2/I think the easiest way to sum up what's going on here is a weird form of backward reasoning where if a sentiment is expressed by (someone seen as) a TERF, it is, by definition, bigoted, and something something something white supremacist. The dot-connecting needn't make sense.
3/ I'm sure somewhere there is a followup question where AHP asks her to name an example (or even two!) of a contemporary feminist thinker who believes in this idea. Just haven't gotten there yet.
4/ This is just completely made up. Completely. It's a meaningless statement untethered from any intellectual movement. And it sucks we're in a moment where AHP, despite being a prominent and intelligent writer and thinker, has to pretend otherwise and can't push back on it.
5/ Read the responses to this eminently reasonable comment to understand how vast swaths of people who spend time in progressive spaces online end up sounding like drones repeating the same catch phrases endlessly.
6/ I'll stop after this but these are just really toxic spaces where any form of dissent is met with "Have you perhaps considered that maybe you are infested by bigotry/Whiteness??" manipulation posing as I Am Just Helping To Educate You
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The folks terrified of fascism want the state to clamp down on Josh Hawley and Rudy Giuliani
2/ Surely if we want to attenuate rather than embolden far-right forces, the best solution is to contrive a way to have federal authorities take Donald Trump and Josh Hawley into custody -- it just makes sense, if you are a Student of Fascism like I am
3/Goes w/o saying that Giuliani is corrupt as hell and if he did actual illegal stuff, prosecute away. But clearly the (very creepy) claim here is that these folks should be arrested for... not sure? Lying about the election? Think through more plz.
I wrote a long critique of Gizmodo and The Markup's piece about predictive policing, which I thought exemplified many of the worst, most paternalistic trends in how liberals approach crime and policing
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2/ The authors argue that the main problem with PredPol, the predictive policing algorithm they're criticizing, is that black vs. white and rich vs. poor people *report* crimes at different rates. That can lead to the illusion of discrepancies. This is a very strange claim:
3/ Yes, there's some data suggesting discrepancies in the rates at which people report crime. But there's also data showing that the disparities in *actually experiencing* crime tend to be more than an order of magnitude larger. Gizmodo and The Markup ignore this entirely.
I am probably going to Asheville and Atlanta later this month and am in search of vegetarian-friendly food recommendations. Also good 3-4-hour hikes around Asheville assuming the area bears are the friendly/herbivorous type, or the kind you can ride into battle on.
2/ I know Atlanta is huge but I don't even know where I'm staying yet so maybe your food recommendation will help tip the scale!
3/Okay so might be doin 2-3 days in New Orleans instead of Atlanta. Feel like if I can only do 1, that's the move. Recs please! Never been there. Premium on just walking around, seeing music, nothing too crazy. Will eat anything without central nervousness
2/ This was a good conversation. Lotsa questions/critiques but overwhelmingly from folks who follow/like my work. I shoulda anticipated that.
I can't post the show link because I'm getting an error message when I try to, but the ep is safely saved as a draft so up soon I hope.
3/ I think I'll just have to have folks who disagree with me come on to effectively cohost individual episodes -- probably a selection issue with expecting to get truly critical folks with this sort of open call. At the top of the ep I did address some Twitter-criticism though.
Alan resurfaced a thread that is the closest anyone has come to stalking me -- a barista saying she knew where I worked, causing a bunch of people to respond saying she should physically assault me -- because... I'm not sure why? VERY important to win internet fights.
2/ This was years ago so I'm obviously not worried about that particular thread, but the level of obsession and vindictiveness here, coming from academics writing under their own names... These people come across as deeply unwell and in need of better hobbies.
3/ Alan also wants everyone to know that I have "made it into a list" -- a random post on some site -- "with two of his heroes who happen to be the two most well-known sexual predators in US media," by which he means Matt Taibbi and Glenn Greenwald
What's the best, most rigorous evidence folks can point me to that sorting kids (or adults) by race for training purposes leads to improved outcomes of some sort?
2/ First Google hit is something of a case study. The organizers decided against formally evaluating their program partly because they were worried a negative evaluation would deter future funding of the (as-yet-totally-unevaluated) program. (Also potential legal issues.)
3/ Most importantly, let's say you're a kid trying to figure out which group to identify into. Moreover, let's say that lunch is provided by a random subset of parents in your group, and is homemade. Which group do you go with? Obviously not white but very tough choice otherwise!