Good counter-counter narrative Narrative: Kardashians are vapid, rentier symptoms of all that’s wrong Counter-narrative: They’re actually admirable geniuses; Kim with her billion-user app, Kylie Jenner with her billion-dollar cosmetics biz Counter-counter-narrative: See belowhttps://twitter.com/pwang/status/1136641496608911360 …
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@pwang here and lean towards his CCN. They’re brown, female, LA versions of SV techbro scenester crowd. Their obvious competence at playing the signal —> wealth game well, with the good cards they’ve been dealt, should not obscure the crappiness of the gameShow this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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counter-counter-counter narrative: Kim Kardashian is using her fame to promote criminal justice reform and is unusually effective at it compared to most "celebrity-activists". She's earned my respect for that.
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Fair enough. She gets credit for that. Whether it is enough to offset the complicity of the clan in terrible games through their other activities is a question mark.
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Only completely uncritical worship of Mammon can find anything remotely culturally redeemable about the Kardashians. (The exception is Kanye, who arguably has musical talent — but he is also an avatar of the uncritical worship of Mammon.)
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Paris Hilton is a failed Kardashian. An almost Twitsatz Haderach
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It's "Toxic" by definition of the old rules of the game, but is there anything actually toxic about it? I strongly dislike them as well, but want to make sure we have the intellectual high ground here.
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