Victimhood culture gives rise to hate crime hoaxes, then, because it makes them easier to pull off for the same reasons it makes them more lucrative.
Parsing these texts becomes an obsession for generations of true believers. The rapture, that bloody apocalyptic end of days, is replaced with revolution.
Quillette‘s Jonathan Kay talks to Mary Hudson, a former teacher in New York’s public high school system, about how disadvantaged students are being let down by school leaders and administrators who are afraid to discipline unruly children for fear of being accused of racism. This conversation follows Hudson’
We’re blinded by incremental progress in electronic gadgets of marginal utility—new smartphones, larger monitors, and more powerful computers.
Its associated victimhood mentality, and the culture of (now state-sponsored) weaponized sensitivity that this mentality has incubated.
Half of the twentieth century produced emancipation movements that attained stunning gains for women, racial and ethnic minorities, and gays and lesbians.
Women’s publications have tried to convince women they can be just like men, instead of celebrating femininity and what makes women wonderfully unique.
This is suspiciously like the argument often used by radical progressives after staking their claims in the moral high ground.
Quillette‘s Jonathan Kay talks to Brian Amerige, a former software engineer at Facebook, about the company’s content moderation policy and why it is making a mistake in trying to prohibit hate speech.
From genes to hormones to neurotransmitters, plays a role in shaping men’s masculine self-expression is, to say the least, a scientifically untenable position.
The two processes may begin similarly, but in grooming gangs emotional manipulation very quickly progresses to rape, torture, and threats of murder.
People on social media hurried to declare that they would never again spend a penny at Ristretto and were rewarded with approval from like-minded peers.
In this media culture is the implicit notion that gay people are monolithic, that they have no individual capacity to reason or hold different values.
The Foucauldian method, invoking a hermeneutic of suspicion, works by unveiling or demystifying the relations of power that constitute claims to truth.
Knitting, which helps lower the blood pressure and keep the mind busy, has enjoyed an upsurge in popularity in recent years.