Gurwinder

@G_S_Bhogal

Connoisseur of antidepressants. Writer with a habit of delving into the weirder corners of psychology, philosophy and politics.

Joined November 2014

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    26 Jun 2017

    My 30,000-word Mega-Exclusive: The Story of the UK's Most Radicalised Town.

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  2. Retweeted
    Jan 28

    Capitalism is not a coherent philosophy because it is an emergent system. This is why systems that work less well are more enticing.

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  3. Feb 1

    If a news story fills you with fury, pause, take a deep breath, and reflect that the story was likely embellished specifically to fill you with fury.

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  4. Feb 1

    In 2005, 4 million people experienced a simulated Apocalypse. They reacted in bizarre ways unanticipated by disaster experts, and now the same disturbing behaviors are emerging in the real world in reaction to coronavirus. My new article.

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  5. Retweeted
    Feb 1

    Before people debate, they should both share a glass of wine, walk to a park together, and pet some dogs. This would definitely increase the charitableness of discourse.

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    "priming white college students to think about the concept of white privilege led them to express more racial resentment in subsequent surveys. Anti-racist indoctrination actually feeds racism. So tribalism deepens"

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  7. Retweeted
    Jan 31

    We tracked more than $174 million in foreign funding going to the nation's top think tanks in our new report "Foreign Funding of Think Tanks in America." It's a must read for understanding this seldom discussed avenue of foreign influence

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  8. Feb 1

    Hypothesis: when people claim they want a return to the days when their nation was “great”, what they are really yearning for is their youth.

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  9. Feb 1

    I wrote about how an accidental apocalypse in a video game 15 years ago offers unparalleled insight into how humans would react to a Wuhan coronavirus worst case scenario. It isn’t pretty.

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  10. Retweeted
    Jan 31

    Countries ranked by mentions in the since 2010. The creator was inspired by a Reddit user who "said that they never hear about ." From

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  11. Jan 27

    Nicholas Winton helped 669 Jewish children escape the Nazis. His efforts went unrecognized for 50 years; then in 1988, while sitting as a member of a TV audience, he suddenly found himself surrounded by the kids he’d rescued, now adults. It often takes the dark to see the stars.

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  12. Jan 27

    NY Times clipping from April 1933, reporting the opening of the first concentration camp with innocent mundanity. Hell often comes to us disguised in euphemism, and it is only long afterward, when it is too late, that we truly comprehend it.

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    Uranium glass Art Deco hood Ornaments, 1930s. H.Hoffmann/Lalique

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  14. Jan 25

    The NYT tried its best to make its endorsement into a spectacle, with a barrage of ads, trailers, and tweets. But its endorsement has been totally eclipsed by the casual endorsement of a single straight-talking podcaster. As sure a sign of Big Media's declining influence as any.

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  15. Retweeted
    Jan 24

    "attractive people, both men and women, are less cooperative, less generous, less trusting, and less trustworthy...attractive people expect favorable treatment from others and therefore are less inclined to cooperate and more likely to exploit others"

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  16. Jan 23

    To discover what others think, read. To discover what you think, write.

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  17. Retweeted
    Jan 17

    I wrote about why the conventional wisdom that "rape is not about sex but power" is complete nonsense, and the sooner we abandon this myth the faster we will progress in preventing and dealing with such crimes.

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  18. Jan 21

    Western feminists: “Intersectionality shows us that, if your feminism ignores the lived experience of women of color, then your feminism is white supremacy.” Also Western feminists:

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  19. Retweeted
    Jan 19

    While yall are here being horrified over me asking questions about sexual taboos, pls enjoy this graph I made out of research I gathered out of asking questions about sexual taboos

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  20. Jan 20

    Physician Samuel Cartwright was baffled that slaves tried to escape, so he hypothesized a new mental illness—“Drapetomania”—which became an actual diagnosis in the South. The prescribed remedy was toe amputation. A reminder social science is often slave to prevailing assumptions.

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  21. Jan 20

    In a conventional war each side grows ever more pragmatic as their idealism hits reality and is gradually ground down by it. In the culture war each side grows ever more ideological because the battle is virtual and the belligerents remain insulated from real-world consequences.

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