#Critique

1/ Logic is not good for thinking about reality because sentences are bad. Sentences are 1) built from a set of characters where 2) those characters are arranged in a
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Bad move, @VerityLa: first publishing a fetishistic "creative non-fiction" about a white man sexually exploiting a Filipinx woman, then posting a weak "explanation", then blocking the PoC who criticised the
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"Asking to see the data" is one of the white defensive strategies that Robin DiAngelo identifies as indicative of "White Fragility" Intersectionalists and MacKinnonite feminists are in many ways mutually
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Strange loop: a writer of whom I'm very fond - @katiekitamura - just reviewed the new novel by Mieko Kawakami for @nytimesbooks Kawakami sounds great 1/nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/books/review/breasts-and-eggs-mieko-kawakami.html Katie si
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1/n I'd never expext that Sweden in 2020 and 2021 should become the world's mail science-denying country and leading in science-denial. Moreover, the totalitarian aspect, where one agency keeps the
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Since it bears saying it again: 1. Don't throw around the term "fujoshi" if you don't know what it actually means. Research its real meaning before using it.2. Don't join
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Last night I read a bit of FF VII Remake Reddit and it makes criticism of the smallest minutiae of niche aspects of wrestling on there seem calm and even-handed
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I have some thoughts on this, and I'm gonna make one of those Twritter-thread things: 1/9https://twitter.com/Sketchy_raptor/status/1306209972334858246 In general I don't think you should give artists unsolicited critiques. However,
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like, take for example "big 3 privilege" denialism. the common rebuttal is "yes these companies have more money, but the idols are not privileged by it bc they have to
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Welp, today's RPG dramarama left me feeling tired and listless, and reasonably sure that I'd look like some kind of asshole if I opened my mouth.So, having left my takes
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I believe that "education" (i.e., ideological indoctrination) in the Netherlands is much more refined than it is in the U.S. when it comes to Marxism. 1/6 In the U.S. people
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It happened. I got an R&R back with the comment that the main issue with my paper is a "weak scientific writing style." It includes a list of sentences the
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#artadvice things that help me:-Quantity over quality for practice (fill a sketchbook)-Draw competitively -Please try to learn the human body-Try different mediums-Take critique seriously -Experimentation -Take photos while you work
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i get it, in a perfect world we would be able to simply Know who was queer & who wasn’t because being in the closet wouldn’t have to exist. but
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Regarding the CRT ban: one of the things (among many) that scares the shit out of me about it is the ways that it also imperils a lot of STS
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Hearing about Animal Crossing discourse makes me sad to see just how bad fandom culture has become... like...it feels like any show/movie/game/etc. has to have this group of people who
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