Any job you could lose over a tweet like this is probably not worth having. I’d expect more critical context in an essay-length review of the paper but this is fine for a tweet.https://twitter.com/davidshor/status/1265998625836019712 …
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It got a lot worse for Shor, btw, beyond just losing his job. But I continue to maintain: anything you lose over something like this was never worth having in the first place.https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/white-fragility-racism-racism-progressive-progressphiles-david-shor.html …
Funny thing, many people I've been saying this to in private were resisting the conclusion in 2017-18 but now agree with me. They held out hope for a long time that we could save good institutions. I have been arguing that the vulnerability is a sign of non-fixability.
A thing that's changed since 2017 is that a gap has opened up between "criticizing Woke" and "automatically presumed to be something worse." It is now becoming possible to criticize Woke publicly without being put into one a box like "classical liberal" or "crypto fascist" Yay
This frustration is understandable (though I think refuge in mockery is an admission of failure of sorts). When you must speak, but you also must only speak in approved extraordinarily skilled ways, the demand is that you learn an esoteric language.https://twitter.com/stedmanhalliday/status/1276563289900584960 …
Woke, like constitutional originalism, is essentially a scholastic religion rooted in the idea that some must become saints in order that others may be free. That, coupled with recognition that the average person is not in fact capable of saintliness, leads to textual fetishism.
To connect the dots explicitly, textualism is the Straussian belief that it is possible to be a "textbook saint" by studying some sainted text or set of discourses so closely that you can become capable of thinking exclusively in its language. You program yourself into sainthood.
Recent refrain is always "but what if the person looses their FAANG job over sharing some SSC stuff???" The answer is the job sucked, find a new one. Especially for white collar and research, its a big world.
I think that gives this whole moment in history too much credit. If it's mostly just Marxists doing what they've always done for the reasons they always do it, there can't be that many of them.
Not just Marxists... it's a structural vulnerability in a social media age that's open to anyone who learns to exploit it... they're just the first who've learned to use it well.
My takeaway from this / Appropriating evidence is a mechanism that detains attention.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1064263511671365632?s=20 …
Aware that I'm trying to detain your attention right now by appropriating your own speech.
Listen to me dammit ! 
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