Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
I am actively attempting to deradicalize myself. I dislike puritanism and intolerance. DM me if you want my Discord, Twitter, Reddit, etc.
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Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
If I write off every outlet that's been used as a platform for bad things, then I don't think I'll have any news outlet left other than fringe right stuff that would (and did!) radicalize me. So I'm going to forgive news outlets that at least don't employ people whose claim to fame is doing this stuff repeatedly.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
I'm under the impression that the connection between the Oshry sisters and their mother was not publicly known prior to Lorenz's article, which outright brags about how much effort the two put into hiding their mother. I may be missing context because I never even heard of them before I saw this article. With that said, nearly all dox can be described as publicly available information. It's connecting the dots with the information that's the threat to people.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
I don't know if Gates is telling the truth, but if he is, then DeSantis is in the wrong here.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
Why not? If people are interested, then I think these courses should be offered as electives.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
Black Robes, you say? ;)
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
This is a good essay and I have shared it with people. While I can treat the doxing incidents as outliers, as Hanania has instructed me to, it still troubles me that the people who do these things continue to find employment in an industry that allows them to do such things. Taylor Lorenz may be best-known for doxing LibsOfTikTok, but she also doxed Pamela Geller's kids in response to hate speech committed by their mother, which they were obviously not responsible for. Until Lorenz apologizes for going after Geller's kids, I can't think of the Washington Post as a good institution while they employ her.
Also, I'm not convinced that Trump playing "QAnon music" was a signal to his base like Richard thinks it was. That was stock music that QAnon followers had been using in their videos. For all I know, they started using that stock music because they heard it at Trump rallies.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
Why do I get a notification if someone blocks me? Someone with a really cool username just blocked me and that's bringing me down a little.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
Just saw the headlines about DeSantis banning an AP African-American Studies course. According to AP news, "Florida education officials did not specify exactly what content the state found objectionable."
I have two questions about this.
- What reason would there be to not say what about the content was objectionable? Would it violate copyright, or some kind of NDA?
If the DeSantis administration's objections to the content are reasonable, then sharing the content would make it impossible for intellectually honest people to say that DeSantis doesn't want the history of American slavery to be taught. Because the objections are left ambiguous, a person can fill in the blanks with whatever best fits their priors, and if someone who doesn't have exposure to current year progressive narratives on race, then their priors probably are "those backwards hicks just don't want their kids to learn things that challenge them." If I hadn't updated my priors since the debates on evolution and intelligent design, that's what I'd assume is happening. But because I've been paying some attention to cultural changes this past decade, my prior is now that some version of disparate impact/critical race theory/systemic racism/Ibram X Kendi's personal philosophy is in the course. But like my hypothetical leftist, I'm using my priors to fill in blanks that ideally the government would be filling in for me.
- Is there any information anywhere online about what material was in this course?
The government may not be able to tell us, for whatever reason, but that doesn't mean the information isn't out there.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
3yr ago
Should I be concerned that this spending bill is too long for anyone to realistically read it before voting on it? Even if that's the norm, it still sounds like a bad thing.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
3yr ago
The USA is not Twitter. And I'd argue anything would improve Twitter, including the site's complete destruction.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
3yr ago
Moldbug presumably meant dictatorial power, not merely the presidency.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
3yr ago
I've found it impossible to find thorough, unbiased reading material about the Alex Jones/Sandy Hook trial. My take is "what he did shouldn't be illegal, but if it is, wouldn't removing the content from the internet and issuing a retraction be enough?" I'd appreciate some reading material if anyone has any.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
3yr ago
Again: if the audience isn't bothered by Chappelle's trans stuff, then what could possibly bother them about Elon?
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
3yr ago
People hate Musk because he wants to allow transphobic (and other hateful) speech on Twitter. People hate Chappelle for being transphobic. People who like Chappelle are willing to tolerate his transphobia, so I figured they'd also be willing to tolerate Elon's.
Not that I consider either of them transphobic in any meaningful sense. The point is that the media views them as transphobic for having insufficient reverence towards trans people.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
3yr ago
And yet San Francisco was happy to see notorious transphobic TERF and mild anti-Semite Dave Chappelle.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
3yr ago
Judging from the clip, the boos started as soon as Elon was introduced, before he had the opportunity to say anything that would get booed.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
3yr ago
Elon got harshly booed on stage with Dave Chappelle, and I am absolutely baffled. I thought the people who still enjoyed Dave's comedy post-The Closer (when he got deemed transphobic by left-wing activists) would be indifferent, if not positive, towards Elon Musk. But people who like Chappelle and not Elon are not only common, but the majority of the people in this audience. Did I miss something?
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
3yr ago
They are just as evil and hateful. They just don't seem that way because they're polite to you in-person. That's how people are in the real world. They get along to get along until there's a war or something. Most of the Neo-Nazis I've spoken to have been polite, and so have most of the communists, though I have a much higher sample of the latter.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
3yr ago
Okay, I'll agree with you that Marx isn't equivalent to Hitler, because he didn't actually do anything and only wrote about wanting other people to do things. But he's at least equivalent to.. oh, Richard Spencer.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
3yr ago
That sounds like prejudice on your part. Using pure logic, there is no reason for me to trust a communist other than Nazi, other than that because communism is more acceptable (even though it shouldn't be), it attracts people who are less psychologically deviant than white supremacy/fascism/National Socialism/etc.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
3yr ago
I don't understand what you're saying. Are you saying that historical inaccuracy will get people killed because people will misidentify who Nazis are and use that as an excuse to invade nearby territory?
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
3yr ago
You make a very good point, and I hate this because it should be a cause for people to recognize their own hypocrisy.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
3yr ago
"just another casualty of war".
That's if they were killed by another country that was bombing indiscriminately, not by their own governments because of ethnic animus.
can you really not see why someone Jewish might be upset about being told they should be glad that the death plan wasn't as efficient as claimed
Of course I can! What happened is still an abomination, either way.
I don't think the line from Marx to the Holodomor is pretty short. Seizing the means of production and having the government (euphemistically referred to as "the people") make all economic decisions inevitably leads to mass deaths. In my view, the only different between a socialist (in the original Marxist sense of the term) and a tankie is that a socialist believes if Snowball wasn't exiled, then Animal Farm would've worked, while a tankie believes Napoleon did nothing wrong. I think that Napoleon just accelerated an inevitable decay.
I went through a link chain to figure out who/what Crenshaw was, and I ended up at the Time Magazine article, which does provide some useful context.
"While the Reconstruction era after the Civil War is often skimmed over in high school U.S. history classes, AP African American Studies delves into progress made at that time, as well as how the roots of today’s mass incarceration system can be traced back to that era."
That's where my alarm bells went off. Mass incarceration is critical race theory. It's a conspiracy theory which, depending on which version you hear, states that the reason 13% of the population makes up 52% of the arrests is that either A. they're not actually committing more crime, the police just have it out for them because they're black or B. they are committing more crime, but there's deliberate social conditioning to make them do it (because they're black).
I mean, I'm totally sympathetic to the claim that the existence of prison labor provides incentive to arrest more people and hold them for longer. I'm also sympathetic to the claim that people whose jobs depend on the existence of prison will try to arrest more people and hold them for longer to protect their job security. The part of mass incarceration that always loses me is when people make race a part of it. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure the reason that America bought slaves from Africa wasn't because they had a pre-existing, innate antipathy towards Africans; it's because Africa was doing the selling. There is no similar reason I can think that would motivate the prison-industrial complex to go after black people, specifically. And every time I've asked a leftist to provide me with a reason, they just say "racism," and I've never found that satisfactory, because the vast majority of racists don't take pleasure in inflicting pain on a particular race for the sake of it, they're just indifferent to it and/or care about it less than they do pain inflicted upon members of their own race. I could argue that white people in power feel less guilty arresting black people than arresting white people, so they target black people to lesson their guilt over the horrors of the prison-industrial complex, but without any supporting evidence, I'm inclined to assume the other explanations for 1350 are more accurate. And even if the hypothesis I just created has truth to it, it doesn't connect to Reconstruction, like the paragraph says.
Sorry if I come across as dismissive in the above paragraph. I want to be more open-minded. f anyone reading this wants to make a case for racial mass incarceration as the result of systemic racism, I'd appreciate it and I promise not to belittle you.
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