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13 Aug, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Man, I don’t want to read someone refer to the mythological god Zeus/Jupiter as a “serial abuser” ever again nytimes.com/2021/08/12/art…
I just can’t get morally outraged about a god transforming himself into a cloud of gold dust
All jokes aside, it’s *scary*. It’s bad enough to look back at real human history and try to apply contemporary ethical lenses. But to look back even at mythology and apply contemporary moral lenses to the behavior of make-believe beings from antiquity is madness.
Addendum: @TheOnion was on this story in 1999! theonion.com/todays-women-d…

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19 Jul
I've recently fallen afoul of both a kind of conservative Twitter (for NYT op-ed against CRT bans) and a kind of social justice Twitter (for assorted wrongthink). Both attacked, but I say this seriously––only a part of "woke" Twitter tried to criticize my physical appearance.
It's only anecdotal experience, but it seriously makes me wonder what kind of progress these "progressives" believe they're fighting for and why they believe their ends can justify any kind of nasty means, which, in theory, they would say they're against.
Conservative Twitter gets angry for sure, but only woke Twitter will be like, "the way you are holding your glass of wine is so stupid." LMAO
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19 Jul
Around 27 minutes in, Kendi's reasoning just becomes tortuous.

Who is the "we" here? Who decides the impact of every policy on one abstract identity group against the imagined interest of another? Who says: "This is in the Latino interest"; "This is in the black interest"?
Then when Klein gently but somewhat insistently pushes about whether defunding the police is in the black interest or not, Kendi gives a series of convoluted and unsatisfying answers. Hard to believe such deliberation can work on every single law and policy going forward.
nytimes.com/2021/07/16/pod…
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9 Jul
Yesterday a lot of people were dissatisfied with a distinction I drew between the work of an activist and that of a writer. Quick thread for those who weren't instigating but were genuinely asking, and for whom my responses to Rufo seemed unnecessarily dismissive. /1
I appreciate the people here who are, as I wish to be, seeking clarity. I owe you a fuller answer.

The distinction between writer and activist is important to insist on. The activist (or ideologue) is married to a position, which may or may not be correct on a given subject. /2
By definition the activist’s mission is not to allow doubt or ambiguity to undermine their priors. That's antithetical to the mission of the serious writer, who's there to raise questions and complicate issues—to allow the possibility that new information will change her mind. /3
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8 Jul
This person still descended into that to catch the train!?
New York is crazy
What would it take for you to call an Uber?
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8 Jul
“Yet conservatives, of all people, should recognize compelling arguments for declining to pass a state law that interferes with the prerogatives of local control” ⁦@conor64⁩ clearsighted as usual: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
“commentators on the right have spent decades warning about potential and actual excesses of antidiscrimination statutes, and the many ways that they may conflict with other goods, such as 1stA protections, academic freedom, freedom of religious conscience, freedom of expression”
And a shout out to Murray just made my day:
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30 Jun
.@mtaibbi has robin diangelo's number 🧲

“The ideology of individualism is dependent on a denial of the past as relevant to the present… Individualism denies the significance of race.”

— Robin DiAngelo

“Individualism is for f*gs.”

— Richard Spencer

taibbi.substack.com/p/our-endless-…
Basically, individualism is a central facet of liberalism, of a free society. Beware of those who would try to pressure you out of it.
This is mental:
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