Here’s a question the wheelcels tend to have a rough time with:
Can you understand how the wheel could in fact be detrimental to a civilization? I’m talking loss of life on a scale potentially large enough to upset the forward progress of that civilization
It takes a specific set of circumstances in any pre-industrial society for the wheel to be useful to begin with, which is why differences in technological development between Europeans and other societies prior to the Colombian encounter were often small, sometimes nonexistent
Nov 17, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
I remember a few years back, people cottoned on to Israel's fascination with Deleuze and rhizome theory, and I think this is what it looks like on a rhetorical level. It's not just a constant stream of disinformation, it's asserting the dominant ideology through mimesis
It doesn't matter how many Israelis were killed on October the 7th, 1400 is the number because 1400 is the number. You keep repeating 1400 and the mind grasps 1400, even if on a conscious level we know the correct number is 1200.
Aug 17, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Josh is dead accurate here, but I’m gonna put it in plain language for everybody:
White women love criticizing the patriarchy not only because they know individual men have no power to do anything about it, but because they’re also its beneficiaries.
“Men” as a social category is as analytically useless as “preferred shoe brand” or “favorite music.”
The social experiences of men are far, far closer to women once you start grouping along class and ethnic lines, and deep down most white women know that.
Mar 25, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This is why everybody is suddenly obsessed with trans women in athletics. Not bc they’re protecting the integrity of sport, but bc Northern Europeans are pissed off at getting mopped year in and year out by Black & South Asian athletes.
I wonder why it is that Bayard Rustin’s name is always the first to come up in discussions about LGBTQ participation during the Civil Rights era, even though James Baldwin was respected across the Black political spectrum at the time, and never switched up his political views
In one of his university lectures Kwame Ture criticized the March on Washington, and made sure to point out the reason Baldwin wasn’t invited was because “They don’t know what he’s gonna say up there,” meaning Baldwin was too radical for the respectable types to trust at the mic
Mar 22, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Could all of you please stop bringing this agent’s name into every conversation about LGBTQ members in the civil rights movement?
Would you tell people to put respect on the name of Bill O’Neal because he did good work with the Panthers?
Rustin was a stool pigeon for white power from the very beginning. The man tried to undercut the MFDP at the 68 Democratic convention, and if Fannie Lou Hamer hadn’t dug in her heels, Black people’s delegate vote wouldn’t have counted in 1970.
