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Anthropology taught me how to spot this instinct. Gender-critical feminists taught me how to stand up to it.
Wæver has dedicated his career to the idea that some of the most consequential forms of political activity and statecraft should be viewed through the lens of unspoken societal power hierarchies.
All in all, the evidence suggests that violent protests and rioting empower right-wing political forces, provide an opportunity for gangs to enrich themselves and exploit destabilized local populations, impoverish property owners, and harm long-term economic fortunes.
Even prior to the pandemic, Barclays was predicting that the alternative-meat industry could grow ten-fold by the end of the next decade.
The #MeToo era has been a time for all journalists to re-examine their professional standards.
Why might a social psychological concept gain such broad traction despite being poorly defined and weakly researched? Perhaps because it is true.
The fight to enshrine the right to unrestricted abortion in law is based on ideological feminism’s two main premises: victimization and what I call “undifferentiation.”
They believe in the perfectibility of man in their own image: a combination of unscrupulous optimism and narcissism.
Different forms of suffering cannot easily be quantified and compared.
The right way to look at anthropogenic climate change is as an unexpected side-effect of something that, by and large, proved an immense blessing to humanity.
Differences that benefit the individual (beauty, intelligence, wealth, initiative) can only be understood as unfair privileges, while differences that do not redound to the individual’s benefit can only be made into disabilities which ultimately perpetuate inequity.
The truth is therefore that Mark Zuckerberg’s reading of civil rights history with respect to its relationship to free speech is closer to the mark than that of many who have inherited the mantle of the movement.
The International Rice Research Institute developed numerous different Golden Rice strains back-crossed into commonly grown varieties, behind tough security barriers because of constant threats from activists encouraged by Greenpeace.
Your accountability is just your portion of the mob’s.
Calling yourself a badass doesn’t convey anything other than the distinct impression that you are, in fact, the opposite of a badass.