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Absurd to get all panicked about this. 1) Social media didn't exist in 1950. "Speak your mind" meant something very different then.https://twitter.com/Yascha_Mounk/status/1289333770370203650 2) The article is clear that people

The New York Times ran a full-page ad denouncing the decision. Researchers later discovered that editors had given away the space *for free.* Meanwhile, when linguists put together an open

I think this is why the "cancel culture" moral panic gets under my skin so much. *So* many of Americans' false understandings of people and events come from the fact

Not sure how I feel about the latest example of "cancel culture." A children's author added "I stand with JK Rowling" to her twitter bio and her publisher dropped her.https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8490821/

It is still not clear to me what these people actually want? This entire letter just sounds like prominent figures whining about people criticizing them online.https://twitter.com/MattWelch/status/1280489578336567297 Like, what is their

Bret Stephens is the perfect example of how bankrupt the ideology of "challenging readers" has become in establishment media. (1/?) Nothing Stephens writes is actually challenging to the NYT's liberal

Every single survey on human trafficking is designed to produce false positives. One-third of the trafficking victims identified by the ILO estimate are women and men in arranged marriages. https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/@ed_norm/@ipec/docu