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12 September 2021: One person I met in San Francisco today said "I have rent control so I'll never leave!". Meanwhile he talked about how his motorcycle had been damaged and stolen multiple times, and waved goodbye as he entered the freshly installed bars on his front door.
12 September 2021: One person I met in San Francisco today said "I have rent control so I'll never leave!". Meanwhile he talked about how his motorcycle had been damaged and stolen multiple times, and waved goodbye as went through entered the freshly installed bars on his front door.
12 September 2021: On the plus side, the home invaders people aren't allowed to carry guns #ProblemSolved
8 September 2021: That is amazing.
8 September 2021: Another hero is stepping up to fight for universal human rights. Thank you for everything you are doing, @peterboghossian – We stand behind you! https://twitter.com/peterboghossian/status/1435576254074220552
8 September 2021: The insanity continues. https://twitter.com/burns_law/status/1435496271498956801
5 September 2021: Well said. Too many people think they can fix racism with racism. We need unity and humanity, not division and hatred.
5 September 2021: Translation of this tweet: "Any criticism of white supremacy claims is proof of white supremacy!" It's insane circular logic.
4 September 2021: Just one quibble here: measuring a school by quota of skin color or gender isn't a fair system. If more Asian students (or any category) are succeeding at math class, we shouldn't turn good students away in favor of bad students because they have the wrong skin color.
1 September 2021: People fear speaking up against CRT for fear of being labeled racist. Ironic. Combined with the way true CRT believers will attack and vilify anyone who opposes them, all while under the protective cover of naive people who think CRT just means "teaching about slavery".
1 September 2021: This just proves my point. You are ok with Heather explaining things, because she is a woman. You are not ok with me explaining things because I'm a man.
1 September 2021: It's interesting to think about family being a powerful historical source of community, in contrast to modern society with much to offer beyond bloodlines. What is the right balance? Which direction should we strive toward? Can both be enhanced at the same time? https://twitter.com/josephvaloren/status/1432746730785845248
1 September 2021: Racist, much? As if only "white males" ever do such things.
1 September 2021: Heather, the term "mansplaining" is sexist. Not all men talk at people, and not all women don't talk at people. Criticize the specific activity, not entire categories of people.
1 September 2021: Only someone who hasn't owned a rental property could ever think that it's not production. A ton of work goes into it, from marketing to maintenance to improvements and more.
1 September 2021: Seems "CockAnon" is missing some basic economics. Housing developers are motivated to build when there are buyers to buy the homes. Buyers don't prevent anyone from building. Regulations do. Eliminate those, instead of demonizing buyers and proving the original point.
27 August 2021: That's the romantic way of describing it. Unfortunately they also think logic, reason, and even science are just subjective and should be rejected. "Tools of the oppressor" as adherents too often put it. https://twitter.com/JDHaltigan/status/1431363551650881536
27 August 2021: That's the romantic way of describing it. Unfortunately they also think logic, reason, and even science are just subjective and should be rejected. "Tools of the oppressor" as adherents too often put it.
27 August 2021: It's nice to see Sam admitting misjudgement. Everyone makes mistakes, especially if you've whipped yourself into a TDS frenzy. Disappointing that we've jumped out of the frying pan into the fire.
26 August 2021: And notice how the trick is to change the definitions. They'll say: "When I say God, what I mean is the beauty of the universe." Or they'll say "When we say female, what we mean is feeling like a female; that has nothing to do with your genes or genitals."
11 August 2021: Ordered. Excellent reviews by amazing people.
27 July 2021: Not a single thoughtful critic of CRT -- and there are many -- is afraid of black liberation. In fact, they are unanimously in favor of black success (and for that matter, asian success, white success, etc etc.).
26 July 2021: It should always be a huge red flag whenever you aren't allowed to openly discuss a topic. pic.twitter.com/lllqEqpnhh
23 July 2021: It's a play on someone who said Bloomberg could have given $1 Million to everyone instead of running his campaign.
23 July 2021: pic.twitter.com/7z2Pn4M3v4
20 July 2021: That's a glimmer of hope. Though frankly the book title is already unforgivably racist.
20 July 2021: Just wow. You know, if you find yourself surrounded by people that openly judge everyone by their skin color, rather than by the content of their character, it might be time to consider a new friend group. Neo-racists are no better than racists--just better at rationalizing.
20 July 2021: Did you literally go through and count how many white males you have at the company?
20 July 2021: One thing is for sure: judging people by their skin color isn't how you solve racism.
16 July 2021: Threatening an atheist with hell is like a hippy threatening to punch you in the aura.
11 July 2021: Zoom zoom!
10 July 2021: Accurate
27 June 2021: Seconding this. I only go to google every now and then for searches that are more specialized.
27 June 2021: I'm right there with you. I've been using DuckDuckGo as my main search engine for about a year now.
26 June 2021: "Killing it" is not acceptable at Brandeis. https://twitter.com/wokenewsnet/status/1408587086941147136
24 June 2021: Neo-racist author, Ibram X. Kendi.
18 June 2021: Having only read your article so far (not the "further reading"), which parts of CRT did you find potentially useful and accurate?
11 June 2021: Insert "business", "stocks", or anything else in place of house. Maybe it's your first investment home after years of saving up. Either way, completely senseless to tax unrealized gains.
10 June 2021: Excellent point. Most everyone I know who selflessly cares about fairness, equality, and humanity has seen that the woke approach runs counter to those values. Whereas most everyone I know who is exploiting it, or emotional about it, or is seeking revenge, remains woke.
10 June 2021: Definitely imaginary. pic.twitter.com/Lz6QhTw0ua
10 June 2021: Yep, totally no rise at all. /s pic.twitter.com/DK9HnjOSXf
10 June 2021: Yes. Prior to the rise of the woke left, he spent far more time challenging dogma coming from the religious right.
10 June 2021: Aside from an algorithm boost leading to more visibility, one very concrete ending is that you get a separate, blue-checkmark-only direct message inbox. It makes other blue checkmarks far more likely to see your DMs. Among other things.
10 June 2021: For a while, they did give out checkmarks to most people. Then they stopped doing it. Regardless of whether it's 100% only lefties who get the checkmarks recently, it certainly seems that the majority of people who are being denied are not woke.
10 June 2021: Meanwhile, as @Dataracer117 pointed out, this profile is verified. pic.twitter.com/Vb4M6HGbol
9 June 2021: Couldn't agree more. This notion that "anything the right says is wrong" is causing otherwise reasonable left-wing people to willfully avoid understanding the reality around them.
9 June 2021: Case in point, Anna Paulina Luna. 200k followers, nearly won her election for United States House of Representatives. No checkmark. pic.twitter.com/AhSIobz8n3
9 June 2021: Definitely ideological. People very few followers, who are not in the news, but who agree with woke politics have blue checkmarks. Meanwhile, there are actual candidates for United States Congress who won their primary who don't have the checkmarks. Only Republicans though.
9 June 2021: Spot on. They paid far more than I would expect, actually. Paying low taxes is not hard: spend your money on activities society has agreed not to tax, like business expenses (spurring economonic activity and jobs) or charity (money being spent to improve the world).
9 June 2021: The ProPublica article is embarrassing. How can they have so little understanding of how taxes work? Virtually all developed countries in the world don't tax unrealized capital gains. For good reason. This article has a good breakdown: https://savingjournalism.substack.com/p/propublicas-bombshell-bullshit-tax
9 June 2021: In fact, it would be insane to tax wealth. Imagine you only make 30k and for years save enough to buy a 100k home. Then, your neighborhood gets popular and your home value goes to 200k. You'd get a bill for 30k on your "+100k of wealth" that year. How could you possibly pay that?
8 June 2021: That is disappointing to see. I strongly suspect he hasn't familiarized himself with CRT. He's not normally the type to think that "be less white" or "the problem with white women" are acceptable things to teach. CRT attempts to fix racism with racism.
3 June 2021: We've forgotten the values of forgiveness and redemption.
25 May 2021: It's obviously wrong for near-monopolies to silence people. Until a better solution is found, this one is reasonable.
22 May 2021: This may come as a shock to you, but voters vary in what they want.
19 May 2021: True. Somewhere around an elementary school level.
15 May 2021: Go Peter!
9 May 2021: If we're being honest, we make criticisms along those lines and continue ongoing work to improve it, meanwhile also acknowledging that it's the best known system by quite a wide margin.
9 May 2021: Proponents of capitalism don't complain that it hasn't been done right yet. Instead, they point to the many, many successful countries. It's true that no system is perfect, but one is clearly much much more successful than the other in practice
1 May 2021: White Fragility by Robin Di'Angelo, for one. The philosopher Michel Foucault, if they're really serious.
1 May 2021: Right there with you Michael. I have spent time with US conservatives over the past couple of years, and they work hard for things like freedom of speech, not judging people by skin color, having capitalism not socialism, etc. Lately the left fights against those things.
29 April 2021: Next to no one on the right thinks other people's masks make them uncomfortable.
28 April 2021: Yes. We should all be defending free speech. If we only defend it when our side is losing, and attack it when our side is winning, then it might not be there at all the next time our side is losing.
27 April 2021: "We make project management, team communication, and email software. We are not a social impact company." "Employees are free to take up whatever cause they want...and speak out on whatever horrible injustices are being perpetrated on this group or that." https://world.hey.com/jason/changes-at-basecamp-7f32afc5
27 April 2021: They absolutely do. You just only hear when they surrender peacefully.
26 April 2021: This interaction has nothing to do with race. Making it about race is the only racism here. Tariq, you should be ashamed of yourself.
25 April 2021: Tulsi Gabbard is pro-human. Beautiful message. https://twitter.com/tulsigabbard/status/1386283094274097154
23 April 2021: No there isn't. Freedom of speech means freedom of speech. Not freedom to only say what the orthodoxy thinks is acceptable to say. pic.twitter.com/FA9mcyRf7v
22 April 2021: Someone once said to me "Twitter is for dunking on people." Seems to be true, considering that it's basically the equivalent of having a discussion with news headlines only.
22 April 2021: RT @SwipeWright: The problem isn't religion, it's dogma. Any ideology that punishes those who question their tenets will never end well.
22 April 2021: Well said.
22 April 2021: Good point. I've heard it aptly described as purity culture. I thought we had escaped that by leaving religion. Disappointing to see it from AHA and others.
20 April 2021: It's 100% accurate.
20 April 2021: Suddenly their biggest award is a "minor award"?
20 April 2021: It absolutely stinks. It's modern day McCarthyism. They said it was "consequences" too.
20 April 2021: Whenever you see that, it translates to "I can't handle opposing viewpoints". It's the opposite of scientific inquiry, open-mindedness, tolerance, understanding, and humanity.
20 April 2021: Dawkins is Humanist of the Century. I support Dawkins.
20 April 2021: We're proud of http://atheistsforliberty.org ! Creating a home for the tens of millions of atheists — from all across the political spectrum — who aren't woke.
16 April 2021: Spot on. It's shameful.
16 April 2021: Out of curiosity, assuming you accept that your experience may not be representative of the whole, what would you accept as evidence?
15 April 2021: "I haven't seen it therefore it's not happening" doesn't seem like the best argument.
13 April 2021: Caylan is right, it sounds very much like Sami didn't read the argument. Further – and this should bother you – Sami didn't address the author's argument.
13 April 2021: It's unfortunately a lot more schools than that. A LOT more. As just one example out of thousands, even conservative rural schools are now teaching that it's OK to judge by skin color: http://k12schoolsdata.s3.amazonaws.com/static/docs/0d717e6d-2f0e-44d0-b328-6ec9c04c1c5c.pdf
13 April 2021: The good news is that many parents are fighting back as soon as they learn what's truly being taught there (racism dressed up as anti-racism). Let's support those parents in the fight!
13 April 2021: What is wrong with the definition? It matches the anti-racist teachings I've gone to. And what is the "correct" definition?
13 April 2021: "Children are afraid to challenge the repressive ideology that rules our school. That’s why I am." Great article by Paul Rossi from Grace private school in NYC. https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1381953328116948994
12 April 2021: A step in the right direction in the Clark case. William Clark was given a failing grade in school for refusing to identify himself as an oppressor based on his skin color. https://twitter.com/SwipeWright/status/1380756934911913994
1 April 2021: That's great. That's the kind of future we want to create. Unfortunately it's not the case for everyone. A close friend of mine was stabbed multiple times with a knife after he came out as an atheist. I know children who are ejected from their homes for it. The list is long.
31 March 2021: Would they have been completely open and supportive of you if you announced to them as a child that you were atheist? For most people, the a-word came with scowling disapproval at best, but more likely ostracization, threats, and abuse.
31 March 2021: The idiocy here is interpreting it to mean "you can't be interested in truth and the role of meaning in human life". That is not, for one second, what Dawkins is saying.
31 March 2021: As recently as five years ago, liberals and conservatives agreed on the fundamentals of the USA: capitalism is the best choice, freedom of speech matters, and truth is objectively discoverable through science and reason. Then came along wokeism, and silenced those liberals.
31 March 2021: Excellent point. The alliances should be around "truth is above all else, especially power." There is common ground there between liberals and conservatives, atheists and the religious.
31 March 2021: People who intimidate scientists for political reasons. In this case, trans activists.
23 March 2021: It's sad to see people like that who used to care about logic and reason and following the evidence where it leads. Now they're caught up in a new religion.
23 March 2021: Spot on. Science is only science if it follows the evidence where it leads. People who stifle evidence they don't like aren't on the side of science, and we all stand together against them.
19 March 2021: True, "privilege + power" is truly harmful. It makes the Oxford definition look reasonable in comparison, even though Oxford sounds like it is written by activists. Language like the "inability" to recognize the "dignity" and "value" of races can be intentionally vague.
19 March 2021: Petition – "Put Professor Aaron Kindsvatter in charge of all DEI initiatives at the University of Vermont" http://chng.it/RybxsKqS via @Change
19 March 2021: We'd want to unpack the examples to determine if that's true, and to what extent it's true. I suspect it's faaar less true than you have been led to think. But swapping claims is probably not productive. In case you are open-minded though, have a listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq6xJ2vFlaA
19 March 2021: Thanks for the offer. It's pretty clear we are entirely too far apart on the topic, to have much hope of productive discourse. Best of luck to you. May you never be judged for things you can't change about yourself – the root of what's wrong with racism.
19 March 2021: People should succeed or fail regardless of their skin color. The problem is pinpointed quite simply: when you judge someone by their skin color, you are the racist.
19 March 2021: What I see is a group of people attributing everything negative to skin color. People dont choose their skin color. You can talk about making a society even more welcoming to new ideas than it already is, but to attribute everything negative to skin color is perpetuating racism.
19 March 2021: I've spent decades trying to talk reason to fundamentalist religious believers. They use vague generalities like this as well. It's sad to see that a new dogmatic religion has been born this decade.
19 March 2021: On the contrary. The fact that individuals succeed or fail despite their skin color is all the proof we need that this model is false. Otherwise, you enter very dark territory, which has been trodden on by racists of the past. You'll be in their company.
19 March 2021: When there are specific examples of individuals being held back because of their race, we'll all be able to stand together shoulder-to-shoulder to oppose it. The vague "systematic racism" conspiracy theory is unproductive, and judging people by their skin color is racism.
19 March 2021: If being able to succeed within a culture or system crosses racial lines, as it obviously does, why use race as a stand-in when it's clearly not the actual issue? Let's talk about poverty, education, fairness, opportunity.
19 March 2021: We should call that what it is: "dominant culture" or "mainstream culture". Every culture adopts ideas and norms which are sensible to the people within them. Attributing these to skin color is unhelpful and divisive. Not to mention racist.
19 March 2021: "Based on current trends"
19 March 2021: That's a hot take if I've ever seen one. From the outside, it sounds like this: "If you redefine the term, e.g. 'Whiteness is a system of diseases that people contract upon contact with other humans' and then say that it shortens lifespan, then it's true!" Doesn't seem helpful.
19 March 2021: I was wondering when they were going to take over and change the definition. This isn't the mainstream definition of the term, it's the activist one.
19 March 2021: Would you be OK with an article titled "Blackness Is a Pandemic", and "Blackness is a public health crisis. It shortens life expectancies, pollutes the air", etc? If not, it may be worth considering that it's not the other people here who are equivocating.
19 March 2021: This is the biggest conspiracy theory going. They won't be able to isolate "white supremacy" because it's not at all rampant like they portray it to be. Most of the people they call white supremacists are opposed to white supremacy.
19 March 2021: It's deeply disturbing that the Atlanta shooting is being made out to be about race. Far too many articles are doing that. Some people still insist on making it about race even after seeing that it's not. The only racism here is assuming the shooter is racist because he's white. https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1372947528602292226
19 March 2021: It's deeply disturbing that the Atlanta shooting is being made out to be about race. Far too many articles are doing that. Some people still insist on making it about race even after seeing that it's not. The only racism here is assuming the shooter is racist because he's white. https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1372944388314300416
19 March 2021: There have been 46 failed attempts at communism. Don't worry though, #47thTryIsTheCharm
19 March 2021: "I don't care if it wasn't racist, it's still racist!"
19 March 2021: Racist tweet of the week.
18 March 2021: We have forgotten the value of forgiveness and redemption. There are no perfect humans. To pretend otherwise creates purity culture. We are all mixed bags.
18 March 2021: pic.twitter.com/6tbkU4yOtz
17 March 2021: I edited the tweet (aka deleted and retweeted) to remove the "Serious question?" lead-in. I realized that you are most likely serious with the question!
17 March 2021: I'd bet a ton of money that they do NOT pray. Reason being, they wouldn't think that the simulators are at all likely to hear a prayer — unlike religious people who often believe that god is listening to every person all at the same time.
17 March 2021: This is great. There are tens of millions of atheists in the US who vote Republican. It'll strengthen conservatism if both atheists and theists can team up to fight for freedom of belief, freedom of speech, and free markets. pic.twitter.com/dL8lzQ291e
17 March 2021: Signed. https://twitter.com/DrKarlynB/status/1372288947708170243
15 March 2021: It will mean you spoke up and spoke out. We all need to join in.
14 March 2021: Pure democracy is mob rule.
11 March 2021: Obviously everyone wants a society with perfect safety. What people don't want is the tradeoffs you'd enact in order to enforce such a perfect, zero-crime society. It would be straight out of 1984, and if history is a guide, millions would die in the process.
9 March 2021: Real world consequence: people not getting a job because they are the wrong skin color and gender.
9 March 2021: Thank you for standing up and speaking out against woke racism!
7 March 2021: I'll leave you to fight your straw man alone.
7 March 2021: Also, "alt-right" doesn't mean anything, and barely ever did. The term has been kept on life support by people who rarely ever step foot outside their worldview, and want an imaginary bogeyman to hate.
7 March 2021: I know reading comprehension is going to be hard when you are full of bias and hate, but let's try again anyway. "Offering a voice for those who are silenced" MEANS OTHER PEOPLE. Hopefully all caps will help you out here.
6 March 2021: Fox is standing for those who are pressured into silence, a problem to which tweets like this one of yours contributes. He himself refuses to be silenced. That is an inspiration to us all.
4 March 2021: On top of that, the publishers are stepping between the author and the audience that wants to purchase the books, to impose their ideology. The books now cannot be sold new anywhere because the publisher owns the copyright. It's clearly banning.
3 March 2021: When you return to putting aside bias in favor of facts, we'll all consider returning to our subscriptions.
2 March 2021: Here's a perspective. It might be time to not attack each either on a personal level, and instead focus on working together. pic.twitter.com/HWHXE1IHSJ
2 March 2021: Sadly, that's what we all tried the first 5 years of wokeism, and it just empowered them. They don't want you as a friend. The best time to have spoken up was then. The second best time is now.
1 March 2021: Many things aren't on the list, but that doesn't mean it's not a value. For the record, it's not on the left's list either. pic.twitter.com/nZoVznmjnS
28 February 2021: Ah, Claire Lehmann, the single-person circular firing squad.
27 February 2021: Wow, I've heard of reaching but this one takes the cake.
27 February 2021: Awesome!
27 February 2021: Because it implies that any signifIcant number of people think trans people don't exist. It's obviously political.
27 February 2021: False.
25 February 2021: Spot on.
24 February 2021: That description reminds me of when religious people say "atheists just deny God so they can be free to rape and pillage". The reality is far more nuanced and ethical. Freedom of belief and speech allows for atheism, for science to flourish, etc etc.
24 February 2021: And knowing which cliff to avoid driving off of.
24 February 2021: Source. pic.twitter.com/MD0Q7WxGcs
24 February 2021: That's great. There are tens of millions of conservative atheists in the US alone. (Not to mention libertarians, independents, and classical liberals.) Nearly 25% of Americans are atheists (defined as "not theists") or about 80 million people. ~30% of atheists vote Republican. pic.twitter.com/GoH0YisaVO
24 February 2021: pic.twitter.com/TL7QmKdw9S
22 February 2021: It had quite a reach. Even my solidly Democrat friends heard of it.
22 February 2021: Poster from a friend's workplace. pic.twitter.com/F4jiLDwhJr
21 February 2021: That we can stop promoting victimhood and instead all stand together as one human race. That we'll judge women and men by their character, not their gender.
21 February 2021: It's not atheism that's the problem. Tens of millions of atheists in the US vote Republican. Let's team up, both atheists and theists alike, and fight for freedom of belief, freedom of speech, and free markets.
21 February 2021: Translation: be racist. https://twitter.com/disrnnews/status/1362773433227087872
21 February 2021: The term is terrible -- how is anything that is well-meaning ever "aggression"? More like "micro-misunderstanding". But I guess that doesn't have enough bite for people like her.
21 February 2021: The irony is that her tweet is the real "micro-aggression".
21 February 2021: Illegal? What are you referring to?
21 February 2021: This is nuts. They've frozen Jodi Shaw's GoFundMe. https://twitter.com/smith_surge/status/1363230851039956992
17 February 2021: Exactly this. The next question is: why does Walter Kin oppose this particular Gates opinion?
17 February 2021: Being woke is looking down on others because they are actual egalitarians
17 February 2021: I use both terms to describe the woke, depending on the situation. Racist to describe specific actions, neo-racist to discuss the woke ideology with mainstream people (who would think "but aren't they anti-racist?").
17 February 2021: It's common to forget the reasons, but remember the conclusion. That puts the position on less tenable grounds, but if the original reasons still hold up, then so would the conclusion.
15 February 2021: https://fb.watch/3GLKNRJY7w/
15 February 2021: Politically correct means punishing people for saying things they believe are true, because the mob has decided it's not acceptable. You know, like saying "Communism is an ideology worth examining" during McCarthyism. Or "I think the earth orbits the sun" in the 1500s.
15 February 2021: It's the "anti racism" where woke people actively judge others by their skin color. It's the "equal justice" where people are treated differently depending on their race and gender. That's the part people find offensive.
15 February 2021: McCarthy agrees with you.
15 February 2021: RT @realchrisrufo: SCOOP: The principal of East Side Community School in New York sent white parents this "tool for action," which tells th…
15 February 2021: Again, you are confusing the law with the value. If a company says "we value free speech", you wouldn't say "that's impossible!". You'd acknowledge that free speech is a value.
15 February 2021: Free speech is a value. What you are talking about is 1st Amendment. They are related, but not the same. Society should value freedom of speech over censorship, whether the government is doing it, or private companies. It's not complicated.
15 February 2021: The way they decided to prosecute & silence Galileo, to put Socrates to death, to censor mention of Tiananman Square, to promote McCarthyism, ban the "obscene", blasphemy laws, etc. etc., ad infinitum. Let society decide boils down to "let the mob decide". It has never worked.
15 February 2021: Terrible example. Two data points? Anecdotes are not evidence.
15 February 2021: Anecdotes are not evidence. Two appraisals are just as likely to swing wildly no matter the skin color of the applicants.
13 February 2021: Just spoke up against it. I have decided never to miss an opportunity to do so. pic.twitter.com/NNh3XN0YLO
13 February 2021: You have been being a voice of division. It's far better to treat us all as part of the human race, rather than reducing everything to race and dividing people by it. In doing so, you are as bad as the white supremacists you decry.
13 February 2021: @Yelp This is racist. Judging a restaurant by the skin color of its owner is racism, and is NOT the solution. You can't fix racism with racism. pic.twitter.com/8eTnnH2iY9
7 February 2021: Taxes aren't due until April 15, so 2020 income isn't available until then at the earliest.
7 February 2021: What happened before the video? I don't trust "he appeared to just be skateboarding".
5 February 2021: pic.twitter.com/siGPJycBLe
5 February 2021: Racism and sexism is making a comeback thanks to Critical Race Theory / Intersectionalism. https://twitter.com/AngryBlackLady/status/1356471146439348224
5 February 2021: Spot on. I had a front row seat as President of http://secular.org , watching the woke activists take over the movement and work to run people who are right-of-woke out, even including center leftists.
30 January 2021: "Focus" strongly suggests prioritizing. And yes, anti-racism absolutely ranks people. The more oppressed your group is perceived, the higher you rank.
30 January 2021: They are the neo-racists.
30 January 2021: https://www.atheistsforliberty.org/america-2020-where-conservatives-are-liberals-and-liberals-are-conservatives/
30 January 2021: https://www.atheistsforliberty.org/america-2020-where-conservatives-are-liberals-and-liberals-are-conservatives/
29 January 2021: San Fran renamed 1/3 of all schools this week, including Dianne Feinstein's namesake school. "The names of eight U.S. presidents will be struck from school buildings: Lincoln, Washington, Hoover, Roosevelt (both Teddy and Franklin D.), Garfield, Jefferson, McKinley and Monroe." https://twitter.com/jnewsgabe/status/1354554954124410883
29 January 2021: Wut https://twitter.com/robinhoodapp/status/1267619918591127553
29 January 2021: You mean, with reasonable exceptions?
29 January 2021: There's a distinction here: one side self-describes as "socialist".
29 January 2021: Wait, you think the left doesn't control MSM, and the right is "the MAGA cult"? And that it'll be easy to arbitrate truth in media?
29 January 2021: The feeling of shock at purposeful misunderstanding is mutual. My note was about ranking topics. But yes, intersectionality and this neo-racist "anti-racism" literally ranks identities too.
29 January 2021: This is a beautiful and important letter. Everyone should stand for NOT judging people by immutable characteristics like skin color. By far the most sensible way to create a truly fair society is to judge people on the content of their character. https://twitter.com/megynkelly/status/1354540329660248069
29 January 2021: Exceptionally racist of you to assume all black and brown people don't feel welcome in their country.
29 January 2021: This is a beautiful and important letter. Everyone should stand for NOT judging people by immutable characteristics like skin color. By far the most sensible way to create a truly fair society is to judge people on the content of their character.
28 January 2021: Any sensible person would rank humanity, civilization, science, nature, math, and music far above skin color and sexual identity. We're talking about children here. Ranking skin color above humanity is the only disgrace here.
28 January 2021: Exceptionally racist of you to assume all black and brown people don't feel welcome on their country.
27 January 2021: I recall people thinking wokeness was a reaction to Trump, nevermind that it predates Trump. pic.twitter.com/IzXFrv3xSJ
27 January 2021: I heard people saying this. That it'll be a sign to the country that we want moderates, that it will empower the moderates.
27 January 2021: https://twitter.com/noamchomskyT/status/1353342037492445184 pic.twitter.com/a3k0wTQ0yq
26 January 2021: If that's how a group acts, they don't deserve the name "free thinkers".
26 January 2021: pic.twitter.com/semLJHkPmX
26 January 2021: @JayWeixelbaum immediately blocked me. He was right about one thing: he wasn't looking for discussion/debate, but rather to go on a rant. He is the only one judging people by skin color here. I could show how budget shortfalls hurt POC too, but he's clearly on another planet.
26 January 2021: Who are you even talking about? I'm not talking about Libertarians. I'm talking about Americans.
26 January 2021: You mean the popular bill that is going to saddle future generations with annual debt payments that are already the second largest government budget item? Who, other than people with sense, would oppose free money?
26 January 2021: I see personal friends being censored, I see public figures being censored, I see books being censored, I see news outlets being censored. I don't think basically saying "unless everyone is censored then no one is" is really a fair argument. IRL would be better for sure.
24 January 2021: "literal fascists"
24 January 2021: I think the "Oh my" part is the joke about realizing that it's on the nose
24 January 2021: Completely absurd.
24 January 2021: I havent seen them, but fair enough. Sounds like minor squabbles in comparison to the behemoth of wokeness. Much work to be done!
24 January 2021: Examples?
24 January 2021: Link: https://speechfirst.org/
23 January 2021: Love your work. Thank you for standing up for our children!
23 January 2021: I just made a donation to her campaign: https://www.christineforccisd.com/
23 January 2021: It's great to see people taking action to get rid of racist CRT training in schools! https://twitter.com/cparizo/status/1352757713890107394
22 January 2021: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/legal-multiple-banks-close-donald-trumps-accounts/
22 January 2021: https://www.vox.com/2015/10/31/9650030/denmark-prime-minister-bernie-sanders
22 January 2021: All free market, capitalist societies. The only difference: they spend more on social programs. The workers do NOT own the means of production – the definition of socialism. Private enterprise abounds. You may have heard of IKEA and the billionaire founder, as just one example.
22 January 2021: Then to use that insane hyperbole to justify mass censorship. Unbelievable. This is not the time to throw your liberal values out the window. We've entered the liberal McCarthyism stage – or worse – ask anyone who lived through the Cultural Revolution in China.
22 January 2021: You'd have to have huge echo chamber blinders on to think that this is "insurrection" but murdering people in the street, burning down buildings, bombing federal buildings, for the past year straight are all just "mostly peaceful protest".
22 January 2021: We're trying to fix racism with racism. That'll surely work.
22 January 2021: So what you're saying is you're starting with the conclusion ("must be white privilege") and backing into the data? Sounds terrible.
22 January 2021: Well said. Even for religious people, having a state religion violates the freedoms of all the other religions & denominations.
22 January 2021: Most people I know who feel that way do have quite a list of things the government is good at. Roads, defense, firefighting, policing, and yes, services like some level of welfare, libraries, and the like.
21 January 2021: Good point. Libraries were funded by folks like Andrew Carnegie early on, and have many large private donors.
21 January 2021: I haven't seen him say that the government shouldn't help people in any way with opportunities or finances. Do you have a reference? I'd be curious to see it.
19 January 2021: To be fair, I'm pretty sure Sowell isn't against the government doing "anything".
19 January 2021: You may be on the side of what's popular now, but wait until you're not. Remember McCarthyism? Galileo? Copernicus? Socrates? The list of reasons for supporting free speech is much longer and stretches over millennia. https://twitter.com/byeliott/status/1351536863195111427
19 January 2021: @ByEliott No. You may be on the side of what's popular now, but wait until you're not. Remember McCarthyism? Galileo? Copernicus? Socrates? The list of reasons for supporting free speech is much longer and stretches over millennia. Tech hasn't changed things, only the speed of them. https://t.co/D4rt61mABr
19 January 2021: That's not "simple". The problem is in who gets to define what is a lie. The vast majority of things being fact checked aren't simple facts -- they're complicated models.
19 January 2021: Don Winslow is a radical.
19 January 2021: Female chauvinism
19 January 2021: Looks like it can't be retweeted due to protected account status.
17 January 2021: Since people on the replies are being ignorant about this, the actual answer is: Republicans believe in protecting innocent life, and punishing those who commit heinous crimes. There's no contradiction.
17 January 2021: I'm most convinced by the "defense against tyrrany" argument.
17 January 2021: ^ "signed, someone who has no idea"
13 January 2021: I just tested and it looks like all years are blocked. #2020, and #2021. And perhaps even phone numbers like Facebook's HQ number: #6503087300
13 January 2021: Looks like all years, or digits, are blocked. Nothing to see here.
13 January 2021: As opposed to #2020, for example.
13 January 2021: Testing reports of #1984 being blocked.
13 January 2021: Censorship is not the way forward.
13 January 2021: @WIRED Should be ashamed of themselves for posting this hit piece. Far down at the bottom the quoted security expert admits that "Only things that were available publicly via the web were archived." Yet they use this misleading headline and let the writer go on an unhinged rant. https://twitter.com/WIRED/status/1349039993747087360
12 January 2021: Shocking that Sacha Baron Cohen would be standing for censorship. Of all people, the guy who does shocking offensive comedy thinks things he finds offensive should be banned.
12 January 2021: Will you remember the ones who spoke out about violence in the rest of the country, all year long?
11 January 2021: You should be ashamed of yourselves. You don't stand for civil liberties.
11 January 2021: Because we should fight for our right to be here. In the digital age, this is the public square.
11 January 2021: Couldn't agree more. Once the far left took over the dialogue and began literally banning any other viewpoint, it became clear that freedom of speech as a value is a top priority. It's a human right, and we should all speak out and take risks to defend it.
11 January 2021: It is the right decision to keep it in the online catalog. Silencing a work because people find the content objectionable, particularly politically or morally, is exactly the definition of censorship. I am now a fan and a new customer of Powell's Books.
11 January 2021: (That said, they should be roundly condemned and punished according to their crimes)
11 January 2021: That's now how we define terrorist. If it were, then we would need to define BLM rioters that way. And we don't. Because they're not.
11 January 2021: Actually yes he is. He described these people in a tweet just a few minutes ago as "the new GOP".
11 January 2021: Why won't they lose you? Honest question: how far is too far?
11 January 2021: Possibly the worst meme ever made. It has misguided swaths of people who haven't questioned the premise.
11 January 2021: This graphic is so terrible. You can't change your height. You CAN change your station in life. Giving everyone the ability to build box if they want it is what we want. Equal opportunity. Let's focus on that instead. Forcing equal outcomes by skin color is racism.
11 January 2021: This is actual racism.
10 January 2021: This is absurd, and not true.
10 January 2021: Saying people can privately think what they want is like burning books, while saying "you can still read your copy in your home".
10 January 2021: People saying "Free speech only means government" are wrong. That's the "1st Amendment". Free speech means a culture where it's not OK to take away someone's ability to express themselves. pic.twitter.com/2MpeWFZPMQ
10 January 2021: Exactly this. I will die on this hill. https://twitter.com/MrAtheistPants/status/1347957304386179072
10 January 2021: I'm not convinced there's a god.
10 January 2021: "The newly defined goals of the company include exposing who advertisers are; and revealing networks of people who are guilty of wrongthink." https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/mozilla-threatens-to-go-beyond-deplatforming-in-creepy-statement/
10 January 2021: Remember this one? https://twitter.com/jack/status/651003891153108997
9 January 2021: You should be ashamed of yourselves.
9 January 2021: Noam nailed it here. This means you, Sam. pic.twitter.com/suCEOKVyU5
9 January 2021: Sign me up.
9 January 2021: Mozilla has joined the censorship brigade. Not surprising, based on their history -- notably when they ran out their CEO, Brendan Eich, for wrongthink back in 2014. (His crime was holding the same opinion that Barack Obama did at the time.) https://twitter.com/mozilla/status/1347633954497548289
9 January 2021: We unfollowed you manually, because your tweets lately have been full of straw men. You misrepresent people's viewpoints then knock down the misrepresentation.
9 January 2021: Twitter claims the sudden rapid decline in follower count everyone is seeing is totally "regular". https://twitter.com/twittersupport/status/1347766130534981637
9 January 2021: Go through and count up the number of thought leaders on the right who denounced the violence. It's nearly 100%. Ignore the outliers. They aren't representative of the norm.
9 January 2021: By calling for peace. Right...
9 January 2021: You are a racist. People are not defined by their skin color.
9 January 2021: Wrong. This is 100% false. And spreading this lie is the key reason the country is so divided.
9 January 2021: First they came for the Trump Supporters, and I said nothing because I was not a Trump Supporter... #wearetrump pic.twitter.com/nMuxHloe3F
9 January 2021: First they came for the Trump Supporters, and I said nothing because I wasn't a Trump Supporter... #wearetrump pic.twitter.com/CIjMxK6N4i
9 January 2021: You cannot force someone to violate their conscience. It is not the same thing. The Supreme Court ruled. There were other bakers. He said he'd bake the cake just not do the words part. They should have accepted it. credit: @Mistierain
9 January 2021: Got any solutions in your book?
9 January 2021: This is "tapping the brakes"?
9 January 2021: Wait, so Twitter with Section 230 is what it would be like without Section 230? This is the argument you're making?
9 January 2021: You misspelled "peace".
9 January 2021: @michaeltrollan
9 January 2021: #NewProfilePic pic.twitter.com/d0ADye8Woa
8 January 2021: How do you feel about this today? It's just slid into 2nd base.
8 January 2021: RT @ConceptualJames: RT if you're sick of everything being made about race when a whole lot of it has nothing to do with race.
8 January 2021: Habi Zhang: I came to America for liberty, not equality. I prefer 'inequality with freedom' to 'equality in slavery.' Intersectionality, if left unchecked, will destroy American liberty. Americans will learn that power, not freedom, is truly irresistible. https://lawliberty.org/americas-cultural-revolution/
8 January 2021: Yes, yes you can.
6 January 2021: One side is demanding transparent accurate elections, the other side is trying to fix racism with racism.
6 January 2021: Welcome to the fight! Time to go all out
3 January 2021: 🙄
2 January 2021: "Membership of a national minority"
2 January 2021: The sad part is that if the electoral college helped your "side", you'd suddenly be a fan of it. I see this on the right too, but in this instance it's you who's playing the game.
2 January 2021: The sad part is that if the electoral college helped your side, you'd suddenly be a fan of it.
2 January 2021: pic.twitter.com/VV3AdomjP5
2 January 2021: Live in a bubble, much?
2 January 2021: Yes, I did already know you were playing the popular vote game, which you know isn't what Hawley is talking about.
1 January 2021: Speaking of not understanding the nuance. Case in point. ^^
1 January 2021: That's his central point.
1 January 2021: It wasn't "far more Americans" -- it was very close in the states that mattered for this race. But of course you know that, you're not trying to be honest here.
1 January 2021: Are you asking why we don't raise taxes on business owners / investors to create a surplus and pay off the public debt? Since it's an honest question (all too. rare on Twitter), what would be your guess at the answer?
1 January 2021: Trump isn't the reason for any of those either. In fact the left mocked Trump for trying to work on infrastructure. As for real problems, a spike in rioting, socialism, and racism from the left is quite real for millions of people.
29 December 2020: GDP has nothing to do with the government's budget. Giving out "free" money results in huge debt that we and our children have to pay back via increased taxes. The interest alone on our government debt is the second largest budget item behind the military.
23 December 2020: You disagree that Twitter is for scrapping, in the same thread you call James "horrible"?
23 December 2020: James Lindsay's only crime is honesty. Thankfully society has people like him, and we need more of them.
23 December 2020: Tom Buck is correct. The real lack of empathy is ignoring the injustices being perpetrated by CRT on children and adults simply because they were born looking like people who perpetrated past injustices. There's a word for when you judge people by their skin color: racism.
23 December 2020: CRT in a nutshell: "Speaking Power to Truth."
22 December 2020: Accurate.
21 December 2020: Hell yeah.
21 December 2020: I'm an agnostic atheist.
21 December 2020: The trouble is when people define everything they don't like as racism, phobia and hate -- even when it's not. It's all well and good when your personal beliefs happen to align with the popular ones. But societal norms shift. You won't always be on the side of popular opinion. pic.twitter.com/erpnm2NuT0
21 December 2020: Atheists will tell you that their challenge with Pascal's wager is the risk of choosing wrong from the many gods humans have believed in and/or you misinterpret his wishes. If atheism is correct that there is no God, you gain a deep appreciation of the one life we know we have.
21 December 2020: Love that you are open to the discussion. We'd like the best arguments for God too. Only with the best arguments & evidence can anyone truly justify conclusions. We think we can show how cells led to RNA, then DNA. But we admit not knowing how the earliest cells formed.
21 December 2020: Threatening an atheist with hell is like a hippy threatening to punch you in the aura
20 December 2020: Couldn't agree more.
20 December 2020: Hell yeah!
20 December 2020: https://twitter.com/ZachG932/status/1133442081853181961?s=20
18 December 2020: Ministry of Truth
28 November 2020: Cheating only works in close elections, you can't make up a 21% vote lead like what McConnell received.
28 November 2020: pic.twitter.com/FiZOBvSpnM
28 November 2020: pic.twitter.com/KzfrGo6vuU
26 November 2020: pic.twitter.com/9UcUBik3up
22 November 2020: Follow follow Wenyuan Wu here: @wu_wenyuan
21 November 2020: Arrested? Why didn't you say convicted? Could it be because they weren't found guilty?
7 November 2020: Absolutely terrible idea. Lists of people are the opposite of democracy and freedom. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
6 November 2020: Here's one source for reference: https://news.ballotpedia.org/2020/06/15/california-assembly-passes-bill-for-ballot-measure-to-repeal-proposition-209-which-banned-considering-race-and-sex-in-public-jobs-education-and-contracting-in-1996/
6 November 2020: Plus it was on the ballot after passing their state legislature -- and as I recall it passed unanimously among Democrats.
6 November 2020: And it was on the ballot after passing their state legislature -- and as I recall it passed unanimously among Democrats.
5 November 2020: Fair enough.
5 November 2020: The argument was about who is acting like an adult. It wasn't you. If you actually care about people's lives, you would take a tack that will actually convince people. As you can see by Dave's reaction, you weren't. Hopefully you were able to walk it back in your DM.
5 November 2020: If it's not obvious, I can't help you. "What the fuck is wrong with you" is right up there with name-calling. Make your arguments instead. You won't persuade anyone with hysteria.
5 November 2020: Fair enough, "what the fuck is wrong with you" is not technically name calling. Point still holds.
5 November 2020: Re-read the thread to see who began with the namecalling.
4 November 2020: Judging people by their skin color is never OK. You should be ashamed to be promoting it.
3 November 2020: To be fair, Beto O'Rourke almost beat Ted Cruz in 2018. 4.0M vs 4.2M votes. It's not crazy to think that Texas could go blue with how much the landscape has changed.
2 November 2020: That's true. When the moderate left speaks out against the extreme left, then things may change. As it is, the moderate left is largely going along with it.
2 November 2020: Indeed, there have been 46 countries who self described as Communist. There are very few still functioning: Cuba, North Korea, Veitnam, China. Maybe the 47th try is the charm? #47thTryIsTheCharm
2 November 2020: Yes, equality means hard work will earn you a path to success, regardless of your skin color, gender, etc. Equity means we'll punish people for being successful, or even just looking like a group we think is too successful; and we'll drag everyone down to the same low outcome.
30 October 2020: "Free will obviously exists", much like the earth is obviously flat.
29 October 2020: https://www.debunking-christianity.com/2020/09/magic-lies-at-very-heart-of-christianity.html
28 October 2020: If your news sources report that it was first reported in the US, you'll think that's the case.
26 October 2020: As a critical thinker, you'll naturally you'd notice that Peter has not said there's a single factor.
25 October 2020: Found the racist.
24 October 2020: A lot of the news coverage is saying that the Expensify email went to "customers" -- but to be clear, they literally sent the email to all users at every org that uses Expensify. Over 10M emails sent.
24 October 2020: There's been a big increase in polarization. pic.twitter.com/QLR0t8b6Vz
24 October 2020: A large percentage of your second category are also in the first category.
24 October 2020: Your email has only contributed to the partisan divide. Claiming that not voting your way is to vote "against democracy" and "for voter suppression" is the height of hubris and misinformation.
24 October 2020: Can you share a screenshot?
24 October 2020: This is racist and sexist. If you're skeptical of that, read the replies from supporters, full of hatred and anger toward men and white people. This is not the answer. Dividing people by race and sex has been done before, and it's never ended well.
24 October 2020: Heard a similar story from a friend through game chat. Said all but one of the poll workers held blue styluses in his case. Do you have a photo by chance? Votes and party affiliation should be private, or it creates an intimidating environment. pic.twitter.com/0tPWBnZekP
22 October 2020: Right there with you on that.
15 October 2020: Ordered!
14 October 2020: Classical liberal here. Seems to boil down to perception of the size of the danger. It appears to hinge on whether one thinks there's more Antifa and BLM violence, or more Nazi and white supremacist violence. And which of the extremes has more influence on the public discourse.
1 October 2020: Quite the opposite.
1 October 2020: It's not sensitivity training. It's Critical Race Theory. And it is racist.
30 September 2020: This right here is actual systematic racism. https://twitter.com/adidasus/status/1310976368834871296 pic.twitter.com/IK8hcWSuHc
28 September 2020: Keeping it illegal to factor race into hiring practices. As it stands, California is working on making it legal, with Proposition 16 this November.
28 September 2020: Absurd to bring that up in the context of today. That isn't what happened with the Supreme Court nomination. Bringing it up in that context, as you have done, is the actual racism.
24 September 2020: "More or less" -- in other words he has done nothing of the sort.
24 September 2020: At no point did he threaten violence. @chrislhayes hears only what he wants to hear.
19 September 2020: Representatives and thought leaders, unfortunately. Combined the have a million followers. One of those, Katie Herzog, looks to have been joking -- but the others appear to have been serious.
19 September 2020: Someone compiled these pic.twitter.com/nPFEkvZMT5
14 September 2020: What did nobody do to her??
5 September 2020: Indeed. Like him or hate him, Trump is right on this one
28 August 2020: "I only said you were 'more or less' a fascist."
28 August 2020: If Joe were pushing back against the far left, his moderation might mean something. But he's not pushing back. Not even a little bit.
28 August 2020: The speed that a person can point a gun at an officer and fire is much, much faster than the speed an officer can identify a gun, confirm it, and make the decision to fire. It's not possible. This is why all police departments approve deadly force as soon as a suspect reaches.
18 August 2020: Here's deaths. Not much different ratio. I'm no Cuomo supporter, but this isn't a criticism that's going to stick. pic.twitter.com/6kjlVwDrBI
18 August 2020: Not to defend Cuomo, but with NYC's ultra close quarters and much more extensively used public transportation, it would make sense that it would have more deaths at the beginning. New York is now significantly outperforming California. pic.twitter.com/36cIlfl06R
18 August 2020: Or when you pull them down to take a drink. Or when sitting down to eat food. Or when protesting. You have enough sense to know that the risk is as minimal for a photo as it is in dozens of other similar scenarios.
18 August 2020: Everyone in the shot had masks immediately before and immediately after. We were outdoors as well.
15 August 2020: Good argument.
15 August 2020: No leadership? Riiight. The people organizing the dates, printing and passing out flyers, making websites, standing on platforms with megaphones making statements definitely aren't leaders. Just bystanders, right? I'd explain the fascism, but you have a finger in each ear.
14 August 2020: That's the point of the criticism. They claim to be anti-fascist (antifa) yet are more fascistic than most of their enemies. What is the point of saying Antifa isn't an organization? Actual white supremacists aren't an organization either. So what?
14 August 2020: Would love (hate) to see it.
14 August 2020: I mean, CEO Cook gave a whole speech about white supremacy, so I wouldn't be surprised!
14 August 2020: It's a thing. Many more where this came from. pic.twitter.com/Sy3oxiC7uq
14 August 2020: pic.twitter.com/qOJIRQSQol
14 August 2020: Very strange! I wonder what's causing that. pic.twitter.com/erfAkizHcP
14 August 2020: In other words this isn't very convincing as an example of result manipulation by Google. There are some examples though. One that sticks with me was when they blocked autocomplete for "why are women so..." while leaving "why are men so" with words like stupid, selfish, mean.
14 August 2020: The quotes limit it to just those phrases. The purpose of that is to demonstrate how frequently those three words appear in exactly that order. Considering that vast difference in frequency, it's very likely that the algorithm automatically picked up the more frequent one.
14 August 2020: Green is good. Red is bad.
14 August 2020: So true. Adherents literally say science & reason are not usable because everything is subjective opinion. In practice, it's used to discard any fact that opposes their preferred narratives (while keeping the supporting facts). Tyranny is the perfect word for the outcome.
13 August 2020: The three words in that order are pretty rare for socialism. pic.twitter.com/UtCDR0UDZ4
13 August 2020: There is a possible explanation here: since the three words "X and racism" appear next to each other 465,000 times for capitalism, and only 44 times for socialism, that tells me that the grammar algorithm is very likely what's responsible for this correction. pic.twitter.com/qXW4bHYggK
13 August 2020: There is a possible explanation here: since the three words "X and racism" appear next to each other 465,000 times for capitalism, and only 44 times for socialism, that tells me that the grammar algorithm is very likely what's responsible for this correction. pic.twitter.com/uU0Wgo75ap
12 August 2020: Don't get me wrong, I'd love to get those old laws off the books. But the question is: when was the last time one was enforced?
12 August 2020: The list is a mile long, full of violations of the values that we stand for. Free speech, free market, civil liberties... it's gone off the rails. Sounds like you've seen it too, though not bad enough yet to have hit a breaking point. Out of curiosity, what would be too much?
12 August 2020: Leftist voices dramatically outnumber liberals. Because of that, the bizarre stuff has already long since become mainstream. That's the problem. "Defund police" is mainstream. The smirking Covington kids being "racist" was mainstream. I see it every day in my personal life too.
12 August 2020: Interestingly, I manned an atheist booth this year at CPAC -- the biggest conservative conference. The vast majority of conservatives were completely welcoming of our Atheist booth. Times have changed dramatically in the last five years.
12 August 2020: I'm right there with you. If you value due process, free speech, NOT discriminating by skin color or gender, standing up for the rights of every individual, and many more along these lines -- the far left (and the complacent left) should be horrifying right now.
10 August 2020: Apparently "institutional racism" means you can claim racism when there is no evidence of any.
7 August 2020: Two wrongs make a right now?
6 August 2020: "Mansplanation"? Way to promote sexism. Look, this thread is full of both women and men making claims about the other sex. Everyone gets parts wrong, of course, but all should be free to pontificate without having their viewpoint undermined by their sex, which they didn't choose.
5 August 2020: How would you describe Liberaltarian? More fiscally left than the average libertarian? Or more socially left?
5 August 2020: Translation of his tweet: "Everyone I disagree with is a shill!"
4 August 2020: Well said. It's absurd to think race had anything to do with it, and just perpetuates a divisive narrative.
4 August 2020: I see what you're seeing. But I also see the other side's viewpoint. You'd be amazed to see that it's not actually Good (the left) vs. Evil (the right). I wish you could see it, too.
4 August 2020: See if you can tell how common both are in the scheme of things. I bet it's smaller than you think, probably by orders of magnitude.
4 August 2020: Also compare it to roving left wing gangs, who kick people's teeth out and shoot people in the streets (you may not have heard of any at all, which is telling).
4 August 2020: Parting thought: see if you can do anything to get a real sense of how widespread this phenomenon of roving right wing gangs is.
4 August 2020: Cool. That was actually a nice approach that I'll have to use again to quickly avoid wasting breath with folks who have so completely inundated themselves with one viewpoint that they now accept most everything their side says uncritically, & believe their side can do no wrong.
4 August 2020: Ok, let me dip a toe in the water with a categorical example. Do you think it curtails free expression in even the slightest way when online mobs get people fired for, say, something they said when they were a teenager?
4 August 2020: Or more accurately, you'll try to say how it's not curtailing free expression to punish people for voicing their opinion, or some other such dodge. Hopefully I'm wrong about you, and you'll be the exception. I just have no reason to think that you will.
4 August 2020: I can name a thousand examples. If I had even the slightest belief that it would be worth the effort to type them. I'm sure you'll just point out the grammar mistakes and go back to the echo chamber. It's disheartening, to be honest.
4 August 2020: I know it seems insane when one only reads left wing news all day, which does nothing but sensationalize stories of roving gangs of ultranationalists (as you put it), racist boys in maga hats oppressing people with smirks, etc etc etc ad nauseum. But it's not reflecting reality.
4 August 2020: For the sake of long shots, I'll bite: The left in the U.S. has a near total takeover of the education system (K -> Uni), huge majority in Hollywood, the United States House of Representatives, vast footholds in corporations, & is poised with a shot at the Presidency and Senate.
4 August 2020: Yep, there it is. "My side has no power! The other side has all the power!" Echo chamber.
3 August 2020: Hardly comparable. And I'm sure your own side isn't doing anything extreme; you know, rolling back human rights like freedom of expression, due process, etc -- and at a much larger scale. All in response to the overblown specter.
3 August 2020: An impressively overblown specter of a problem.
3 August 2020: Ok.
3 August 2020: You've got to think that half the country who vote Republican, and half the Democrats too, must be insane. At some point, when everyone else seems wildly misinformed, you have to consider that maybe you're the one who is misinformed.
3 August 2020: Seems you didn't study facism much in all your years. At some point, you really should try getting out of your echo chamber. It honestly can't be healthy for you.
3 August 2020: Speaking of ignorance, the point is that you two are clearly not engaging even remotely honestly. It's boring and a waste of time for all of us.
3 August 2020: Ah! You win the whole argument. Now Andy can have his verified checkmark taken away. Success!
3 August 2020: You'll have to direct your childlike anger somewhere else. I have things to do. Cheers.
3 August 2020: Good diversion. "It was a joke!"
3 August 2020: Well you got the "stick it to you" part right. What me or you have to do with the accuracy of the point is...nothing.
3 August 2020: Oh I don't know, for the same reason you'd use red herring & ad hominem argumentation, for starters.
3 August 2020: Sure you do.
3 August 2020: Apparently you don't, because at traditional journals, editors-at-large do none of the responsibilities you listed.
3 August 2020: https://lmgtfy.com/?q=responsibilities+of+%22editor+at+large%22
3 August 2020: Apparently you don't know what Editor-At-Large means.
3 August 2020: @FitbitSupport When I add things to my Today screen nothing shows up. Any idea what's going on? pic.twitter.com/QDmcfs6voC
2 August 2020: That's a great start. Also we should add training, and accountability, and support structures, and bodycams, and equipment to do the job well. And we can call them police departments. It'll be great.
1 August 2020: That person had multiple warrants for vandalism. Both undercover and uniformed police were there to perform the legal arrest.
23 July 2020: Excellent points about the value of debate. Imagine if we hadn't allowed debate for the evolution, or heliocentrism, etc. Debate regularly changes the minds of listeners, & sometimes even plants seeds in the mind of the debate opponent themselves--seeds which grow & flourish.
20 July 2020: If the answer to that question is "no", then that's correct, then you would not be judging the person on skin color. If it's yes, no matter the justification, then you are.
20 July 2020: Judging people by their race isn't racism?
20 July 2020: @HomebasePol @avidreader1984 @Virtual_Monke @Nick_Alex @JeffreyKofsky @ryanlongcomedy @Timcast Let's start by dismantling open biases, like judging people by their skin color and gender and assuming people are privileged (or not) solely on those factors.
20 July 2020: Even if you could prove that racism was the cause, there's one major problem: you can't fix racism with racism.
14 July 2020: The polarization predates the pandemic by years. pic.twitter.com/BE3yJ2rRTU
9 July 2020: The sheer lack of self-awareness in this article is staggering. Blair Kamin accuses Trump of playing politics, then goes on to make the most one-sided, biased arguments possible. His rant is not worthy of a publication like Chicago Tribune.
1 July 2020: One of those graphics says "Diversity...exploded in the wake of Donald Trump's election". Interestingly, the statistics show that it predates Trump. pic.twitter.com/I8Mxy9EdxE
29 June 2020: Indeed. And it is telling that the polarization pre-dates Trump. pic.twitter.com/113xUYQlng
29 June 2020: The polarization pre-dates Trump. Much of it comes from those who abuse our national aversion to racism. pic.twitter.com/bVZyms14OQ
29 June 2020: We're not only talking about Douglas Murray. We're talking about the millions of everyday people who have been threatened into silence. Freedom of expression is a human right, and for good reason.
10 June 2020: I've had a lot of personal success with this. Reasonable people, who think through the arguments, so far have always seen what we are warning against. As long as they don't feel attacked, and can honestly consider the arguments, it works.
10 June 2020: I would argue the war has just begun. They seek to defund police, open borders, take away jobs and leadership based solely by skin color & gender, eliminate free speech, roll back due process, and much more. They have not won the war yet. There is still much ground to defend.
10 June 2020: RT @ConceptualJames: If you're thinking, "I should stand up to this, but if I do, I'll lose my job and my health insurance" alarm bells sho…
10 June 2020: You can also get a text-only version.
6 June 2020: "Hunted down?" All of 9 unarmed black men were killed by police last year (compared to 19 unarmed white men). That's Washington Post data. Police killing of black Americans has declined almost 80% from the ’60s through the 2010s. (For reference, whites flatlined). CDC data.
6 June 2020: Excellent review! I had no idea she charges for her workshops. A scam indeed. A horrifically well-timed scam.
6 June 2020: You are an inspiration! The reason it has gone this far is that too few people have spoken up the way you are doing. You are doing the right thing. pic.twitter.com/WPMjZYwHNR
5 June 2020: Hiring people based on their skin color is racism. You can't fix racism with racism. You can, however, identify the specific examples of structural racism--being doubly careful to question whether your statistics include all relevant variables--and work against those directly.
5 June 2020: Don't forget beatings and murders as a result of the protest as well. Goal should be zero for brutality and violence and looting. However, a problem affecting millions, instead of just a few, is the representation of how widespread each of the three are.
4 June 2020: Wild. And important to know!
4 June 2020: And then of course, objective truth, one of the bedrocks of science, is considered unknowable by many intersectional thinkers, as well.
4 June 2020: That's disappointing to hear. I know pretty much any terminology that is felt to oppose their goals comes under attack by them. Examples include egalitarianism, free speech, equality, and many more. Doesn't surprise me that they would go after the term, for starters.
4 June 2020: Playing Devil's Advocate: this seems like a description that fits the facts, but leaves out intent. Is there widespread, conscious intent to dismantle the Enlightenment? Or is it perhaps more likely that other intents and actions happens to look that way?
4 June 2020: Now watch as they gaslight you and claim that no speech is being suppressed.
4 June 2020: Bullied into backtracking, with astonishing speed.
4 June 2020: Formatted to be a bit more readable. @ConceptualJames feel free to save and upload as your own reply to your thread (if you'd like). pic.twitter.com/sqJ4VJk4DS
2 June 2020: I had my puppy on a train last week. It barked at everyone that went by. A black woman said "what, has he never seen a black person before"? Hostile attribution bias is real and pervasive.
1 June 2020: A much needed message right now. ❤️
1 June 2020: You can't fix racism with racism.
14 May 2020: You've got my support. Secular government and freedom of belief are human rights. Political views are irrelevant.
12 April 2020: Is that what your frustration was about? That people might misinterpret your intention? I certainly wasn't. I know you aren't a race baiter nor an identitarian. But you may not see (or agree?) that frequently highlighting racial correlation without causation creates division.
9 April 2020: And for the record, I stand with you against identitarians and racism of all types.
9 April 2020: Would you re-read it? I worry deeply that more we highlight racial disparity where it's not a result of current racism, the more we create racial divide. I envision a world where people are treated equally regardless of race. I believe you and I share that vision.
9 April 2020: We are friends, so I re-read. Here's what I see. Tweet 1: 0 mentions of poverty, 1 mention of race, "non-white". Tweet 2: 0 mentions of poverty, 2 mentions of race. 3: 2 hints at poverty, 4 mentions of race. And this goes through the entire thread. It's my turn to ask:
9 April 2020: You'll get a lot of agreement about poverty. But the thread was packed full of race, not wealth.
9 April 2020: You and I have known each other for a long time, and you know I'm no identitatarian when I ask: how does it help to highlight racial stats of Covid19? How does that do anything other than fuel racial divide?
9 April 2020: "Not being interested". Would you say the same about someone whose profile said they only care about white people? Of course not.
29 March 2020: Ditto! Enjoyed our conversations. Look forward to seeing you around at events and chatting more!
27 March 2020: Haley Stevens from Michigan. https://ballotpedia.org/Haley_Stevens
27 March 2020: If I were selling you a marijuana cure for cancer, it would be very reasonable to ask how exactly it could cure cancer, not just "is it marijuana though?".
27 March 2020: A better solution would be principles applied to everyone. Reject bigotry across the board. As soon as you start ranking groups of people, you stop factoring in individual circumstances, and become the very thing you are fighting against: judging people by their skin color.
27 March 2020: Can you articulate how the specific radiation is demonstrated to interact with human cells? Because if not, at best, you're selling placebo canopies.
21 March 2020: Glad to support!
21 March 2020: "When I tweet, it's on another level." pic.twitter.com/HSBDTeuRMv
21 March 2020: Landlords take the financial risk to pay the construction workers to build housing. Without that, construction workers have no incentive to build houses. If you'd like to go back to people building their own with the help of the community, then convince people. Good luck!
19 March 2020: Great list.
18 March 2020: Peter Boghossian would be an excellent guest. @peterboghossian
18 March 2020: Seconded
18 March 2020: By your logic, Trump is totally responsible for Covind-19 coming on the scene. And we just won't mention that Obama's graph starts at the bottom trough of the Great Recession. But keep dropping that "knowledge". No bias there, right? pic.twitter.com/OH9RTaI3yD
18 March 2020: Nice strawman you got there. No one said "fake news" except you. The level of ignorance is, indeed, profound. As is the tribalism. I'd spell it out for you, but you aren't listening.
18 March 2020: Are you serious? Are you going to act like context suddenly makes no difference? That it's not possible to lie with statistics? Ever heard the phrase "cherry-picking"? That's what you're doing. Entire books have been written on it. https://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Statistics-Darrell-Huff/dp/0393310728
18 March 2020: Obama started in the bottom-most dip of the 2008 recession. So of course there's a huge increase from there. Here's a chart with the year preceding Obama included. pic.twitter.com/spuP5C7vbP
18 March 2020: If you can show how this decline is a result of policies in general, then you may have a case. Without that, you are being absurdly hateful and should be ashamed of yourself doing this in a time of crisis.
18 March 2020: You should be ashamed of yourself.
2 March 2020: So did you and Jay meet up or what? What did he think?
2 March 2020: Here is CNN with a story saying the coronavirus travel ban could have the effect of “stigmatizing countries and ethnicities.” https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/07/health/coronavirus-travel-ban/index.html
28 February 2020: True, @AtheistsLiberty is a US national org.
15 February 2020: There's a sweet spot between being overwhelmed and being bored. Challenging to stay in this zone, but worth the effort!
12 February 2020: What does South Carolina's canceled primary have to do with New Hampshire? And by your own chart, Bill Weld got 9% and all other small candidates got 6%. How does this negate the point of the tweet you are replying to?
6 February 2020: Definitely sarcasm.
26 January 2020: Done
22 January 2020: It's true. People actively scour for sentences that can be spun to sound bad, and ignore what the person actually said (and of course ignore anything they've said directly to the contrary).
22 January 2020: Only "woke" men are upset. All other men and women are happy Laurence Fox is saying what everyone is thinking (and starting to finally say themselves too).
21 January 2020: Come to NYC!
20 January 2020: Asking honest questions about our most blatant assumptions is one thing the left does well. (At least the liberal left, not the progressives). No topic should be off limits. If something is bad for good reason, then knowing the reasons is by far the best deterrent.
20 January 2020: That wasn't the question. At some point you should try not being a demagogue and actually engage with the ideas. You may find that you are actually, much to your surprise, not standing on the moral high ground at all.
19 January 2020: I can understand why the dildo is a cleanliness concern and might not be something people are willing to use. But it's the drawer overall that you find creepy (not the dildo), right?
19 January 2020: Out of curiosity, can anyone articulate why it's creepy? Best I can think of is that it exposes that he has different sexual partners. Or maybe that he expects to have more in the future? Or that you went home with a person who believed he'd go home with someone at some point?
19 January 2020: Would you agree that "not (sufficiently) acknowledging privilege" and claiming "prejudice does not exist" are two different things?
19 January 2020: The first 7 words of your tweet mean the same as what Laurence Fox said. Would it be fair for people to now say that "Cristo denies racism and says there's no racism"? Serious question.
19 January 2020: Too late
18 January 2020: Spot on.
18 January 2020: He said "we're the most tolerant lovely country", and when others tried the spin you are trying by saying that means there's "no racism", he specifically said: "No one is saying that." So no, your spin still doesn't work.
18 January 2020: What does Katie Hopkins have to do with any of this? Oh that's right, nothing.
18 January 2020: "whether prejudice exists" wasn't the question at all. Terrible spin on your part.
15 January 2020: That's what it should be. Treat the accuser and the accused BOTH as if they are telling the truth, until a court of law can review the hard evidence and make a determination. Even then, without either hard evidence that the accusation is fabricated, treat them both as innocent.
15 January 2020: Such an important message. We are all in this together, and we all deserve to be treated as innocent until proven guilty. That sucks when there's no hard evidence to convict someone who is truly guilty -- but that's worth the tradeoff to all know we will be presumed innocent.
20 December 2019: There is: he didn't fail because the finances didn't work out. He failed because he didn't pay speakers or staff for multiple events, but kept putting them on anyway. He took $500 per ticket and refused to refund after canceling the event. Well north of half a million dollars.
15 December 2019: Can you tell Travis to add more detail to the response? It's not convincing as it stands.
15 December 2019: He made very little attempt to pay people. And just kept on making new events, racking up the debt. Any person who's trying to do well but making mistakes would at least stop and try to take care of debts, no?
13 December 2019: But what we're seeing so far is just blameshifting and gearing up to do the same thing all over again without demonstrating any remorse or efforts to make things right. That doesn't bode well for future events.
13 December 2019: I certainly don't condone emailing a person's mother about it, or even suggesting mental illness. And if speakers are informed of this past history, and still choose to give Pangburn another shot, then I actually fully support that.
13 December 2019: Exactly. You have to wonder, at what point IS it acceptable to make people aware of the consistent failings of an organizer? I would argue that it's sometime before the organizer has created a wake of 1000s of people owed $500,000+, and all without doing much to make it right.
13 December 2019: Can you share some insight? Since there's no public statement about what other people did, I'd be interested to hear it. I'm not biased against Travis as a person -- I wanted him to succeed. That's part of why this is all so unacceptable.
13 December 2019: Care to share the real story? The "Pangburn response" doesn't add anything new that makes it OK that Travis didn't pay speakers, didn't pay staff & contractors, and left thousands of people out in the cold on hundreds of thousands of dollars in tickets.
12 December 2019: That doesn't even begin to address the evidence of your sock puppet accounts. It goes way beyond just the rapid timing of the responses.
11 December 2019: Your bias is showing.
11 December 2019: False. Read the thread: he is just taking the third-person in response to the previous tweet. pic.twitter.com/kPVhvlkcLn
10 December 2019: Is he "going after the IDW"? That's news to me. What I do know is that he didn't pay dozens of speakers and employees, canceled events costing thousands of people thousands of dollars, and then tried to pretend like just closing the legal entity makes all of that ok.
10 December 2019: Excellent, excellent article and research. Well done.
29 November 2019: The bias is blatant when looking at her story history: https://www.newsweek.com/authors/jessica-kwong pic.twitter.com/QNm5uQzmXj
28 November 2019: Cheers to that.
26 November 2019: It's apparent how you blatantly try to soften what you did to "just asking if they are looking for diversity writers". That's not good, but not as bad as "I'm a woman and a POC, hire me!" then "How dare you talk to a woman that way!" I'm glad your posts are public so all can see.
1 March 2019: @Ridim_Luv @RationalBlonde @monaeltahawy You don't have to convince the fringe.
10 October 2018: Yeah I kicked myself for typing clip. I know better and yet still typed it. And there's no editing on Twitter, especially after the tweet is shared. Alas.
9 October 2018: Police are trained that once they choose to use deadly force, to be absolutely certain they stop the threat. It is not uncommon to fire a full clip at a threat. Some videos for reference here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXMYxKMh3prxnM_4kYZuB3g

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