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Shared grief, shared battle
This morning Roxane Gay tweeted “It is interesting to note the difference in support for the kids in FL versus the kids in Black Lives Matter. I say that with full admiration for the kids in FL, to survive such a trauma and fight for everyone to be safer. But that’s also what was happening in Ferguson… Continue reading Shared grief, shared battle
A great mythtake
Recently I was listening to the Embrace the Void podcast episode “Tolerate Me Bro!” about Popper’s paradox of tolerance. Hosts Aaron Rabi and GW were talking about how this paradox plays out in the context of platforming or deplatforming speakers, which is to say, the decisions that providers of platforms (talk show hosts, conference organizers, etc.) make about… Continue reading A great mythtake
Facts and feels
It’s trivially, and sometimes importantly, true that facts don’t care about your feelings. Facts don’t care about anything at all, because they are incapable of caring, but the point being made in this case is that facts are true regardless of how much you may not want them to be true. Neil deGrasse Tyson put… Continue reading Facts and feels
Name and shame
Someone who witnessed the following (paraphrased) exchange on Facebook commented that she couldn’t honestly tell sometimes whether people are genuinely confused about the difference between description and prescription, “is” versus “ought,” or are just trolling. I have trouble fathoming the former, but the latter is more disturbing.
A little schadenfreude on the side
5 ways not to comment on allegations of sexual harassment against someone in your movement
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We are what we pretend to be
Every conversation with a Jordan Peterson fan
A theory of shame, privilege, and violence
Resources: The male suicides: how social perfectionism kills The Sexist, Racist Implications of the ‘Walk Up, Not Out’ Movement My brush with suicide and the shame of not being a good enough man The conservative persecution complex ‘When You’re Accustomed to Privilege, Equality Feels Like Oppression’