Woke Culture Wars

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What is it about the University of Wisconsin and race? The administration’s recent decision to move a rock from view because a journalist referred to it with the N-word almost 100 years ago was goofy enough.

We should think long and hard about the sort of society we want to be. I have written about why intent is crucial for forming the predictive models necessary for moral judgements. Making moral evaluations

Over the last five years, poll after poll has found that the GOP base has grown warmer towards Blacks, Hispanics, immigrants and Muslims. They've simultaneously become more skeptical of Christian nationalism

Alice: Critical race theory is an outgrowth of critical theory. Critical legal studies was indeed popular in 1970s law schools, but critical theory didn't start there. This is, like, critical theory 101:

The Left’s War on Gifted Kids Local progressive activists have found a cause even more unpopular than "Defund the police," and are pushing it with even greater vigor. The Democratic primary voters

Love your enemy, for you will become him. -Israeli saying A couple of years ago, when Lambert would talk about professional pundits and official Democratic spokescritters behaving as if they were trying

The University of Wisconsin has apparently done Black people a favor. It lifted away a rock. It was a big one, 42 tons, and at least some Black students thought of it as a symbol of bigotry. Because, you

Note: In order to counter the false narrative that cancel culture only affects the rich, famous and powerful, and that it's just about "critique" these examples will all be about regular people

This is a cross post of @chiobu/the-new-puritans by @chiobu.The New Puritans

You could use a single word as a proxy. “Latinx” is a gender-neutral adjective which only 4% of American Hispanics say they prefer. Yet in 2018 the New York Times launched a column dedicated to “Latinx

Woke wars: Edinburgh’s computer scientists banned from using ‘Alice and Bob’ as too ‘Western’ Staff also urged to avoid ‘master/slave’ terminology as part of University of Edinburgh’s latest decolonisation