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9 Jan, 5 tweets, 2 min read
1/ Thread about the latest episode of BARPod, which just went up for our Primos:

Anyone who looks into the tumult in the young-adult fiction world will come to the same conclusion: What is really driving the drama, the cancelled books and ruined careers and general atmosphere
2/ of fear and accusation and bizarre Facebook struggle sessions, is white agents and editors. Every book and every controversy gets filtered through the particular racial politics of white, privileged NYC gatekeepers within YA, and they (shockingly) have different politics from
3/ members of genuinely marginalized groups. This leads writers of color to feel like tokens, and to be exposed to noxious 'benevolent' racism from some of the most outspokenly (supposedly) righteous white people on the planet.

jessesingal.substack.com/p/ya-twitters-…
4/ I'd heard anecdotes about this toxicity seeping into the world of adult viction, and then I came across a fairly remarkable story that is just a chef's kiss of white liberal condescension and moral panic. It involves a Filipino writer attempting to publish a novel that riffs
5/ off of his own experiences at the University of Virginia.

I think what happened when he collided with a very successful white editor will shock you, and that it reveals a lot about how broken publishing is right now.

Enjoy!

blockedandreported.org/p/episode-97-a…

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Culture writing is so bad right now. I feel a bit morally torn about even exposing my followers to this paragraph
2/ Parks and Recs "is now widely considered" to be bad because a half dozen similarly neurotic tastemakers who don't know what fiction is or is for said so on their glorified blogs
3/ "I am mad at this sitcom because it does not reflect the up-to-the-minute politics of my most influential Twitter follows" is a view held by perhaps 1% of the population and 80% of mainstream culture writers
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20 Dec 21
1/ This journalist said he'd been cured of his trauma in 2011 via violent sex. A decade later, he again says he's been cured, now via major, risky surgery. I think there are some really fraught journalistic challenges inherent to covering the first-person accounts of folks who
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3/ Similar dynamic in a NYT Mag article about a very disturbed young person in 2019. I feel like anything involving gender identity is held to a different evidentiary standard and that this doesn't necessarily help people.

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Pretty wild stuff
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.
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12 Dec 21
The folks terrified of fascism want the state to clamp down on Josh Hawley and Rudy Giuliani Image
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.

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6 Dec 21
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

(For paid subscribers, but with a partial preview)

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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.
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