happening were it not for reporting on statistics. There are 50x more people like me.

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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

26 Jul

White people underrepresented relative to share of population as a whole.

Asian people overrepresented by 7x relative to share of population as a whole.

But of course "relative to share of population as a whole" is the wrong standard.

If the wrong standard is applied, the remedy would be to decrease Asian employment at Google by 37 points, and boast white employment at Google by 18 points.

But that would be absurd.

Don't listen to anyone promulgating the application of standards that lead to absurd remedies

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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

20 Jul

Kendi purifies the argument for affirmative action and removes all the complications and ambivalence written into court doctrine around it. He says that the way to know if there is racism present is if disparities are present. If disparities are present, then racism is present.

It's very hard for liberals that have accepted the case for affirmative action to reject Kendi-ism, though many, like Ezra Klein, are discomfitted by the purified version of the fuzzier, hazier practice they've embraced

It's precisely the fuzzy haziness, however, that made affirmative action a workable kludge in a system purporting to confer rights onto individuals rather than groups and that proclaimed itself meritocratic

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