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Reaction to Jonathan Chait’s Essay on Political Correctness Instantly Proves Chait’s Thesis Correct | Washington Free Beacon
I was really looking forward to Jonathan Chait’s essay in New York magazine about the inanity of social media outrage culture and the danger of letting angry name-calling and base grievance-mongering settle debates. And Chait, that cuddly old reactionary, hit it out of the park. The reaction on social media was, how do you say, “not at all…
A Note to Chait: Dissent Isn’t Suffocation, Internet Isn’t Real Life
Jonathan Chait’s new feature forNew York Magazine is called “Trigger Warning,” and it’s got a big old floppy dek: Can a white male liberal critique the country’s current political-correctness craze (which, by the way, hurts liberals most)? We’re sure you’ll let us know. The answer to this exquisitely slippery question is, of course: yes! A…
When “political correctness” hurts: Understanding the micro-aggressions that trigger Jonathan Chait – Salon.com
When New York magazine teased Jonathan Chait’s coming opus on race, politics and free speech last Friday – “Can a white liberal man critique a culture of political correctness?” — the hook alone was enough to send his Twitter haters into multiple ragegasms. I thought folks should save themselves some grief and at least wait…
Not a Very P.C. Thing to Say — NYMag
<span><span><span class=”message_content”>How the language police are perverting liberalism. </span></span></span> How the language police are perverting liberalism. Around 2 a.m. on December 12, four students approached the apartment of Omar Mahmood, a Muslim student at the University of Michigan, who had recently published a column in a school newspaper about his perspective as a…
When I found out my Invisible Boyfriend was an actual boy, we just had to stop | Jess Zimmerman | Comment is free | The Guardian
If there’s something worse than discovering your ‘boyfriend’ is a bot, it’s discovering that your bot-friend is a human. Photograph: Tara Moore/Getty Images In the middle of composing my second text message to my boyfriend, it dawned on me that he probably wasn’t a robot. I was testing with Invisible Boyfriend, a new app that…
Warren Ellis and the Fantastic Four | Sequart Organization
Warren Ellis hates super-heroes. At least, that’s what people say. He certainly has played his part, through a few off-the-cuff remarks, in this misconception. But it would be more accurate to say that Ellis hates how much the super-hero genre dominates comics. Ellis also didn’t grow up immersed in super-heroes, the way many comics creators…
FOIA Documents Reveal Massive DEA Program to Record American’s Whereabouts With License Plate Readers | American Civil Liberties Union
By Bennett Stein, ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project & Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project at 7:15pm The Drug Enforcement Administration has initiated a massive national license plate reader program with major civil liberties concerns but disclosed very few details, according to new DEA documents obtained by the ACLU…
Watch the first teaser trailer for The Fantastic Four | The Verge
The first teaser trailer for Chronicle director Josh Trank’s take on The Fantastic Four is finally out, and it looks amazing. Here we see the cast show off their new powers, and it already looks significantly better than Fox’s first outing with the property a decade ago. via Watch the first teaser trailer for The Fantastic…
F*ck the ad analytics industry
Let me be 100% clear on this: F*ck the ad analytics industry. These companies are nothing but bunch of exploitive bullshit operations with malfunctioning code and an overly large stake in the only operation (IAB) that polices them, to let them get away with it. Why publishers ever agreed to a measure like viewability that,…