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The Intoxicating Power of Powerlessness
In the beginning, there was oppression. And it wasn't good. Black people were enslaved and segregated and killed for being in the wrong town. Gay people…
Mar 25
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Those Who Do Not Learn From Oppression Are Doomed To Inflict It
In April 1967, James Baldwin wrote an article for the New York Times entitled, Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They're Anti-White, which he begins with…
Mar 23
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India Willoughby And The Double Standards
Jan 13th, 2024. India Willoughby, a reality TV level celebrity who happens to be a trans woman, writes a (now deleted) tweet about abducting three…
Mar 18
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Don’t Let Google Delete Your History
If you wanted to design an AI that would enrage woke and anti-woke Twitter, you couldn’t do much better than Google Gemini. Within hours of its release…
Mar 11
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The Newfound Banality Of Atrocities
If Hitler were invading Poland in 2024, it would look like this. Tucker Carlson would fly to Germany to marvel at the aroma of freshly-baked German…
Mar 4
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February 2024
A New Type Of Woman, An Old Type Of Man
I'm not sure if there's something in the water, but for the past few months, there’s been a spate of highly-intellectual men making highly questionable…
Feb 26
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Gender Is Fundamentally A Subjective Experience
There’s a significant degree to which the sex vs gender debate feels like Groundhog Day. I’ve been called the same silly names, marvelled at the same…
Feb 19
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What Does It Mean To Win An Argument?
There’s a genre of social media content that I like to call ignorance porn. The format is simple. A guy (it’s usually a guy) approaches members of the…
Feb 18
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There Is No Evidence Of Predatory Men Systematically Pretending To Be Trans Women
For the past week or so, there’s been a civil war on "TERF Twitter." Andrew Doyle, a long-time defender of women’s rights and biological reality was…
Feb 12
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We're Not Allowed To Make Mistakes, Be Vulnerable...Be Human, Period
I didn’t appreciate how important stories were until I started writing seriously. The more I thought about how to communicate well, the more I realised…
Feb 10
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People Have Redifined "Woke" So Much It's Nothing Anymore
For a long time, the word “woke” referred exclusively to being “awake to racial discrimination.” Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter, the black folk singer…
Feb 5
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The News Is Too Exciting
In his 2018 comedy special, Great America, Katt Williams offered a novel insight into why so many Americans love Donald Trump: We said Trump had a…
Feb 4
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