Di'Rico walked back from saying "Fatphobia is a joke" in comments. But I want to talk about the rest of his tweet.

In this thread, I'll show how the health advice given by Fat Acceptance (FA) is better and healthier for most fat people than telling us to stop being fat.

https://twitter.com/rico_rants/status/1641228016461266945

But before I get started, let me say: I like Di'Rico, I've been on his YouTube, and I'm glad he and I get along.

And there are SO few critics of fat acceptance that are open to respectful discussion, that I value the few I find.

So please, *don't* be mean to Di'Rico.

I've attended four colleges, and I was fairly well-informed at most of them (staffs on two student papers).

In every case, the school didn't announce who it was considering for commencement speaker until after the person had been invited and had accepted.

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https://twitter.com/1AMorey/status/1641195207025631232

So the rule Alex implies - that to say "we should disinvite X" once X has been invited is attempted censorship - would, in practice, mean there's no time students could say "I don't want X speaking at my commencement" and not be censors.

@glukianoff

https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1537455241687404547

@glukianoff

https://twitter.com/barrydeutsch/status/1507654385223933959

This NYPost headline is misleading as hell.

The case wasn't about marriage at all; it was about if a deceased leaseholder's live-in lover counts as a “non-traditional family member” when being evicted, if the deceased leaseholder is married to someone who lives elsewhere.

https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1578873702133141504

If the relationship between the deceased and his live-in lover had been exactly the same, in every way, but the deceased hadn't been married to someone living elsewhere; then the lover would have been protected from eviction. No question.

(As I understand it; I am not a lawyer).

I had *almost* straight A's at PSU.

In my mind, I gamified the classes, which made it easy. In every class, the professor, usually in the first class of the semester, would tell us the rules for getting good grades.

Each professor had different rules (with lots of overlap).

https://twitter.com/ijbailey/status/1577760146599645190

Play by the rules, get an A.

Some professors' rules rewarded being on time and participating in class discussion.

Others had rules that rewarded clearly-stated arguments with legit citations.

Other rules rewarded showing you did the reading and comprehended its points.

What happened to that poor dog is completely horrible.

What happens to many people arrested in NYC is also horrible.

It's reasonable to be bothered by both these horrible things. I think he should be arrested; I suspect he'll be abused and his rights not respected if he is. Depending on how badly he's abused, I could even prefer the arrest not take place at all - for instance, if I know that him being arrested would lead to his death.

Or if I knew he'd be giving a disproportionate sentence carried out in a prison system full of abuse.

1) We absolutely should have a society in which someone who randomly kills someone's dog should be arrested.

2) We also should have a society in which we can be confident that, once arrested, he'll be treated fairly by the justice system, not abused.

nytimes.com/2022/10/07/nyr… It's reasonable for people to be worried about both 1) and 2), and to want both 1) and 2).

And smart people pretending that 2) isn't a legit concern and instead making cheap culture war points aren't being at all helpful.

@StephenFrug @bjthoi @FuzzyMarth @CathyYoung63 I think you're downplaying the government's involvement. McCarthyism was a true public/private collaboration; the government fingered people, and employers fired those same people.

writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/… @StephenFrug @bjthoi @FuzzyMarth @CathyYoung63 And the lines between private and public were often blurry. Red Channels was a private company - but it was run by ex-FBI agents, who used FBI-gathered information to compile their blacklist.

One reason the "do diets work?" debate interests me is because so many things that are terrible for fat people (and others) rests on that foundational belief that fat people could stop being fat if they wanted to.

(thread) .CathyYoung63 wrote "Obesity should be met with compassion, not 'acceptance.'" But if weight loss diets don't work for most fat people, then telling fat people not to accept our bodies is the opposite of being compassionate.

nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-ope…

Something to keep in mind: This is something a physics teacher may have said to a high schooler who then passed it on to Bari Weiss.

Is there a "woke" trend to call Newton's Laws the "three fundamental laws of physics" in order to "decenter whiteness"?

https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1369446214236839941

I tried searching for webpages that are over a week old, that used the string "three fundamental laws of physics."

I found approximately fifty mentions. But none of them that I found were about "decentering whiteness."

google.com/search?q=%22th…

THREAD: @TomChivers wrote an article disagreeing with this cartoon I did.

It's probably the most-read cartoon I've made. (If I had known, I would have worked harder on the drawing.)

https://twitter.com/barrydeutsch/status/1024567665094930432

A cartoon like this one works by stripping away all nuance and "yes buts" from a situation, until nothing is left but a single naked idea for us to laugh at.

Tom's article rightly points out nuances the comic leaves out. Which is fair enough.

unherd.com/2020/12/how-th…

It's called a printer.

https://twitter.com/thefuturisthq/status/1325792505124818945

Despite the #ArtificalIntelligence hashtag, this machine is essentially a big printer with a computer using a "make this photo look painterly" filter. It's not making anything up.

It's cool, but it's not AI.

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What @AbigailShrier says here about current-day censorship encapsulates what's terribly wrong with most of our free-speech-advocate pundits and journalists.

She's talking about Amazon, which sells her book, not accepting ads for it, and various places not reviewing it. Contrary to what @AbigailShrier thinks, censorship in 21st-century America often IS the government sending police to people's homes.

It's just that people who are censored - the most harmed victims of censorship - aren't people Shrier or her peers pay much attention to.

Some examples of how @DeanBrowningPA used his "black gay guy" sock puppet account to post racism and misogyny. More of "Dan Purdy's" nitwit and wisdom.

Dean, print this out and tape it above your keyboard.

1. Log out of twitter.
2. Log into your puppet twitter account.
3. THEN post as "black gay guy who loves Trump."

Just read that print-out next time you get confused.

(Alternative plan:

1. Log out of twitter.

That's it.)

https://twitter.com/DeanBrowningPA/status/1326190098086506496

Whoops! Dean deleted it.

Fortunately, it's been preserved for our enjoyment and edification.

I got my ballot in the mail today. And that means - time to vote! Time to go through the whole ballot and figure out who I want to be Circuit Court judge (4th district position 12), who should be the east soil & water director-at-large 2, and many other exciting races!

(Thread!) And before anyone asks, yes it is legal to take photos of your ballot in the state of Oregon.

David French's thread defending the anti-lgbt Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) is nonsensical and illogical.

He's angry that people call ADF "hateful." But he never addresses or even acknowledges the arguments for ADF being a hate group, choosing to focus on irrelevancies instead.

https://twitter.com/DavidAFrench/status/1316068241584861191

For example, he says the ADF signed on to a brief against Qualified Immunity, and that's a good thing, therefore the ADF can't be "hateful."

It is a good thing! But doing a good thing in one area doesn't preclude a person or org from being hateful in other areas.

A thread.

Here's the thing about "cancel culture."

You can either treat it as if it's a unique threat coming from the SJ left.

Or you can actually take a stand about the problem, in a fair way that holds everyone to similar standards.

But you can't do both. Is there a problem on the left of some people being too dogmatic and lacking in mercy or a sense of proportion? And that sometimes manifests in angries on the internet overreacting and people getting fired? And this can chill speech and make some people fearful of dissent?

Yes!

Another example of right-wing "cancel culture," that no one calls "cancel culture": At least 20 health officials around the country have been fired, or left their jobs under great pressure (including personal attacks and threats), because they're pro-masking and/or pro-lockdown. In Ohio, a health official with the awesome superhero name Amy Action faced "armed protesters at her home bearing messages including anti-Semitic and sexist slurs. One Republican lawmaker linked Acton, who is Jewish, to Nazi Germany," until she switched her role to "advisory."

1. Working longer hours ignores unpaid work. Who's taking care of the kids, and of the elders?
2. People who are paid more have more incentive to do more paid work.
3. Paying more taxes and receiving less welfare are both results of being paid more.

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https://twitter.com/eccentrikhat/status/1226925492130996224

4. Men retiring later also reflects higher average pay. The more you earn, the higher the incentive to work a couple more years. (On average, women retire at 62, men at 64.)

5. Men die on the job MUCH more often. Let's talk about that.

Piracy.

Here's the thing: Piracy is not taking money out of our wallets. Getting rid of pirated comics won't cause readers to spend more money buying comics.

To illustrate why, let me talk about when I was a teen. I'm Gen X. When I was a teen, I bought a new album every week or two. Everyone once in a while, I saw a concert.

And I had a collection of ten times as many albums as I bought. Mostly on cassettes tapes, illegally recorded from my friend's albums.