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A Letter on Justice and Open Debate

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  • jon-nycJ Online
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    jon-nyc
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    #53

    Seek out McWhorter’s last visit to Glen Loury’s podcast, maybe a week ago. (He’s on regularly)

    How did Yglesias react to him?

    You were warned.

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    • HoraceH Online
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      Horace
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      #54

      They never disagreed much. Yglesias is attempting to publicly embrace being not-totally-woke. He commented a couple times in the interview that the stuff they were discussing would seem heretical to many of his friends. I think like a lot of people on the left who are capable of doing some thinking, he thinks the direction is good and justifies a ton of disingenuousness in messaging to that end. But he's smart enough to know how absurd some of it is getting and has chosen not to consider all the opposition evil.

      McWhorter enjoys a privilege of being taken seriously thinking what he thinks and saying what he says. Identical thoughts and words from a person with the wrong skin color would not make it onto Yglesias' show. (Of course.)

      Education is extremely important.

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      • jon-nycJ Online
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        jon-nyc
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        #55

        What’s the name of the podcast?

        You were warned.

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        • HoraceH Online
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          Horace
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          #56

          It's a Vox podcast called The Weeds.

          Education is extremely important.

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          • jon-nycJ Online
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            jon-nyc
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            #57

            Thanks

            You were warned.

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            • jon-nycJ Online
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              jon-nyc
              wrote on last edited by
              #58

              Listened to the first 50m or so this morning on my walk.

              My first thought was Yglesias really has a voice for blogging....

              Also McWhorter is good at changing his tone and style for his audience. He comes off differently with Loury.

              You were warned.

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              • jon-nycJ Online
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                jon-nyc
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                #59

                And now Yglesias is out.

                You were warned.

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                  Aqua Letifer
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                  #60

                  Not too surprising. I wonder to what extent the left will separate itself from the far left in the coming months and year.

                  Please love yourself.

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                    Don't know if it can.

                    “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                    Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                      What do you think the odds are that he’s going to work in the Biden administration?

                      "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                      The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                      • HoraceH Online
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                        Horace
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                        I suspect he ran face-first into Ezra's idealogue side.

                        Education is extremely important.

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                        • Aqua LetiferA Aqua Letifer

                          Not too surprising. I wonder to what extent the left will separate itself from the far left in the coming months and year.

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                          @Aqua-Letifer said in A Letter on Justice and Open Debate:

                          Not too surprising. I wonder to what extent the left will separate itself from the far left in the coming months and year.

                          We might find this is what Biden really meant when he talked about a divided country.

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