I think that’s why Amazon’s trying to avoid stepping into this, as they don’t want to see their having a listing related to something become a sort of endorsement, so that they’re suddenly expected to answer for having Boy in the Striped Pajamas for its take on history, Dr. Oz books for pseudomedicine, Dick and Jane…

My wife (early ed teacher with experience in low-income middle schools) and I are a few episodes in. Does the Jenine character improve at all? We, particularly my wife, find her annoying and unprofessional (in ways that aren’t entertaining). It’s also a little weird how she’s supposed to be this young reformnik who…

If you take credit, you take blame. Anyway, Georgia is 32% black according to google, but that difference is enough to plausibly be within other demographic factors (for example, I didn’t see if that was population over 18).

I was listening to some coverage of the issue yesterday, and there was some speculation that having both abortion and candidates on ballots would allow voters to have their abortion and eat Republicans too. Additionally, for all the crazies dominating discourse, both parties have the polling to know that the median…

I’ve never found the “it’s been worse” argument on crime very convincing, particularly because the ‘90's were the peak of an abnormally high level. It’s all a big like saying 2019 wasn’t as bad as the black death, or literally saying that antisemitism being high isn’t a problem because we’re not being hunted in the…

Is there a sentence in her rant that doesn’t merit a “[doubt]” after it?

Hell, it’s easy to just not hate Jews loudly enough to get in trouble. It takes real effort to get in trouble for antisemitism like Irving and Kanye did.

It’s quite something that this article is totally based on the assumption that the parent is insane about the teacher’s social techniques rather than how to bring up actual concerns like the teacher “teaching” reading via the three-cueing system.

We’re probably going to see a lot of these in the next few days considering how it’s coming out that Kanye has been saying this stuff in person for a long time so those who have been around him can deny knowing about it and covering it up.

There’s probably a lot of leeway for using it for any sort of city law enforcement, which would include the health department, but it’s very strange that the operator didn’t either forward the call or give instructions to call it.

Wait, doesn’t Adidas still own all the designs? Why aren’t they holding out for a run of Adzy sneakers?

At the same time, you should try not to buy into gossip that he brought in issues that have been in the company for years or has changed things that are still there if you check.

Sounds a bit more like 4chan or another of its ilk, particularly given that Twitter was never as omnipresent as the media pretended, basically the modern version of the power bars/clubs reporters used to hang out in waiting for gossip but with a illusion  that it was mass sentiment rather than internal politics.

Well the cropping on that thumbnail is amazing, although kind of misleading given that the policies don’t effect nutrition. For the next Kanye or Irving article, could you copy every article about Jews by using a picture of him in a hat taken from behind?

Is Facebook obscure? It’s not where tweens post about eating detergent any more, but it still seems to have a large userbase and has Marketplace holding the market dominance Craigslist once had.

At worst, English-language Twitter will be as bad as foreign-language, which Twitter never bothered policing because it couldn’t get embarrassed by languages the American news media reads (although the Ayatola’s calls for genocide and Shoah denial also seem to be in English and Twitter doesn’t care), but a lot of this…

Saw a pretty good take on all of this that these revelations of Kanye getting away with it for years seem to bear out:

Yeah, “a film premised on the promotion of antisemitic conspiracy theories” would be both less evasive on its obvious antisemitism and more clear as to the prominence of the antisemitism.

From how I’ve seen it explained, this type of deposition is very focused on a specific crime he would only be a witness to and may have protections for statements that might be incriminating on other crimes (maybe ones contradicting other sworn testimony).

There is some question whether it actually prevents any morbidity or mortality, though. That’s actually why current US guidelines say to stop bothering to test for slow-developing cancers past a certain age.