A noteworthy find I hadn't seen before by Tyler Austin Harper

The racist willingness to discriminate against Asian Americans, and the dearth of concern about that (or even the support for it!) among some people who describe themselves as 'anti racist,' continues to astound.

Among all the other problems with DEI statements, notice that the science faculty on the hiring committee that will evaluate these statements *have no expertise in DEI* (unlike teaching and research at their institution, which they are better qualified to evaluate)

The contempt for California voters, who've twice declared in ballot initiatives that they don't want race considered in college admissions, is strong.

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Texas builds.

California doesn't.

Grand Central Station, but without Midtown Manhattan, the 4,5,6, Metro North, or northeast corridor, with Portland farther from SF than Richmond is from Boston.

If the US is going to become more strategically 'selfish' about protecting key industries from Chinese/foreign competition, wouldn't it be ideologically consistent to aggressively revamp high-skill immigration policy so we can hoard all the world's geniuses who want to work here?

I am very curious to see the complaint and how this plays out in the courts.

I wrote this in 2015

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When I was a leftist, my thinking on capitalism was:

• poverty exists because capitalism causes income inequality
• I have to work harder for my goals than others because the income inequality capitalism creates sets you up for unfairness at birth
• Wage disparities between

This Craigslist ad for a 1999 Toyota Corolla is a masterclass in copywriting.

DEI statements for college faculty too easily function as political litmus tests.

Some relevant data points (quotes from The Washington Post editorial):

- '90 percent of self-described conservative faculty view the statements as political litmus tests, but so do more than 50

As I pointed out yesterday, the Jacobin impression of how the mass of Americans feel about their jobs is utterly disconnected from reality x.com/conor64/status…
The idea that the working class wants a committee of Jacobin socialists to assign them a job is bonkers.

It is confusing to watch the same person assert that Israel's war in Gaza is a genocide *and* that Iran –– a sponsor of the 10/7 terrorist attack that triggered Israel's war in Gaza –– is contributing to Palestinian 'liberation.'

Conor Friedersdorf BTW, gotta love that moment when they force you to work on whatever they dictate you must do and work is then 'transformed from something merely necessary into something that is an expression of human solidarity.'

Jacobin's understanding of what people who live under capitalism think about their jobs versus actual public opinion data from Gallup:

If only someone could have predicted this
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Translation: you'll be forced to do a job someone else chooses for you.

I think Glenn is correct here, but also, anyone who has a problem with this, but has spent years insisting free speech on campus wasn't threatened, did so in the face of myriad examples just as egregious.

In 2016 I provided lots of specific examples: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Los Angeles wrote an “emergency declaration” to address the housing crisis that somewhat accidentally *actually unleashed a torrent of applications to build* and now the city is furiously backpedaling.

Andrew Sullivan vindicated: rand.org/pubs/research_…