The reporting in this story about Shor is important and what happened to him is a travesty. Almost all narratives about PC are hysterical centrist bed-wetting, but in this case there is a genuine wrong.https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/1271076001615929346 …
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I'll add that one problem with PC debates is that the people who write about them (on both sides) want to construct grand narratives, when in fact to do justice you have to get into the weeds of each case (which is time-consuming and tedious).
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Heterogenous stories get lumped together, which doesn't really help understanding. In the current spate of stories, Shor, Fang & the James Bennet defenestration are very different stories that are being treated as if they were the same.
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With Shor, a clear travesty. With Fung you have an excellent reporter who has a tendency to sometimes be shallow & knee-jerk on twitter about sensitive topics. The actual end result (an apology & promise to do better) doesn't seem out of line.
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I agree with Yglesias here that the use of HR is less than ideal. In general the co-option of anti-racism by HR & management consultants (i.e. "White Fragility") is deeply problematic. But it's a consequence of worker weakness more than anything. https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1272634054479839234 …
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2015-2020 "it's just happening on campus" 2020- "it's just about at-will employment"
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2025-2030: “It’s not a concentration camp for dissidents, it’s just a Knowledge Negation Empiricism Elimination Location (or KNEEL)." 2030-2035: “It’s not a death camp, it’s just a venue for Diversity-Inclusion-Equity Youth Training (a.k.a., DIE YT).”
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2035-2040: "It's not a famine, it's just one of those Inconveniences we've been having since all the Straight White Males disappeared. As soon as we hunt down the SWMs and put them back to work, we'll have the electricity back on and the toilets flushing again."
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I'm sure Stephen Pinker will explain with plenty of stats and graphs how everything is better than ever (if he doesn't get purged before then)
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