Woozy posted:

Devotees of the American Politics Show will recall that Coates rose to prominence at The Atlantic by being a huge crybaby about the Sanders campaign and Just Asking Questions about why Bernie wouldn't support reparations. Sometime later he read Bloodlands and concluded that maybe the Nazis weren't the only bad guys but this is just a coincidence.

Woozy posted:

Devotees of the American Politics Show will recall that Coates rose to prominence at The Atlantic by being a huge crybaby about the Sanders campaign and Just Asking Questions about why Bernie wouldn't support reparations. Sometime later he read Bloodlands and concluded that maybe the Nazis weren't the only bad guys but this is just a coincidence.

KomradeX posted:

Not sure if this is a good article from the Atlantic or barley concealed right wing bullshit from them

In which The Atlantic asks of PC Culture has gone too far Stu

Woozy posted:

Okay but lots of people write and have written for The Atlantic and there's no shortage of bloggers anywhere. Coates' coronation as a public intellectual (the sign of any great charlatan) came in 2015 per Google Trends and besides that it's the only piece he's written I've ever seen anyone talk about outside of the usual circles.

This brings up an interesting question, though: when, precisely, is someone officially canonized as a Prominent Liberal Intellectual? Is it when they participate in the public flogging of a dissident colleague? Is it when they repackage Nazi propaganda for the consumption of Atlantic readership? Or does it merely require that someone a higher rung up the ladder declare you as such? Anything one of these things happening is a pretty good predictor of all three when it comes to the great pack of fraudulent twits that come to be American opinion-makers, but at what stage in particular does the transformation occur?

Woozy posted:

Okay but lots of people write and have written for The Atlantic and there's no shortage of bloggers anywhere. Coates' coronation as a public intellectual (the sign of any great charlatan) came in 2015 per Google Trends and besides that it's the only piece he's written I've ever seen anyone talk about outside of the usual circles.

This brings up an interesting question, though: when, precisely, is someone officially canonized as a Prominent Liberal Intellectual? Is it when they participate in the public flogging of a dissident colleague? Is it when they repackage Nazi propaganda for the consumption of Atlantic readership? Or does it merely require that someone a higher rung up the ladder declare you as such? Anything one of these things happening is a pretty good predictor of all three when it comes to the great pack of fraudulent twits that come to be American opinion-makers, but at what stage in particular does the transformation occur?

KomradeX posted:

Not sure if this is a good article from the Atlantic or barley concealed right wing bullshit from them

In which The Atlantic asks of PC Culture has gone too far Stu

quote:

“The movement cannot continue to manufacture an enemy that has agreed to review the syllabus [and] bended over backwards on all accounts to accommodate the free speech of the protesters,” wrote Misha, another freshman, in the first op-ed critical of RAR published in the paper. Yet the more accommodation that’s been made, the more disruptive the protests have become—and the more heightened the rhetoric. “Black Lives Matter” was the common chant at last year’s boycott. This year’s? “No cops, no KKK, no racist USA.” RAR increasingly claims those cops will be unleashed on them—or, in their words, Hum professors are “entertaining threatening violence on our bodies.”

Elephant Ambush posted:

LMAO Are you still salty about the primaries you giant idiot pissbaby tankie?

Elephant Ambush posted:

LMAO Are you still salty about the primaries you giant idiot pissbaby tankie?

LGD posted:

probably a good article, it's been a topic of occasional interest for the Atlantic's writers over the last several years, and it shouldn't shock anyone that a student-led organization would actually turn out to be a toxic shitpit mostly interested in performative wokeness and the petty power offered by leftist forms of tribal status-seeking and gatekeeping

while there are doubtless valid points to be made about the cultural background of the authors covered, you should also probably be able to see why students who were genuinely interested in the whole Western classics thing (and holy poo poo if you aren't why are you paying to go to Reed?) would be upset at having their classes disrupted by people who (apparently) equate focused discussion of Greek philosophy with the black underclass getting murdered by cops

(I'm admittedly biased since I actually audited Hum 101 at Reed back in the early 2000's to finish out the rest of my freshman year humanities after I decided my original liberal arts school was a bad fit- would have taken it for credit but lol it was like $6k vs. $200 or something ridiculous)

Woozy posted:

The Atlantic was ground zero for the deployment of social justice rhetoric in defense of neoliberalism and austerity

Karl Barks posted:

coates was a really strong supporter of bernie. he was right about reparations, and his criticism came out of a place of respect

The Kingfish posted:

If TNC really supported Sanders then he is a great example of the type of smart guy who doesn't understand how politics work.

Elephant Ambush posted:

LMAO Are you still salty about the primaries you giant idiot pissbaby tankie?

KomradeX posted:

Not sure if this is a good article from the Atlantic or barley concealed right wing bullshit from them

In which The Atlantic asks of PC Culture has gone too far Stu

quote:

When someone asked for specifics, a RAR leader replied, “Asking for people to display their trauma so that you feel sufficiently satisfied is a form of violence.”

But another RAR member did offer a specific via Facebook: “The​ ​appropriation​ ​of​ ​AAVE [African American Vernacular English]​ ​on​ ​her​ ​shirt​ ​during​ ​lecture:​ ​‘Poetry​ ​is​ ​lit’ ​is​ ​a​ ​form​ ​of​ ​anti-blackness.”

get that OUT of my face posted:

buddy, you can't just leave a whopper like that and expect us to interpret what you mean

rudatron posted:

His articles were used to bash Sanders in a way they weren't used to attack Clinton

Which is part of reason he got a paycheck from the Atlantic at all, I'll wager.

Maybe he didn't see it that way, but that's the way the cookie crumbles.

Shear Modulus posted:

sounds to me like the lesson is that private schools are bad

BENGHAZI 2 posted:

It used to be you and your whole family could link arms and jump into a wheat thresher and all your limbs would go flying off and now the queers are getting rid of Christmas

rudatron posted:

If half of the stuff in the Atlantic article is true, then its still a condemnation.

I think it's fair to say there's a problem with parasitic performative wokeness.

rudatron posted:

If half of the stuff in the Atlantic article is true, then its still a condemnation.

I think it's fair to say there's a problem with parasitic performative wokeness.

Lumpy the Cook posted:

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Dreddout posted:

The funniest thing is that they sell the same jacket without the scribbles for 175$

So presumably, this is for someone who is too lazy to write on their jacket and is willing to pay a 200$ premium for someone else to do it

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

it's not about expressing yourself, it's about the brand.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

it's not about expressing yourself, it's about the brand.

Dreddout posted:

Get this,

It's the same brand wether you pay 175 or 275 for it!

Lumpy the Cook posted:

taqueso posted:

They also sell the same jacket for < $50 at your local army surplus store, and you can steal some sharpies from your high school.