This is why no election of a governor or president really matter with regard to these issues
Nuking the Tumblr server in 2008 might have availed us
There’s literally no way for SNL to parody that other than repeating the script word for word
Seems significant to act n the premise that the literally blind *need to know your race*

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5 Nov
"I have a right to believe whatever I like without interference"

"Since my own belief necessarily entails others sharing in it, I have a right to compel others to share in it"
When radical subjectivism acquires the force of government compulsion
We have reached a key inflection point in the elaboration and extension of rights discourse, in which new imperial conceptions of rights cannibalize the ones out of which they grew. I call this process "ideological succession"
Read 5 tweets
2 Nov
A McAuliffe victory would be crushing to the movements opposing CRT and gender ideology in schools

A Youngkin victory would have minimal impact on the advance of CRT and gender ideology in schools
Like Dems might they have to tamp down salience of the issue, but the underlying process is not controlled by electoral politics— it’s what the schools of education are doing and are configured to keep doing
Dem party operatives and aligned media will have to tamp down failed gaslighting campaign, which will make the media marginally less unpleasant
Read 4 tweets
2 Nov
Chappelle referred to himself as being a rich man living amidst the "tiki torch whites" in rural Ohio. Perhaps that's true of the surrounding environs, but Yellow Springs, where his father was Dean of Students at Antioch College, began as a utopian progressive community...
And remains one today: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Sp…
There are many sites that harbored escaping slaves in Yellow Springs
Read 4 tweets
2 Nov
"Pretty privilege" and "fatphobia" are being institutionalized freebeacon.com/campus/yale-la…
Pretty privilege pits the few against the many. It is the realest privilege there is.

But the *remedy* for it would by necessity be totalitarian.
This is a great Catch-22 moment
Read 6 tweets
1 Nov
Carlton and Urkel were the objects of fond and scornful derision — comic foils, definitely not models to emulate
Leave aside the divisiveness, it’s just objectively wrong and so bad as cultural observation and analysis
Diff’rent Strokes and Webster were something else — but from a prior decade, and a decade that would go on to make the no. 1 show in America and the normative image of the American family out of the non-whitewashed but very upper middle class Huxtable family…
Read 4 tweets
1 Nov
The meta-humor of "Let's Go Brandon" is that by being facially more innocuous than "Fuck Joe Biden", it "triggers the libs" even more, because esoteric speech stimulates the imagination to assign even more nefarious meanings than open and direct hostility
It's also a reference to the sportscaster who coined it in the first place -- a journalist who seemed to be covering up for a "Fuck Joe Biden" chant, thereby illustrating on air the will to falsify reality as clearly as the "mostly peaceful" chyron over a burning cityscape
Boomer libs who are incapable of being irony-poisoned to 4chan levels end up the ultimate butt of this meta-humor, which is just 4chan humor scaled up to national scale
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