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NYT: “Uber Is Mostly White and Mostly Male, Report Says”
“Uber Is Mostly White and Mostly Male, Report Says” reads the link from the NYT main page. On Tuesday, Uber continued its mea culpa tour by releasing its first report detailing the composition of its work force, which depicted an … Continue reading
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Johnny Rotten on The Donald
Yes, Johnny Rotten, the man who sang about “Anarchy in the U.K.” is a supporter of Brexit (“The working class have spoken and I stand with them!”) and Donald Trump. The Alt-Right is the new counter-culture.
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Douthat: “White Pride and Prejudice”
In “White Pride and Prejudice”, Ross Douthat rhetorically posits the Internet itself as his interlocutor: “Why my dear, you must know, it seems that certain young men of dubious character, not content with seizing ‘The Matrix’ and Taylor Swift and … Continue reading
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Soros in the NYT! Gasp!
The NYT has given George Soros column space (what a surprise), to which he pens “When Hate Surges”: But targeting immigrants and minorities with false and prejudicial rhetoric, as Mr. Trump has done during the campaign and in the early … Continue reading
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Middlebury Mob Mayhem & Two Big Buts
Steve Sailer noted how the Middlebury Mob Mayhem incident didn’t make it into the NYT’s “This Week in Hate” column, just like the Berkelely Milo violence wasn’t (nor any other violence against conservative speakers). I guess that’s because the weekly … Continue reading
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CJR on Breitbart-Led Media Ecosystem
From the astonishingly leftwing Columbia Journalism Review is “Study: Breitbart-led right-wing media ecosystem altered broader media agenda”, by Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris, Hal Roberts, and Ethan Zuckerman (ahem, ahem, ahem, and ahem): THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION SHOOK the foundations of … Continue reading
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The Great Meme War
Writing in Politico, leftist Ben Schreckinger has a long profile piece titled “World War Meme”. Schreckinger profiles various “veterans of the Great Meme War”: That’s the grandiose name given—only half ironically—to the decentralized efforts of a swarm of anonymous internet … Continue reading
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AP-NORC Poll: Political Divide Over American Identity
From AP: A new survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds Republicans are far more likely to cite a culture grounded in Christian beliefs and the traditions of early European immigrants as essential to U.S. identity. … Continue reading
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RIP: Robert Osborne
Film historian and Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne has passed at the age of 84. TCM is one of the best channels to just sit in front of for hours on end. Over the years, the brief prologues and … Continue reading
3/6/17: JAPCAT
We have two JAPCAT entries today. In The American Scholar, William Deresiewicz aims at political correctness on university campuses (“On Political Correctness”): Let us eschew the familiar examples: the disinvited speakers, the Title IX tribunals, the safe zones stocked with … Continue reading
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