#Discourse

The original Nier came out in 2010, at the height of the "Japanese games are bad!" meme in the Anglosphere. I'm so glad that awkward (and frankly xenophobic) phase of
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Sometimes I feel so disconnected from the LGBTQ+ community bc there’s such toxic beliefs from some ppl so here’s a thread written at 5 am: NB and he/him lesbians are
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After ten years of being rejected for my first article by a leading Journal in my field, I was asked by them to be a reviewer. It was a bittersweet
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the fallacy of using mughal vandalism as a defence to what happened in 1992 with regard to the demolition of babri - a thread the most common defence right wing
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In my musical film genre course in college where we watched a lot of movie musicals and read about the history and conventions of the genre, I learned about what
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Story time #phdchat :Earlier this year, I was in brief correspondence with Maori scholar, Linda Tuhiwai-Smith in relation to her groundbreaking book "Decolonizing Methodologies" (details of whatever we talked about
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There's a figure once again going around claiming anarchist collectives in spain saw a 20% increase in productivity. This is way too simple of an account and doesn't really apply
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What bothers me about the Cancel Culture Letter - despite agreeing with some of it! - is that it perpetuates the myth that the greatest threats to free speech are
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I should make like a chart or long ass thread comparing dudebros and proshippers because tbh at some point these groups are just gonna have to acknowledge eachother's presenceit's hard
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People who think identity politics defines “the left” are only aware of “the left” as the bourgeois lifestyle of “radical chic” & not as the serious methodological understanding of the
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So yesterday I went and donated to the MN Freedom Fund. I held off on talking about it because of a dread of a sentence. “Stay in your lane and
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1. When analyzing political discourse, one must distinguish between the formal meaning and the operational meaning. The formal meaning is more or less the dictionary definition of the words; the
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Taking advantage of the @GundamPodcast hiatus to play some video games (mostly from the BLM Itch bundle) and finally listen to some other podcasts. Here's a thread! First, I got
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i do think things like 'give the rainbow back to queers' really highlights an increasing split between people who see queer identities as something primarily sexual or gendered (that affects
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"I don't consider myself left or right, I just constantly downplay or deny the existence of racism while rage-whining in fortune cookie prose about the evils of sjw cultural marxists
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After a month, I have finally watched Romeo+Juliet, because of such a strong recommendation. 9yo and I agreed to read the play before watching. And we did both. I will
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