Alex Lee 李天明@alex_lee
Big yikes. Especially coming from a Chinese American elected, this is a gross & irresponsible distortion of history. Those who want to revise the past and pretend racism doesn’t exist are the first accuse ppl of not “understanding” history
Neil Park-McClintick @neil_park_
In this email thread Cupertino City Councilmember Liang Chao argues the Chinese Exclusion act was not racist—because it only affected “laborers”
Don’t think I’ve ever heard someone defend the Chinese Exclusion Act—ever in my life https://t.co/B5uX4cQcuf
7:43 AM · Nov 7, 2021
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Alice Evans@_alice_evans
Does disdain for women increase the pay gap?
Yes
Evidence from Google
In US states where search terms are often misogynist, employers are probably more prejudiced, and women earn less than men.
economics.uci.edu/files/docs/202… Elizabeth Malony, JMP.
8:47 AM · Nov 7, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
New technology (whether smaller “advanced” fission reactors or this fusion thing) could get us out of that bind by reducing some of the concerns.
But fundamentally any technology can be made unviable if you demand it outperform alternatives by a large enough margin.
12:07 PM · Nov 7, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
Our system has changed radically over the last 200 years, but everything we do keeps getting called "capitalism", while whatever utopia we fantasize about having someday keeps getting called "socialism"
sid 🌹 @lilbabygandhi
You’ve got to be intellectually bankrupt if you’re incapable of envisioning a system beyond capitalism. Really? You can’t think of anything beyond a 200 year old system?
7:51 PM · Nov 7, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
New Year new rules
Conor Sen @conorsen
Between the Pfizer pill, 6-8 weeks of kid vaccinations, and the timing of the holidays I’ve been thinking January 1st is a sensible date for even cautious organizations to roll back more mitigation measures. https://t.co/FuUKbzRFGn
7:56 PM · Nov 7, 2021
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matt blaze@mattblaze
@IanColdwater This is not to let anyone off the hook, but cryptocurrency has been a slow train wreck of one horrible externality (environmental, fraud, scams) after another. Those who worked in that space and stayed could have walked away, but sunk cost fallacies apply to career choices, too.
3:53 PM · Nov 7, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Biden could have said he’s against canceling Christopher Columbus, a great explorer and an iconic figure to Italian-Americans.
Harris could say she rejects the idea that America is systematically racist, her parents moved here because it’s the greatest nation on earth.
12:06 AM · Nov 8, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Would those things matter to persuadable voters or is that too trivial? Well, they’d matter to the people leftists who’d get angry about it on Twitter (before voting for them anyway) so why not?
12:06 AM · Nov 8, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Why pander like this instead of educating people?
Well, because it might get you the votes you need to cut child poverty and greenhouse gas emissions and appoint an Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights who’ll vigorously uphold anti-discrimination law.
It’s politics.
12:14 AM · Nov 8, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
To win elections, and thereby obtain political power that can be used to enact policies that help people in concrete ways.
Josh Knight @thejoshknight
@mattyglesias But America *is* systematically racist and Columbus, while certainly an important figure, was also a monster. Why are we asking our politicians to lie to us and treat us like children?
12:29 AM · Nov 8, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
And I agree with Adam here, by the way:
“Democrats should be less ‘woke’ by which I mean just pander to people’s simplistic and naive patriotic ideas and selfishness” is an idea that it’s awkward to express in public so people talk around it.
But it’s still true! https://t.co/pRDYSnDX5x
Adam Serwer 🍝 @AdamSerwer
Part of the utility of this kind of use of “woke” is that it expresses sentiments the people using it would be uncomfortable articulating directly, which is why anyone getting a question like this should simply respond by asking them to explain what they mean. https://t.co/GVJ0KxYkaF
12:33 AM · Nov 8, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Yes, Obama is lying about which tactics he employed in order to make himself sound more high-minded.
(And of course this is the point, Obama is a good politician — he has a different constituency now so he’s changed his story)
slowboring.com/p/obama-pander
trizzlor @trizzlor
@mattyglesias Have you ever addressed Obama critique of your theory: that FOX/Sinclair dominance post-2012 does not give Democrats the space to redefine themselves to rural whites?
12:56 AM · Nov 8, 2021
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