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Wesley Yang

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30 Sep

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This is an important turn that Charles Krauthammer anticipated in his piece about "Defining Deviancy Up" aei.org/research-produ…

https://twitter.com/scholemtzadak/status/1443576849917833234

One way of thinking about Successor Ideology is as the resulting state ideology when this inversion has been completed: "a radically less disciplinary society of the street; a radically more disciplinary of the workplace, schoolyard, boardroom, and bedroom..."

What matters here is the structure of the overall change, not the particulars. Krauthammer looks bad in his remarks on homosexuality and date rape -- that's the whole point! A whole new moral regime was in the process of being erected and now we are in it!

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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

28 Sep

This is probably the first song I really loved at the age of 7.

Probably not a great song to start off life loving.

We found an 8-track cassette of Country Sunshine, an Adam-12 compilation record in a used Ford LTD station wagon with wood paneling and listened to it everywhere we went.

This is how I learned about Americans.

Lord Mr Ford

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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

19 Sep

Imagine being Angela Davis in 1986 after six years of Reagan. Pop culture is Rambo, Top Gun. Could she picture the summer of 2020? What separates political visionaries from the rest of us is that she undoubtedly could.

Conversely, David Horowitz spent those decades writing what everyone regarded as unhinged far right screeds warning of the subversive influence of his former New Left compatriots as they marched through academia

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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

19 Sep

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Someone observed that @ebruenig is “politically left but culturally middle American”…one should underscore the extraordinary individual pertinacity required to put oneself through elite grooming institutions while remaining the latter

And of course that extraordinary effort invariably alters the underlying substrate thus preserved through it

There is a certain parasocial relationship to the self that proceeds the ability to project it so effortlessly to others

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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

18 Sep

College applicant whose essay consisted of "Trans Women are Women" one hundred times accepted into all Ivies and Stanford

Photo is first Google Image result for handsome blond student athlete

Joke made in vain hope that mocking it before it happens will preempt it

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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

16 Sep

The story is the same everywhere, though the particulars vary. Where it hasn't happened yet, it will soon.

"Others, including prominent historians, acknowledge privately that the project is riddled with errors and omissions but refuse to say so publicly." opera-historica.com/pdfs/oph/2021/…

It seems to me the relevant question is which of these rival characterizations of the error that the NYT Mag clarified is correct.

Was the seeking of a correction mere pedantic nit-picking, or was the claim one that would have resulted in failure on a high school history paper?

What we know for sure is that the NYT consulted the historian Leslie Harris in the fact checking process. She told them the claim was false and should be omitted, and was ignored.

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