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28 Oct, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Why do LGBTQ parades have to call for freeing Palestine and White House plans for gender equity have to call for the elimination of cash bail? I call it the "unity of oppression" thesis at the heart of the Successor Ideology, which is the astroturfed credo of the activist class
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Also, it's *very* different when an activist movement shouts out to all the various marginalized folx at a rally ...and when the White House is so under the spell of the activist sensibility that the gender plan must also entail penal reform...

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30 Oct
Teaching a reasonable balance of the good and bad in American history is not that hard, it just takes someone able to deal with moral complexity, which the new monomania rules out as a matter of principle
It's also important that we convey both the substantive good and bad and the capacity to deal with moral complexity into young people. Those who say it doesn't matter because nobody learns anything anyway are just being the worst kind of contrarian.
I'm totally fine with the message that much of the integration of ethnonational and religious diversity in the US was premised upon the exclusion of a racialized underclass, and those who availed themselves of those benefits owe a debt to that group
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30 Oct
Dave Chappelle was "the first person in his family not to go to college who wasn't a slave." His great grandfather, who was born a slave, went on to become a pastor and the president of a black college.
His father was the dean of students at Antioch College -- which was the institution where the sexual protocol that would later be called "affirmative consent" was first imposed.
His mother was the founders of the country's first black studies program and later a Unitarian Universalist minister.
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23 Oct
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17 Oct
Better than decent chance Netflix eventually caves
Reasonable to expect 1.) statement of desire to listen and learn, 2.) implied promise never to let similar content on the platform again 3.) no more Dave, 10X more Gadsby & co. going forward
Why do I think so? Here's an article about his wife: hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-…
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16 Oct
The truth is that Chappelle is more or less the modal black Democratic Party voter — ultra-woke on things pertaining to blacks and by far the least woke on any other progressive cause, especially feminism and gender stuff
And unfriendly to Israel
First reference to Space Jews meant people who left earth and came back to take it back (ie Israel), second to victims who go elsewhere to become oppressors (ie Israel)
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15 Oct
“That’s all changed”

Editor’s note: none of the facts listed in the first paragraph has changed nytimes.com/2021/10/14/bus…
One by one, people and institutions realize that in order to remain tethered to the reality that is the basis of their enterprise, they must pass through the simulation
Chapelle did it and Netflix went with him
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