I’m a Black Feminist. I Think Call-Out Culture Is Toxic.
There are better ways of doing social justice work.
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Wesley Yang
Black feminist criticizes call out culture in the Times.
This sentence is key: “There was a difference between what I felt was true and what were facts.” nytimes.com/2019/08/17/opi… pic.twitter.com/8jMvFIM2Q8
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The Southern Poverty Law Center is a hate-based scam that nearly caused me to be murdered
After internal challenges with discrimination, the Southern Poverty Law Center can't call itself an arbiter of justice.
‘Luxury beliefs’ are the latest status symbol for rich Americans
A former classmate from Yale recently told me “monogamy is kind of outdated” and not good for society. So I asked her what her background is and if she planned to marry. She said she comes from an …
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Rob Henderson
"In the past, upper-class Americans used to display their social status with luxury goods. Today, they do it with luxury beliefs." My essay in tomorrow's @nypost. Many thanks to @margiconklin
nypost.com/2019/08/17/lux… pic.twitter.com/gqg2jK7xqj
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White supremacist charged with threatening to shoot up Jewish community center
An Ohio man has been arrested for making threats toward a local Jewish community center in New Middletown.
Professors bullied into silence as students cry transphobia
More than a dozen academics, including several leading feminist professors, fear their freedom of speech is being silenced by students complaining they are transphobic. They include Selina Todd, a...
PA bans LGBTQ activities in West Bank
The ban came after LGBTQ group Al-Qaws was planing to hold a gathering for its members in Nablus.
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Walter Olson
Palestinian Authority vows to bring LGBT advocates to trial for organizing events in West Bank. [@KhaledAbuToameh @Jerusalem_Post]
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Support for free trade reaches new high in NBC/WSJ poll
Amid the ongoing trade war with China, nearly two-thirds of Americans say they support free trade in the latest NBC News/WSJ poll.
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Brendan Nyhan
As with immigration (nbcnews.com/politics/meet-…), Trump has driven support for free trade to new highs nbcnews.com/politics/meet-…. The idea that he has some magical power over public opinion on these issues is just wrong. pic.twitter.com/B69bHt030f
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Are Health Administrators To Blame?
The graph at right made the twitter rounds a few days ago (1.3k RTs and 2.7k likes for Noah). The graph looked off to me immediately. Between approximately 1992 and 1994 the number of administrators went up by a factor of 4? (Or, if something goes...
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Paul
Nice work here by @ATabarrok/@kdrum to debunk the viral "30x more health admin staff since 1970" graph.
Why did this graph go so viral? Hypothesis: It's easier to think about villains than to think about tradeoffs.
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I spent one day with Antifa in Portland
Donning what I had hoped would allow me to blend seamlessly into the crowd, I prepared for a day of marching amongst Portland’s Antifa activists.
We Have Ruined Childhood
For youngsters these days, an hour of free play is like a drop of water in the desert. Of course they’re miserable.
Palestinian Authority bans LGBT activities in West Bank
The Palestinian Authority is banning all LGBT members from activities in the West Bank.
Can We Make Ourselves Believe? A Letter Exchange
Peter Boghossian is an assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University. He is the author of A Manual for Creating Atheists (2013) and, with James Lindsay, of the forthcoming How to H…
5 of the biggest differences between male and female dogs
In addition to having some obvious biological differences, female and male dogs sometimes act differently, too.
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Geoffrey Miller
Woke dog training insight: if male and female mammals are neutered, their behavioral sex differences aren't very large.
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Cory Clark
Lovely progressive article on doggo sex differences: Males more likely to hump, mark territory, & roam for females. Females more obedient, affectionate, & easier to housebreak. But, doggo upbringing matters more and neither is sex is better than the other: insider.com/should-i-get-a… pic.twitter.com/ZrvugO0Z7f
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Woke professors are failing in their duty to teach students the value of open-mindedness
People keep asking me what I plan to do after Brexit.
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Daniel Hannan
Reason, empiricism, open-mindedness, the scientific method. None of these things comes naturally. Each has to be inculcated. But as universities become woker, students are instead taught that feelings trump facts.
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People Who Use More Emojis Have More Sex and Get More Dates
New research suggests that emoji users are better at making social connections.
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Lee Jussim
I don't usually tweet this type of stuff, but a new Psych Today blog (not mine) reviews research showing that people who use more emojis get more dates and have more sex. That is just too amusing not to tweet out.
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