Have We Reached Peak Woke?

By artappraiser on Wed, 07/06/2022 - 9:51pm |

Wokeness seems to have lost purchase in everyday arguments, and market forces suggest it’s on the downswing. Yet wokeness can still retreat to its institutional strongholds, writes @OliverTraldi. https://t.co/QmcjkQ4Bc9
— City Journal (@CityJournal) July 6, 2022

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...College makes up rules to expel student over artistic expression, alleges sexual harassment and a hostile learning environment...

Snitch culture plus out of control college administrators, even at art school
https://t.co/hAjCA0vy2T
— Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64) July 6, 2022

by artappraiser on Wed, 07/06/2022 - 9:54pm

Nice of them to do everything the wrong way so he can sue effectively.

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 07/06/2022 - 11:56pm

Where does this fit in?

Georgia Guidestones dubbed 'America's Stonehenge' and believed to be 'satanic tablets' by far-right conspiracy theorists are blown up in mystery attack
via https://t.co/tnEbowk71x
That’s so weird https://t.co/mgSaFR8ycn
— Ahafia Communism Kills (@Ahafia2) July 7, 2022

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 07/07/2022 - 12:50am

It's extremely doubtful it does. Like he suggests it's probably a Qanon type thing, they are known to be fixated on it. More like a waiting on JFK Jr. thing or rescuing the sex slaves at Comet Pizza thing. Most of those kind of conspiracy fanatics have moved beyond current politics because: none of their predictions about Trump et. al.have come true and he's been a big letdown. So to continue with their cognitive dissonance they have to invent other, increasingly bizarre stuff. Soon we may hearing of drinking poisoned koolaid to avoid monkeypox or JFK Jr.coming to rescue them in his spaceship that is the source of all those UFO's air force pilots are reportedly seeing lately.

I was just interested on Twitter because it's an example of iconoclasm.

by artappraiser on Thu, 07/07/2022 - 1:22am

Yeah, a different kind of nutsoid, closer to the 20,000 Mules etc.

On the woke stuff, when the Chaos Monkeys guy got fired i had arguments with ppl who'd tell me "the 1st amendment is only about government", which from what I recall growing up, "free speech" was a societal attitude, not a specific law aside from garnering #1 billing in the Bill of Rights, an attitude that placed the US above repressive regimes. Even a moderate expectation at work that you wouldn't get fired for saying most normal if controversial stuff (tho maybe not spend all shift doing it). "I disagree with you, but i will fight for your right to say it". But may not be good enough anymore - would help to know more about what's happening on campus - Bayesian categories of attitudes along with time shifts, not just "left/right" binary assessments. That undoubtedly is not the GOP's approach or intention.

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 07/07/2022 - 2:55am

“Bette Midler and Macy Gray did not hold the line after stating their view that sex is real, and very quickly found themselves on their knees before trans activist bullies” — @JeanHatchet calls out women with little to lose for not sticking to the truth https://t.co/jJ0ljtdOFp
— The Critic (@TheCriticMag) July 8, 2022

(Just a note to be clear: The Critic has mostly been anti-woke so this is not a change for them)

by artappraiser on Fri, 07/08/2022 - 9:37am

she's definitely not talking about institutions -

This is insane https://t.co/0JoPbGuaW4
— Thomas Chatterton Williams (@thomaschattwill) July 7, 2022

by artappraiser on Fri, 07/08/2022 - 9:48am

"Urgency is a white supremacy value"

Unprepared for a meeting? Citing "white supremacy" is a bad excuse.
https://t.co/7t9kVcOd7u
— reason (@reason) July 9, 2022

by artappraiser on Sat, 07/09/2022 - 12:19pm

Kinda like it - "(not) sorry I'm late - been trying to rein in my white superiority values - y'all can continue with your slow motherfucker pace now, I'm good"

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 07/09/2022 - 1:27pm

1) I tweeted, and then deleted, an article criticizing the new “woke” Monticello, with its tours that remind visitors that it was a site of enslavement. This effort has been going on for years now, as have the complaints about it, as well as the praise for it.
— Annette Gordon-Reed, FBA (@agordonreed) July 10, 2022

2) There will always be those who say there is too much about slavery and those who say there’s not enough. TJ’s whole story, the good and the bad, have to be presented. He is worthy of serious study and consideration.
— Annette Gordon-Reed, FBA (@agordonreed) July 10, 2022

“Has to be presented”—sheesh! https://t.co/ub5zlvp2ZU
— Annette Gordon-Reed, FBA (@agordonreed) July 10, 2022

She's a REAL historian and scholar and a specialist on Thos. Jefferson and Sally Hemings. Woke agItprop and counteragitprop really not her thIng. Understanding of the truth of the past is though. Let's hope her type is becoming more popular.

by artappraiser on Mon, 07/11/2022 - 10:21pm

A 7-year-old girl wrote "any lives" under a drawing that said Black Lives Matter, and is now being punished for it at her school https://t.co/BLRP8RhWeV
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) July 12, 2022

This is an example of a shocking and hard to believe story where the author put a bunch of work into documenting it, so that you can actually believe it.
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) July 12, 2022

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/12/2022 - 12:29am

Good point. Trust yet verulify (sez my morning typing)

I have no trouble believing the events in question could happen at a public school in the current climate. But from a biased source like RedState, I would need to see thorough evidence—far from that, this article presents none.
(@UnringThisBell) July 12, 2022

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 07/12/2022 - 12:50am

Boebert diainfo vs what actually happened. Kind of like Bannon disinfo vs what happened. Kind of like Ali Alexander disinfo vs what happened. Kind of like Bill Barr disinfo vs what happened. Kind of like Roger Stone disinfo vs what really happened. There seems to be a trend maybe? Like the proud Proud Boy spouse writing an unbiased op-ed about the Proud Boy's w/o divulging she's married to a Proud Boy.

Her explanations of her arrests don’t even come close to matching up with the police reports. Her version of the incident with her husband is not even close to what witnesses said, and she fails to mention she was there when it happened.
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 12, 2022

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 07/12/2022 - 6:14pm

Huh? None of that has anything to do with culture wars!. Apples and oranges. Lots of people didn't even pay attention, they are only hearing about it now. That was criminal politics. They were busy being distracted by and paying attention to Dr. Seuss books, police being evil, GenX bosses not being mindful of hurting the feelings of millennials in all manner of ways including a slur they put on Facebook 15 years ago, drag queen story hours at the library. complete new versions of U.S. history, and whether they had to pay reparations to people with black skin for what that history said their ancestors did (even though their grandfather came thru Ellis Island in 1910.) . Pronouns, they are of utmost import. But nothing is more important than rectifying white privilege, punishing all Karen's and promoting new dominance of all BIPOC (including Latinx) and LGBTQIA2S+.and putting white cis males at the bottom. After all, this country is systemically racist.

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/12/2022 - 7:11pm

Point was simply while that 1 story about the kindergartner & any life matters rings true, in the face of continual concocted stories by the right it's hard to besure it actually happened in near that way. Yes, bad if they punished a child for an accurate statement (any lives matter) and discourage her from painting. But knowing how things get spun over and over, *did it actually happen?* Or did they just find a good way to pull our chain, punch our buttons with a slightly rewritten account?

Here's the PTA Facebook page that notes Chelsea Boyle haven't found any non-Redstate accounts (and the school if this is happening may have trouble responding publicly, making tilted playing field). Surprising to me I only see the 4 articles based on Red state, nothing more.

https://m.facebook.com/ViejoElementary/

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 07/12/2022 - 7:40pm

Becerra's Twitter where he hasnt posted in 3 years

https://mobile.twitter.com/viejoelementary

Heres the principal's story before, rising from custodian to teacherRIF'd, then princial?

https://www.ocregister.com/2008/04/21/one-time-custodian-now-an-oc-teach...

OC Register makes no mention of Chelsea Boyle, and not Becerra recently, and orange county is quite conservative.

Could that story be made up?

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 07/12/2022 - 8:28pm

“I wanna recognize that your line of questioning is transphobic, and it opens up trans people to violence.”

— Law professor Khiara Bridges, after explaining to Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) that more than just women are capable of giving birth pic.twitter.com/mpUHFG9wMp
— The Recount (@therecount) July 12, 2022

Politicians like Hawley are going to make hay out of any bit of Woke they can find.

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/12/2022 - 3:08pm

Dumbfuck Khiara Bridges letting conservatives change the narrative by focusing on a handful of male pregnancies each year while 140 million women give birth and 70 million have abortion each year. Thanks for being so in love with your trivia and focus on the irrelevant that you drag *all* women down and help derail needed health care and pregnancy treatment for the half born as natural females.

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 07/12/2022 - 3:30pm

Is exactly the kind of thing I mean when I say that nowadays the lefties are the main initiators of culture wars and conservatives are the reactors. Which the latter then use to distract the populace. (That's basically all of Fox News primetime programming these days - that's what they do for a living. At least Rush Limbaugh types used to talk economic policy too once in a while)

Again, for the umpteenth time: Dems need to do a Sister Souljah or these elite Woke types will be seen as a major part of their coalition. Conservatives will make sure that they are seen that way. i.e. Dems don't care so much about average real people, they care a lot more about small minority cultural identity groups.

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/12/2022 - 4:15pm

I'm not convinced of "main". Yet.

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 07/12/2022 - 4:26pm

well, Bridges is teaching the next generation to be admitted to California's Bar everything they need to know

...Bridges is currently a Professor of Law at University of California, Berkeley School of Law....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khiara_Bridges

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/12/2022 - 8:27pm

This law professor thinks men can get pregnant and accuses people who disagree with her of bigotry. This is the left’s favorite play: manipulate language and emotions to make people change their behavior. #GreatSeparation pic.twitter.com/0VcixjBflE
— Delano Squires (@DelanoSquires) July 12, 2022

If you don’t agree men can get pregnant, you are a fascist
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) July 12, 2022

The fight for global democracy hinges on total unanimity on this vital question
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) July 12, 2022

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/12/2022 - 6:41pm

No surprise to me, 24 hrs. later "MEN CANNOT GET PREGNANT" is now trending on Twitter. Everyone has to share their two cents about it and then debate. Instead of focusing on more important things, culture wars is again the main issue of the day, distracting away from what politicians are really doing.

WHO STARTED IT? THE DEMS ON THE COMMITTEE WHO INVITED A WOKE LAW PROFESSOR TO TESTIFY ON ABORTION. Hawley didn't like just bring up the topic out of thin air! A couple more GOP congresscritters added some tweets today to complement his viral performance and WE ARE OFF! Probably trending for a few days if not a full week or more.

Woke theory almost always starts it! People don't like it. It pisses them off! They get emotional and they get distracted! What would stop it: a couple Dem congresscritters saying to her right at the hearing I don't agree with that. That's all they had to do, but they won't, because for some reason they think they have to pander to the elite educated woke every time, no matter their issue. GOP salivates when they see it starting to happen.

by artappraiser on Wed, 07/13/2022 - 7:40pm

He pegs it after seeing the news about Ron Johnson's opponents -

We're facing a crank and insurrectionist and we can't get anything right.... Do dems actually want to win elections? https://t.co/F9tgIRWuTw
— (((Matt Boxer)))#СлаваУкраїні! (@MattBoxer94) July 14, 2022

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by artappraiser on Tue, 07/12/2022 - 6:36pm

self-described Feral labor journalist & current @teenvogue columnist, educated white girl in "south Philly" who published in May 2020 in The New Republic that Abolishing police unions should be part of the broader fight to defund, demilitarize, and ultimately dismantle the U.S. police force.

and today, with 120,000 followers on Twitter, says

Allow me to reiterate https://t.co/blqrAcSdni
— Kim “FIGHT LIKE HELLOut Now!” Kelly (@GrimKim) July 13, 2022

I will happily write endless blogs about how cops aren’t workers and they need to get the fuck out
— Kim “FIGHT LIKE HELLOut Now!” Kelly (@GrimKim) July 13, 2022

I’ll write a whole damn book about it if I have to
— Kim “FIGHT LIKE HELLOut Now!” Kelly (@GrimKim) July 13, 2022

Basically the new version of Sister Souljah? I dare say that even Bernie wouldn't have a problem telling her to sit down and shut up? Why don't more Dems do that?

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/12/2022 - 9:14pm

p.s. the red rose symbol on her twitter account signifies a member of, or sympathizer with, the Democratic Socialists of America, unabashed in their support of full socialism.

....The DSA is the largest socialist organization in the United States.[7] As of July 2021, the membership of the organization was reported at over 94,000 and the number of local chapters was 239.[1] The organization is credited with the rise of millennial socialism;[7] in December 2017, the median age of its membership was 33, compared to 68 in 2013.[8]

Though not a political party, members of the DSA have run in elections and held office. In November 2018, two DSA members, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib, were elected to the House of Representatives as Democrats. Eleven were elected to state legislatures.[9] In November 2020, Ocasio-Cortez and Tlaib were re-elected to the House, and were joined by two more DSA members, Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman, who have also been seated as Democrats.....

from wikipedia entry on same

while DSA members are not necessarily "Woke" types, the correlation is high, especially with younger members

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/12/2022 - 9:28pm

and no surprise that Rep. Cori Bush tweeted today that Khiara Bridges is her new personal hero:

I’d like to introduce everyone to my new personal hero, Professor Khiara Bridges.

Our trans community members and all of us in Missouri who hold them close to our hearts as their rights are ruthlessly opposed by the likes of insurrectionist saluter Hawley thank you, Professor. https://t.co/NzHb3Xt4rp
— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) July 13, 2022

and AOC is applauding Bridges' performance:

Thank you for your service, Professor Bridges

Also lol @ Hawley’s feigned shock at the recognition that he incites violence. The man raised a fist w/ Jan 6th-ers who yelled “Hang Mike Pence” & fundraised off it.

Now he wants to be all “Me?? Opening people to violence??” https://t.co/fecQ1ObfW9
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 12, 2022

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/12/2022 - 9:38pm

Rep. Ayanna Pressley says:

Abortion bans are rooted in white supremacy and protecting abortion access is anti-racist policy. https://t.co/dMq7GQATQP
— Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (@RepPressley) July 12, 2022

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/12/2022 - 9:43pm

Wait, i thot Margaret Sanger was a racist eugenicist for promoting abortions, and now whites are racist for being against abortion. I'm soooo confooosed.

Is it possible Dems could organize a sane group for PR, messaging and so forth rather than The Squad being the go-to for stupid quotes?

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 07/13/2022 - 1:53am

You have to Sister Souljah The Squad types in order for conservatives to stop using their culture warring to typecast the whole party. How many times and ways can I say it? The culture warring of elite woke types offer the perfect distraction for Republicans. The woke start it, the GOP uses it. (This goes all the way back to 80's and Christian conservatives complaining about "Hollywood", it is part of Lee Atwater politics.) If you want to win elections, you have to not only quit defending The Woke but denounce them. Just like Bill Clinton did with Sister Souljah.

This might change if more young people start voting in mid-terms and as older people die off. But just as likely is what's always happened: as the new generation ages, they throw away their shiny activist playthings

by artappraiser on Wed, 07/13/2022 - 8:27am

Who made sure Khiara Bridges was one of the expert witnesses at the Senate hearing? The Democratic party in charge of the Senate hearing!!! They offered her to Josh Hawley types on a platter. You blame the GOP as the instigators because the Democratic party won't disassociate themselves from The Woke but instead support them as part of their coalition. And you blame media for covering that even though it interests people and gets them eyeballs. That's crazy. You're in denial, blaming everyone for it except the responsible party.

Nobody forces Nancy Pelosi & Chuck Schumer to do things like this:

Kente cloth: Why Democrats honoring George Floyd wore kente stoles - The Washington Post

The Congressional Democrats are supportive of Identitarian politics and The Woke, they welcome them in their coalition instead of denouncing them (i.e., the DNC vs. the DLC. What we have now is the DNC. Except in Nevada, there even they just totally abdicated running the party and the DSA is in charge there now.)

by artappraiser on Wed, 07/13/2022 - 9:15am

Why do Dems have to Sistah Souljah but Reps can just double & triple down on the crazy and segue seamlessly to the new lie? They made up so much shit about "antifa" to help justify their insurrection, they made up an easily disproved tale about Ray Epps as 1 of many FBI undercover disturbers and keep parleying it. Ron DeSantis wanted crowds of unmasked infected people on the beach and other public locations and now he's a new rising GOP star/hopeful?

Having a dumb opinion is more forgivable in my book than straight out lies or suicidal behavior, but i guess that's just me.

Biden has good job numbers and handled the pandemic responsibly, and the propaganda machine's trying to make him the "worst president ever", so far with alarming success. But Dorothy can click her heels & say "Sister Souljah" and the Oz nightmare will be over I guess. Except nothing that worked in Clinton's time still works today - all that got run over with an 18-wheeler on the way to the new normal - "just say socialism a bunch of times and flyover will grab it's pitchforks and clutch it's pearls". Dumb fucking rubes.

Kudos to @alanfeuer for naming names in this piece debunking the Ray Epps conspiracy theory.https://t.co/9h1cmhckrK pic.twitter.com/KrxBvGYa6s
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) July 13, 2022

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 07/13/2022 - 12:02pm

Here is the original story on Beltran, this family, and the impact of DA @GeorgeGascon policy. It was one of the first stories I did on Gascon when I worked at @FOXLA. Gascon apparently believes victims of a child rapist should face their attacker alone.https://t.co/N4VVEExxXY
— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) July 14, 2022

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 07/15/2022 - 1:53am

now I see this as truly truly "woke" (small w), appreciative of all narratives!

Black Mayor In Tennessee Town Declares Confederate History Month: https://t.co/jZeFNZv1xd
— The Moguldom Nation (@Moguldom) April 22, 2022

by artappraiser on Sat, 07/16/2022 - 3:43am

It's pretty dumb overall - not much thought went into the whole thing after 150 years to think about it

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 07/16/2022 - 8:26am

Rapper's in love with his white legal team -

NBA YoungBoy with his legal team after he was found not guilty in court‼️ pic.twitter.com/YIzi0m2w6O
— RapTV (@Rap) July 15, 2022

nba youngboy walks out court after he got the verdict of being not guilty today in LA. pic.twitter.com/zgxB58axpi
— Youngboy Access (@AccessYoungboy) July 15, 2022

BREAKING: NBA YoungBoy reportedly found not guilty in California gun case https://t.co/YxnVCaH6vr
— XXL Magazine (@XXL) July 15, 2022

NBA YoungBoy NOT GUILTY in the first of two federal gun trials he’s facing

here’s my quick wrap of the case, where the rapper’s lawyers successfully argued against allowing his lyrics to be used against him in court https://t.co/4dkIXmD78m pic.twitter.com/QQukLCXYST
— Joe Coscarelli (@joecoscarelli) July 15, 2022

wait wha' happened to the white supremacist system in this country?

by artappraiser on Sat, 07/16/2022 - 3:11pm

^ betcha he'll think twice about future lyrics, tho? it's all good

by artappraiser on Sat, 07/16/2022 - 3:16pm

Not woke, needs to be sent to re-education camp to learn to be more angry and resentful?

I love this building. Love what it represents. Love my ancestors for building it (against their will)
I'm honored to be tasked with protecting it. Great day all #SaturdayVibes pic.twitter.com/yzXeZPUvUL
— Harry A Dunn (@libradunn) July 16, 2022

by artappraiser on Sat, 07/16/2022 - 3:20pm

when the woke realize there's a ton of narratives out there?

anime got y’all tattooing japanese ultranationalist and fascist symbol on yourselves https://t.co/4nYW7qPXZC
— andy (anti-france aktion) ☭ (@vietmarxist) July 16, 2022

by artappraiser on Sat, 07/16/2022 - 4:57pm

...still maintains its grip on institutional power...

This is what's called "citational justice." Without this & similar woke trends in academia, we wouldn't stand a chance of keeping the vicious, reactionary, mindless racism of the 19th century alive into the 21st.

Also: this woman no doubt thinks she's doing "non-whites" a favor. https://t.co/YOfBUU3twH
— Free Black Thought (@FreeBlckThought) July 17, 2022

2/

Imagine you're trying to cure cancer & you've been asked to "cite references that are 85% non-white."

You'd either have to use foundational previous work w/o citing it, which is unethical, or you'd have to accept that curing cancer wasn't worth the "citational injustice."
— Free Black Thought (@FreeBlckThought) July 17, 2022

3/

The repugnant race-obsessed and racist game being played in these quoted tweets can only really become a norm in fields where there's not really anything at stake, except the social hierarchy of the various scholars (if you can call them that) on their tiny little playground. pic.twitter.com/YtlMxVxZor
— Free Black Thought (@FreeBlckThought) July 17, 2022

by artappraiser on Sun, 07/17/2022 - 7:50pm

If you want to know where we are, this is *not* a parody headline.....

BBC News - Government agrees to call pregnant women mothershttps://t.co/sksYnFQbZF
— Henry Morgan's Ghost (@henrymorganI) July 18, 2022

by artappraiser on Mon, 07/18/2022 - 4:26pm

Was this the strongest message Dem mother's could make?

NEW: Mothers Against Greg Abbott, a diverse coalition of Texas women, just released a viral new ad. (h/t @MomsAGAbbott) pic.twitter.com/7Vo6giD9ZL
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) July 18, 2022

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 07/18/2022 - 5:55pm

ai yi yi, mho, it's awful - preaching to the converted - unless the intent was to raise money from the converted - and even then the women used are all unreal stiff stereotypes

by artappraiser on Mon, 07/18/2022 - 6:06pm

res ipsa loquitor:

Please help me spread this ad widely! My Soc Dept is hiring this year we've got two TT AP positions - the first is part of a cluster hire on Anti-Black Racism and Social Inclusion. Cluster recruit ad Below - Apps due Sept 9https://t.co/64PVoB60kT
— G. Cristina Mora (@GCristinaMora) July 18, 2022

by artappraiser on Mon, 07/18/2022 - 7:40pm

and again:

#BLMriots Anti-racism theater -

Him: "You're white and telling this to two Black police officers....see the problem w/that?"

Her: "Just bcz they're Black doesn't mean they aren't a part of the problem. Racism is a white person's problem...I need to fix it."#BLM #BLM2020 pic.twitter.com/d0cpQh2ShV
— Melik Abdul (@MelikAbdul_) July 18, 2022

by artappraiser on Mon, 07/18/2022 - 7:55pm

Most scholars avoid the Fallacy of the Single Cause. Not this scholar. The sole cause. In the entire world. pic.twitter.com/SShMkdT0p1
— The Woke Temple (@WokeTemple) July 21, 2022

His institutional damages so far.

by artappraiser on Thu, 07/21/2022 - 12:19am

First para from @tomowolade is a banger and it only gets better from there https://t.co/OvPS31WrDx pic.twitter.com/wsW6mMI07W
— Ian Leslie (@mrianleslie) July 21, 2022

by artappraiser on Thu, 07/21/2022 - 5:56am

Up your alley?

From Mark Lilla’s The Once and Future Liberal pic.twitter.com/ZUwTEMeDqf
— Zachary Elwood (@apokerplayer) July 21, 2022

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 07/21/2022 - 3:10am

yeah it's well said. the main problem is too many elite educated millennials have been raised and educated to be self-righteous narcissists. but the really tragic thing about it is that they think they are being empathetic to others, unfortunately it's based on stereotypes of "others" they never interacted with in reality (AND were actually protected from interacting with them) but were taught the stereotypes by narcissists as well.

by artappraiser on Thu, 07/21/2022 - 5:50am

as I was saying:

Yes. Chong, Citrin & @MorrisLevy8 find, “In a stunning reversal,” highly educated, young liberals “are now consistently less tolerant than conservatives of a wide range of controversial speech about racial, gender, and religious identities.”https://t.co/Z3uu4LPMVI pic.twitter.com/WUef8NYL7I
— The Missing Data Depot (@data_depot) July 22, 2022

by artappraiser on Fri, 07/22/2022 - 10:34pm

This is a primarily Millennial idea.
— The Neighborhood Sociologist (@roderickgraham) July 22, 2022

by artappraiser on Sat, 07/23/2022 - 1:22am

Dave Chappelle’s show in Minnesota has been cancelled by the comedy club he was due to perform at over his recent ‘team terf’ comments. https://t.co/Akv0kZWFJv
— Metro (@MetroUK) July 21, 2022

Moronic decision. Literally throwing away money to appease a minority of shrieking harpies who wouldn’t have come to see Dave Chappelle anyways. Oh well, it’s First Avenue’s loss. https://t.co/W0AgY33pk9
— Oliver Jia (@OliverJia1014) July 21, 2022

by artappraiser on Thu, 07/21/2022 - 5:51am

The left could simply ally w/ people who think it's a mistake for performing arts venues to deplatform artists over their political views, because free artistic expression is that important and valuable. Instead some are ceding that position to the right. It's a huge mistake. https://t.co/WUd3nRORS8
— Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64) July 22, 2022

These workers exercised their right to freedom of association in a way that undermined freedom of artistic expression. They are lawfully entitled to do so. & an organization called the Foundation for Individual Rights ***and Expression*** should criticize them. This isn't hard. https://t.co/k2LnQs811h
— Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64) July 22, 2022

by artappraiser on Fri, 07/22/2022 - 7:03pm

ugh

I’ve just spent a couple of hours revising my c19th gender history module after it’s had a bit of a break. I’ve got myself all excited by what is looking like and all the readings. I’ve also decided to be creative with my seminar tasks: sewing, scrapbooking, re-enacting etc. pic.twitter.com/damLxu3Hrw
— Lucie Matthews-Jones (@luciejones83) July 20, 2022

by artappraiser on Thu, 07/21/2022 - 6:11am

"Heterosexual desire & passion" has to include "Leathers, Massa and Maids", rather than the run-of-the-mill "what turns 95% of guys & gals on?", which would be just too much to ask that for 1 chapter/lesson out of a suite that she just acknowledge the prevailing majority reality? I mean, "what made Friends so popular?", "why did the original morbid Pretty Woman script get turned into a suburb-appealing rom-com dressed as an un-dingy-fied prostitute tale?", "what percentage of America's sexual encounters are fairly straightforward missionary position and is that a problem?", "have our relationship roles basically stayed the same despite 'changes' over the last 50-60 years?", etc.
I know boring is boring, but it does have its place - after all, the shrieking, hair-pulling, and maniacal reactions get pretty predictable as well.

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 07/21/2022 - 8:42am

just an example of the kind of thing I see every other day in my own field for a couple years now; everything, everything is being framed from the angle of "colonialism' if you don't have that word in your research, it doesn't get published

I am chairing a session at CAA next year on the topic of craft and colonialism. Please consider participating and spread the word! https://t.co/c2URHIqLeE
— Alberti's Window (@albertis_window) July 26, 2022

seriously to the point of "gag me with a spoon" (oh, a spoon? why, a spoon is a object imposed on other cultures by colonizers....

)

by artappraiser on Wed, 07/27/2022 - 3:00am

res ipsa loquitor (the description of them - "Hollywood power couple")

Hollywood power couple Sabrina and Idris Elba enter the skin-care arena with S‘ABLE Labs, a genderless line of essentials that draws on traditional African ingredients. https://t.co/5OCf1UL6DD
— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) July 21, 2022

especially since it would be hard to argue that most of Africa is on the way to becoming "genderless"

by artappraiser on Thu, 07/21/2022 - 6:18am

Woke baked goods pic.twitter.com/01huf4pdmY
— Sarah Vine (@WestminsterWAG) July 11, 2022

by artappraiser on Thu, 07/21/2022 - 3:14pm

Pronouns - how can we order w/o pronouns?

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 07/21/2022 - 5:10pm

If I had to chose which does more damage to Democratic party prospects, the extreme woke or the public twerkers, it would be a very hard choice. Forgive them for they know not what they do, how many they disgust? Or do they know? Rather, is the message "go fuck yourselves, all of you, we are all for tearing society down, ain't nothing for us in it anyway"?

White supremacy. https://t.co/KVqcmnBmk4
— Barrington Martin II (@_BarringtonII) July 21, 2022

by artappraiser on Thu, 07/21/2022 - 6:13pm

Aw c'mon, why are you so against female empowerment?

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 07/21/2022 - 6:36pm

speaking of, one mystery is the eternal appeal of 'pageant life' to those beyond 3rd grade

The three-time Miss America Texas contestant clinched her victory after years of documenting her law school journey at Southern Methodist University on TikTok, where she has amassed over 850K followers.https://t.co/hWF10VgS9g
— Voices of Color (@VOCInsider) July 20, 2022

by artappraiser on Thu, 07/21/2022 - 6:57pm

"I'm Miss World, somebody kill me" + video

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/courtney-love-olivia-r...

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 07/21/2022 - 7:11pm

Inside the Woke Meltdown at One Domestic Violence Organization. Women Against Abuse discouraged black domestic abuse victims from calling the police. Yes, you read that right.

The core problem is that liberal non-profits are run and staffed by absolute lunatics https://t.co/6HzJ5ScXgO
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) July 22, 2022

Staffed by lunatics, run by people who just aren’t very good at managing because managing is hard and being able to do it is well-remunerated in the for-profit sector. https://t.co/t4HA1R0eya
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) July 22, 2022

Good managers are really important, and not paying enough to get them tends to be unwise
— Stefan Schubert (@StefanFSchubert) July 22, 2022

Yes, but I think the problem across the nonprofit space is not just the money but regardless of the cause you tend to attract people who really want to *do the work* and not be managers.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) July 22, 2022

by artappraiser on Fri, 07/22/2022 - 10:14pm

note also crosslink in Free Beacon article

Leftwing nonprofits across the country have undergone similar transformations. From the Sierra Club to the Guttmacher Institute to the American Civil Liberties Union, the Intercept’s Ryan Grim reported last month, progressive advocacy groups have "effectively ceased to function," as their outward-facing missions fall prey to internal tumult.

by artappraiser on Fri, 07/22/2022 - 10:22pm

Is stop-and-search a tool of racism? ‘Anti-racist’ activists seem to think so. But most ethnic-minority Britons support stop-and-search – even to prevent non-violent crime. The activist class doesn’t speak for ordinary minority Britons, says @InayaFolarin https://t.co/0y663i7xir
— spiked (@spikedonline) July 17, 2022

by artappraiser on Fri, 07/22/2022 - 10:25pm

True? The millennial generation overall does seem real "church lady".

Somehow the country that produced Tom Wolfe and Hunter S. Thompson now has nobody of comparable stature or style, except for a few edgy Substackers (and even then only on a good day), because our elites became church ladies and wankers.
— Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) (@antoniogm) July 23, 2022

While extremely opinionated about gender, it's to no end - little interest in sex or romance. The anime/superhero effect, every narrative simplified, lacking deep thoughts? No literature, just comics? No sense of humor - where are their great comedians? Etc.

by artappraiser on Sat, 07/23/2022 - 2:04am

SUPERB essay by classic liberal (and an out bisexual, I might add) on how he escaped his upbringing as a 7th Day Adventist only to recognize the same exact things he escaped from his childhood in Social Justice cult of The Woke theology he witnessed overtaking progressive politics in a few short years:

“If you’ve felt gaslit by people telling you that cancel culture isn’t real (or it’s a good thing), or that rioting, looting, and arson in the name of CSJ is justified, you’ve been in the company of a religious apologist.” https://t.co/sI71OqwlHo
— Queer Majority (@QueerMajority) July 20, 2022

Even I was shocked by his tale later in the essay by how it has changed groups like 'Netroots Nation."

by artappraiser on Sat, 07/23/2022 - 6:09pm

Oy ay, this too, this is a main thing that bothers me, it's in all versions of intolerant religions and missing from tolerant ones:

A question: Are ancestral guilt and collective guilt fundamentally liberal and tolerant subjects? Can people (“we”) be guilty for sins (“torture”) committed centuries ago (“past”) by people who look like us? pic.twitter.com/hiwpSLv126
— The Woke Temple (@WokeTemple) July 24, 2022

by artappraiser on Sat, 07/23/2022 - 9:36pm

Similar passages are found in Jeremiah 31:29 and Ezekiel 18:2

“In those days they will not say again,
‘The fathers have eaten [of bitter fruit],
And the children’s teeth are set on edge.’

But the teachings are the antithesis of this once widely held belief that children suffer the sins of their fathers; each soul is ultimately accountable for its own deeds and is made to die for its own sins, not that of others.

And that with the Lord’s oversight the belief that children are made to suffer the sins of their fathers will no longer be propounded as a truth, and shown for the falsehood it is.

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 07/24/2022 - 2:04am

An appeal to reason?

How the ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round. All you need is sticks, eyes, feet and brains. pic.twitter.com/J7RRT5Sit0
— Lost in history (@lostinhist0ry) July 23, 2022

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 07/24/2022 - 2:28am

You know, I don't want these people to have the kind of influence they have on social media anymore.

The humorless, joyless scold who refuses to find humor in anything and seeks offense in everything will immolate the world in their narcissism. https://t.co/sSlalANbs1
— Isaiah L. Carter (@IsaiahLCarter) July 22, 2022

I make no bones about the fact that yes, I despise Trump as a man and as a former president of this country.

But it's absolutely ridiculous to not laugh at that press release.

That was shady, comedic GOLD, and yes, this Democrat laughed HARD when I read it.
— Isaiah L. Carter (@IsaiahLCarter) July 22, 2022

by artappraiser on Sat, 07/23/2022 - 11:30pm

The Chomskys and the Lavrovs; the TERFS and the Proud Boys meet in the back of the circle … the “Hell Hole” pic.twitter.com/Ecmoh1naMT
— pkwilde (@pkwilde) July 23, 2022

by artappraiser on Sat, 07/23/2022 - 11:36pm

Something I appreciate about Warnock and Fetterman is they put out good vibes — I’m not sure the party of aspirational change can be effective if it’s miserable all the time: pic.twitter.com/kCMZDO6mON
— Conor Sen (@conorsen) July 23, 2022

Yes, I posted this on the right thread. The main negative thing about Sister Souljah is she was angry all the time and wanted to "fight". The raised fist symbol (which Josh Hawley just famously and ridiculously hypocritically used) is angry separatism and anti-democratic, signifies a willingness to fight the other forever, stoking anger forever, rather than compromise on a single thing with the other.

by artappraiser on Sat, 07/23/2022 - 11:56pm

"As many top editors and publishing executives admit off the record, a real strain of self-censorship has emerged that many otherwise liberal-minded editors, agents and authors feel compelled to take part in." -- Pamela Paul https://t.co/FJ0m3DeGYn
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) July 24, 2022

by artappraiser on Sun, 07/24/2022 - 8:13am

This from a UK LGBTQ+ organization with 250K+ followers on Twitter:

Research suggests that children as young as 2 recognise their trans identity. Yet, many nurseries and schools teach a binary understanding of pre-assigned gender.

LGBTQ-inclusive and affirming education is crucial for the wellbeing of all young people! https://t.co/RKDwnzZMfe
— Stonewall (@stonewalluk) July 22, 2022

Seems like the law in Florida intended to nix this exact sort of thing as it forbids bringing up the subject in curricula through the 3rd grade.

by artappraiser on Sun, 07/24/2022 - 11:50pm

Who is the enemy of the American majority? One politically smart suggestion:

...This emerging New American Majority requires base broadening—not base mobilization strategies. This is important, because virtually every Washington consultant will reject this idea. But data shows there is a vastly larger majority emerging than Republicans have been used to engaging for the last 90 years. Reaching all of that majority requires new thinking about policy development, language, scheduling, and coalition building.

The big election campaign must be built around big solutions that can actually be implemented. The current crises of the American system, and the woke Left's assault on American values, require big solutions with broad support....

It's Newt channeling Lee Atwater 101 (but I should Newt is purposely ignoring that sticky abortion wicket)

by artappraiser on Mon, 07/25/2022 - 6:43pm

That's weird thing to me about American racial resentment discourse - the base state of the world is xenophobia and racism - the fact that there are any low RR people at all is the result of powerful developmental/cultural/ideological forces.
https://t.co/sySi4ixBiE
— (((David Shor))) (@davidshor) July 19, 2022

I think the basic idea is that liberal cultural values started with extremely educated elites (like, literal aristocrats) and have gradually spread to the rest of the population via social diffusion/mass education/media https://t.co/PPl9cFBieT
— (((David Shor))) (@davidshor) July 26, 2022

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/26/2022 - 4:45pm

^ to be clear, this is one key to current populist movements (ala Trump, yellow jackets in France, truckers in Canada, etc) - bonafide *aristocrats* shoving their ideas down the throats of *the people* (you can easily see it via the animosity to a Bill Gates or George Soros - they don't actually do *woke* but they are seen as one and the same, responsible and complicit, so are Yale and Harvard, Justin Trudeau, etc. Thing is it is hard to squeeze Biden into that category - unlike Obama, he always plied a working class persona - & I would argue that is why he was a winning candidate this time)

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/26/2022 - 4:59pm

Privilege masquerading as overcoming of systemic oppression https://t.co/n78Gw1qZGh
— Wenyuan Wu, Ph.D. (@wu_wenyuan) July 23, 2022

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/26/2022 - 5:25pm

Where are the grownups https://t.co/vLq9FysWLz
— Yael Bar tur (@yaelbt) July 27, 2022

by artappraiser on Wed, 07/27/2022 - 1:12pm

Announcing standing in front of a big banner that says 'NOT WOKE CEOs." Guess who?

Florida’s proposed legislation to protect against ESG will:
• Prohibit big banks and credit cards from discriminating against customers for their religious, political, or social beliefs.
• Prohibit SBA fund managers from considering ESG factors when investing state’s money. pic.twitter.com/EmnJQV8k3l
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) July 27, 2022

by artappraiser on Wed, 07/27/2022 - 9:17pm

NEW: The UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees just passed a resolution codifying its commitment to institutional neutrality.

The resolution cites the Kalven Report. Essentially, this prevents the university from "expressing opinions on the political or social issues of the day." pic.twitter.com/gEoY1iI2dc
— John Sailer (@JohnDSailer) July 27, 2022

by artappraiser on Wed, 07/27/2022 - 9:19pm

This is a must-read story:

The Dangerous Overreach of California’s SB107, by @wesyang https://t.co/rsWnFiSf9F
— Kelly S. (@kellyske) July 27, 2022

by artappraiser on Wed, 07/27/2022 - 9:38pm

JK Rowling @jk_rowling said she finds Donald Trump "offensive & bigoted", but his freedom to speak “protects my freedom to call him a bigot”https://t.co/jzrtvDcbT0

J.K. Rowling Writes about Her Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issueshttps://t.co/q1Nb7ccxnM pic.twitter.com/EcSldkA5ss
— Iain Simpson (@IainSim55659177) July 27, 2022

by artappraiser on Thu, 07/28/2022 - 3:23am

2/2

BTW, here's some links regarding the way medical education is "wokifying" in ways that deserve serious scrutiny:

1.https://t.co/bA6PvcPKYf

2.https://t.co/IhI6lDKnE8

3. https://t.co/Y4wlTHT7fI

4. https://t.co/MkDky3PKlx

5.https://t.co/InsgesUV0Q
— Free Black Thought (@FreeBlckThought) July 28, 2022

by artappraiser on Thu, 07/28/2022 - 3:38am

Michigan Supreme Court to LGBTQ activists-hope this is enough for you, will you quit the yelling already?

"Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation necessarily constitutes discrimination because of sex," wrote Justice Elizabeth Clement, a Republican, for the court's majority.

Great news: The Michigan Supreme Court says it's not legal for businesses to discriminate against LGBT people.https://t.co/ckPUBGCFG8
— Michael J. Stern (@MichaelJStern1) July 28, 2022

by artappraiser on Thu, 07/28/2022 - 7:56pm

Food fight!

BREAKING: @againstgroomers is the latest account to be suspended in Twitter’s banning spree, following @ConceptualJames, @Timcast & @Moms4Liberty who were all recently targeted for criticizing harmful leftwing ideologies.

Read my report for TPM!https://t.co/wml56gsueA
— Christina Buttons (@buttonslives) July 29, 2022

by artappraiser on Thu, 07/28/2022 - 8:58pm

Examples of institutional wokeness causing law enforcement to quit in Chicago and in North Carolina

by artappraiser on Fri, 07/29/2022 - 8:58pm

While Rock did not directly address Smith’s heartfelt six-minute video, according to People, he did pass along a pointed message about how “everybody is trying to be a … victim.” https://t.co/T3NIABVaYw pic.twitter.com/smSEGrzSUz
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) July 31, 2022

by artappraiser on Sun, 07/31/2022 - 9:11pm

One time a prison abolitionist came to class to give a guest lecture and then there was a Q&A session. Nobody gave her any hard questions. They all just admired her and told her how brave she was. It was at that moment I realized that I may had chosen the wrong major (PoliSci).
— ric Y. (@NotInCongress) August 1, 2022

(This T.A. would give him an A+. Hope for the future that there's more like him in college right now. It's not the topic - though it happens to be one of my bete noires - it's that he was expecting more than "rah rah" from the class.)

by artappraiser on Sun, 07/31/2022 - 9:19pm

Happy National Girlfriend Day to my sweetheart I love disrupting settler colonialism and white supremacy with you pic.twitter.com/o4bRohK2X6
— Autumn A. BlackDeer, PhD (@DrBlackDeer) August 1, 2022

by artappraiser on Mon, 08/01/2022 - 4:21pm

ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE@matyoskidane @stoplapdspying #Repeal4118 https://t.co/BNBfIXvX4G pic.twitter.com/HMKR1SMAwm
— People’s City Council - Los Angeles (@PplsCityCouncil) August 2, 2022

by artappraiser on Wed, 08/03/2022 - 4:06pm

note that the Twitter account posting the video of the "takeover" self-describes as Abolitionist, anti-capitalist & anti-imperialist collective amplifying the voice of the people through direct action, public ed + community space

by artappraiser on Wed, 08/03/2022 - 5:33pm

ah nice example of how responsible socially conservative Black males respond to the idea of their tax dollars helping to pay for Woke higher ed:

https://t.co/MjGbv09HLQ
— Isaiah L. Carter (@IsaiahLCarter) August 4, 2022

even tho they are probably very anti-violence, it's like: I wanna strangle her

by artappraiser on Thu, 08/04/2022 - 6:05pm

.@8RosarioSanchez on how the FiLiA Conference defends women’s rights and gets abuse from progressives https://t.co/LoFWMc7hGJ
— The Critic (@TheCriticMag) August 7, 2022

by artappraiser on Sun, 08/07/2022 - 2:33am

Jilani's details point out how sad this type of thing truly is in this particular case, and it's also a reminder that, in general, so many are basically trying to grift off of Wokeness:

Leguizamo played an Italian in the Super Mario Bros movie didn't he? https://t.co/ngxVg4NTbZ
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) August 5, 2022

Actors play people who are different than themselves, that's the point. Otherwise, it's a documentary.
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) August 5, 2022

Also...Castro's family were Europeans and Franco's lineage is actually not that far away.
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) August 5, 2022

This goes even deeper https://t.co/M32XJRMrV7
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) August 5, 2022

The production crew making this movie isn’t actually the usual Hollywood crowd https://t.co/GXXNM9Qv7C
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) August 6, 2022

Jose Rivera, one of the writers for the film, was the first Puerto Rican screenwriter ever nominated for an Oscar. Rivera also penned the Motorcycle Diaries one of the two probably most acclaimed movies about Che Guevara.
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) August 6, 2022

by artappraiser on Sun, 08/07/2022 - 3:54am

Why do these thick middle class activists chose Harrods ? Why not a local Tesco’s or Asda? Might that be too risky to be seen wasting food in this way?
In any case I bet yummy mummy and woke daddy are beaming with pride. https://t.co/USRLypdOPL via @MailOnline
— Peter Whittle (@prwhittle) August 9, 2022

by artappraiser on Tue, 08/09/2022 - 10:20pm

in the U.S.:

This Sachs’ take twists my knickers a bit. We all sometimes feed our audience exactly what they believe, perhaps both Sachs and Lewis are doing this, but at least Lewis is making her case. Sachs is doing the angsty teenager eye-roll. “Oh god MOM, do we HAVE to do this AGAIN?” pic.twitter.com/6FfGYrDRHV
— Carl (@HistoryBoomer) August 19, 2022

We all agree that stabbing Rushdie was wrong, horrific, no argument there, but what about the book, “The Satanic Verses”? Would we all agree it’s good, righteous even, to write a book that might offend, or is guaranteed to offend, many Muslims? How fully do *you* embrace Rushdie? pic.twitter.com/n4nsuB7t8M
— Carl (@HistoryBoomer) August 19, 2022

Join us Friday August 19:

One week after the brutal attack on author @SalmanRushdie, the NY literary community is rallying in solidarity and presenting public readings from Rushdie's works on the steps of @nypl on 5th Avenue.#StandWithSalman. Details: https://t.co/KnAChMITce pic.twitter.com/l6M55aasHr
— PEN America (@PENamerica) August 19, 2022

in the U.K.

The Left refuses to admit that they are aggressors. @mrianleslie investigates why https://t.co/TcGKw7Haqp
— The Critic (@TheCriticMag) August 18, 2022

"More often than not the ‘representatives’ of various religions and communities that are picked by the state tend to be the most hardline and uncompromising."

My latest @spikedonline on Rushdie and Britain's failed model of state-backed multiculturalism.https://t.co/KCcRxPpj6D
— Dr Rakib Ehsan (@rakibehsan) August 19, 2022

Salman Rushdie and the sacred right to irreverence. Following last week’s savage attack, Simon Schama argues that disrespect is essential for democracy and the author’s fight for free expression is for us all. By @simon_schama #PayWall #MustRead 1/6 https://t.co/0hIB76GVJU
— alain servais (@aservais1) August 19, 2022

by artappraiser on Fri, 08/19/2022 - 2:05pm

I see a JIHAD FORMING GOING AFTER BARNES & NOBLE; their name is trending on Twitter and this jihad appears to be why.

There’s a lot of misinformation, but here are the facts:
1. #BarnesAndNoble is refusing to stock most authors on shelves
2. It disproportionately affects marginalized authors, debuts, & MG
of confirmation from authors (including bestsellers), agents, editors, & booksellers
— Gabi Burton(@query_queen339) August 19, 2022

If you shop at #barnesandnoble, order books by BIPOC authors, marginalized authors, debut authors, LGBT authors, underrepresented authors. Tell them in the only language they speak ($$$) that these books matter, and that they are worthy of shelf space, too.
— Finley Chuva // is writing (@finleychuva) August 18, 2022

#BarnesAndNoble you have lost my business. Only carrying the top 1-2 books from each publisher is elitist and exclusionary. This is how you destroy diversity in publishing. Shame on you.
— Jennifer Brennise (@JBrennise) August 18, 2022

#BarnesAndNoble has suddenly decided NOT to carry KEY PLAYER, the 4th FRONT DESK book, coming out in 2 weeks! Here are the new details of their new “nationwide strategy”—only giving shelf space for Top 1-2 books per publisher! I am not Top enough, apparently! #FrontDeskSeries pic.twitter.com/AQOoTUyQT2
— Kelly Yang (@kellyyanghk) August 18, 2022

Guess the Woke Bookstore just isn't delivering the numbers of customers they need!

"we all deserve a chance to go for our dreams" translated = socialize book publishing and marketing and shove popular white authors under the bus, make people buy our stuff by shoving it down their throats

by artappraiser on Fri, 08/19/2022 - 2:43pm

P.S. also this: "I'm too lazy to market my own book so that people type the title into Amazon and order it. Barnes & Noble should do it for me"

by artappraiser on Fri, 08/19/2022 - 2:48pm

Non-binary tiktoker gives stern instructions for how to gender them and we are expected to obey pic.twitter.com/fcnWqCECA7
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 19, 2022

by artappraiser on Sat, 08/20/2022 - 5:03pm

My latest for @Quillette tells the insane story of Laith Marouf, a vicious anti-semite who used hyper-woke gibberish as a smokescreen for hatred. Trudeau's govt has paid him more than *$600K* since 2016—including $130K for a 6-city 2022 "anti-racism" tourhttps://t.co/eMgYlQumRP
— Jonathan Kay (@jonkay) August 25, 2022

by artappraiser on Thu, 08/25/2022 - 10:14pm

In the News

Russia plays weak hand in Palestine
Russia plays weak hand in Palestine

submitted by PeraclesPlease 8 months ago

The intra-Palestinian meeting in Moscow has precedent

Russia's hosted such meetings in the past, most recently Feb 2019

Russia has long lamented the US' "monopolization" of the peace process & tried to carve out a niche for itself: mediating among the disunited Palestinians/2
— Hanna Notte (@HannaNotte) February 29, 2024

Read the article at https://twitter.com/HannaNotte/status/1763116222256701787

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Mother Jones is Reaching out to Alternative Party Voters
Mother Jones is Reaching out to Alternative Party Voters

submitted by HSG 8 months ago

Here's what I told them: https://halginsberg.com/vote-for-jill-stein-again/

Read the article at https://halginsberg.com/vote-for-jill-stein-again/

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Controversial Brazil law curbing Indigenous rights comes...
Controversial Brazil law curbing Indigenous rights comes into force

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Controversial Brazil law curbing Indigenous rights comes into force https://t.co/pCoDg05irX
— Gareth Harris (@garethharr) December 28, 2023

Read the article at https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/28/brazil-law-indigenous-land-rights-claim-time-marker?CMP=share_btn_tw

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Security Alert: U.S. Embassy Port-au-Prince, Haiti (...
Security Alert: U.S. Embassy Port-au-Prince, Haiti (December 25, 2023)

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Location: U.S. Embassy and residential compounds

Events: Heavy gunfire is occuring around the area of the U.S. Embassy and residential compounds adjacent to the Trutier area of Tabarre. All Embassy personnel have been instructed to remain indoors and shelter-in-place until further notice. All others should avoid the area.

Actions to take:

Avoid the area;

Avoid demonstrations and any large gatherings of people;

Do not attempt to drive through roadblocks; and

If you encounter a roadblock, turn around and get to a safe area.

Read the article at https://ht.usembassy.gov/security-alert-u-s-embassy-port-au-prince-haiti-december-25-2023/

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Pakistan Is Creating the World’s Next Refugee Crisis
Pakistan Is Creating the World’s Next Refugee Crisis

submitted by artappraiser 11 months ago

By The Editorial Board @ Bloomberg.com, December 8, 2023

A mass expulsion of Afghan migrants could destabilize the region and fuel radicalization. The West should pressure Islamabad to change course.

Read the article at https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-12-08/pakistan-s-expulsion-of-afghan-refugees-risks-another-crisis

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Internet shut down in Chad
Internet shut down in Chad

submitted by artappraiser 11 months ago

All eyes on #Chad right now
Chad has two internet trunks coming into the country: One from the Red Sea via Sudan; the other from Cameroon. Not possible for the totality of the country's internet network to be shut unless done centrally. A lot of rumors swirling; few facts. https://t.co/N6bDJZ2ixO

Read the article at https://x.com/_hudsonc/status/1732891968709992511?s=20

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[Economy] where Joe's success falls short
[Economy] where Joe's success falls short

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[CRIME News] 3 loss-prevention employees in Macy’s across...
[CRIME News] 3 loss-prevention employees in Macy’s across the street from Philadelphia City Hall stabbed

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BREAKING: Three loss prevention employees in Macy’s across the street from Philadelphia City Hall stabbed, one of them has died from stab wounds, @PhillyPolice sources tell me. Police converged on the store as the three workers were rushed to Jefferson Hospital. pic.twitter.com/4U1eKycL4W

Read the article at https://x.com/KeeleyFox29/status/1731713272942940365?s=20

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Former U.S. Ambassador Arrested, Charged With Working As...
Former U.S. Ambassador Arrested, Charged With Working As Secret Agent For Cuba

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Former US Ambassador Arrested, Charged With Working As Secret Agent For Cuba https://t.co/LDwo4ZJI1K
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) December 4, 2023

Read the article at https://www.huffpost.com/entry/manuel-rocha-ambassador-arrested-cuba_n_656d1e2ae4b028b0f3d07478

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[War in Israel, Chapter II] UNRWA under scrutiny
[War in Israel, Chapter II] UNRWA under scrutiny

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[Chapter I news is HERE, Oct. 7 til today]

You don’t get it.
It’s not about an UNRWA teacher who held an Israeli kid hostage in his house.
It’s all about how for 75 years you have destroyed the future of generations of Palestinians, including my family.
My cousins in Arab countries are still not citizens - not even the… https://t.co/nv6anubGhc
— George Deek (@GeorgeDeek) December 2, 2023

Note 'Community Notes' attached to UNWRA's statement.

Read the article at https://x.com/GeorgeDeek/status/1731020551328579863?s=20

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Maduro, Under Pressure, Holds Vote to Annex Territory From...
Maduro, Under Pressure, Holds Vote to Annex Territory From a Neighbor

submitted by artappraiser 11 months ago

Imperialism for me but not for thee?

It's wild that Venezuela is now holding a vote on whether 2/3 of Guyana actually belongs to them! Analysts suggest that Modoru may want military action to pump up his sinking popularity.

Could we have a war in South America?!?

"The people who live in Essequibo are largely… pic.twitter.com/QvMEjkkgwy

Read the article at https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/03/world/americas/maduro-vote-essequibo-guyana.html

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[Where is the GOP headed?] Divisions leave Florida’s House...
[Where is the GOP headed?] Divisions leave Florida’s House Republicans powerless

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The lack of a cohesive delegation has allowed attention-seeking lawmakers to act on their own.

McCarthy: “You have [Rep. Matt] Gaetz, who belongs in jail…”

Gaetz: “Tough words from a guy who sucker punches people in the back. The only assault I committed was against Kevin’s fragile ego.”https://t.co/LctPuz6Pcf

Read the article at https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/29/divisions-leave-floridas-house-republicans-powerless-00129200

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‘She got so mad at me’: book on the ‘Squad’ details AOC-...
‘She got so mad at me’: book on the ‘Squad’ details AOC-Pelosi clashes

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By Martinn Pengelly in Washington DC for TheGuardian.com, Nov. 30

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tells Ryan Grim life in Congress ‘completely transformed’ after Democratic leader stepped down

Read the article at https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/30/squad-book-aoc-nancy-pelosi?CMP=share_btn_tw

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US health insurers Humana, Cigna in talks to merge -source
US health insurers Humana, Cigna in talks to merge -source

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@ Reuters, Nov. 29

Read the article at https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/us-health-insurers-humana-cigna-talks-merge-wsj-2023-11-29/

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Central Africa’s dinosaur regimes and the art of coup-...
Central Africa’s dinosaur regimes and the art of coup-proofing

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"Both the AU and the intl community place more weight on whether elections are held than whether they are free and fair. Sanctions/expulsions occur when there is a coup but not necessarily when elections are rigged or if an “institutional coup” occurs." https://t.co/m9dNimJP0D
— Cameron Hudson (@_hudsonc) November 28, 2023

Read the article at https://africanarguments.org/2023/11/central-africas-dinosaur-regimes-and-the-art-of-coup-proofing/

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