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The anti-imperialist Left’s mistake has not always been its opposition to Western policies, it has been its reflexive idealisation of the West’s opponents.
Having lived and worked in rural East Africa for 16 years, I find that Read’s stories ring true, whereas Hemingway’s ring hollow.
Some of the greatest lessons I learned in actual social justice came from my parents, even if they didn’t use the term “social justice.”
We would not tolerate a phone company cutting off somebody’s service because of the words they used in their conversations.
Stereotyping begets many social problems, but you seldom solve a problem by mischaracterizing its nature.
To be a black Democratic candidate in 2018 is to be seen, not just as a politician, but as the next step in the decades-long march towards racial equality.
In the prevailing academic climate, those who offer dissenting analyses of the problems afflicting black communities, or who support unpopular social policies designed to alleviate those problems, risk censorship, ostracization, and even the loss of employment.
The very writers, publishers, poets, musicians, comedians, media producers and artists who once worried about being muzzled by the government are now self-organizing on social media (Twitter, especially) to censor each other.
Yale cannot help but indulge the claims—no matter how overblown—levelled against it by activists.
If a formally refereed and published paper can later be erased from the scientific record and replaced by a completely different article, without any discussion with the author or any announcement in the journal, what will this mean for the future of electronic journals?
Sweden used to be at the top of many international rankings of equality and affluence, but has slipped in recent years.
So far, Amerige has not been fired from Facebook as James Damore was fired from Google a year ago.
Students now work in tandem with administrators to make their campus ‘safe’ from threatening ideas.
The day is fast approaching when mainstream white society will react to accusations of racism with yawns and shrugs. What will identitarians do then?
Pursuing unorthodox scholarship can lead to frustration and failure, to exciting breakthroughs, or anything in between.