Wesley Yang

To recap: ostensibly progressive white people use “microaggression” as weapon to punch down on more qualified Asian woman, ostensibly In furtherance of the interests of “underrepresented minorities” — a lot of this going on these days

Pay attention to the tone of the message baselessly accusing her of microaggression — the nested layers of sanctimony, passive aggression, condescension, and false empathy — and marvel at the ingenuity that this cohort has brought to the art of manipulation and bullyinghttps://twitter.com/katiefujihara/status/1144001204248125440 …

trying to reconstruct a cancellation in its aftermath, when all the incriminating evidence has been deleted

Certain fundamental truths are only revealed through omission

Thinking of making all direct social interaction consist of podcast appearances.

The challenge of proper online comportment is never to be more of a troll than the situation warrants

"What I'm hearing from a lot of folks is that we should renew the contract because we need to feed kids, and that's not the conversation we should be having."

WHERE'S THE DATA ON TASTE??!!

I don't live in SF or NYC but I've begun following local school board news in both places because they provide a working model of actually-existing progressivism in action -- Portlandia in power. It will only get worse until people organize to put a stop to it.

The SF Chancellor of Schools who led the push to ban 8th grade algebra then went to NYC, where he has mandated implicit bias training as part of the "decolonizing education" push that emerges from the same body of doctrine:https://twitter.com/wesyang/status/1130852783299555329 …

With the result that fewer black and Hispanics were able to take calculus in senior years -- producing the exact opposite result to those intendedhttps://twitter.com/KansasisinCalif/status/1131363632590123010 …

They will also do things like forbid anyone from taking algebra in 8th grade as an ostensible measure against "white supremacy" even though 75 percent of those who take algebra in eighth grade are Asian, as the SF board of ed did a few years back.

The authoritarian potential with which such a belief is charged is obvious; we no longer have to speculate about what those who hold these beliefs are prepared to do: at minimum they will happily force people never to state certain truths and compel them to avow falsehoods

The idea that a painting by a major artist from the 1930’s has inherent value that has to be balanced against “even one person triggered” has zero standing. Everyone’s claim to be harmed or endangered is indefeasible and overrides all other values.

The news here is not that some people in a progressive echo chamber have absurd beliefs. That has always been true. The news is that those people have institutional power and are exercising it, and they are just getting started.