#Discourse

A rich Dem campaign operative now working at Harvard's @Kennedy_School is here to malign young, debt-ridden, working-class & POC as "priviledged" (sic) for not obeying.Literally nobody is more responsible for
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The assault on language in the name of “inclusivity” or sensitivity is really just about making language so imprecise that regular people can no longer speak truth.Not a mistress, but
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I've been thinking this for a while, but I miss having a social circle to chat about fandom bullshit with on a regular basis. And I don't mean because of
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I've been thinking about a confounding feature of competitive political systems: given the dynamics of the system, being right is not a virtue. 1/? Take a case of pressure group
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If you are a history teacher and want to widen your knowledge about 'race' and racism in education/history classrooms in general, here are some resources that you can use. Notably,
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Why aren’t people asking serious questions about that $1.8M raised for Aboriginal bushfire victims that hasn’t been distributed yet? So many people are talking behind the scenes about how sketchy
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i'm sorry my lads, lasses and nb pals, but i gotta rant about politics for a moment and why i am having so many issues with leftist discourse atm i
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i found a lot of use in this thread, i get that the phrasing is a little bitchy (but that's allowed!) but i think the content is really useful and
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Policy Exchange have a campaign to prevent "history" being "re-written & erased". Out of respect I am going to assume this is a genuine misunderstanding of history. But I still
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This is an important tweet. The question of whether we judge an adult based on acts as a child is not a gendered question — I’ve advocated my view countless
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FICTION AFFECTS REALITY, HERE’S WHY: (sources and evidence provided) TW // P*DOPHILIA, R*PE, AB*SE, INC*STthis thread is going to contain everything mentioned above so please proceed with caution! i’m
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I touched upon this before, but where did the attitude of early to mid 2000s of just enjoying fiction for what it is without the unnecessary moral battles of what
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shuttering Google Reader is a major reason for why 2016-2020 happened the way they did, why fake news is such a major problem, and why trust in the integrity of
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gonna make a thread of things I find personally unacceptable to say to a bi person in discourse regardless of context I’ll add more as I find them
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I see people arguing about incels again on the TL (the discourse is a hamster wheel) so I am going to share some wisdom from the Book of Pook. One
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Discussing death. Difficult for patients and clinicians. @Richard56 has been advocating for public discourse around death for years; now is the time for all of us to consider difficult conversations
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