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As someone who was there, I

artappraiser — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 22:16:50 +0000

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As someone who was there, I totally agree;

If during the Gingrich era you'd told people that in twenty-five years the *progressive* position would be that public shame and professional destruction are important and morally righteous responses to the transgression of popular social norms, they'd have been utterly baffled.
— Oliver Traldi (@olivertraldi) March 19, 2022

Even the contemporary progressive lexicon uses "shaming" in most contexts as a per se bad thing - slut-shaming, fat-shaming, kink-shaming, etc. But change what's being shamed and suddenly you can't criticize it without being a crybaby or a censor.
— Oliver Traldi (@olivertraldi) March 19, 2022

I think center-left people

artappraiser — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 18:30:22 +0000

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I think center-left people really do cower in fear of cancellation if they express any moderate opinions on hot button issues, but I also think this fear is misguided and lean toward encouraging more normie-posting rather than more rounds of hand-wringing.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 19, 2022

Part of the reason some

artappraiser — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 20:23:54 +0000

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Part of the reason some college students want to cancel those with whom they disagree is because it is exhilarating for people so young and otherwise low in status suddenly to experience such a rush of power.
— Bo Winegard (@EPoe187) March 5, 2022

In high school, one is a nobody. One's views are irrelevant and largely ignored. Then of a sudden somebody is at an elite campus and writing open letters about canceling misbehaving professors that the New York Times takes seriously.
— Bo Winegard (@EPoe187) March 5, 2022

I remember being 19, confident as all hell about my view of the world, and supremely impressed with my own intellectual ability. In short, I remember being an arrogant little shit. And boy was I ever wrong. I'm glad my professors humored me and humbled me.
— Bo Winegard (@EPoe187) March 5, 2022

also I would like to share this horrifying video:

Here's where we are today https://t.co/IHHmSpitBb
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) March 3, 2022

(they are in Texas! Even though north Texas, imagine what's going to happen when they go out into the real Texas world...)

Here is more along the same

artappraiser — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 12:33:26 +0000

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Here is more along the same lines, they have abandoned their longtime sales pitch of "all the news that's fit to print" for selling mostly news that fits woke ideology:

I wish the reporter would have asked Dean Baquet why he thinks more Black, Asian, Hispanic, and Muslims voted for Trump in 2020 than in 2016. pic.twitter.com/Oryay4CV7B
— Sam Haselby (@samhaselby) February 19, 2022

"People who menstruate" and

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 12:16:00 +0000

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"People who menstruate" and

Rowling, who had been accused of transphobia in the past, shared an article by The Times UK titled "Absurdity of police logging rapists as women". The article detailed how Scotland Police have been criticized for saying "they will record rapes by offenders with male genitalia as being committed by a woman if the attacker 'identifies as a female'." The report was tweeted by Rowling, along with the sarcastic caption - "War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. The Penised Individual Who Raped You Is a Woman."

You might hate this, but one if the horrid things that came out of the 2008 race was fussing white women for not being intersectional so just privileged co-enablers of racism. Spin it forward and being born with a vagina is 2nd class to converting or even not converting, just "identifying"as someone who menstruates, the gender formerly known as "women".

Of course this was supposed to be "The Root-cum-Huffpost, not the NYTimes.

& then Tucker being a dick

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 11:50:14 +0000

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& then Tucker being a dick (as usual)

And AOC politely calls him a pendejo,

by which i think she means what he always

seems to have in his mouth, with that smug look.

This is the type of stuff you say when your name starts with a P and ends with dejo https://t.co/92chHFQUN7
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 19, 2022

Because of which? Trashing

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 11:47:00 +0000

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Because of which? Trashing Rudy and other Trumpers, taking a knee to support black justice, what in particular? Guess he didn't have to take on Spotify to make his point. He should work with the Lincoln Project.

PS - Peter Frampton feels like I do, if that makes any difference.

A supposedly liberal

artappraiser — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 11:28:24 +0000

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A supposedly liberal newspaper whipping up a Two Minutes Hate against a writer for commercial gain - how utterly repellent. pic.twitter.com/K2BVKu6tNA
— Tom Holland (@holland_tom) February 18, 2022

Eminem has apparently lost

Orion — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 21:47:55 +0000

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Eminem has apparently lost quite a few fans over the years because of this.

If u come for Eminem make

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 20:34:27 +0000

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If u come for Eminem make sure u don't miss

On #LSSC tonight: Eminem has a response for Rudy Giuliani pic.twitter.com/XAuyCkiSK9
— The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) February 18, 2022