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				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 5, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Not that Axel is an immigrant, of course. He was born on the magic soil of the UK




Reminds me of a tweet to the effect of "He's Welsh, but I'm still on stolen land after hundreds of years? How does that work?"


Anyways, pleasantly surprised the councilor was arrested.




beyond maybe bankrupting a handful of Taylor Swift event ticket scalpers in the near future.




A tinfoil hat large enough to cover Everest take: Extreme guerilla marketing to reduce the popularity of her concerts.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 5, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
And his alternate universe name was Ricky.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 5, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


both parties internal projections show limiting immigration prevents economic growth




Those projections showing that immigration would benefit economic growth have played out so well, haven't they? I guess economists can still appeal to "but imagine how much worse it would be," but I can't imagine that's a winner either.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 5, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Europe fails to assimilate, yes, but there's also major selection effect due to the Atlantic. Most American Muslims (ie, non-refugees) are heavily selected for wealth, education, and other liberal tendencies.


That said, the first and possibly only Muslim-majority city in the US rather famously banned pride flags on government property. The liberalism of American Muslims may be overstated and contingent.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 5, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


creating or funding thinktanks and NGOs across Europe and the US




The Confucius Institutes were an early version of this, but they all closed. They'd have to be more circumspect a second time around.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 5, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


What does this mean?




This interview clip from Gwen Walz has been making the rounds, including this weird quote




I could smell the burning tires…I kept the windows open as long as I could because I felt like that was such a touchstone of what was happening.




Back to you-




Which coincidentally are also features of the US flag




The Somali flag complaint is overblown, but the new MN flag is a lot closer to this, this, this, Texas, or Djibouti, than to the stars and stripes.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 29, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


C.f. Scott here. A policy that says “just hit them until they are ready to work” is missing all the important bits.




Terrible essay. "If your plan doesn't have every single detail that will cover every single situation, in ways that pie-in-the-sky Bay Arean progressives will find acceptable, stop complaining and accept the status quo" is one of the precursor steps in that adage about "If liberals insist that only fascists will [do something], then voters will hire fascists to do the job liberals refuse to do."


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 29, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


“Men are more free when the leader of the free world supports access to birth control,” said Buttigieg, a sentiment I read as extending the olive branch toward Barstool listeners.




Would've been too on the nose to have anyone else saying that, wouldn't it?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 29, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


there is a greater consensus that Black people have enough shared experiences that their identity should be recognized. As it stands right now, the same cannot be said for white people.




A bit tautological- marking white people as "the group without an identity" does give them an identity and a mass of shared experience. One defined almost wholly in negative ways and a requirement for higher standards of evidence, but still.




Do you have any evidence to suggest they were "trained Marxists"?




That's probably a reference, maybe indirectly, to Patrisse Cullors, the infamous BLM leader that bought 4 houses with the money donated to BLM.


If you're asking if CRT is descended from Marxism, or most PhDs in CRT have also dabbled in Marxism, I feel comfortable saying yes but providing sufficient evidence for that is a sizable project. Short version is CRT is descended from critical theory, which was developed by the Frankfurt School, (broadly) a descendent of Marxist thought attempting a synthesis without the failures of Marxism-Leninism.


If you're asking about the AP style guide specifically, I don't think anyone outside the AP can answer that.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 29, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
First, thank you for participating here as a self-identified progressive. Good luck, hope you enjoy your time.




It would appear that this decision made by the AP wasn't just something they decided out-of-the-blue.




It's very easy to rewrite the AP's style decision as incredibly anti-black racist without actually changing its reasoning: "After a period of review, we found that white people are just too diverse to comprehend as a single group. Black people, on the other hand, are basically all the same no matter where they're from or what their culture is. They are defined primarily by their melanin and whether or not white people (an undefined group) have been racist against them."


It's wildly racist against basically everyone, and manages to center white people in the process of of supposedly supporting black people. It's blatantly absurd and narcissistic.


When arguments are made in favor of Black for the group also known as Americans Descendants of Slavery, as a culturally-distinct group from African-Americans being either new immigrants or those with recently immigrated ancestry, that makes sense. On similar grounds White could make sense as a term for us pan-European mutts with no connection to ancestral lands. Personally, I'd prefer both groups just be "American," but the powers that be don't seem too happy with that. But Black as a term that spans from an American whose ancestors were forced here 300 years ago, and somebody like Mswati III? Balderdash.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 29, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I am a techie, I do software. I've recently thought that well, given my concerns, maybe I should go work in law enforcement. I think that at this point I am probably too old to become a cop, but I could probably provide useful services in other ways.




Probably >90% of police and adjacent agencies in the country are in desperate need of IT and programmers for various projects that may help. The problem is, of course, the pay is absolute dregs compared to what you'll make anywhere else. If you're comfortably wealthy and can treat the pay as a nice bonus that covers your insurance, might be an option?