Sarah A. Downey @SarahADowney Twitter profile

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Sarah A. Downey

4 years

Many things described as "liberal" today mean the opposite of what was historically true and what many people expect, and this disconnect is likely contributing to some of heightened frustration we're seeing in political arguments in 2020. 1/25

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Sarah A. Downey

@SarahADowney

3 years

Just saw @joerogan ’s standup in Boston—it was awesome to be among thousands of people who understand that “offensive jokes” are part of comedy. Except the green-haired SJW in the audience who tried to heckle him and he and the entire stadium roasted her ❎

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I just finished re-reading Orwell's 1984, and if you haven't read it (or it's been a while), I can't recommend it enough. It has incredibly relevant and predictive elements that describe things we're starting to see in today's culture. Here are some examples (thread): 1/

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@SenWarren As if billionaires don't currently own *the entire media* already. You're just pissed that this particular billionaire isn't parroting your side's bullshit.

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2 years

You can show @joerogan some love on @Spotify by going to the show, tapping the three dots on the upper right, hitting rate, and leaving five stars. #ThanksJoeRogan #ThankYouSpotify #FreeSpeech

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Anyone who's obsessing over microaggressions hasn't experienced much macrodanger

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@SarahADowney

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This is how you handle cancellation attempts: refuse to play the game. @getongab

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@SarahADowney

2 years

. @nytimes runs ads asking people to "imagine Harry Potter without its creator." Sure, let's take a gifted writer's much-loved magnum opus and just forget she did the work to make it because she holds *majority and scientific* views on biological reality.

JK Rowling Fans Miffed with New York Times Ad 'Imagining Harry Potter Without its Creator' - News18

JK Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books, received support online from fans after an advert by The New York Times showed a person 'imagining Harry Potter without its creator'.

www.news18.com

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Sarah A. Downey

@SarahADowney

3 years

Being forbidden to ask a question is strong evidence that you’re asking the right question

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@Reuters Remember when the @ACLU actually stood for free speech?

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Sarah A. Downey

@SarahADowney

6 years

Congrats @trixiemattel 👑💅🐩💖 #RuPaulsDragRaceAllStars3

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@espn You talk about "inclusion," yet you're supporting blatantly unfair conditions that are ruining women's sports. That is exclusion. That destroys progress. Clearly you don't understand your audience or biological reality.

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@BreneBrown Odd that a person who has expressed herself in many formats over the years is against other people expressing themselves about topics that she apparently does not like. That’s not how free speech works.

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One of the reasons why I can’t stand this gender ideology stuff is because I can’t say for sure that I wouldn’t have been swept up in it if I were a kid growing up these days. I’ve always had masculine interests, and this ideology says if you like manly things, you must be a man.

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Sarah A. Downey

@SarahADowney

3 years

The ideologies you’re not allowed to criticize are the ones most in need of it

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Sarah A. Downey

@SarahADowney

4 years

Wake up.

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@SarahADowney

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There's more to life than being absolutely, 100% safe at all times. It's incredible how many people elevated "safety" to the highest societal value over the past few years, as if autonomy and freedom don't matter. And the only certainty in life is death. You can't outrun risk.

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3 years

🥸 Changing the meaning of common words/phrases instantly and punishing those who do not adapt 📅 The redefinition (literally) overnight of phrases like "sexual preference" (used to be fine; suddenly "bigoted" and rewritten in the dictionary) 5/

Webster's dictionary rewritten in real time after ACB hearing suggestion "sexual preference" is...

The meaning of words is changing daily depending on who is offended.

reclaimthenet.org

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3 years

Ahem.

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3 years

🥸 Newspeak, the Party language in 1984, designed to eliminate critical thinking, free will, personal identity, self-expression, and descriptions of objective reality 📅 Political correctness, resulting in dehumanizing language like “bodies with vaginas” for “women” 9/

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🥸The attack on objective reality as a way to demoralize and control people; “2+2=5” 📅 People saying 2+2=4 is some sort of “racist math” Statements that everyone knows are true (e.g., men and women are biologically different) have become “unsayable" 8/

Math professor claims equation 2+2=4 ‘reeks of white supremacist patriarchy’ - Washington Examiner

A math education professor in New York City claimed that the equation 2+2=4 “reeks of white supremacist patriarchy.”“The idea that math (or data) is culturally neutral or in any way objective is a...

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@SarahADowney

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🥸 Discouraging good relations between the sexes by only allowing unattracted people to marry; weaponizing sexual frustration into political rage 📅 Labeling stereotypically masculine behavior "toxic;" the all-time low rate of having sex, particularly in Millennials/Gen-Z 4/

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3 years

🥸 The ubiquitous presence of technology that delivers you content but mainly serves to spy on you (primarily the Telescreen but also cameras, mics, etc.) 📅 Amazon Echos, Google Homes, smart TVs, mobile apps that covertly monitor you (ahem, Facebook) 7/

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Note that I’m not saying that the dystopian, totalitarian hellscape of 1984 is exactly what’s happening today. However, the last couple of years have seen some disturbing parallels emerge. 2/

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🥸 Tactical language changes, continued 📅 Changing definitions of “racism” (to pretty much anything where there are disparate outcomes among races) and “white supremacy” (to…pretty much anything involving white people) @newdiscourses 6/

White Supremacy

This entry in 'Translations from the Wokish' is an explanation of the term "White Supremacy ."

newdiscourses.com

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@elonmusk Hi, this is the story of my life

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@SarahADowney

4 years

Watch me commit reputational suicide as I defend “transphobes” like @RuPaul & @jk_rowling , black conservatives, and most of all free speech in my manifesto (communist pun intended): “This PC witch-hunt is killing free speech, and we have to fight it:”

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2 years

Turning off the TV and moving to New Hampshire has the amazing effect of making the pandemic stop existing

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@SarahADowney

3 years

🥸 The Party changing the status quo in real time, then acting like it's always been this way ("we've always been at war with Eurasia") 📅 E.g., Biden saying in 2020 that vaccines won't be mandatory (), then making them mandatory for millions in 2021 12/

Joe Biden: Covid vaccination in US will not be mandatory

It comes as the Centers for Disease Control urges "universal mask use" anywhere outside the home.

www.bbc.com

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“We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more, we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves…And then we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure.” - @AI_Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago

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@SarahADowney

3 years

🥸 The Newspeak tactic of renaming words/phrases so that disagreement is hard (e.g., removing "bad" as a word & replacing w/ "ungood") 📅 Slogans like "black lives matter," where the broadness of the phrase makes it difficult to state any disagreement with its methods 10/

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@SarahADowney

3 years

🥸 Another example of “we’ve always been at war with Eurasia" below: 📅 E.g., the current administration expressing hesitance about *certain shots* under Trump, and now behaving as though such hesitancy is inconceivable 14/

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2 years

I don't know much about the Ukraine situation. But I do know that virtually 100% of the sources/people I don't trust, who have repeatedly lied, & who are on the opposite side of me on pretty much every issue, are all rabidly pro-Ukraine. It's a signal I have to take into account.

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3 years

🥸Tribalism: The Party vs The Brotherhood 📅Tribalism: vaccinated vs unvaccinated, Left versus Right, Republicans versus Democrats, etc. How about we focus on something we can all agree on: avoiding a future like 1984? 26/26

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🥸 Another example of “we’ve always been at war with Eurasia" below: 📅 The sudden shift in summer 2020 from “if you’re out in big groups, you’re literally killing people” to “if you’re not out protesting in big groups, you’re a bad person” 13/

Over 1,000 health experts sign letter supporting anti-Black racism protests despite COVID-19 risks...

Thousands of U.S. public health experts say it would be a mistake to shut down protests against police brutality and anti-Black racism following the murder of George Floyd in order to prevent the...

www.cbc.ca

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🥸 "Memory-holing," where the controlling government effectively erases a person, word, or event from history 📅 Government-led "disappearing" of uncooperative individuals (e.g., the CCP memory-holing actress Fan Bingbing) 11/

Fan Bingbing appears to thank China for disappearing her for 4 months: 'It has made me calm down...

The famous Chinese actress mysteriously disappeared from the public eye for four months last year when authorities investigated her for tax evasion.

www.businessinsider.com

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2 years

"The Woke do not have a popular ideology, but they're very good at creating the illusion that they have massive support. In fact, they're experts at generating the appearance of consensus [...] even when only a tiny fraction of people support their agenda." - @ConceptualJames

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@SarahADowney

3 years

🥸Doublethink, continued 📅 “My body, my choice” applying to abortion rights but not vaccine mandates; feminists who “support women’s sports” but see no problem with people who’ve lived 30+ years as biological males competing in said sports 17/

Transgender weightlifter Hubbard makes history at Olympics

Transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard finally got to compete at the Tokyo Olympics. It didn’t last long but it was significant.

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🥸Doublethink/speak (phrases that are obviously false but stated as true): “FREEDOM IS SLAVERY; IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.” 📅E.g., CNN reporting on “mostly peaceful protests” in front of burning buildings “2 weeks to slow the spread” lasting 563 days 16/

CNN ridiculed for ‘Fiery But Mostly Peaceful’ caption with video of burning building in Kenosha

CNN was ridiculed for a video caption Wednesday night that read “Fiery But Mostly Peaceful Protests After Police Shooting” during a report from national corresponde…

thehill.com

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Sarah A. Downey

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2 years

Got refunded by @gofundme and donated twice as much to the #FreedomConvoy2022 on @GiveSendGo #FreedomConvoy

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3 years

Watching the documentary Jesus Camp, made in 2006, about fundamentalist evangelical indoctrination of kids. Crazy how 15 years later, a similarly fanatical, rigid, "us vs. them," "let's prep kids to fight our ideological battles for us" energy is coming from the woke far left.

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4 years

Why many leftists are not technically liberals anymore: “Liberalism accepts criticism, even of itself, and is therefore self-correcting; [Social Justice] Theory cannot be criticized.” - @ConceptualJames & @HPluckrose , Cynical Theories

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3 years

🥸 Tiered society: the elitist Inner Party on top, then the Outer Party, then the Proles; the Inner Party have special privileges and exemptions from rules 📅 "Rules for thee but not for me;" e.g. @GavinNewsom 's French Laundry dinner; only staff wearing masks at the Met Gala 15/

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4 years

Everyone would benefit from hearing @BretWeinstein on @joerogan ’s podcast. He has a nuanced, thoughtful view of the current attack on rational, scientific, and free thinking and speech, inspired by his own cancelation at the hands of a mob. My thoughts👇🏻

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The great tragedy of adulthood is finally having money to buy video games and freedom to play them, but not having any time to do so

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@ZubyMusic Yep. My friend is halfway through nursing school. She learned today they’re going to mandate it. She’s going to put her program on hold as a result. It’s a perverse result because we need more nurses.

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2 years

Schadenfreude 🍿

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🥸Indoctrination of children so that they become spies who turn in their parents for “wrongthink” 📅The increasingly political stance of many teachers who take it upon themselves to transfer political beliefs to children rather than educate them neutrally/factually 22/

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🥸The Ministry of Truth, “which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education and the fine arts” & puts out propaganda 📅The too-close relationship between big tech, the media, and the government and their fight against “misinformation,” AKA whatever ideas they dislike 18/

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The 1984 concept will have a 🥸 emoji to represent Big Brother The current expression we’re seeing in society will have a 📅 emoji 3/

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🥸The mandate that there’s only one “correct” political party and set of opinions (The Party's) 📅Many people’s repeated insistence that they’re “on the right side of history” and the increasing lack of tolerance for any diversity of opinion 20/

Liberal professors outnumber conservatives 12 to 1: Study

Students at America's top universities are nearly 12 times more likely to have a liberal professor than a conservative one in the classroom, a new study shows.

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🥸The Thought Police who surveil the population looking for the slightest indication that a person doesn’t fully support The Party 📅 Scanning of social media, e.g., police showing up to people’s houses in Australia to question them about their posts 23/

Police in Australia turn up on doorsteps to quiz citizens over social media posts

Citizens have posted the chilling footage.

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🥸The Ministry of Truth, continued 📅The media/big tech declaring that story about Hunter Biden’s laptop wasn’t true when it was; the same declaring Russiagate was true when it wasn’t, at least in part 19/

The Indictment of Hillary Clinton's Lawyer is an Indictment of the Russiagate Wing of U.S. Media

The DOJ's new charging document, approved by Biden's Attorney General, sheds bright light onto the Russiagate fraud and how journalistic corruption was key.

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“The idea that any kind of free society can be constructed in which people will never be offended or insulted, or in which they have the right to call on the law to defend them against being offended or insulted, is absurd.” -Salman Rushdie

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🥸“Vaporization:” “Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten.” 📅Severe cancellations where one becomes an “unperson:” fired, socially isolated, etc. 21/

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5 years

Me today with @UmbrellaAcad :

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"Science and reason are not white, Western, masculine ideas, and it is racist and sexist to suggest that they are. Science and reason belong to everybody. Indeed, they would be useless if they didn't." - from Cynical Theories by @ConceptualJames & @HPluckrose

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I’m with her 👇🏻 I’m a founder and investor. My gender is possibly the least relevant or interesting thing about me. I’m just a person. Judge me by what I do, not how I look.

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🥸Controlling speech to control (and prevent) thought 📅Social media platforms silencing people (like @nickiminaj ), applying “misinformation” warnings, blocking hashtags/link-sharing around convos they don’t want to exist 24/

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@TeslaAndBitcoin Yes. They stand against everything that made society progress to this point: freedom of speech, diversity of thought, free markets, meritocracy, color-blind and diverse personal interactions, anti-authoritarianism, etc.

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I'd actually prefer that people sometimes say accidentally misogynistic things and be authentic/interesting/unfiltered rather than be entirely "unproblematic" but censor themselves - me, a woman

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@disclosetv But how do you know she's a woman?

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We’re experiencing a drought of courage right now. People are afraid to say what they really think or stand up against lunacy because they’re afraid for their jobs and reputations. That means that if you’re willing to be brave, even a tiny bit, people need you more than ever.

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🥸Using citizens to spy on each other and report “ungood behavior” 📅 E.g., the Texas 6-week abortion law encouraging citizens to report anyone in violation Encouraging citizens to turn in others who aren’t following lockdowns 25/

Police Assistance Line and Online Reporting

Report non-urgent crimes or events 24 hours a day, seven days a week. If you are in immediate danger or it's an emergency, call Triple Zero (000).

www.police.vic.gov.au

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“Oh, me? No, I’m a classic liberal, not a crazy liberal.” -overheard and relatable quote of the day

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Freedom of speech means recognizing that the world is full of information, and we very rarely know which of it is true (especially in the moment). Thus we default to letting people see it, talk about it, research it, and come to their own conclusions. Censorship is hubris.

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4 years

@BridgetPhetasy I have the rarest condition: Trump Neutral Syndrome

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“Social media turns out to be a superlative way to embed new dogmas and crush contrary opinion just when you needed to listen to them most.” - @DouglasKMurray , The Madness of Crowds

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My New Year’s resolutions are to start meditating and to get a gun

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If you haven’t read Orwell’s 1984, now is a great time. I’ll gift 20 copies—digital or physical—to the first 20 people who RT and comment something you believe but have felt censored/scared to say publicly. The RT is so others can see your comment. *US only bc Amazon restricts*

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Guys, I've officially made it: honored to be "insulted" by being included among these legends @ZubyMusic @ConceptualJames @BretWeinstein . Also to have my centrist and often left-leaning politics skewed as "alt-right" 😂

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Founders, you should NEVER pay to pitch investors. It’s insanely exploitative. I banged out this post on why in the car on the way to judge such an event where I didn’t know until today that they charged 🤬 “Founders Should Never Pay to Pitch”

Founders Should Never Pay to Pitch

I’m writing this on the way to judge a startup pitch competition, and I’m pissed. So pissed that I’m knowingly getting myself carsick…

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@goodfoodgal "I'm not going to tell you that because I don't want to compel your speech in any way. I'm confident that, using your basic senses, you will know how to refer to me. And if for some reason you get it 'wrong,' I'm not fragile or narcissistic, so I'll be fine."

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@RichardHanania OMG, he's not an academic elitist?!? He's a normal guy who's self-made?! WHAT EVER WILL WE DO?

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*shrug*

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Thomas Sowell is a national treasure to the point where Nicolas Cage has probably tried to steal him. THAT’S how good he is. And so many people don’t know his work, despite it being critical to the conversations around equality today.

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“It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.” Watch the trailer for the upcoming documentary “Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World”

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@ConceptualJames "Most people" Translation: "virtually no people, actually"

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. @Twitter didn’t like what I had to say to @gofundme for being pieces of shit 😂 #FreedomTruckers

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“To assume that sex, sexuality and skin colour mean nothing would be ridiculous. But to assume that they mean everything will be fatal.” - @DouglasKMurray , The Madness of Crowds

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"The fact that you even know the word 'trauma' is a privilege." - @YeonmiParkNK on the @MikhailaAleksis podcast describing her starvation, escaping socialist North Korea, being sold into sexual slavery, and how the West is focused on "oppression" that barely registers as hardship

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"American journalists have officially abandoned the habit of attempting any kind of 'objectivity' in reporting these stories. We are now in the enlightened social justice world of “moral clarity” and “narrative-shaping.” - @sullydish

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Incredible thread on how Critical Theory can corrode an organization (and be stopped)

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I’ve wondered if it’s worth sharing “my story.” I’m a pretty private person so it feels weird to share. But I think it’s worth it bc we all need encouragement that ordinary ppl can do something about what’s happening to our country. So, why do I talk about Woke stuff? 🧵

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The tribe of the individual is the smallest & most meaningful. "By seeking to divide humans into marginalized identity groups and their oppressors, Social Justice risks fueling our worst tendencies—our tribalism and vengefulness." - @ConceptualJames , @HPluckrose , Cynical Theories

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What are classic liberal values? They include civil rights, free speech, free markets, separation of church and state, capitalism, freedom of religion, limited government, and human rights. The US constitution was founded on liberal principles. 3/25

Liberalism - Wikipedia

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@grandoldmemes @Docbootsnbraces @elonmusk @Twitter

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Not good. “Doctors, fearing loss of their livelihoods, will need to hew closely to the government line on Covid science and policy, even if that line does not track the scientific evidence.” - @DrJBhattacharya

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I adore @ConceptualJames to the point where when my meditation app sometimes asks me to pick a person who I want to send good mental vibes to, it's often him. He says what he thinks--and what most of us are thinking--without fear and manages the angry woke hordes.

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My #WokeBreakingPoint was 3 things: 1. RuPaul's Drag Race fans turning toxic; suddenly drag queens weren't allowed to offend anyone 2. @jk_rowling called transphobic when her posts/actions simply weren't 3. @jordanbpeterson not being the alt right bigot the media claimed he was

James Lindsay, full varsity

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Keep sharing your #WokeBreakingPoint stories. Tweet them, make videos and share them, use the hashtag. Tell the world what made you realize the Woke movement isn't the good thing it portrays itself to be.

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@stillgray Two brown bears high-fiving

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The "Pronoun People" seem not to understand why others often perceive them to be irritating. Maybe 3% of the time, pronouns are useful in referring to people who are gender-nonconforming; the other 97% of the time, they signal that you're woke and/or caved to woke pressures.

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A friend asked me what high schools should teach to avoid or undo the current crisis in which we find ourselves. I think the ideal set of classes would look something like this: 🧵 1/

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@JustinTrudeau

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@SarahADowney

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"There is no contradiction in holding individuals in contempt for their repugnant views and simultaneously defending their right to express them." - @andrewdoyle_com , Free Speech and Why It Matters

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. @POTUS 's continual refusal to acknowledge that @Tesla is the leading electric car company is just bizarre, and @elonmusk refuses to let him forget it

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@SarahADowney

3 years

When someone feels offended, no one's allowed to question it. But someone feels like they *didn't* offend, today's culture still demands they apologize. Both of these are feelings, so where's the logic in always accommodating those of the weakest/most easily offended people?

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@scrowder @elonmusk "If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death." -1984

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Sarah A. Downey

@SarahADowney

4 years

For easier reading, I compiled this list with a few more details in post format in "You keep using the word 'liberal:' it doesn't mean what you think it means," on @Medium ⬇️ 25/25

You keep using the word “liberal:” it doesn’t mean what you think it means

If you think “liberal” and all the variations of “left” mean the same thing, let this be your wakeup call.

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Sarah A. Downey

@SarahADowney

3 years

In 1949, Orwell coined the term "groupthink" in his book 1984. In 1972, psychologist Irving Janis popularized it to describe the phenomenon of a group of people reaching consensus without assessing ideas critically. In 2020, groupthink has become the norm in mainstream media.

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Sarah A. Downey

@SarahADowney

1 year

@jordanbpeterson @CPOntario This list of demands is so absurdly patronizing and condescending of @CPOntario to ask for

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Sarah A. Downey

@SarahADowney

3 years

@united Yeah, I'm far more concerned with merit when it comes to one's ability to pilot a plane safely than with how that person looks. And you should be too, instead of pandering to wokeism.

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