They’re not “the deplorables.” They’re the urban highly “educated” (scare quotes because they aren’t really educated, just credentialed) whites who deplore them. So I guess that’s the real white privilege.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
Schools Of Education
They remain a disaster, that should have been abolished long ago.
As a report on education said almost four decades ago, if a foreign power had imposed on the U.S. the educational system we've imposed on ourselves, we would rightly consider it an act of war. https://t.co/rpg0ym3yEh
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) March 6, 2019
BTW, I highly recommend Quillette as a web site in general. Claire and others have a lot of smart, heterodox stuff there.
British Columbia
…has gone transgender nuts. I hope the father wins in the Supreme Court of Canada.
A Civil War
Is America already in one? In many ways, yes. It’s a Cold Civil War (for now), but one regardless.
The Gun-Control Debate
Why the Left won’t win it.
Of course, part of the problem is that, as with climate change, they think there is no room for debate. Neither side does. But one side is right.
Freeman Dyson
“We don’t understand climate.”
He’s not wrong.
[Update late morning]
Is climate change like an asteroid, or diabetes? I’d say neither, but to the limited degree that it’s an understood problem, diabetes is a much better analogy.
Animal Farm
How it’s playing out in the Democrat Party. I wonder if AOC has even read it? Or if she has, if she understood the allegory, or just thought it was a strange story about farm animals?
[Update a while later]
How awful it must be to be a thinking person in a modern “university.”
A “True Conservative”
What does one look like? It’s sure as hell not Radio Free Tom.
Renewables
Why they can’t save the planet.
[Update a while later]
Requirements for a scalable approach to decarbonization.
The Smirking Bias Of The Media
Thoughts on language, from Howie Carr.
[Update a couple minutes later]
The media will help re-elect Trump. Which is ironic, of course.
[Update Monday morning]
Bill Maher will help Trump get re-elected. These people who hate Trump sure seem to be working a lot harder on his re-election than I am.
[Bumped]
[Update a while later]
The Left is dancing on a powder keg. This derangement is a perfect example of Haidt’s thesis that while we understand them perfectly well, they have no idea how we think.