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Brettbaker's avatar

He is perhaps best described by Foghorn Leghorn: "That boy ain't right".

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noochness's avatar

Please, a book of your collected book reviews!

BTW, what does that escalator cartoon mean? That no white kid was ever humiliated by a harried white woman? D--n, I hated my female elementary school teachers!

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Richard North's avatar

Steve, you could be a megastar if you'd just stop noticing!

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Almost Missouri's avatar

He has wrong skin color.

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SJ's avatar

Nikole Hannah-Jones also came out of semi-retirement to register her dislike of the dead white man. (She’s on payroll at the New York Times but her previous piece was in December 2024, “Frankie Beverly created America’s No. 1 cookout song”.)

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m droy's avatar

Kirk was just victim 500,001.

Why does his death matter to anyone?

Anyone noticed that western media is covering up a genocide with full US involvement?

Biggest undiscussed mass psychological phenomen since the time of slavery and indian killing..

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Richard Bicker's avatar

Genocide? The Africa thing...? Or the Asian thing...?

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barnabus's avatar

The Eastern European thing. 1.7M missing male Ukrainians.

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Richard Bicker's avatar

Ah, yes. Very dispiriting.

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SJ's avatar

Coates to Ezra Klein on commenting on a political assassination at a university campus:

“Was silence not an option?”

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Dave's avatar

I hope Ezra leaned a lesson from that interaction with a belligerent, antisocial, and confused black man - start lifting and get that concealed carry license.

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ScarletNumber's avatar

I once had a college professor who had his head so far up his ass that he claimed unironically that by definition only liberals could be intellectuals by definition. He was also a fan of defining liberal positions as "love" and conservative positions as "hate". Making matters worse is that I took his class in the summer of 2020 when a good portion of the middle had lost their minds so he had no one to push back on him.

He is tenured so I knew it would have no practical effect on him, but on my course evaluation I referred to him as a "self-hating white person". I found out through back channels that he was pissed

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Ralph L's avatar

I'd like to know what kind of mood Steve was in when he wrote that free Taki mag piece on Coates.

No consistent income but still summoned the IRS? I hope someone competent and trustworthy has managed his money since he hit it big. Maybe he did get beat up enough early on to develop CTE.

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FPD72's avatar
12mEdited

You might want to ease up on Mr. Beck. You were writing three years before the George Floyd induced Summer of Love but Critical Theory (of which Critical Race Theory is a subset) was all the rage that year and in the years that followed. And whence Critical Theory? The Frankfort School.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/critical-theory/

It takes social theories (Critical Theory, Marxism, Structuralism, Post-Modernism, etc.) decades to work their way through our institutions. That doesn’t mean that their origin/source doesn’t matter or has diminished influence. Look at how Free Traders keep referring to Adam Smith’s 1776 The Wealth of Nations (even though Smith never imagined that wage arbitrage would be the most important competitive advantage).

There are movement cells that meet all over the world on a weekly basis who derive their understanding of the world from events that occurred almost two thousand years ago. The difference between the effects of that movement and Coates’ social theories is that members of each generation must embrace and apply those events to themselves; they are not a miasma floating in the air, such as structural racism, to keep Coates and those of his ilk down.

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