I absorbed all the progressive conditioning and the facility for continually updating it with the latest patches.

I know the acute sense of peril one feels when stating a range of indisputable truths because I feel it myself.
But because I see the dangers that the progressive echo chamber is generating, I feel obliged to fight through that sense of peril.
But it never comes *easily* to me as it does to certain tougher, more disagreeable, more obstreperously male figures than myself, who are happiest when embroiled in contention.
I do not like to fight, though I tend to annihilate my opponents when forced into it

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18 Dec
The "unity of oppression" thesis is not like MLK opposing the Vietnam War or supporting programs to ameliorate poverty.

It holds that the belief "sex is real" is a form of "whiteness"
Thus Chappelle saying "Gender is a fact" (his own slightly off-kilter way of saying "sex is real") makes him the New Black Face of White Supremacy (read more about it my book "Sex Is Not Real: The Racist History of the Male/Female Binary")
This is a book that summarizes the Science
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17 Dec
Capturing the educational system worked
It's not about whether it's wrong or right on the merits. It's about what you are conditioned by default to believe.
Blah blah blah: Zinn-ism broadly conceived is the foundation from which all the social networks and changes in news coverage spring and the mainstreaming of that discourse _in the schools_ as part of the baseline understanding for sure tracks the marked generational decline
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16 Dec
Successor Ideology is when you're trying to address environmental issues but you are forced to condemn white supremacy -- and even bend your diagnosis and prescriptions to center the hyper-object as the unmoved mover
It's when you are concerned with access to reproductive health but cannot describe the population you serve as "women"
The insistence that the key explanatory factor is always some gigantic hyper-object -- Eurocentric cisheteropatriarchy -- is more than an annoying verbal tic or a way of doing coalition politics though it is both of those things
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14 Dec
What’s funny about this is that no one has ever mispronounced “Hannah Kim” or “Fred Lee”.

What’s sad about this is the pain and rage these people are professing to feel is real — in the absence of any real adversity their receptors have been reset thusly
Massive investments in bureaucratic oversight went into creating people this fragile
Now imagine a situation in which you are subject to the disciplinary power of the following person.

Now imagining extended that regulatory power across all institutions
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13 Dec
What percentage of those who heard the phrase "Stop AAPI Hate" knew what "AAPI" means?
If you know what it means, what's the likelihood you are bashing anyone in the street?
Whereas, if you know what it means, what's the likelihood you are working tirelessly to ensure that Asian elders in cities being targeted for vicious assaults...won't get police protection?
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8 Dec
Powerful framing here. "Traditionalists say..." "pure math inquiry should be neutral of politics..."
Did you know that recognizing and acting in accordance with the value-free operations of pure rationality is "traditionalism"?
Did you know that positing the value-free operation of pure rationality is itself a form of politics deeply complicit in Eurocentric colonial domination and therefore rightly referred to as "whiteness"?
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