I’m back in the states, (back to Florida for a couple days, then back to CA on Friday), and I woke up to this story from Sarah Hoyt over the latest mau mauing of the left against a sane SF writer.
I grew up reading SF in the sixties; I don’t know what happened to it. The Left apparently has to corrupt and rot everything it touches.
Thoughts on Zuckerberg’s thoughts, from a gamer.
Proposals to outlaw "hate speech" make me feel unsafe. https://t.co/bPc3ZPEbdK
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) April 11, 2018
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This book, which every incoming college freshman should read (it’s not long) seems relevant.
Michael Barone points out the obvious.
A guideline to how to woke-ify it, from Frank Fleming (who has a new book out), over at Sarah Hoyt’s place.
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Yes, this is a problem I’ve always had, too:
This one is going to be harder for some than others. Sarah Hoyt has been pretty good about this, while I have always struggled. But if at all possible, when you sit down to write, don’t be a straight white male. It’s not that there’s anything wrong with being a straight white male — you were born that way, no fault of your own — it’s just that everyone hates you. So stop it.
I don’t think I’m even going to work on that one.
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Sarah has some blurbs about the book.
I’ve long since become entirely inured to being called a racist. It says much more about the attacker than me.
[Saturday-afternoon update]
The reason that the Left has to deny IQ science is because they hate individualism, and collectivism demands that people be treated as members of groups. https://t.co/YVFVhpmqkW
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) March 31, 2018
[Update Monday morning]
The Left’s denial of racial and sexual disparities isn’t ending racism and sexism; it’s fueling it. #PartyOfScience
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…to all of my Christian followers.
And on that note, jeez, NPR, I don’t even believe in God, but I’m not this clueless about the meaning of the day.
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Related thoughts from Rod Dreher:
If we can’t count on leading journalists to understand the most basic facts about Christian practice and belief, how on earth can we trust them to report fairly and accurately about something as complicated as Christian sexual teaching? How can they trust themselves? How can they even begin to understand why we believe what we believe on all kinds of issues?
The rock band Van Halen was famous for putting a rider in their contracts requiring that a bowl of M&Ms be backstage for them, and that there be no brown M&Ms in the bowl. It sounds like typical rock star vanity, but there was actually a good reason for it. The band had this provision buried in their contract as a trick to see if the local crews assisting the band had actually read the contract. In a similar way, minor mistakes like these are the brown M&Ms of journalism about religion. They reveal a fundamental carelessness that might have more serious consequences.
The “brown M&Ms of journalism” is an interesting metaphor on a couple levels.
News outlets ignore millennial skepticism about it.
And some students do a walk out in support of the Second Amendment.
But that doesn’t fit the narrative.
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Yeah, you can bet the administration at the Rockledge high school would have loved to punish the students for the walk out, but they knew the wrath that would descend upon their hypocrisy if they’d done so.
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The teenage demagogues.
A harrowing expedition deep into Clinton country.
The surprising reason there are so many Thai restaurants in America. Does any other country do this?
#ProTip: If you want to try one of these, you are not a male heterosexual. You are bisexual, and have been behaving as het to get along in society.
I don’t have zero interest in this. I have extreme negative interest in this.
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No one who describes themselves as “bi-curious” is heterosexual, by definition. Articles like this annoy me in the extreme, because they promote the nonsense that everyone is gender and sexuality fluid.
[Monday-morning update]
The case of the missing link has been solved.