we also need to discuss what a single syllable color-like handle for asian we can adopt so as to put an end to this label-based exclusion. it's a rhetorical refusal of cultural citizenship that has gone on for too long because yellow isn't p.c. so how about gold, honey, or peach? on the flip side, liberals must konw that the best way to really annoy white supremacists is to only speak of them as being from a country of origin by naming them a Brit or German, Irish or Scot, like they love to do for more recent non-European immigrants.

any body of rhetoric that uses the phrase "model minority myth" isn't there to protect underperforming minorities though that is what it looks like on the surface.

it's there to suppress + delegitimatize all upward mobility by minorities *regardless of magnitude of achievements* it is there and was made ubiquitous so relentlessly because asian upward social mobility is terrifying for the mediocre political class that'd like to maintain its position without doing the same amount of work.

so instead, they create castes, locking asians into bamboo cages.

american media so sterilized that they see a woman who isn't there to entertain them and decide it is a crisis.

intelligent asian women make liberals so uncomfortable that they need to produce devoted antifan commentary complete with indian guests renouncing "model minorities". as if all american asian excellence in women can be, and thus is, faked.

they can't deny the intelligence so then they gather like hyenas and piranhas to shred the choices.. to.. excel..

as if this doesn't set up asian women to always lose. lose if you lose, lose if you win.

this explosion of christian content online feels weird bc my relationship to christianity in youth was primarily in korean in korean america.

yes, there was em, but i've never dealt with ultra-faithful, praying white people. it's jarring. we do not want this running the gov. church should stay in church. america's a democracy, not a kingdom. it's not a monarchy, and also not a spiritual kingdom. thousands of years after christ, women have human rights now.

give credit where due and acknowledge that christianity was formative for modern human rights,

Why can't people have original thoughts anymore?

What is this? Every line a regurgitation of propaganda, 0% curiosity, 100% fear and concern-trolling.

You're supposed to learn what that pattern is, and then think for yourself, not swallow it wholesale.

brownpoliticalreview.org/the-smart-one-… Talk about making it a problem when someone isn't doing anything wrong. Usha Vance is a failure to the prophesy of feminism because she did not decide to elbow hubby out of the way and become VP herself? How would a smart Indian female VP for Republicans help the liberal cause?

This is why it's so important to know your translations, have experience translating, and to grasp not only the blip on the radar that is being argued, but also much longer historical contexts granularly to put things into perspective for those less learned. Well done, Cambridge!

https://twitter.com/mkbfpv/status/1966798326730240107

Some details may be off, but this is what being outclassed in a debate looks like.

The way to respond would've been to acknowlege one does not have relevant expertise to parse linguistic nuances in translation. Losing ground on logic, then appealing to authority is a big no no.

Minting a martyr is stupid bc it creates more homework for others in the containment of what ensues.

We need lists introducing differences btwn translations of the bible into english asap. There'll be an influx of the bibliocurious vulnerable to exploitation.

What a huge mess. If more youth will now explore christianity, we need guidance directing them to the most scholarly modern translations by faculty of top theological seminaries.

You want them on a scholarly path, not falling into the clutches of charismatic pentecostal megachurches, nar, or wcn.

more high schools need western canon reading programs so a) a culture of reading is in place by the time college happens, and b) kids can broaden their horizons to other cultures during college instead of playing catch up encountering full length primary texts for the first time. variations are possible, but the cultural emphasis must shift from whether schools technically graduate kids who can't read 🙄to whether kids know how to read, write about, and discuss their literal, civilizational, cultural inheritances well enough to enjoy it and continue.

policies make no sense when exceptionalism drives both fp and domestic but they don't match

you can't be pro life and also pro war. you can't be pro hold japan accountable but NOT korean men for rape/molka/martial law

if after defending it w/ your life, you hurt what you saved, you've saved nothing. you've groomed it.

if you want to leverage human rights rhetoric to control women domestically, erasing their rights, but give yourself hypocritical leeway internationally, where's the integrity?

the misbehavior of others doesn't justify violent bigotry.

On the functional aspects of prayer:

It need not be connected to a religion at all. In fact, that might help. Either way, it's a powerful, meditative process through which you work through problems, building musculature for introspection.

That musculature is ideology agnostic. So people who have no daily practice building their muscles for active reflection during which they piece together thoughts, feelings, values, experiences, and observed reality to locate clean throughlines of coherence will always be weaker than those who do work out every day.

a rite of passage for adulthood is to look up for ALL developed nations the history of eugenics/forced sterilization.

i'd always thought eugenics was mostly about encouraging select people to have 👶🐣, but apparently it also included state-sponsored sterilizations.🫠🤦‍♀️so bad. the creativity recorded in the history of evil is really beyond your wildest imaginations

x.com/elfair/status/… x.com/elonmusk/statu… No one writes the way the New York Times has done for years on end now about violent crime and education unless he 1) assumes everyone is stupider 2) he can manipulate them.

Given even just the bare bones facts of the case, it is not possible to write the lede the way they did.

books in new testament: 27
written by men: 27
Paul: 13
John: 4
Peter: 2
Luke: 2
written by anon men: 2 (hebrews might be paul, revelation might be john)
named after men: 11
named after/written by women: 0

so it could be just 8 men who authored nt

super glad i left so early 🫠 so *any* suggestion that literacy any less than the absolute pinnacle of culture is sufficient for

*any* group or social class (especially ones historically silenced),

and their entry's made to be more "expensive" because they're the "wrong people"

makes me truly apoplectic.

people pretending today to care about a handful of n. korean fishermen + a few hundred korean factory workers in ga are the same ones who character assassinated 10-20 mil u.s. asians for decades and didn't care about favored groups killing american koreans in cold blood at home. the hypocrisy and lack of integrity in viewing asians of any nationality as only relevant as tools to make the other side look bad is something that is very easy to pick up on after the same folks betrayed american asians on k-12/higher education and violent crime for decades.

"Our own people" is absurd. It was mostly about if colonial holdings were in the contiguous U.S. like for the Louisiana Purchase, Spanish Florida, and Mexican Cessation.

Exceptions: Hawaii, Alaska(complex)

The Philippines was a U.S. colony for 48 years, from 1898 until 1946. The Insular Cases (1901-1922) created this new era of "unincorporated territories" of "non-citizenship nationals", unlike all previous colonies that were absorbed and incorporated into the union and granted/forced into full citizenship, albeit w huge land loss along ethnic lines.

learned last week that the east asian countries have bickered for decades about who has the oldest extant wood block text/scroll print, but the most interesting thing about the fight is that all of the content was buddhist.

made me wonder what the Uṣṇīṣa Vijaya Dhāraṇī says they weren't in the original sanskrit usually, but translated into hanja, then painstakingly engraved into wood or clay and later, cast into metal

how powerful were the ideas for them to go that crazy over it in 704AD or earlier?

found an english trans: 84000.co/translation/to…

what i've found is that the people who are the most plug and play, copy and paste verbal/argumentation fingerprint spreaders are the least aware that this is how they sound.

they are inceptioned so hard they don't even remember those aren't their words or flow of argumentation. also if someone tells me one of the playbooks that some famous group used in recent years to sociopathically experiment on innocent people online with, and then you, despite me giving you my trust, take all the same steps, then how am i supposed to make excuses on your behalf?

The other one, which I have already said turns every screen into a treasure object, gives you enchanted mood sand that behaves the way it might if gods were real or if you were one yourself. It's like a theological question in the form of digitally simulated sensory abundance. The hook isn't the thing itself. It's the seed of autosimulation that is planted. What would the whole world and all of history have looked like if these people were gods. You want your work to make people nonverbally feel these questions and settle into dreams fueled by wonder.

첫눈엔 검정색 바탕에 은색 지의류가 많이 낀 느낌인 작품이 있는데 뭐지? 녹슨건가? 녹은 붉은색 아냐? 이랬는데 줌인 할수록 엄청 큰 켄버스에 아주 다양한 크기의 동그라미가 긴 실이 되어 꼬여서 이루어진 디지털 작품이더라. 정체 모를 친근한 자연물질일법한데 알고 보면 알고리즘 시각예술이다. 지의류 같았다가, 녹 같았다가, 생물학 교과서에 나오는 흑백 DNA 일러스트 같았다가, 사람을 아주 자유자재로 갖고 노는데, 애니도 아니다.

보는 이에게 신이나 가질법한 시력과 관찰력을 경험하는 착시현상을 4K보다 10배 이상 큰 인심 좋은(?) 켄버스로 장난처럼 담백하게 선물하는 게 핵심이다.

작품 질과 작가의 성품은 무관해 보여도 미학과 윤리는 긴밀히 엮여 있어 결국 하나의 문제다. 예술은 사랑과 같아서 사회적 수용과 관계 속에서만 성립되는 만큼 윤리와 도덕을 외면한 체 작품이 세간의 관심만 받으면 최고라고 생각하는 자가 유명세를 타봐야 길게 보아 인류 진보에 이로울 리 없다. 작품이 좋은데 작품*만* 좋으면 오히려 최악이다.

if you don't have the imagination or empathy to consider how often girls and women post sa need access to spaces guaranteed to be free from anyone with a y chromosome, and how often that's a bathroom, it shows misogyny or lack of readiness to set policy agendas that respect women unless you come w/ equally forceful demands for structural changes to drastically reduce the prevalence of male-on-female rape and harrassment (look up the frequency before speaking), or w/ proposals including xx-female only spaces even as you hold bathroom sharing nonnegotiable,