People are documenting the loss of their own minds
Cannot believe how many people are only responding here about the merits of her vax skepticism and not about the insane Star of David she attached to herself!
Final thought: it's amazing how many people who are ready in other contexts to complain about rampant, out-of-control victim culture (often a valid complaint on here!) not to see this as the ne plus ultra of such a dysfunctional dynamic.
*don't see this as
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I appreciated @nhannahjones interventions in this earlier thread of mine. To follow up, this NYT story is emblematic of “CRT praxis.” “The draft also suggested that math should not be colorblind and that teachers could use lessons to explore social justice”nytimes.com/2021/11/04/us/…
This is what people mean. A healthy debate would be about why even math should be shot through with Racecraft. But we are still at the level of arguing over whether anything is even happening. It’s not just a waste of energy, it’s politically ineffective. nytimes.com/2021/11/04/us/…
There is a serious case to be made for why every facet of our public lives should not be inflected with racecraft, and if the argument is that society is so unjust that even math must become an extension of sociology, then that has to be explicitly defended.
Some people are beautiful souls and minds. @CornelWest is really one of them. During our conversation yesterday, knowing my parents were watching, he flipped one of his responses to take a moment to shout them both out by first name. I didn't even know he knew their names.
He always asks after your children. Always speaks to everyone in the zoom, especially the audio technician. Always prefaces any disagreement with a lot of respectful and often complimentary engagement with your point in its best light. I have so much to learn from that example.
A lot of injustice occurs below Franzen's threshold for caring:
“There’s a chilling of nuanced discourse…but I also think, until people start being sent off to Lubyanka for having said the wrong thing to the wrong person, the risk is probably overblown”
He seems to overlook the fact that he is one of the very few writers big enough to ride out the type of mobbing and slander he himself has faced. He'd have been cancelled several times if he weren’t in a particularly privileged position.
Unlike Malcolm Gladwell or the other big names who signed the letter, it's pretty disappointing someone of his stature and talent doesn't want to think harder now about this issue or from a different vantage point.
We have spent the past few years debating how oppressive the U.S. is. These images of Afghans clinging to a U.S. plane and falling from the sky are a damn sobering reminder that while there are no utopias, we'd better appreciate the society we were lucky enough to be born into.
I'll expand this beyond the U.S. I have had conversations with well-to-do Parisians this past year who have said with a straight face that President Macron is "authoritarian," "a tyrant." Let's get some perspective.
If you're lucky enough to be born into a prosperous democracy that isn't dependent on the whims of a foreign presence to keep the forces of chaos and murder at bay, you ought to be critical when necessary but also deeply grateful for the present without being stuck in the past.