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No matter what a person’s skin color or ideology, encouraging them to feel ashamed about who they are is never conducive to good mental health.
Reviews of A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America by Bruce Cannon Gibney, Hachette, 465 pages (March 2018) OK Boomer, Let’s Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind by Jill Filipovic, Atria/One Signal, 336 pages (August 2020) Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom
It is the willingness to commit such sacrilege that distinguishes the reactions of Sue and hooks from that of King.
In American First-Amendment jurisprudence, Brandenburg’s name is now a byword for the test that is used in assessing the validity of laws against inflammatory speech—especially speech that can lead to the sort of hateful mob activity that played out at the US Capitol last Wednesday.
The very idea of “a dichotomous sex-classification system” is dubious, the authors believe.
The income gap between white and black women, meanwhile, is much narrower than the gap between their male counterparts.
Though the population is largely white, Squamish has steadily become more diverse in recent years, and now boasts a thriving Sikh community.
In the debate about transitioning children who experience gender dysphoria, Ms. Bell’s case represents an important turning point.
The universities are also where rigorous research, science, and valuable knowledge production continues to happen, and it is the universities we will need to push back at this and self-correct.
Because of my experiences, and the newly fashionable denial of reality being promoted by progressives, I find myself sitting with the politically homeless.
How could we even conceive of something like social justice without the moral framework offered by religion?
Reasonable debate and discussion then becomes impossible as activists make unfalsifiable but furiously emotive claims about alleged threats to their safety and wellbeing amid much weeping and claims of exhaustion and mental fragility.
But painting the world as a struggle between victims and oppressors leaves little room for a careful discussion of costs and benefits, the unforeseen consequences of intervention, and potential government failure.
Beyond dismantling the ideas in White Fragility, Church leverages his background in economics to forward a more comprehensive framework around privilege.
What’s worse, anyone who points out the nonsensical and performative aspects of these presidential letters will be gaslit for his troubles—this, in a supposed citadel of logic and learning.