You don’t deserve the honorific Dr is all I’m saying…
Racism All the Way Down - Claremont Review of Books
Calling America a caste society is both misleading and harmful to black progress.
You don’t deserve the honorific Dr is all I’m saying…
You don’t deserve the honorific Dr is all I’m saying…
Oh, but I do. Schedule an appointment at my clinic and you’ll find out.
I suppose blonde is a color…?
I’ll pass on the book, but the write up is worth while.
Calling America a caste society is both misleading and harmful to black progress.
Make room, Rolling Stone magazine. You have competition for the shoddiest news coverage of ivermectin use amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Wake up time!
Old news jd
At this point it’s all just a bullshit-flinging competition.
The historian criticizes the intellectual climate of ‘anti-racist’ politics that produce warped history while intimidating serious scholars into silence.
I’ll pass on the book, but the write up is worth while.
Tough to say the write up is worthwhile without looking at the book given how loaded the review is - there’s many claims in the review, right from the start, that I’m guessing is the author of the review’s language and not the author of the book’s, especially given that claremont institute seems to skirt the boundary between somewhat serious and crazy alt-right. I find it extra amusing that the reviewer castigates the book for being heavy on emotion and light on analysis, when the review itself lays it on extra heavy. ;D This doesn’t appear to be a book review per se - it seems to be more of a defense of right wing positions on race (but slavery existed elsewhere, not all whites in america supported slavery, there weren’t really that many lynchings, slavery was worse elsewhere, etc, etc (but he’s not indulging in whataboutism, as he tells us. ;D)).
New York Times forced to correct major error on ivermectin | Washington Examiner
Wake up time!
Slam them for a slow correction if you want, but the numbers the NYT quoted doesn’t seem particularly problematic given what MS officially put out:
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you should google the author
you should google the author
Ok, done.
Edit: uh, so was there anything you wanted to discuss about him or anything specific you wanted me to consider?
“Scientific American”
The Jedi are inappropriate mascots for social justice . Although they’re ostensibly heroes within the Star Wars universe, the Jedi are inappropriate symbols for justice work. They are a religious order of intergalactic police-monks, prone to (white) saviorism and toxically masculine approaches to conflict resolution (violent duels with phallic lightsabers, gaslighting by means of “Jedi mind tricks,” etc.). The Jedi are also an exclusionary cult, membership to which is partly predicated on the possession of heightened psychic and physical abilities (or “Force-sensitivity”). Strikingly, Force-wielding talents are narratively explained in Star Wars not merely in spiritual terms but also in ableist and eugenic ones: These supernatural powers are naturalized as biological, hereditary attributes. So it is that Force potential is framed as a dynastic property of noble bloodlines (for example, the Skywalker dynasty), and Force disparities are rendered innate physical properties, measurable via “midi-chlorian” counts (not unlike a “Force genetics” test) and augmentable via human(oid) engineering. The heroic Jedi are thus emblems for a host of dangerously reactionary values and assumptions. Sending the message that justice work is akin to cosplay is bad enough; dressing up our initiatives in the symbolic garb of the Jedi is worse.
They’re meant to be heroes within the Star Wars universe, but the Jedi are inappropriate symbols for justice work
They’re doing the same with He-Man. He’s now going to be known as Xer-Person.
Every time I think of the racists running the JEDI Anti-Oppression Task Force at the Taipei American School, I think they are sullying the name of the Jedi. And the Jedi shat away the whole galaxy, so that’s saying something.
Every time I think of the racists running the JEDI Anti-Oppression Task Force at the Taipei American School, I think they are sullying the name of the Jedi.
Good point. I seriously doubt the Jedi would want to be associated with dark-side JEDI forces.
Slam them for a slow correction if you want,
OK. It’s not the numbers that bothers me. It’s the malicious intent.