#Discourse

THREAD: Richard Dawkins was yesterday stripped of his 1996 "humanist of the year" award by @americnhumanist after this tweet. It's part of a long pattern of trolling. Statement from @americnhumanist:
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Bari Weiss wrote bad essays. Inaccurate. Incomplete. Poorly researched. I don't know what she was like as an editor. That's mostly invisible from the outside. But her published work was
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The seven stages of heartbreak I experienced as a namjoon bias, since I joined this fandom in 2017.A thread. 1. When I first found out, that "Reflection" was the least
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On Kenya’s Public Sphere. A long threadDemocracy is often characterized as government by deliberation. This presupposes wherewithal to engage in reasoned public debate. My lessons from debating Kipkorir on the
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No, it's not a good point, & the officer's response if thoroughly comprehensible. The fact that reporters & other smart/informed observers are this confused by this account is a big
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Sometimes, when I find that I'm not getting along with someone and it only seems to be getting worse and I just want it to stop... I apologize. It's more
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okay I’m doin a super long thread debunking all the bs in this so let’s get ithttps://twitter.com/senseiscomrade/status/1299139725761093638 alright I’m starting with this once because this is the most impactful nonsensehttps://twitter
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1. The Spanish flu did not originate in Spain. They were just the first to report on it because they didn’t censor their press during the war. Those vulnerable were
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|The Secret Venezuelan Footballer|Episode 2|Absence|In Venezuelan football, as in the country, between any two points, it often feels like everything has changed & nothing has changed. This was the case
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An army of Locust swarms Has now entered Indian states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, these swarms of millions of locusts that have migrated from Africa via Baluchistan,
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Alright y’all, it’s time to talk about Hamas. [Thread]Recently, I was slanderously called “anti-Semitic” and a “Nazi” for making the factual statement, substantiated within the scholarship, that this organization de
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So Sweden is still being used in international corona discourse as a kind of Rohrschach ink blot. In a nutshell, "the Swedish experiment" is probably the ideal response *if* you've
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Many of you know that I have been studying (and designing) hanafuda for the last 2–3 years. In addition to being part of a fairly-active (!!) Discord server for hanafuda,
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can anyone recommend any decent articles in left publications discussing post-lockdown / transition from lockdown? would be v interested So far it looks like the answer is "no" & in
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Excited to share a paper by @awilson_WLU, Matthew Feinberg and I in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences! “Political Polarization” is used frequently in public discourse, but the term can be
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A young friend of mine, a newly minted lawyer, earlier this evening lamented how he has had to self-censor. He told a morbidly amusing story about his encounter with former
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