Saeen

You really have to be so uncertain of your own masculinity to concern yourself with how another man carries his child. Any man who wastes time quantifying masculinity is terrified on the inside.https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1051707168490221568 …

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad should do a football podcast. It would be mega-popular and also cause John Bolton's head to explode

Ahmadinejad 2005: honestly, if you’re a grown ass man who still believes in the Holocaust ROFL Ahmadinejad 2018: that moment when high school students today have the worst stress levels ever recorded and are still called preppies, addicts, jocks, and losers. let’s raise awareness

Seriously, how did a supposedly educated, mature, tolerant western democracy such as Great Britain get itself into this utter shitshow?

Happy birthday to Michel Foucault. I like to think he up there somewhere smiling down on us, admiring how everything is still an absolute shitshow.

1) This is a thread about what it means to say something is ‘political.’ Particularly in the context of claims that certain scholarship is ideologically corrupted because of political influence. This is the basis of the epithet ‘activist disciplines,’ e.g. gender studies.

Next time someone calls me a Paki on public transport, I will pull out my 23&Me DNA test kit and proudly proclaim "Sir, I am actually from Western India"

It's hard to make a case for critical reading and thinking, or indeed for learning, at a time when the most popular exponents of "Reason" and "Science" routinely travesty disciplines they don't read or even think about, unless for the crassest polemical purposes.

Every conservative media hack who’s got some questions about Darwin and the theory of evolution became an expert on DNA sequencing and population genetics between 8 and 9 AM today. Pretty impressive!