This idea that #metoo was a temporary piece of insanity that happened because America was too woke...

Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.

by all means, enlighten us, nightmarica

forgot how racist she is

and the examples of her writing that have been circulating today do not persuade me that she is in control of her rhetoric enough to make ironic jokes that aren't simply revealing her actual beliefs

It’s funny because if you believe the most prominent and respected voices in our discourse, the dreaded Woke Times was an inquisition where every unpolitic utterance was dredged up and used to ruin countless lives…meanwhile, in reality, this stuff was constantly sliding if not rewarded.

my students write FAR better poetry, tho

It's not just the prose, it's the self-pity. All she has done in this excerpt is go hiking in Malibu. Most people who lose their jobs for appallingly bad judgement cannot afford to rent a house in LA and faff around in the hills all day!

Amon white people, the correlation between racial resentment and their vote is much, much stronger than between educational attainment and political alignment.

In fact, if you control for racial resentment, education polarization basically disappears.

A couple of years ago he went out of his way to interview and defend a 20 year old state house candidate (?) whose campaign and reputation were cruelly unfairly threatened by revelations that he had beaten and assaulted multiple teenage girls www.thecut.com/2020/08/why-...