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29 Oct, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Does anyone, anywhere, regardless of their views on Taibbi, view this as a realistic assessment of the current situation and his thoughts on them?
2/ Good piece so far, not meaning to knock the author

nymag.com/intelligencer/…
3/ Fellow lefties who hate Taibbi or Yglesias or to a lesser extent me constantly make this very self-flattering error of imagining our disagreement with them stems from a profound shortcoming on our part: We're jealous, or we think there are too many writers of color (LOL),
4/ or we are mad Twitter gives "the average person" (LOL) a voice. What they will never, ever do, in my experience, is actually openly discuss the pros and cons of their own views on, for example, identity and testimony, or HR issues, etc. etc. Again: self-flattering.
5/ I've become incapable of basic grammar on Twitter but obviously first tweet should have been thoughts on 'it,' not 'them.'

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30 Oct
The American Medical Association has just released "Advancing Health Equity: A Guide to Language, Narrative and Concepts," a strange document that calls for doctors to insert progressive politics into even plain statements of fact.

ama-assn.org/system/files/a…
2/ After the lengthy "Land And Labor Acknowledgement" -- new to me but apparently the evolution of the land acknowledgement -- the document quickly lays out guidelines that would make it very hard for doctors to write or speak clearly.
3/ For example, the word 'vulnerable' is out. You're not supposed to say "vulnerable groups," because this doesn't communicate progressive political beliefs. Try "Groups that have been economically/
socially marginalized."
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26 Oct
Anne Applebaum: This guy's career was ruined because he criticized arson

Michael Hobbes, summing up Applebaum's article: He got in trouble for criticizing BLM protesters

The dude is just fundamentally incapable of any charity or nuance when describing his perceived enemies
2/ This is *intentional*! He read the essay he is criticizing and decided to shield from his readers (no link to the incident either) the fact that the dude's career was destroyed because he said arson is bad. Instead, vague it up so it sounds like he's anti-BLM.
3/ “America is, like, the only country in the world that has prison rape” is the best Hobbes quote, from his Matthew Shepherd episode of YWA. (1:16:00 in that one.)

That this dude ever caught on as a debunker is just insane -- and it's such an annoying, dishonest style.
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25 Oct
1/ New from me, for paid subscribers: It Probably Makes More Sense To Banish College Admissions Essays Than To Banish SAT Scores

One thing I've harped on is how certain very flat understandings of race are erasing the importance and influence of class.

jessesingal.substack.com/p/it-probably-…
2/ This is a great example. Banishing the SAT is being treated as a blow struck for 'equity.' The effect of this has been to heighten the importance of admissions essays.

But imagine you're a rich parent and your goal is to get your child into a top school. Statistically, it
3/ is very unlikely your child is in the top 5% of SAT scorers. It is also very unlikely you can get your child there -- we know thanks to the research highlighted here that the test is much less gameable than many think.

So what practical effect will

slate.com/technology/201…
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25 Oct
The claim that British leftist feminists are allied with, like, Victor Orban relies on logical chains like "A UK court thought the evidence for blockers and hormones was paltry, and other people opposed to blockers and hormones used that ruling as evidence, and therefore..."
2/ You also have to believe that "a small cadre of British feminists with immense social capital" have major policy-making influence. I can only assume they meet in a bunker 20 floors below Big Ben.

This is a conspiracy theory and should be laughed at.
3/ What's going on here is JCW supports a very unpopular policy -- full-blown self-ID -- can't can't argue it on the merits. So she and others are trying to go the guilt-by-association route. It would be better to simply debate self-ID, which is not yet law in most places.
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22 Oct
Michael Hobbes wants you to know that it's okay for someone's academic career, years in the making, to be permanently torpedoed if they say "sex is a biological reality," because this is 'TERFese' (?) for “trans people don’t exist” (???).

Extremely gross but helpfully revealing.
Does Colin Wright *actually* think trans people don't exist? Did he *actually* write anything that could be fairly construed as such? Details! It isn't Michael Hobbes' career on the line, so who cares? Shorthand's okay.

This shit is so fucking gross, man. It's disgraceful.
First image is Hobbes' argument that if you, an academic, are coerced into an interview with an administrator because of a meritless complaint, that's the "system working as intended." Then my reporting on the "system working as intended" for a Palestinian student at CUNY.
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21 Oct
1/ This AP photo caption reads "Comedian and videographer Vito Gesualdi screams profanities as he engages with peaceful protesters begging him to leave." A damaging claim about @VitoGesualdi, circulated globally.

It never happened. Join me on some basic photo-trutherism.
2/ The photo is very distinctive :

-someone holding tambourine with two hands and blue plaid sleeves

-Gesualdi holding two hands up

-photographer in green shirt back and to his left
3/ Anyone who has been too online the last day-plus already recognizes the tambourine from the protester who has a "REPENT, MOTHERFUCKER!!!" meltdown after protesters destroy Gesualdi's sign in this viral video.

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