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(Quillette is like Amway, for intellectuals. I always feel like some true believer is trying to rope me into their pyramid—or sell me a product that falls far short of the hyperbole.)
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Claire is like a TJ Maxx Ayn Rand.
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Thanks for correcting her. People actually read those kinds of threads and accept the unchallenged info. She's a cottage cheese Dinesh D'Souza. Her anti-beliefs create huge errors in her thinking.
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I spent a few hours last year reading years of her tweets, just to see where she was coming from. She has a theme. It's not quite racism. It's like an infantile complicity that can't handle out-group agency.
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If you go back & read a few years of tweets from Claire Lehmann & *some* of her cohort, it's always always always there. A pattern never quite explicit but never absent: racism denialism, critique of amelioration, ahistoricity/glossing, IQ fabulism, contempt, etc.
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