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3mo ago
creating or funding thinktanks and NGOs across Europe and the US
The Confucius Institutes were an early version of this, but they all closed. They'd have to be more circumspect a second time around.
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3mo ago
What does this mean?
This interview clip from Gwen Walz has been making the rounds, including this weird quote
I could smell the burning tires…I kept the windows open as long as I could because I felt like that was such a touchstone of what was happening.
Back to you-
Which coincidentally are also features of the US flag
The Somali flag complaint is overblown, but the new MN flag is a lot closer to this, this, this, Texas, or Djibouti, than to the stars and stripes.
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3mo ago
C.f. Scott here. A policy that says “just hit them until they are ready to work” is missing all the important bits.
Terrible essay. "If your plan doesn't have every single detail that will cover every single situation, in ways that pie-in-the-sky Bay Arean progressives will find acceptable, stop complaining and accept the status quo" is one of the precursor steps in that adage about "If liberals insist that only fascists will [do something], then voters will hire fascists to do the job liberals refuse to do."
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3mo ago
“Men are more free when the leader of the free world supports access to birth control,” said Buttigieg, a sentiment I read as extending the olive branch toward Barstool listeners.
Would've been too on the nose to have anyone else saying that, wouldn't it?
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3mo ago
there is a greater consensus that Black people have enough shared experiences that their identity should be recognized. As it stands right now, the same cannot be said for white people.
A bit tautological- marking white people as "the group without an identity" does give them an identity and a mass of shared experience. One defined almost wholly in negative ways and a requirement for higher standards of evidence, but still.
Do you have any evidence to suggest they were "trained Marxists"?
That's probably a reference, maybe indirectly, to Patrisse Cullors, the infamous BLM leader that bought 4 houses with the money donated to BLM.
If you're asking if CRT is descended from Marxism, or most PhDs in CRT have also dabbled in Marxism, I feel comfortable saying yes but providing sufficient evidence for that is a sizable project. Short version is CRT is descended from critical theory, which was developed by the Frankfurt School, (broadly) a descendent of Marxist thought attempting a synthesis without the failures of Marxism-Leninism.
If you're asking about the AP style guide specifically, I don't think anyone outside the AP can answer that.
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3mo ago
First, thank you for participating here as a self-identified progressive. Good luck, hope you enjoy your time.
It would appear that this decision made by the AP wasn't just something they decided out-of-the-blue.
It's very easy to rewrite the AP's style decision as incredibly anti-black racist without actually changing its reasoning: "After a period of review, we found that white people are just too diverse to comprehend as a single group. Black people, on the other hand, are basically all the same no matter where they're from or what their culture is. They are defined primarily by their melanin and whether or not white people (an undefined group) have been racist against them."
It's wildly racist against basically everyone, and manages to center white people in the process of of supposedly supporting black people. It's blatantly absurd and narcissistic.
When arguments are made in favor of Black for the group also known as Americans Descendants of Slavery, as a culturally-distinct group from African-Americans being either new immigrants or those with recently immigrated ancestry, that makes sense. On similar grounds White could make sense as a term for us pan-European mutts with no connection to ancestral lands. Personally, I'd prefer both groups just be "American," but the powers that be don't seem too happy with that. But Black as a term that spans from an American whose ancestors were forced here 300 years ago, and somebody like Mswati III? Balderdash.
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3mo ago
I am a techie, I do software. I've recently thought that well, given my concerns, maybe I should go work in law enforcement. I think that at this point I am probably too old to become a cop, but I could probably provide useful services in other ways.
Probably >90% of police and adjacent agencies in the country are in desperate need of IT and programmers for various projects that may help. The problem is, of course, the pay is absolute dregs compared to what you'll make anywhere else. If you're comfortably wealthy and can treat the pay as a nice bonus that covers your insurance, might be an option?
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3mo ago
Does it reflect an actual acceptance of identitarianism? Not so much.
There are very few groups more accepting of identitarianism than white progressives, and all the others are shunned from nearly all mainstream spaces (the remainder, like Banania, should be but are not, because the universe is fickle). They primarily approve of it for others, but they definitely approve of it.
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4mo ago
I get the feeling I'm one of the few posters that actually uses the QC report function (professorgerm back there), but yes, it's quite low activity, and yes, Trace has more or less abandoned it for hanging out on twitter with Hanania et al. So it goes.
It's usually a pleasant little place, except for one poster's approximately annual visit, and while I understand Trace's frustration with the motte I find his wielding the schism this way quite... distasteful.
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4mo ago
Verification is the difference between journalism and gossip.
Proper Credentialed Journalism Outlets have a handy section called "Opinion" that helps launder the difference. I agree, LoTT should not be treated as more than a shitposter. True more generally, too, of course. Most talking heads are shitposters at heart.
Also, it strikes me that LoTT could be used as an example of "the media very rarely lies," if it's accurate that she mostly signal-boosts people doing things she finds inappropriate. I don't know how accurate that is, though.
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4mo ago
I search the couple usernames I use every now and then. There's not a lot of professors germ around. Who knows, might come back for a bit and see what it's like. Addiction dies hard.
Been better, been worse. Enjoying parenting! Hope you're doing well too.
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8mo ago
You would be correct, but I'm on indefinite hiatus from The Motte. I do sometimes miss reading FC, Gatt, you, but the value proposition of being here much stopped being worth it. Still puttering along under the old name at trace's spinoff, not that Mr. Bigshot is around there anymore. Good luck!
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1yr ago
Music Thread?
Been on an old-timey country kick lately, including new songs that sound old and actually old. Though I'm prone to putting on stuff like The Dragonfather and The Stupendium too, depending on the mood.
What's everyone here been listening to?
I also had a question about trying to track down an old (possibly 1950s or 60s?) country song. The overall "sound" is similar to Crockett's Man from Waco, slightly higher tempo. There's a sort of... almost valley girl uptilt at the end of the lines of the song I'm thinking of. The husband is traveling, meets a woman at the hotel bar, never makes it home to his wife. Of course, this being country music, infidelity isn't enough to narrow it down for me or I haven't stumbled onto the right search terms. I think the new woman's name might've been slightly Spanish (Maria?), and Amarillo might've played a role somewhere in the lyrics, but that might be bleeding over from other songs. It is not Is this the way to Amarillo but that bizarre Comic Relief video was worth sharing anyways.
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1yr ago
Oof, I feel this one.
Europe fails to assimilate, yes, but there's also major selection effect due to the Atlantic. Most American Muslims (ie, non-refugees) are heavily selected for wealth, education, and other liberal tendencies.
That said, the first and possibly only Muslim-majority city in the US rather famously banned pride flags on government property. The liberalism of American Muslims may be overstated and contingent.
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