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Clear like water. And the way

artappraiser — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 02:46:14 +0000

In reply to Martin Gurri: On the mass conversion of our institutions

Clear like water. And the way ppl catalog privileges or lack thereof to weaponize ‘intersectionality’ against any critique of terrible practices or politics… it was a thing before 2020 but the movement really catapulted this into its wildest forms. https://t.co/Lu3P7zgQ8A
— Max Jordan Nguemeni, MD, MS (@MaxJordan_N) April 6, 2022

meanwhile sounds like he is getting tired of sounding concilatory-

Black Lives Matter finessed the world using a so called plight of American blacks that has been dead since the end of the Civil Rights movement. Yet, I’m supposed to believe that American blacks have it so hard when three black women just used black people to make millions.
— Barrington Martin II (@_BarringtonII) April 6, 2022

Yglesias pointing out one of

artappraiser — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 20:47:28 +0000

In reply to Martin Gurri: On the mass conversion of our institutions

Yglesias pointing out one of the best memes to explode the brains of the racial identity politics crew:

It will always make me sad that we didn’t get to argue about whether Theresa Heinz Kerry was our first African-American First Lady — Bush was a terrible president and we badly needed that discourse. pic.twitter.com/tzauQ7q8a6
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) April 5, 2022

My wishes and desires must be

artappraiser — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 07:12:24 +0000

In reply to Martin Gurri: On the mass conversion of our institutions

My wishes and desires must be made into moral imperatives and be enforced my state, even when they stray into fiction -- *especially* when they stray into fiction.

Now imagine a society universalizing such impulses as a right.

Now look around.
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) April 3, 2022

The vibe has shifted
But the institutions have fallen
Ideological succession will be on the ballot
And in front of SCOTUS soon
Interesting Times https://t.co/pAhwdMzLRg
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) April 4, 2022

Whither the West?
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) April 4, 2022

Always interesting to meet people who have somehow never been exposed to woke BS and seeing their reactions
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) April 4, 2022

huh, wonder why https://t.co/wEWJQJieM3
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) April 4, 2022

curiously enough (to reverse the question) the most compelling piece of “pro-woke” writing I’ve come across is, uh.....https://t.co/SN65l1mlXD https://t.co/D8F47ww8DL
— tetzelny (@tetzelny) April 3, 2022

If during the Gingrich era

artappraiser — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 01:56:11 +0000

In reply to Martin Gurri: On the mass conversion of our institutions

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

On a scale of social

artappraiser — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 00:54:36 +0000

In reply to Martin Gurri: On the mass conversion of our institutions

On a scale of social liberalism blue states are higher than red states which are higher than lots of foreign countries. Isn't it interesting that American multinationals keep getting successfully lobbied by blue to side against red even as they make nice in those foreign markets?
— Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64) April 1, 2022

The single dumbest idea of

artappraiser — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 00:12:09 +0000

In reply to Martin Gurri: On the mass conversion of our institutions

The single dumbest idea of all possible ideas is that America's financial institutions are passing up on making money because they just love being racist that damn much. https://t.co/i9ffJmyX94
— birdman (@TiffPollardFan) April 1, 2022

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Think housing discrimination is a thing of the past? Well…

In majority Black neighborhoods, homes are undervalued by $48,000 on average, amounting to $156 billion in cumulative losses to Black wealth. pic.twitter.com/ckqMiuwTLq
— Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@RepAOC) March 30, 2022

The Grammys are still a

artappraiser — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 00:03:30 +0000

In reply to Martin Gurri: On the mass conversion of our institutions

The Grammys are still a racist institution that needs to be reformed:

Racist institution https://t.co/SomnjXSYPn
— Elsie not Elise (@Kutilerie) April 3, 2022

After all, people with black skin only like one kind of music. It's genetic, they can't help it. Forget that 10-yr.-old opera genius, is either a fake video or she's got fucked up genes:

The technical and athletic prowess and discipline of Sir Lewis Hamilton for this team-tear old to sing Mozart’s 'Der Hölle Rache,’ one of the most difficult arias to sing. Behold art. pic.twitter.com/0z49aHY8zD
— Jerry Saltz (@jerrysaltz) April 1, 2022

The Sierra Club is still

artappraiser — Sun, 03 Apr 2022 23:50:01 +0000

In reply to Martin Gurri: On the mass conversion of our institutions

Well, apparently The Sierra Club is still horrifically racist, but don't you worry, progressive activists are working on fixing that

Inside The Contentious Leadership Battle At The Nation’s Biggest Environmental Group

The Sierra Club’s board election has become a fight over not just the racial legacy of its founder but also the future of the club’s structure and mission.

By Jimmy Tobias @ HuffPost.com, Apr. 3, 2022, 08:00 AM EDT

[....] The vote comes in the wake of a series of controversies over race and identity, workplace culture, organizational structure and the legacy of the organization’s founder, John Muir, a longtime symbol of the environmental movement.

In the summer of 2020, then-Executive Director Michael Brune published a statement on the Sierra Club website that effectively portrayed Muir as a racist, titling the piece “Pulling Down Our Monuments” and apologizing for what he described as the club’s “substantial role in perpetuating white supremacy.” [....]

It's offensive to me as a

ocean-kat — Sun, 03 Apr 2022 21:10:38 +0000

In reply to So shouldn't they keep it in

It's offensive to me as a bald person that black people with hair are trying to appropriate this moment.This is bald folks business. If you have hair you need to tread lightly before discussing what happened.

this made me realize with

artappraiser — Sun, 03 Apr 2022 06:50:30 +0000

In reply to Huff post calls Jada

this made me realize with jokes like that, take away the violent physical reaction, and what you've got is: context, context, context and then, context -

At another Oscar night, Robin Williams told quadriplegic Christopher Reeve to not be rude and stand up when everyone was applauding him. Christopher laughed. So did Dana. And she didn’t slap Robin for being crass. Why? It was a joke.
— Just Me (@motz48524023) March 28, 2022

I understand with what you’re saying but Robin Williams and the Reeves were best friends so it was an easy joke.
— moro (@Moro1953) April 1, 2022

It wasn't about Jada. It was about Will trying to hold onto what little manhood he has left.
— BeetleMan1979 (@BeetleMan1979) March 29, 2022

I'm of the opinion that we don't really know what set him off like that, especially as he laughed at first, it's on all the tapes. There's some kind of bad blood or ruminating on his movie memes, whatevah, who'd care except gossip columnists if they had "fought" it out in private.

It's like thought crime if he doesn't actually didn't act it out physically - and none of our business unless either is trying to sell a persona to fans...

The Reeve example, however, is damning of more rabid inane version of The Woke along the lines of what you said. There is no nuance with them and their moralistic jihads, everyone's an equal victim, hair loss condition is no different than becoming a paraplegic.

If you then logically remove all the white men with inherited baldness from the privileged, won't the ranks of the privileged start to get awful thin?

Once again, if she was ashamed of her "handicap", she would have worn a wig. Nope she decided to go loud and proud with the alopecia, it's not a handicap, it's a feature, not a bug.

(My god, does that mean that when we kids were young we used to tease our dad about his concerns losing his hair, the combovers, etc., that we were committing a mortal sin?)

edit to add: got me thinking of Don Rickels act - the context there was that every single insulted person knew from the getgo it was an act and accepted that from the getgo