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The massive social media website Twitter—the central hub for cultural discourse and debate—is now actively banning users for stating true facts about basic human biology.
Since I made my story public, Goldstein has tried to suggest that he is the true victim, and that he was bullied into apologizing to me (“a decision I now retract”).
Science seeks to explain the world, but explanation conflicts with condemnation, which is an important component of injustice and in turn advocacy.
Campaigns that mischaracterise issues and stigmatise opponents reduce the complex to the simplistic in ways that are fundamentally unhelpful
What if feeding the hungry creates more hungry people to feed?
There are too many artists, too many people who want to be artists, most of them aren’t very good, and schools should focus on inculcating self-discipline rather than dopey ‘all must have prizes’ creativity.
Drama in the sci-fi/fantasy fandom may not be of great consequence for larger society (though the politicization of culture is a real and spreading problem).
BLM-Toronto arguably was not equipped to handle its own success, as the group had no established source of funding or institutional infrastructure.
The job of the newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
Inside, Mr. Peterson caught glimpses of the protest on a mobile phone while waiting backstage. “These are the brave masked people?
America has the highest rate of incarceration in the world and—in state prisons—blacks are incarcerated at five times the rate of whites."
Activists wanted museums to pivot away from historic collections and towards their audiences, focusing more on excluded groups.
Conformity, broadly defined, is a tendency to act or think like members of a group. In psychology.
That fee was temporarily suspended by a federal judge on first amendment grounds, although the final decision is still pending.
Dry herbs, pre-rolls, oils, vaporisers, drinks, balms, and a host of different kinds of edibles were all available to the seasoned and the curious.