anyways turns out there was a thing called analytic philosophy so glad it only took a few decades to find a place

The implicit assumption that white rural voters are the *real* voice of the masses, while the people who live around the major population centers (ie the majority of the country) are out of touch degenerates remains an unshakable feature of punditry. Truly nasty work

The central lie — the key dishonesty — of modern conservatism is that being judgmental about the ethnicity or language or culture of the person next door is fine and acceptable, but being judgmental of that attitude is elitist and arrogant and closed-minded. What vapid bullshit.

It’s true that these incidents appear in the news section, but they’re rarely collected into trend pieces or framed by the media as part of a single, urgent story.

Compare this to ‘campus free speech,’ which had magazine covers, entire verticals and dedicated beat reporters.

/5 Ezra Kleinism would have me seek mutual values and agreement with the people who brought us to that, and who still support it. I would rather see them burn in Hell.

/4 Anyway, at this point it’s pretty clear she can be Kavanaugh stopped — roughly, aggressively detained and handcuffed incommunicado for some number of hours — based on her ethnicity and her last name not “matching” that ethnicity, and there would be no remedy.

/2 Yes, we could book her in another hotel. But then she has to leave her team, and make a big deal of it, and call attention to being an immigrant (from 10 months old!). And also, they’re the ones who suck.

Dean McGowan suggests that there is reason to question the actual extent/legitimacy of the announced schism

abmcg.blogspot.com/2025/10/no-g...

“I object to seeing brown people on my street but I will give up this view if graduate requirements are shortened from two years to 18 months” give me a fucking break.