James Lindsay

Right on time, I'm white-peopling.

I ask back, can we not act like critical race theory isn't causing more problems than it's solving?

The proof that sports teams are a kind of slavery, in which the slaves get paid 6-8-figure salaries, is what? Discourses and socialization (by which one means being expected to maintain oneself in accordance with being a top athlete while being paid extremely handsomely for that)

Sports team management is connected to slavery because it has a corporate structure is easily one of the most quintessentially critical race theory things someone could say.

"And white people, right on time, started white-peopling."https://twitter.com/marclamonthill/status/1143977127953518592 …

I've said it before, and I'll say it again, most of the crackerjacks Theory we see from grievance studies is really insightful if applied to ideologies (including their own) instead of applying it to identities (by Theorizing those have some kind of ideology built into them).

Hmm, is this standpoint theory? https://twitter.com/Yascha_Mounk/status/1142778764839063552 …

God, don't I know it. Do you have any idea how much energy I put into grappling with this? No, of course you don't.https://twitter.com/cmacd85/status/1144294015979982848 …

FYI: If you share this thread specifically to prove "the other side" is the problem, you're the problem.https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1144290226141106177 …

This thread looks pretty good in this format, but you could just real the original website I worked from in this case. LOL.https://twitter.com/threadreaderapp/status/1144292907752574976 …

I actually struggle a lot with this "none of it matters" point because for almost any given individual on almost any given issue, it doesn't matter--it's not really relevant, and we're not qualified or positioned to do anything about it. On the other hand, aggregation is powerful

I wouldn't say "none of it really matters," as much of it matters a great deal, but I would say that the day-to-day minutiae of it matters far, far less to any typical person than many people perceive, especially the news/politics junkies.https://twitter.com/mellisawaltzer/status/1144291786115801088 …

If your rationalization for binge-consuming and "debating" politics is that you think citizens of democratic systems have an obligation to be politically informed, this research points out that you very well may be deluding yourself. Your high engagement makes you less informed.

This approach is bad for business for pundits and media purveyors, who may therefore want to keep you engaged (and skewed and enraged), but it seems to be good for individuals as well as for communities and society. I cannot urge it strongly enough.

Many have pointed out that the problem is how click/ratings-driven media is structured economically and how social media is optimized for engagement, concluding these problems are intractable. Become aware of them and participate less.

As I've said before, and I will say again now, spending more than ten minutes a day on average on politics is very unlikely to be mentally or emotionally healthy, and it seems not to be prosocial. In fact, it's polarizing and seems to skew our perceptions of reality.