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Wesley Yang

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6 Oct

It was always going to be tricky to both be the primary organization defending and advancing LGBTQ rights and the primary organization defending the right to call people faggots.

There was a unique power to that configuration so long as the principle was held in high esteem.

The premise of the organization is that the ability to do the former is dependent on the ability to do the latter

But what if we made a turn where the powerful all smiled on LGBTQ rights and so there is no need to protect advocacy of LGBTQ as a form of "unpopular speech" and we can simply ban the bad unpopular speech while continuing to support the good, popular speech?

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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

6 Oct

A lot of reporting that goes viral these days is just exposing to the wider world the truth about intra-female social dynamics

I don't mean that all female social dynamics inexorably lead to the fatal terminus of the Kidney story or the TimesUp meltdown. I mean that there is a distinctively gendered character to the *way* in which things go awry that is more salient as more women lead organizations

We already know a lot about the dynamics of male organizational and social dysfunction, often terminating in overt violence...

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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

5 Oct

Douthat is spot on here. There is a real danger and one should not deny its existence, but it is "not a singular danger that should organize all other political choices and suspend all other disagreements. nytimes.com/2021/10/05/opi…

Douthat grants Kagan that was merely mistaken in good faith about the existential threat requiring war posed by Iraq. But plenty of evidence that the war was meant to introduce a new form of militarized foreign policy and claims of existential danger were a pretext.

The sudden coalescence of various arms of partisan media around an ostensibly existential danger suggests that we are seeing the manufacture of a pretext menat to "organize all other political choices and suspend all other disagreements."

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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

2 Oct

Ozy Media founder Carlos Watson.

"Fastest growing talk show in YouTube History with over 100 Million Viewers Total."

"interviewing everyone from presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush to Jameela Jamil, Heidi Klum and Bill Gates."

"95.5K subscribers."

Because no one had ever heard of Ozy before it was revealed to be a fraud, no one really cares now.

But one Google search reveals how excruciatingly obvious the sham was.

You can be connected to celebrities and presidents, get magazine journalists to write glowing pieces about you and puff pieces on network news and...get a fraction of what low to middling level video game streamers get...

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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

30 Sep

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

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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