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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

17 Dec

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.

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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

17 Dec

https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1471580889414975489

Capturing the educational system worked

https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1471580889414975489

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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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

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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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

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

https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1470537767323004929

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

https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1470537767323004929

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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

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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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

8 Dec

https://twitter.com/USATODAY/status/1468302760999366662

Powerful framing here. "Traditionalists say..." "pure math inquiry should be neutral of politics..."

https://twitter.com/USATODAY/status/1468302760999366662

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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