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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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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I understand why people find the rhetoric of safetyism in these cases troubling. But this is rooted in labor law -- complaints about safety are one of the few areas where workers have a little bit of leverage over bosses.
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Absolutely the case that there is tremendous over-reaction & bed-wetting (all the talk of "cultural revolution" & "twitter Robbespierres" etc.). a function of people afraid of losing their phoney baloney jobs & status that comes with it.https://twitter.com/OsitaNwanevu/status/1272636212696801288 …
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Anyways, more on this here:https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/taibbi-cotton-free-speech/ …
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Huh. It's almost like framing these incidents as issues within the "PC debates" does a disservice to understanding them...
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That's what I found so useful about this piece, which shows how, at least with regard to the Taibbi article, the cases don't really support the grand narrative: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/06/has-the-american-left-lost-its-mind …
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I say this all the time
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