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Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology by Jess Zimmerman

coronavirus, Donald Trump, Downton Abbey, emotional labour, Joan Didion, multilevel marketing, Social Justice Warrior

This same instinct—to fear and denigrate women’s anger specifically when it comes from principle—is behind the absurd online insult “Social Justice Warrior.” This supposed taunt, levied not exclusively but especially at women who stand up for progressive principles, accidentally sounds cool as hell. It’s not the first insult to be picked up as a self-identifier and a rallying cry—that’s a classic arc for slurs—but it may be the first to have failed so thoroughly as a put-down right from the start. I don’t think anyone has ever been hurt by being described as a fierce and tireless fighter for justice. In truth, so-called social justice warriors are often fighting more for courtesy. The behavior most likely to get you called an SJW is suggesting that it’s worthwhile not to cavalierly hurt people’s feelings, whether or not you think their feelings are right.

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For Grammy CONTENTS A Note to the Reader Introduction: Sister Monsters How to Turn a Man to Stone Voracious Dogs Below the Waist Singing for Bread The Snatchers That’s What You Think Social Justice Warriors Deep Houses Shark, Snake, Swarm Come Back Twice as Hard Epilogue: Mother of Monsters Acknowledgments Resources Credits A NOTE TO THE READER THIS BOOK IS CALLED Women and Other Monsters. We’ll get into what “monsters” means—we’ll spend the whole book getting into that, really—but first, a quick note on the word “women.” I use the term in its broadest possible sense, encompassing people who identify as women (regardless of assigned gender at birth) and people who have at some point been seen and treated as women (regardless of current gender).

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They’ll tell stories where that knowledge is punished, or diminished, or warped to fit their needs, or simply filtered through their contempt. They’ll keep the people around them ignorant or young or small, so they will not be challenged, so if challenged, they can always win. They’ll expect to see the Sphinx dash herself on the rocks. They’ll forget she has wings. SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORS ONE OF MY FAVORITE pieces of writing in the world is the appendix of the book The Sting of the Wild by entomologist Justin Schmidt. Here, on his bespoke sting pain scale, Schmidt catalogs various insect bites he has suffered over the course of his career. His pain scale reads more like a list of perfumes or wines.

The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class by Joel Kotkin

"RICO laws" OR "Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations", "World Economic Forum" Davos, Admiral Zheng, Alvin Toffler, Andy Kessler, autonomous vehicles, basic income, Bernie Sanders, Big Tech, bread and circuses, Brexit referendum, call centre, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, carbon credits, carbon footprint, Cass Sunstein, clean water, company town, content marketing, Cornelius Vanderbilt, creative destruction, data science, deindustrialization, demographic transition, deplatforming, don't be evil, Donald Trump, driverless car, edge city, Elon Musk, European colonialism, Evgeny Morozov, financial independence, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, Future Shock, gentrification, gig economy, Gini coefficient, Google bus, Great Leap Forward, green new deal, guest worker program, Hans Rosling, Herbert Marcuse, housing crisis, income inequality, informal economy, Jane Jacobs, Jaron Lanier, Jeff Bezos, Jeremy Corbyn, job automation, job polarisation, job satisfaction, Joseph Schumpeter, land reform, liberal capitalism, life extension, low skilled workers, Lyft, Marc Benioff, Mark Zuckerberg, market fundamentalism, Martin Wolf, mass immigration, megacity, Michael Shellenberger, Nate Silver, new economy, New Urbanism, Northpointe / Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions, Occupy movement, Parag Khanna, Peter Thiel, plutocrats, post-industrial society, post-work, postindustrial economy, postnationalism / post nation state, precariat, profit motive, public intellectual, RAND corporation, Ray Kurzweil, rent control, Richard Florida, road to serfdom, Robert Gordon, Salesforce, Sam Altman, San Francisco homelessness, Satyajit Das, sharing economy, Sidewalk Labs, Silicon Valley, smart cities, Social Justice Warrior, Steve Jobs, Stewart Brand, superstar cities, technological determinism, Ted Nordhaus, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, The future is already here, The Future of Employment, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, Thomas L Friedman, too big to fail, trade route, Travis Kalanick, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, universal basic income, unpaid internship, upwardly mobile, Virgin Galactic, We are the 99%, Wolfgang Streeck, women in the workforce, work culture , working-age population, Y Combinator

Real Clear Politics, May 4, 2019, https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/05/04/is_corporate_vigilantism_a_threat_to_democracy_140218.html; Harlan Loeb, “CEO Activism: Taking Risks to Build Trust,” Edelman, July 24, 2018, https://www.edelman.com/post/ceo-activism-taking-risks-to-build-trust; Jill Priluck, “America’s corporate activism: the rise of the CEO as social justice warrior,” Guardian, July 2, 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/01/americas-corporate-activism-the-rise-of-the-ceo-as-social-justice-warrior. 9 Anna Kambhampaty, “Selling social movements: 5 brands using politics in their ad campaigns—for better and for worse,” CNBC, August 11, 2017, https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/11/selling-social-movements-ive-brands-using-politics-in-their-ads.html; Toby Young, “The woke corporation: how campus madness entered the workplace,” Spectator, March 7, 2019, https://spectator. us/woke-corporation-campus-madness/; Dave Gershgorn, “Microsot staf are openly questioning the value of diversity,” Quartz, April 19, 2019, https://qz.com/1598345/microsot-staff-are-openly-questioning-the-value-of-diversity/; Nikasha Tiku, “Survey Finds Conservatives Feel Out of Place in Silicon Valley,” Wired, February 2, 2018, https://www.wired.com/story/survey-inds-conservatives-feel-out-of-place-in-silicon-valley/; Alan Murray, “America’s CEOs Seek a New Purpose for the Corporation,” Fortune, August 19, 2019, https://fortune.com/longform/business-roundtable-ceos-corporations-purpose/. 10 Paul Caron, “Lawyer Presidential Campaign Contributions: 97% ro Clinton, 3% to Trump,” TaxProf Blog, January 20, 2017, http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2017/01/lawyer-presidential-campaign-contributions-97-to-clinton-3-to-trump.html; Andy Kiersz and Hunter Walker, “These Charts Show the Political Bias of Workers in Each Profession” Business Insider, November 3, 2014, https://amp.businessinsider.com/charts-show-the-political-bias-of-each-profession-2014-11?

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., “China Tightens Restrictions on Messaging Apps,” Wall Street Journal, August 7, 2014, https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-issues-new-restrictions-on-messaging-apps-1407405666; Maya Wang, “China’s Chilling ‘Social Credit’ Blacklist,” Wall Street Journal, December 11, 2017, https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-chilling-social-credit-blacklist-1513036054. 7 Arjun Kharpal, “A.I. is in a ‘golden age’ and solving problems that were once in the realm of sci-fi, Jeff Bezos says,” CNBC, May 8, 2017, https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/08/amazon-jeff-bezos-artificial-intelligence-ai-golden-age.html; Michael Knox Beran, “The Narrowing of the Elite: Part One,” National Review, September 19, 2018, https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/educated-elites-faith-in-salvation-through-technology/. 8 Jill Priluck, “America’s corporate activism: the rise of the CEO as social justice warrior,” Guardian, July 2, 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/01/americas-corporate-activism-the-rise-of-the-ceo-as-social-justice-warrior. 9 Irving Kristol, “Is Technology a Threat to Liberal Society?” Public Interest, Spring 2001, https://www.nationalaffairs.com/storage/app/uploads/public/58e/1a4/fad/58e1a4fad2bd7881345590.pdf. 10 Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie, “AI Can’t Reason Why,” Wall Street Journal, May 18, 2018, https://www.wsj.com/articles/ai-cant-reason-why-1526657442. 11 “The Immortalist: Uploading the Mind to a Computer,” BBC, March 14, 2016, https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35786771. 12 Stanley Bing, The Immortal Life (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017), 142–43. 13 Polina Aronson and Judith Duportail, “The quantified heart,” Aeon, July 12, 2018, https://aeon.co/essays/can-emotion-regulating-tech-translate-across-cultures; Gale M.

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They will thereby create new godlings, who might be as diferent from us Sapiens as we are different from Homo erectus.38 Clearly the tech elites’ search for immortality does not address issues that affect those still living within nature’s limits. Someone needing assistance in a disaster is more likely to look toward a church member than a data scientist for help. Organized faiths at their best serve as powerful instruments of social improvement, with particular concern for the needy. The secular social justice warriors may be passionately committed to their causes, but often it is groups like the Baptists or the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints who come to the rescue faster and more effectively in a crisis.39 Religious institutions have long brought together people of disparate backgrounds and economic status, building social bonds between them and serving as unifying transmitters of tradition and cultural identity.

Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey Into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley by Corey Pein

"World Economic Forum" Davos, 23andMe, 4chan, affirmative action, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Airbnb, Amazon Mechanical Turk, Anne Wojcicki, artificial general intelligence, bank run, barriers to entry, Benevolent Dictator For Life (BDFL), Bernie Sanders, Big Tech, bitcoin, Bitcoin Ponzi scheme, Build a better mousetrap, California gold rush, cashless society, colonial rule, computer age, cryptocurrency, data is the new oil, deep learning, digital nomad, disruptive innovation, Donald Trump, Douglas Hofstadter, driverless car, Elon Musk, Evgeny Morozov, Extropian, fail fast, fake it until you make it, fake news, gamification, gentrification, gig economy, Google bus, Google Glasses, Google X / Alphabet X, Greyball, growth hacking, hacker house, Hacker News, hive mind, illegal immigration, immigration reform, independent contractor, intentional community, Internet of things, invisible hand, Isaac Newton, Jeff Bezos, job automation, Kevin Kelly, Khan Academy, Larry Ellison, Law of Accelerating Returns, Lean Startup, life extension, Lyft, Mahatma Gandhi, Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, Menlo Park, minimum viable product, move fast and break things, mutually assured destruction, Neal Stephenson, obamacare, Parker Conrad, passive income, patent troll, Patri Friedman, Paul Graham, peer-to-peer lending, Peter H. Diamandis: Planetary Resources, Peter Thiel, platform as a service, plutocrats, Ponzi scheme, post-work, public intellectual, Ray Kurzweil, regulatory arbitrage, rent control, RFID, Robert Mercer, rolodex, Ronald Reagan, Ross Ulbricht, Ruby on Rails, Sam Altman, Sand Hill Road, Scientific racism, self-driving car, selling pickaxes during a gold rush, sharing economy, side project, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley billionaire, Silicon Valley startup, Singularitarianism, Skype, Snapchat, Social Justice Warrior, social software, software as a service, source of truth, South of Market, San Francisco, Startup school, stealth mode startup, Steve Bannon, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, TaskRabbit, tech billionaire, tech bro, tech worker, TechCrunch disrupt, technological singularity, technoutopianism, telepresence, too big to fail, Travis Kalanick, tulip mania, Tyler Cowen, Uber for X, uber lyft, ubercab, unit 8200, upwardly mobile, Vernor Vinge, vertical integration, Virgin Galactic, X Prize, Y Combinator, Zenefits

An Inc. magazine report on the controversy was typical in the way it hedged, noting that Yarvin’s “writing has been interpreted as supportive of the institution of slavery” when in fact his writing was supportive of slavery. Those who had signed a petition against Yarvin’s inclusion were added to “a list of confirmed SJWs”—“social justice warriors,” who support feminism, liberalism, racial equality, lower-class empowerment, and other manifestations of supposed “cultural Marxism”—kept by an alt-right blogger for the benefit of “those who wish to keep their organizations free of the creatures.” For all the fuss it caused, Yarvin’s disinvitation was no violation of his free speech rights.

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Blacks and Latinos, Muslims and Jews, leftists and ladies—anyone who threatened the fragile ego of the vengeful nerd may feel the sting of punishment. But it should be clear that the neoreactionaries were, by and large, young white males embittered by “political correctness”—a term that represented the perceived loss of their social advantages to an undeserving mob of brainwashed social justice warriors. Significantly, these radicalized youth saw in the miraculous futuristic designs of men such as a Peter Thiel and Elon Musk a vision that was entirely compatible with their notions of racial supremacy, and they expected to personally benefit in the tech titans’ new order. To certain devotees, Musk’s dream of human settlements on Mars offered an escape from this benighted earth, where their wretched enemies would be left behind, in a final act of vengeance by the tech-savvy master race.

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The self-described Gamergaters spun a grand conspiratorial narrative concerning “ethics in video games journalism,” claiming that Quinn had “bribed the media into liking her shitty non-game with her vagina.” Using personal identifying details provided by Quinn’s obsessive ex, the Gamergaters proceeded to stalk, slander, and threaten Quinn, as well as her friends and defenders—the social justice warriors. They also went after any other women imagined to have obtained advantages based on their gender—and anyone who criticized the sexist, racist, and otherwise bigoted culture of video games, which can be summarized in two words describing the content of the typical mass-market product in the medium: boobs and bullets.

How to Be Right: In a World Gone Wrong by James O'Brien

Black Lives Matter, Boris Johnson, Brexit referendum, clockwatching, collective bargaining, death of newspapers, Donald Trump, fake news, game design, housing crisis, Jeremy Corbyn, mass immigration, Neil Armstrong, plutocrats, post-industrial society, QAnon, ride hailing / ride sharing, sexual politics, Social Justice Warrior, Steve Bannon, young professional

It’s fascinating to see people who are offended by pretty much everything – gay people getting married; students removing poems or portraits of politicians from college walls; toilets that anyone can use; councils putting up fairy lights to mark religious festivals – insist that they are the implacable enemies of people who take unnecessary offence at the world around them. I could, on any given day, fill the switchboard six times over with callers primed to rail furiously against ‘snowflakes’ and ‘social justice warriors’ who take offence too easily. Not a single one of them would be alive to the irony that they were taking violent offence at largely innocuous actions which they wouldn’t be remotely aware of if the media wasn’t committed to keeping them furiously offended on a daily basis. It would be funny if it hadn’t led, inevitably but again not necessarily intentionally, to people in public life today making the absurd claim that their free speech has been stifled.

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I am, admittedly, not a lobster but I cannot quite believe that you need possess rare skills or charms in order to get a girlfriend. Were I to address the ‘involuntary’ bit of ‘involuntary celibacy’, I’d suggest that spending a little less time obsessing online about ‘cucks’, Muslim ‘no-go zones’ and ‘social justice warriors’ would free these most delicate of flowers up to work a little harder at being likeable and hence fanciable. One of the many contradictions at the heart of this movement is the insistence that men like me, who seek to respect women and try with varying degrees of success to treat them as genuine equals, are somehow ‘beta males’ while men like them, despite the aridity of their romantic lives, are somehow ‘alpha’ because they are, I guess, so adept at meting out anonymous online verbal violence.

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He began, as most callers did that day, by demonstrating that, far from being exceptional, Jack’s position is pretty much standard self-delusion for the people desperate to believe in Trump. The irony, of course, is that these are precisely the same people who’ve spent the last few years railing against the perceived hyper-sensitivity of ‘snowflakes’ and ‘social justice warriors’, attacking the notion of people wanting ‘safe spaces’ and insisting that ‘you can’t give offence, you can only take it.’ Such is the strength of the cult, however, that its members are utterly blind to their own absurdity and hypocrisy. Brian thought he had a zinger of a question for people happy to see the balloon fly above Parliament Square in London.

Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason by Dave Rubin

Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, An Inconvenient Truth, battle of ideas, Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, Burning Man, butterfly effect, centre right, cognitive dissonance, Columbine, deplatforming, Donald Trump, failed state, fake news, gender pay gap, green new deal, Greta Thunberg, illegal immigration, immigration reform, job automation, Kevin Roose, low skilled workers, mutually assured destruction, obamacare, off-the-grid, Peter Thiel, pre–internet, Ronald Reagan, Saturday Night Live, school choice, Silicon Valley, Social Justice Warrior, Steven Pinker, Susan Wojcicki, Tim Cook: Apple, unpaid internship, War on Poverty, women in the workforce, zero-sum game

Although she publicly prided herself—no, bragged—about being a tolerant liberal, she wouldn’t respect my new views because they didn’t match hers. According to the religion of progressives, of which she was a devout follower, I was an apostate and should be treated as such. “Your shit-talking is outta control!” she ranted in the first of her messages. “The social justice warriors you whine about fought for your rights [as a gay man]. But fuck ’em, right? If they don’t hate Muslims they’re worthless to you.” Stunned by this total spin on reality, I reread the words several times to try to find the punch line, but there wasn’t one. “Good Lord, you must be kidding,” I reply.

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It’s March 2019 and the TV anchor is experiencing his own leftist lynching after decade-old comments of his were dug up and used to try to destroy him. The people behind it are members of Media Matters for America, a far-left nonprofit that uses its connections to tattletale on anyone who dares to question the social justice warrior agenda. I’m not going to bother detailing what his comments were because they’re beyond irrelevant. Media Matters is only digging into Carlson’s past because it fears his influence in the present. The organization’s bigger agenda, however, is to silence the average person—including you.

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Likewise, I get regular haircuts, manage what I eat, and exercise. Combined, it all makes a difference to how I feel, behave, and interact, because it’s all connected to the self. Don’t believe me? Fine. But just take a quick look at our most vocal critics. It’s no coincidence that social justice warriors are frequently out of shape, poorly dressed, and have messy hair, along with their overall disheveled appearance. If some dress for success, they dress for failure. Now get out there and buy yourself something nice. Your future deserves it. ADMIT THAT WE NEED RELIGIOUS STORIES In 1997 I spent my spring semester studying in Israel.

Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars From 4Chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right by Angela Nagle

4chan, A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, affirmative action, anti-communist, battle of ideas, Bernie Sanders, bitcoin, Black Lives Matter, capitalist realism, citizen journalism, crony capitalism, death of newspapers, DIY culture, Donald Trump, Evgeny Morozov, feminist movement, Gabriella Coleman, game design, Hacker Ethic, Herbert Marcuse, hive mind, John Perry Barlow, Julian Assange, Kickstarter, lolcat, mass immigration, moral panic, Nelson Mandela, Norman Mailer, Occupy movement, Oklahoma City bombing, open borders, Overton Window, post-industrial society, pre–internet, Ronald Reagan, sexual politics, Silicon Valley, Social Justice Warrior, Steve Bannon, The Wisdom of Crowds, WikiLeaks

Gamergate itself kicked off when Zoe Quinn created a video game called Depression Quest, which even to a nongamer like me looked like a terrible game featuring many of the fragility and mental illness-fetishizing characteristics of the kind of feminism that has emerged online in recent years. It was the kind of game, about depression, that would have worked as a perfect parody of everything the gamergaters hated about SJWs (social justice warriors). Nevertheless, her dreadful game got positive reviews from politically sympathetic indie games journalists, which turned into a kind of catalyst for the whole gamergate saga. It was understood to be either a war over ethics in games journalism or an excuse to attack feminists and women entering the gamer world, depending on whom you ask.

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Southern was also heavily involved in ‘The Triggering’ in response to International Women’s Day, in which anti-feminist Twitter users posted intentionally offensive content to assert their right to free speech online. At the time of writing, one reposted version of her protest footage that popped up in my YouTube recommendations called ‘Social Justice Warriors Piss On Your Free Speech – Lauren Southern Attacked’ had nearly 500,000 views. She has 235,000 followers on Twitter and occasionally appears on mainstream news media like Sky News, where she was kicked off live on air for saying: I don’t know why legal immigration even exists any more. I could just put on some bronzer, get on a dingy boat and show up on the border of Sicily or the beaches of Sicily with a Koran in hand and be accepted as an immigrant.

Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists by Julia Ebner

23andMe, 4chan, Airbnb, anti-communist, anti-globalists, augmented reality, Ayatollah Khomeini, Bellingcat, Big Tech, bitcoin, blockchain, Boris Johnson, Cambridge Analytica, citizen journalism, cognitive dissonance, Comet Ping Pong, crisis actor, crowdsourcing, cryptocurrency, deepfake, disinformation, Donald Trump, Dunning–Kruger effect, Elon Musk, fake news, false flag, feminist movement, game design, gamification, glass ceiling, Google Earth, Greta Thunberg, information security, job satisfaction, Mark Zuckerberg, mass immigration, Menlo Park, Mikhail Gorbachev, Network effects, off grid, OpenAI, Overton Window, pattern recognition, pre–internet, QAnon, RAND corporation, ransomware, rising living standards, self-driving car, Silicon Valley, Skype, Snapchat, social intelligence, Social Justice Warrior, SQL injection, Steve Bannon, Steve Jobs, Transnistria, WikiLeaks, zero day

Harsher anti-hate-speech measures imposed by mainstream social media companies like Facebook and Twitter have provoked extremists to move to other platforms and establish substitute channels to network, coordinate and crowdsource their activities. Many controversial activists – on the right, the left and the religious extremist fringes – have moved to alternative platforms: I’d rather have Putin have my data than one of those SJW [Social Justice Warriors] in Silicon Valley Generation Identity leader Martin Sellner, spring 2018 Extremists who were kicked off popular social media due to their violent language have replaced Twitter with Gab, Facebook with VK or Minds, and Patreon with Hatreon. Gab, the alt-right’s Twitter equivalent, gained over 400,000 users in just eighteen months.

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The international group that was founded a couple of months after Charlottesville claims to be ‘dedicated to bringing together conservative, traditionalist, and counter-leftist groups and directing them towards safe, sane, and effective activism’. Its protocol outlines the group’s guiding principles: We all agree with the legalization of firearms. We believe that we need to stand up to the loud and obnoxious minorities that oppose democracy. Social groups such as ‘Social Justice Warriors’, Communists and ‘Antifa’ are here to dismantle our nations from the inside. Western traditionalism has been forgotten. Moral values have been left behind, with modern youth culture promoting short-sighted primitive behaviour. With your help, we can start to re-install the values that made the western world great.

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The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent by Ben Shapiro

2021 United States Capitol attack, active measures, affirmative action, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Alan Greenspan, Amazon Web Services, Bernie Sanders, Big Tech, Black Lives Matter, coronavirus, COVID-19, critical race theory, crowdsourcing, defund the police, delayed gratification, deplatforming, disinformation, don't be evil, Donald Trump, fake news, Ferguson, Missouri, future of work, gender pay gap, George Floyd, global pandemic, green new deal, Greta Thunberg, Herbert Marcuse, hiring and firing, illegal immigration, income inequality, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), It's morning again in America, Jon Ronson, Kevin Roose, lockdown, Mark Zuckerberg, mass incarceration, microaggression, mutually assured destruction, New Journalism, obamacare, Overton Window, Parler "social media", Robert Bork, Ronald Reagan, Saturday Night Live, Silicon Valley, Snapchat, social distancing, Social Justice Warrior, Steven Pinker, Susan Wojcicki, tech bro, the scientific method, TikTok, Tim Cook: Apple, War on Poverty, yellow journalism

I don’t agree with him on much but he’s a genuine person who once helped me for no other reason than to be nice. He doesn’t bend the truth. His intentions are good.” The world fell in on poor Mark. After trending on Twitter publicly, and surely receiving a boatload of nasty notes privately, Mark quickly deleted his tweet, and then replaced it with a Maoist struggle session of hot-button social justice warrior thoughtvomit: So that tweet was a disaster on many levels. I want to be clear that I in no way endorse hatred, racism, homophobia, xenophobia or any such form of intolerance. My goal has always been to spread unity, understanding and kindness. But I am going to make mistakes along the way.

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Americans live in fear of the moment when a personal enemy dredges up a Bad Old TweetTM or members of the media “resurface” an impolitic comment in a text message. And the eyes and ears are everywhere. One simple tip from someone on Facebook to a pseudo-journalist activist can result in a worldwide scandal. Your boss cares what you say. So do your friends. Cross the social justice warriors, and you will be canceled. It’s not a matter of if. Only when. The only safety from the mob is to become a part of the mob. Silence used to be possibility. Now silence is taken as resistance. Everyone must stand and applaud for Stalin—and he who sits down first is sent to the gulag. So repeat.

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The Tampa Bay Rays tweeted out, “Today is Opening Day, which means it’s a great day to arrest the killers of Breonna Taylor”64 (Taylor was accidentally killed during crossfire when police knocked on her apartment door to serve a no-knock warrant and were met by gunfire from her boyfriend inside). The NFL followed suit, with Roger Goodell admitting he was “wrong” by not overtly siding with Kaepernick in 2016,65 and the league painting social justice warrior slogans in the end zones during games—phrases like “It Takes All of Us” and “End Racism.”66 Racism, as it turns out, was not ended. But at least the leagues had pleased their most ardent customers. Unfortunately for the leagues, there weren’t that many of them anymore. The NFL’s ratings dropped 10 percent in 2020;67 the NBA Finals declined 51 percent year-on-year;68 MLB’s World Series was the least watched of all time.69 To be sure, not all of that decline had to do with politics.

Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth by Noa Tishby

An Inconvenient Truth, Ayatollah Khomeini, Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, Boycotts of Israel, British Empire, Burning Man, centre right, COVID-19, disinformation, epigenetics, European colonialism, failed state, fake news, Ferguson, Missouri, financial engineering, George Floyd, haute couture, if you build it, they will come, it's over 9,000, Jeremy Corbyn, lockdown, post-work, psychological pricing, RAND corporation, Silicon Valley, Social Justice Warrior, Suez canal 1869, Suez crisis 1956, women in the workforce, Yom Kippur War

GDP and international investments have been rising steadily in recent years, and the military and economic collaborations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority are continuing consistently. So why is BDS still such a big deal? PR. And good PR can cost a lot of money. FOLLOW THE MONEY There is nothing a social justice warrior loves more than being heard. It’s a unique new human breed created and amplified by social media, where everyone has an opinion and facts aren’t as important as adopting a seemingly noble cause—an admirable cause, one that makes you look like you actually care about humanity. This is what the PR arm of BDS is after.

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Try being as idealistic when a terrorist group is trying to create a Sharia state thirty miles from your doorstep, and twenty-one countries around you (give or take, depending on the year) are conspiring to decimate you. The fact of Israel’s existential vulnerability shapes many of its policies and actions, and unfortunately they are all woefully disregarded by social justice warriors spewing anger from their couches. With that in mind, here are some of their favorite arguments against Israel: Colonialism. The most popular anti-Israel argument is that it is a colonialist state. It is not. Israel is a refugee state, reestablished after the British left, as the Jewish homeland following thousands of years of exile and persecution.

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She fought with the IDF when they stopped looking for Aki’s sunken airplane in Egypt, and she fought the Israeli government when she thought an anti-missile laser-guided weapons system would be better than the Iron Dome against Hamas and Hezbollah. She crossed the border to Ramallah to shake hands with Yasser Arafat when she thought he was Israel and Palestine’s greatest hope for peace, and was quick to condemn him when she found out, like the rest of the world, how vile he was. She is a true social justice warrior, not a keyboard one, an old-school one who doesn’t just speak but yells truth to power. Her commitment to liberalism, to Israel’s founding principles, and to making the world better is a force to be reckoned with. She continues fighting for these values, the values of the country she and her family helped build, despite paying the unimaginable price when she was widowed at twenty-six.

The New Snobbery by David Skelton

assortative mating, banking crisis, Black Lives Matter, Boris Johnson, Brexit referendum, British Empire, call centre, centre right, collective bargaining, coronavirus, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, COVID-19, critical race theory, David Brooks, defund the police, deindustrialization, Etonian, Extinction Rebellion, financial deregulation, gender pay gap, glass ceiling, housing crisis, income inequality, Jeremy Corbyn, job automation, knowledge economy, lockdown, low skilled workers, market fundamentalism, meritocracy, microaggression, new economy, Northern Rock, open borders, postindustrial economy, race to the bottom, rent-seeking, Richard Florida, Right to Buy, rising living standards, shareholder value, social distancing, Social Justice Warrior, TED Talk, TikTok, wealth creators, women in the workforce

Economic and social liberalism has maintained a grip, with a belief in open borders, free flows of capital and trade, and has condemned anyone who disagrees as being driven by a closed mindset towards a closed society. In doing so, many have eschewed the democratic, the national and the local in favour of the technocratic and the transnational. Even the common understanding that comes with patriotism and a shared sense of common endeavour has, for some ‘social justice warriors’, been overtaken by a narrow sense of identity politics, which serves only to diminish common threads and deliberately sow division. The coalition of the economically prosperous is keen to point to the dangers of ‘unfiltered’ democracy in an ‘increasingly complex world’, with this complexity seemingly best understood by the wealthy and successful.

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The diminution of dignity and respect is clearly also a theme, which we have addressed a number of times in this book. Building an enduring economic settlement would be of far more value to the country than becoming stuck in the endless trenches of a culture war. The priority must be to build genuine social solidarity through economic reform, in contrast to the identity-obsessed social justice warriors of the new left, who want to see society as perpetually divided based on group identity. It is essential that we focus on the real problems faced by BAME citizens, such as high unemployment faced by black men, health inequalities and excessive use of stop-and-search, but don’t let an obsession with identity-focused division further damage national solidarity, nor get in the way of measures that will improve the quality of life for all workers.

Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists, the Truth About Extreme Misogyny and How It Affects Us All by Laura Bates

"World Economic Forum" Davos, 4chan, Ada Lovelace, anti-bias training, autism spectrum disorder, Bellingcat, Black Lives Matter, Boris Johnson, Brexit referendum, Cambridge Analytica, cognitive dissonance, coherent worldview, deplatforming, Dominic Cummings, Donald Trump, fake news, feminist movement, Filter Bubble, gender pay gap, George Floyd, glass ceiling, Grace Hopper, job satisfaction, Kickstarter, off grid, Overton Window, recommendation engine, ride hailing / ride sharing, Snapchat, Social Justice Warrior, Steve Bannon, tech bro, young professional

Trolls put out stories on social media and gaming websites suggesting that the women were inventing and exaggerating the harassment they had received, in order to attract attention and make male gamers (who were just trying to protect their culture) look bad. Others claimed that feminists themselves had sent the death and bomb threats, in order to escalate the story. A narrative of the progressive left as ‘snowflakes’, ‘social justice warriors’, ‘feminazis’, ‘professional victims’ and the ‘perpetually offended’ emerged; these became labels and claims that would be used increasingly in manosphere and also alt-right attacks over the coming years, especially when attempting to justify abuse in the eyes of the mainstream observer. Thus, co-ordinated harassment became just-ified as a form of moral self-defence.

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Peterson did address MGTOW, calling them pathetic weasels in a lecture, and lamenting the undue influence they have on embittered young men – before unusually walking the criticism back, claiming he had been too hard on them and that they ‘have a point’. But it is certainly clear that he has an acute understanding of the dynamics of misogynistic, right-wing online mobs. ‘I shouldn’t say this, but I’m going to, because it’s just so goddamn funny I can’t help but say it: I’ve figured out how to monetise social justice warriors,’ Peterson said in a podcast interview. ‘If they let me speak, then I get to speak, and then I make more money on Patreon… if they protest me, then that goes up on YouTube, and my Patreon account goes WAY up.’ Patreon is a platform that allows fans of a content creator’s work to become subscribers, paying regular sums of money to access that creator’s artistic or intellectual output.

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She meets the alt-right on their own turf, taking their bizarre, funny, stunt-driven tactics and replicating them in her own videos, ContraPoints disseminates robust but entertaining videos, countering everything from the manosphere idea of the ‘alpha male’ to the portrayal of feminists as ‘social justice warriors’. And it’s working: while individual educators might be able to visit several schools a week, speaking to a few hundred students each time, Parrott is reaching over half a million subscribers with every video, many of them racking up millions of views. Her approach is a vital example of the need to update our tactics and the vehicles we use for messaging, which have, in many cases, become outdated and preachy, in contrast to the tech-savvy communication perfected by online extremists.

Silicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley by Cary McClelland

affirmative action, Airbnb, algorithmic bias, Apple II, autonomous vehicles, barriers to entry, Black Lives Matter, Burning Man, clean water, cloud computing, cognitive dissonance, Columbine, computer vision, creative destruction, driverless car, El Camino Real, Elon Musk, Fairchild Semiconductor, full employment, gamification, gentrification, gig economy, Golden Gate Park, Google bus, Google Glasses, high net worth, housing crisis, housing justice, income inequality, John Gilmore, John Perry Barlow, Joseph Schumpeter, Loma Prieta earthquake, Lyft, mass immigration, means of production, Menlo Park, Mitch Kapor, open immigration, PalmPilot, rent control, Salesforce, San Francisco homelessness, self-driving car, sharing economy, Silicon Valley, Skype, Social Justice Warrior, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, TaskRabbit, tech bro, tech worker, transcontinental railway, Travis Kalanick, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, urban planning, vertical integration, William Shockley: the traitorous eight, young professional

I think probably a lot of people who identify as activists are wired this way.” Even in college, she saw the chasm widening between the tech and wider communities. She now works as a diversity consultant for the tech industry. In tech, there is a derogatory term for somebody like me, do you know what it is? “Social Justice Warrior.” “SJW” is how you’ll see it. Someone once said, “Doesn’t that sound awesome? ‘Social Justice Warrior’? Wouldn’t you be so happy to be called that?” And I was like, “Yeah, you would think so in a vacuum. But it’s the shorthand for ‘these lefty assholes.’ ” If you go on Twitter and search for “SJW,” the kind of things you will see are horrific.

Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination by Mark Bergen

23andMe, 4chan, An Inconvenient Truth, Andy Rubin, Anne Wojcicki, Big Tech, Black Lives Matter, book scanning, Burning Man, business logic, call centre, Cambridge Analytica, citizen journalism, cloud computing, Columbine, company town, computer vision, coronavirus, COVID-19, crisis actor, crowdsourcing, cryptocurrency, data science, David Graeber, DeepMind, digital map, disinformation, don't be evil, Donald Trump, Edward Snowden, Elon Musk, fake news, false flag, game design, gender pay gap, George Floyd, gig economy, global pandemic, Golden age of television, Google Glasses, Google X / Alphabet X, Googley, growth hacking, Haight Ashbury, immigration reform, James Bridle, John Perry Barlow, Justin.tv, Kevin Roose, Khan Academy, Kinder Surprise, Marc Andreessen, Marc Benioff, Mark Zuckerberg, mass immigration, Max Levchin, Menlo Park, Minecraft, mirror neurons, moral panic, move fast and break things, non-fungible token, PalmPilot, paypal mafia, Peter Thiel, Ponzi scheme, QAnon, race to the bottom, recommendation engine, Rubik’s Cube, Salesforce, Saturday Night Live, self-driving car, Sheryl Sandberg, side hustle, side project, Silicon Valley, slashdot, Snapchat, social distancing, Social Justice Warrior, speech recognition, Stanford marshmallow experiment, Steve Bannon, Steve Jobs, Steven Levy, surveillance capitalism, Susan Wojcicki, systems thinking, tech bro, the long tail, The Wisdom of Crowds, TikTok, Walter Mischel, WikiLeaks, work culture

Uygur noticed something strange about these newcomers, how detached some seemed from reality. “When Rush lied, he would attach it to something that was feasible,” Uygur recalled. “These guys are making up stuff out of whole cloth.” Stefan Molyneux, the Canadian self-help philosopher, joined in, posting a video rebutting The Young Turks. But Molyneux and the anti-social-justice-warrior (SJW) brigade were really waiting for a bigger spark to set things off: Gamergate. David Sherratt watched Gamergate spread, tracking the manufactured online controversy as best as he could. From what he grasped, a feminist video game designer had received fawning coverage from an ex-lover, and then YouTube videos and web forum posts about the scandal were attacked or entirely removed.

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From what he grasped, a feminist video game designer had received fawning coverage from an ex-lover, and then YouTube videos and web forum posts about the scandal were attacked or entirely removed. That seemed wrong. Details were hard to follow, but the rage was not. Some women had criticized how female characters were depicted in video games, only deepening the ire of male gamers, furthering a perception of PC, feminist culture run amok: the social justice warriors had come to ruin video games. The supposed central scandal of Gamergate—that a video game received biased coverage—was not true, but this did not stop Gamergate from spreading like a cancer, forcing several women in the gaming industry to go into hiding after they were harassed and received death threats.

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., 61 Singh, Lilly, 276 Sjøberg, Jakob Høgh, 317–18, 320 skeptics, YouTube, 221–23, 226 skin-detection algorithms, 100 Slashdot, 29 Slate, 47 SmarterEveryDay, 246 Smith, Joseph “Big Joe,” 56 Smith, Shane, 132–33 Smith, Will, 351–52 Smoothie King, 67 Smosh, 67, 68–69, 73, 94, 110, 160, 248 Snapchat, 250, 256–57, 265, 390 Snoop Dogg, 162 Snowden, Edward, 215, 230 Social Blade, 352–53 social-justice-warriors rhetoric, 224–25 social networks/media business models of, 6 creators’ posts to, 250–51 explosive growth of, 138 power of, 138–39 and process of building platform, 179–80 YouTube as, 345 See also specific platforms, including Facebook Soderberg-Rivkin, Daisy, 320 Some Good News (Krasinski), 377 Sony Pictures, 76 Soros, George, 264 Sorrell, Martin, 284, 285–86 sound synced to videos, 21 Southern, Lauren, 343–44 Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), 226, 261, 381 South Park (television show), 275 speech, gatekeeping/moderation of, 83–85 speed of videos loading, 151–52 Spencer, Richard, 299, 379 Spider-Man, people dressed as, 305–7, 309, 312 Spinosaurus Kin, 223.

The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World by Max Fisher

2021 United States Capitol attack, 4chan, A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, Airbnb, Bellingcat, Ben Horowitz, Bernie Sanders, Big Tech, Bill Gates: Altair 8800, bitcoin, Black Lives Matter, call centre, centre right, cloud computing, Comet Ping Pong, Computer Lib, coronavirus, COVID-19, crisis actor, crowdsourcing, dark pattern, data science, deep learning, deliberate practice, desegregation, disinformation, domesticated silver fox, Donald Trump, Douglas Engelbart, Douglas Engelbart, end-to-end encryption, fake news, Filter Bubble, Future Shock, game design, gamification, George Floyd, growth hacking, Hacker Conference 1984, Hacker News, hive mind, illegal immigration, Jeff Bezos, John Perry Barlow, Jon Ronson, Joseph Schumpeter, Julian Assange, Kevin Roose, lockdown, Lyft, Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, Max Levchin, military-industrial complex, Oklahoma City bombing, Parler "social media", pattern recognition, Paul Graham, Peter Thiel, profit maximization, public intellectual, QAnon, recommendation engine, ride hailing / ride sharing, Rutger Bregman, Saturday Night Live, Sheryl Sandberg, side project, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley ideology, Silicon Valley startup, Snapchat, social distancing, Social Justice Warrior, social web, Startup school, Stephen Hawking, Steve Bannon, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Steven Levy, Stewart Brand, Susan Wojcicki, tech billionaire, tech worker, Ted Nelson, TED Talk, TikTok, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, Whole Earth Catalog, WikiLeaks, Y Combinator

On flyers advertising the Unite the Right rally, Peinovich’s name, in a sign of his celebrity, was second after Richard Spencer’s. Dozens answered the thread soliciting their stories. Over and over, they described adopting their views incrementally, always on social media, often with algorithmic encouragement. “I used to be a part of the anti-SJW crowd,” one user wrote, referring to “social justice warriors” frequently derided on 4chan and Reddit. He added, using the internet slang “based,” an adjective for something transgressive, “And now I’m here. Thank you based Youtube suggested videos algorithm.” Like many, YouTube’s recommendations had led him, he said, first to arch-conservative voices.

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When a far-right paramilitary group called the Oath Keepers surveyed its 25,000 members on how they’d come to the movement, their most common answer was Facebook, followed by YouTube. YouTube can be an especially effective indoctrinator because it moves users in increments. Jordan Peterson tells viewers that their individual travails stem from a conflict pitting them against social justice warriors—crisis. Millennial Woes rallies them to collectively defend themselves against the feminists and minorities opposing them—resolution. More extreme channels escalate the stakes of that war to white genocide or Jewish subjugation, implicitly encouraging viewers to take on the threat however necessary.

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But, thanks to the suggested videos algo, got darker and more violent, he lost his wife, kids, and friends, and none of us know where he is today.” David Sherratt, a former extremist, told the Daily Beast that his descent had started, at age fifteen, watching video game clips. The system recommended him into pro-atheism videos, which tell science-and-math kids they are part of an ultrarational minority besieged by social justice warriors. Then anti-feminism videos, then incel-aligned “men’s rights” videos, some of which he contributed himself, then outright neo-Nazi videos. In 2018, an outlet called Bellingcat scoured an archive of private far-right chat rooms that totaled hundreds of thousands of messages. The investigators scanned for instances where users had mentioned how they’d arrived at the cause.

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker

3D printing, Abraham Maslow, access to a mobile phone, affirmative action, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, agricultural Revolution, Albert Einstein, Alfred Russel Wallace, Alignment Problem, An Inconvenient Truth, anti-communist, Anton Chekhov, Arthur Eddington, artificial general intelligence, availability heuristic, Ayatollah Khomeini, basic income, Berlin Wall, Bernie Sanders, biodiversity loss, Black Swan, Bonfire of the Vanities, Brexit referendum, business cycle, capital controls, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, carbon footprint, carbon tax, Charlie Hebdo massacre, classic study, clean water, clockwork universe, cognitive bias, cognitive dissonance, Columbine, conceptual framework, confounding variable, correlation does not imply causation, creative destruction, CRISPR, crowdsourcing, cuban missile crisis, Daniel Kahneman / Amos Tversky, dark matter, data science, decarbonisation, degrowth, deindustrialization, dematerialisation, demographic transition, Deng Xiaoping, distributed generation, diversified portfolio, Donald Trump, Doomsday Clock, double helix, Eddington experiment, Edward Jenner, effective altruism, Elon Musk, en.wikipedia.org, end world poverty, endogenous growth, energy transition, European colonialism, experimental subject, Exxon Valdez, facts on the ground, fake news, Fall of the Berlin Wall, first-past-the-post, Flynn Effect, food miles, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, frictionless, frictionless market, Garrett Hardin, germ theory of disease, Gini coefficient, Great Leap Forward, Hacker Conference 1984, Hans Rosling, hedonic treadmill, helicopter parent, Herbert Marcuse, Herman Kahn, Hobbesian trap, humanitarian revolution, Ignaz Semmelweis: hand washing, income inequality, income per capita, Indoor air pollution, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), invention of writing, Jaron Lanier, Joan Didion, job automation, Johannes Kepler, John Snow's cholera map, Kevin Kelly, Khan Academy, knowledge economy, l'esprit de l'escalier, Laplace demon, launch on warning, life extension, long peace, longitudinal study, Louis Pasteur, Mahbub ul Haq, Martin Wolf, mass incarceration, meta-analysis, Michael Shellenberger, microaggression, Mikhail Gorbachev, minimum wage unemployment, moral hazard, mutually assured destruction, Naomi Klein, Nate Silver, Nathan Meyer Rothschild: antibiotics, negative emissions, Nelson Mandela, New Journalism, Norman Mailer, nuclear taboo, nuclear winter, obamacare, ocean acidification, Oklahoma City bombing, open economy, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, paperclip maximiser, Paris climate accords, Paul Graham, peak oil, Peter Singer: altruism, Peter Thiel, post-truth, power law, precautionary principle, precision agriculture, prediction markets, public intellectual, purchasing power parity, radical life extension, Ralph Nader, randomized controlled trial, Ray Kurzweil, rent control, Republic of Letters, Richard Feynman, road to serfdom, Robert Gordon, Rodney Brooks, rolodex, Ronald Reagan, Rory Sutherland, Saturday Night Live, science of happiness, Scientific racism, Second Machine Age, secular stagnation, self-driving car, sharing economy, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley ideology, Simon Kuznets, Skype, smart grid, Social Justice Warrior, sovereign wealth fund, sparse data, stem cell, Stephen Hawking, Steve Bannon, Steven Pinker, Stewart Brand, Stuxnet, supervolcano, synthetic biology, tech billionaire, technological determinism, technological singularity, Ted Kaczynski, Ted Nordhaus, TED Talk, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, the scientific method, The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver, The Spirit Level, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, The Wisdom of Crowds, Thomas Kuhn: the structure of scientific revolutions, Thomas Malthus, total factor productivity, Tragedy of the Commons, union organizing, universal basic income, University of East Anglia, Unsafe at Any Speed, Upton Sinclair, uranium enrichment, urban renewal, W. E. B. Du Bois, War on Poverty, We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters, women in the workforce, working poor, World Values Survey, Y2K

Many left-wing colleagues who learned that I was writing a book on reason and humanism egged me on, relishing the prospect of an arsenal of talking points against the right. But not so long ago the left was sympathetic to nationalism when it was fused with Marxist liberation movements. And many on the left encourage identity politicians and social justice warriors who downplay individual rights in favor of equalizing the standing of races, classes, and genders, which they see as being pitted in zero-sum competition. Religion, too, has defenders on both halves of the political spectrum. Even writers who are unwilling to defend the literal content of religious beliefs may be fiercely defensive of religion and hostile to the idea that science and reason have anything to say about morality (most of them show little awareness that humanism even exists).5 Defenders of the faith insist that religion has the exclusive franchise for questions about what matters.

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When the New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof cited their article favorably and made similar points, the angry reaction confirmed their worst accusations (the most highly recommended comment was “You don’t diversify with idiots”).62 And a faction of academic culture composed of hard-left faculty, student activists, and an autonomous diversity bureaucracy (pejoratively called social justice warriors) has become aggressively illiberal. Anyone who disagrees with the assumption that racism is the cause of all problems is called a racist.63 Non-leftist speakers are frequently disinvited after protests or drowned out by jeering mobs.64 A student may be publicly shamed by her dean for a private email that considers both sides of a controversy.65 Professors are pressured to avoid lecturing on upsetting topics, and have been subjected to Stalinesque investigations for politically incorrect opinions.66 Often the repression veers into unintended comedy.67 A guideline for deans on how to identify “microaggressions” lists remarks such as “America is the land of opportunity” and “I believe the most qualified person should get the job.”

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It’s harder to be a conservative intellectual when American conservative politics has become steadily more know-nothing, from Ronald Reagan to Dan Quayle to George W. Bush to Sarah Palin to Donald Trump.73 On the other side, the capture of the left by identity politicians, political correctness police, and social justice warriors creates an opening for loudmouths who brag of “telling it like it is.” A challenge of our era is how to foster an intellectual and political culture that is driven by reason rather than tribalism and mutual reaction. * * * Making reason the currency of our discourse begins with clarity about the centrality of reason itself.74 As I mentioned, many commentators are confused about it.

The Internet of Garbage by Sarah Jeong

4chan, Aaron Swartz, Brian Krebs, Compatible Time-Sharing System, crowdsourcing, John Markoff, Kickstarter, Network effects, Silicon Valley, Social Justice Warrior

There’s much to be said about Gamergate as the template of a new kind of culture war, and a signifier of a new era in games, one that has been called by some “the death of the gamers.” The phenomenon has forced women out of game development and games journalism. It’s brought into new prominence the term “social justice warrior”—or SJW for short. The SJW moniker seems to come from the belief that people who criticize video games for a lack of diversity are the enemy—a kind of cultural juggernaut with a supposed chokehold on the media, that must be forcefully opposed. Gamergate as a force is aligned against everyone they perceive to be SJWs.

We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laboratory by Christine Lagorio-Chafkin

"Friedman doctrine" OR "shareholder theory", 4chan, Aaron Swartz, Airbnb, Amazon Web Services, Bernie Sanders, big-box store, bitcoin, blockchain, Brewster Kahle, Burning Man, compensation consultant, crowdsourcing, cryptocurrency, data science, David Heinemeier Hansson, digital rights, disinformation, Donald Trump, East Village, eternal september, fake news, game design, Golden Gate Park, growth hacking, Hacker News, hiring and firing, independent contractor, Internet Archive, Jacob Appelbaum, Jeff Bezos, jimmy wales, Joi Ito, Justin.tv, Kickstarter, Large Hadron Collider, Lean Startup, lolcat, Lyft, Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, medical residency, minimum viable product, natural language processing, Palm Treo, Paul Buchheit, Paul Graham, paypal mafia, Peter Thiel, plutocrats, QR code, r/findbostonbombers, recommendation engine, RFID, rolodex, Ruby on Rails, Sam Altman, Sand Hill Road, Saturday Night Live, self-driving car, semantic web, Sheryl Sandberg, side project, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley ideology, Silicon Valley startup, slashdot, Snapchat, Social Justice Warrior, social web, South of Market, San Francisco, Startup school, Stephen Hawking, Steve Bannon, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Streisand effect, technoutopianism, uber lyft, Wayback Machine, web application, WeWork, WikiLeaks, Y Combinator

He’s intelligent, helpful, and generous—the friend you want to call when you’re in a jam. He’s rational. He’s socially very liberal, veering libertarian—someone who believes in social justice. But his sense of humor is wry. He’d definitely make fun of an overly earnest post by a bleeding-heart liberal, or “social justice warrior,” as they became known online. He’s also a total troll. Huffman’s friends had learned never to leave their cell phones unlocked around him, because if the opportunity arose, he would text their ex-girlfriend something like, “I really love you. I made a huge mistake.” Likewise, Reddit.com could be a total trollfest.

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In many ways, it is hostile to Reddit’s prevailing culture. Typically, even the top posts on SRS have a net negative karma; voting is actually discouraged. “Pretend the rest of Reddit is a museum of poop. Don’t touch the poop,” its rules read. Naturally, a counterforce arose to attack what they saw as whiny social justice warrior behavior. The most prominent anti-SRS subreddits were named r/antisrs and r/SRSsucks. These forums—loosely antifeminist and strictly pro–free speech—birthed a rapidly expanding universe of affiliated subreddits, including r/SubredditDrama, r/menkampf, and r/subredditcancer, which sought to expose corruption among “social justice warrioposters.”

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He said it would have to be Ellen Pao. He didn’t advocate for Ohanian. And he figured that while McComas would likely be able to be swayed to report to Pao, the inverse would not be true. He knew it would be tricky and later recalled having advised them so. “Because Ellen represents, in the eyes of young white males, the SJW [social justice warrior] bogeyman.” Ohanian had flown back from Asia to San Francisco uncertain of Reddit’s future—and his own. He’d still require a lot of coaxing and assurance if he was to step in as chief executive, especially without Huffman at his side. He was slated to meet with the two highest-ranking Reddit managers remaining, Pao and Dan McComas.

American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers by Nancy Jo Sales

4chan, access to a mobile phone, agricultural Revolution, Albert Einstein, Black Lives Matter, British Empire, collateralized debt obligation, Columbine, dark pattern, digital divide, East Village, Edward Snowden, feminist movement, Golden Gate Park, hiring and firing, impulse control, invention of the printing press, James Bridle, jitney, Kodak vs Instagram, longitudinal study, Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, meta-analysis, moral panic, San Francisco homelessness, Sheryl Sandberg, Silicon Valley, Skype, Snapchat, Social Justice Warrior, tech bro, TechCrunch disrupt, The Chicago School, women in the workforce

A more consistent picture emerges when you consider that this is the first generation of college students to grow up with smartphones and twenty-four/seven access to social media; this is a generation unlike any other before in how it has learned to communicate from behind screens, where the majority have either experienced cyberbullying or witnessed the cyberbullying of their peers. (Almost 90 percent of teens have seen cyberbullying on social media, according to the Pew Research Center in 2011.) It’s unfortunate that the phrase “social justice” has become entangled with “social justice warrior,” as social justice is certainly an unmitigated good, something to strive for, and something social justice warriors seem to want to strive for themselves. Some of their methods, however, seem to resemble bullying. In the wake of the Halloween costume controversy, in December 2015, Erika Christakis resigned from her teaching position at Yale; the administration said that she had been a “well-regarded instructor.”

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Whatever you think of the students’ position on Halloween costumes (and I see their point; insulting Halloween costumes are to be despised), their refusal to engage in dialogue with Christakis is troubling, as is their readiness to attack him when he does seem to be trying to talk to them respectfully. Another young woman at the protest, demanding an apology from Christakis, says, “Are you going to [apologize] or not? ’Cause I can just leave if you’re not going to say that.” Leave, or log off, or block? When talking about the rise of “social justice warriors”—the term for the aggressively outraged and rigid type of young activists seen both on- and offline—articles have mentioned as possible influences narcissistic parenting and the increase in narcissism among the young, as well as the fragmenting of discourse allegedly caused by identity politics.

The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics by Mark Lilla

affirmative action, anti-communist, Berlin Wall, Bernie Madoff, Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, Donald Trump, ending welfare as we know it, Gordon Gekko, It's morning again in America, mass immigration, Mikhail Gorbachev, military-industrial complex, new economy, New Urbanism, Ronald Reagan, sensible shoes, Silicon Valley, Social Justice Warrior

And they worked with parties and through institutions to achieve their ends. But as the 1970s flowed into the 1980s, movement politics began to be seen by many liberals as an alternative rather than a supplement to institutional politics, and by some as being more legitimate. That’s when what we now call the social justice warrior was born, a social type with quixotic features whose self-image depends on being unstained by compromise and above trafficking in mere interests. Yet it is an iron law in democracies that anything achieved through movement politics can be undone through institutional politics. The reverse is not the case.

Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays by Phoebe Robinson

Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Airbnb, An Inconvenient Truth, anti-bias training, Black Lives Matter, butterfly effect, coronavirus, COVID-19, David Attenborough, defund the police, desegregation, different worldview, disinformation, Donald Trump, Downton Abbey, emotional labour, financial independence, gentrification, George Floyd, gig economy, global pandemic, green new deal, Greta Thunberg, hiring and firing, imposter syndrome, independent contractor, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Joan Didion, Lyft, mass incarceration, microaggression, off-the-grid, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Ralph Waldo Emerson, rolodex, Rosa Parks, Sheryl Sandberg, social distancing, Social Justice Warrior, Steve Bannon, Steve Jobs, TED Talk, too big to fail, uber lyft, unpaid internship, W. E. B. Du Bois

While the jury is still out on whether that passion will bring about substantive change, there’s no denying that it was a historic summer. A groundswell of outrage, marches, and demands to defund the police mixed with a “Well, the world is on fire, so I gotta do something” energy was a chaotic combination that birthed something no one expected and very few wanted: social justice “warriors.” These weren’t the sjdubs of the past or recent past—Kimberlé Crenshaw (professor of law at UCLA and Columbia Law School), Alicia Garza (cofounder of Black Lives Matter), Rashad Robinson (president of Color of Change), and Marsha P. Johnson (trans activist and one of the prominent figures in the Stonewall uprisings) just to name a few—but a new breed.

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The point is that when qualified Black people are left out of the conversation and their contributions are ignored, so that only white people are in the room, it fills white consumers of antiracism teachings with the sense that they are to become the white saviors who will swoop in and save the day, and that attending these white-run workshops is the first step they need to take in becoming the social justice warrior, which no one asked for, by the way. And, as it turns out, these anti-bias seminars are, across the board, ineffective in the first place. Per a 2019 article in the Harvard Business Review by authors including Adam Grant and Angela Duckworth: Evidence has shown that diversity training can backfire, eliciting defensiveness from the very people who might benefit most.

Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason by William Davies

active measures, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Amazon Web Services, Anthropocene, bank run, banking crisis, basic income, Black Lives Matter, Brexit referendum, business cycle, Cambridge Analytica, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, citizen journalism, Climategate, Climatic Research Unit, Colonization of Mars, continuation of politics by other means, creative destruction, credit crunch, data science, decarbonisation, deep learning, DeepMind, deindustrialization, digital divide, discovery of penicillin, Dominic Cummings, Donald Trump, drone strike, Elon Musk, failed state, fake news, Filter Bubble, first-past-the-post, Frank Gehry, gig economy, government statistician, housing crisis, income inequality, Isaac Newton, Jeff Bezos, Jeremy Corbyn, Johannes Kepler, Joseph Schumpeter, knowledge economy, loss aversion, low skilled workers, Mahatma Gandhi, Mark Zuckerberg, mass immigration, meta-analysis, Mont Pelerin Society, mutually assured destruction, Northern Rock, obamacare, Occupy movement, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, Paris climate accords, pattern recognition, Peace of Westphalia, Peter Thiel, Philip Mirowski, planetary scale, post-industrial society, post-truth, quantitative easing, RAND corporation, Ray Kurzweil, Richard Florida, road to serfdom, Robert Mercer, Ronald Reagan, sentiment analysis, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley billionaire, Silicon Valley startup, smart cities, Social Justice Warrior, statistical model, Steve Bannon, Steve Jobs, tacit knowledge, the scientific method, Turing machine, Uber for X, universal basic income, University of East Anglia, Valery Gerasimov, W. E. B. Du Bois, We are the 99%, WikiLeaks, women in the workforce, zero-sum game

Civil society and democracy are also framed as “wars,” with the “culture wars” splitting American politics down the middle since the 1960s, and Alex Jones, the notorious far-right talk-show host and conspiracy theorist, warning that “there’s a war on for your mind.” The alt-right accuses left-wingers of being “SJWs” (social justice warriors). In the early twenty-first century, it’s not so much that “war is a continuation of politics by other means” but that “politics is a continuation of war by other means,” although precisely where “peaceful” means end and “violent” ones begin is less and less clear. Of course most of these “wars” are not really wars at all, but only framed as such so as to mobilize supporters and frighten opponents.

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., Roger, 24, 25 Piketty, Thomas, 74 Pinker, Stephen, 207 plagues, 56, 67–71, 75, 79–80, 81, 89, 95 pleasure principle, 70, 109, 110, 224 pneumonia, 37, 67 Podemos, 5, 202 Poland, 20, 34, 60 Polanyi, Michael, 163 political anatomy, 57 Political Arithmetick (Petty), 58, 59 political correctness, 20, 27, 145 Popper, Karl, 163, 171 populism xvii, 211–12, 214, 220, 225–6 and central banks, 33 and crowd-based politics, 12 and democracy, 202 and elites/experts, 26, 33, 50, 152, 197, 210, 215 and empathy, 118 and health, 99, 101–2, 224–5 and immediate action, 216 in Kansas (1880s), 220 and markets, 167 and private companies, 174 and promises, 221 and resentment, 145 and statistics, 90 and unemployment, 88 and war, 148, 212 Porter, Michael, 84 post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), 111–14, 117, 209 post-truth, 167, 224 Potsdam Conference (1945), 138 power vs. violence, 19, 219 predictive policing, 151 presidential election, US (2016), xiv and climate change, 214 and data, 190 and education, 85 and free trade, 79 and health, 92, 99 and immigration, 79, 145 and inequality, 76–7 and Internet, 190, 197, 199 “Make America Great Again,” 76, 145 and opinion polling, 65, 80 and promises, 221 and relative deprivation, 88 and Russia, 199 and statistics, 63 and Yellen, 33 prisoners of war, 43 promises, 25, 31, 39–42, 45–7, 51, 52, 217–18, 221–2 Propaganda (Bernays), 14–15 propaganda, 8, 14–16, 83, 124–5, 141, 142, 143 property rights, 158, 167 Protestantism, 34, 35, 45, 215 Prussia (1525–1947), 8, 127–30, 133–4, 135, 142 psychiatry, 107, 139 psychoanalysis, 107, 139 Psychology of Crowds, The (Le Bon), 9–12, 13, 15, 16, 20, 24, 25 psychosomatic, 103 public-spending cuts, 100–101 punishment, 90, 92–3, 94, 95, 108 Purdue, 105 Putin, Vladimir, 145, 183 al-Qaeda, 136 quality of life, 74, 104 quantitative easing, 31–2, 222 quants, 190 radical statistics, 74 RAND Corporation, 183 RBS, 29 Reagan, Ronald, 15, 77, 154, 160, 163, 166 real-time knowledge, xvi, 112, 131, 134, 153, 154, 165–70 Reason Foundation, 158 Red Vienna, 154, 155 Rees-Mogg, Jacob, 33, 61 refugee crisis (2015–), 60, 225 relative deprivation, 88 representative democracy, 7, 12, 14–15, 25–8, 61, 202 Republican Party, 77, 79, 85, 154, 160, 163, 166, 172 research and development (R&D), 133 Research Triangle, North Carolina, 84 resentment, 5, 226 of elites/experts, 32, 52, 61, 86, 88–9, 161, 186, 201 and nationalism/populism, 5, 144–6, 148, 197, 198 and pain, 94 Ridley, Matt, 209 right to remain silent, 44 Road to Serfdom, The (Hayek), 160, 166 Robinson, Tommy, ix Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 52 Royal Exchange, 67 Royal Society, 48–52, 56, 68, 86, 133, 137, 186, 208, 218 Rumsfeld, Donald, 132 Russian Empire (1721–1917), 128, 133 Russian Federation (1991–) and artificial intelligence, 183 Gerasimov Doctrine, 43, 123, 125, 126 and information war, 196 life expectancy, 100, 115 and national humiliation, 145 Skripal poisoning (2018), 43 and social media, 15, 18, 199 troll farms, 199 Russian Revolution (1917), 155 Russian SFSR (1917–91), 132, 133, 135–8, 155, 177, 180, 182–3 safe spaces, 22, 208 Sands, Robert “Bobby,” 43 Saxony, 90 scarlet fever, 67 Scarry, Elaine, 102–3 scenting, 135, 180 Schneier, Bruce, 185 Schumpeter, Joseph, 156–7, 162 Scientific Revolution, 48–52, 62, 66, 95, 204, 207, 218 scientist, coining of term, 133 SCL, 175 Scotland, 64, 85, 172 search engines, xvi Second World War, see World War II securitization of loans, 218 seismology, 135 self-employment, 82 self-esteem, 88–90, 175, 212 self-harm, 44, 114–15, 117, 146, 225 self-help, 107 self-interest, 26, 41, 44, 61, 114, 141, 146 Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE), 180, 182, 200 sentiment analysis, xiii, 12–13, 140, 188 September 11 attacks (2001), 17, 18 shell shock, 109–10 Shrecker, Ted, 226 Silicon Fen, Cambridgeshire, 84 Silicon Valley, California, xvi, 219 and data, 55, 151, 185–93, 199–201 and disruption, 149–51, 175, 226 and entrepreneurship, 149–51 and fascism, 203 and immortality, 149, 183–4, 224, 226 and monopolies, 174, 220 and singularity, 183–4 and telepathy, 176–8, 181, 185, 186, 221 and weaponization, 18, 219 singularity, 184 Siri, 187 Skripal poisoning (2018), 43 slavery, 59, 224 smallpox, 67 smart cities, 190, 199 smartphone addiction, 112, 186–7 snowflakes, 22, 113 social indicators, 74 social justice warriors (SJWs), 131 social media and crowd psychology, 6 emotional artificial intelligence, 12–13, 140–41 and engagement, 7 filter bubbles, 66 and propaganda, 15, 18, 81, 124 and PTSD, 113 and sentiment analysis, 12 trolls, 18, 20–22, 27, 40, 123, 146, 148, 194–8, 199, 209 weaponization of, 18, 19, 22, 194–5 socialism, 8, 20, 154–6, 158, 160 calculation debate, 154–6, 158, 160 Socialism (Mises), 160 Society for Freedom in Science, 163 South Africa, 103 sovereignty, 34, 53 Soviet Russia (1917–91), 132, 133, 135–8, 177, 180, 182–3 Spain, 5, 34, 84, 128, 202 speed of knowledge, xvi, 112, 124, 131, 134, 136, 153, 154, 165–70 Spicer, Sean, 3, 5 spy planes, 136, 152 Stalin, Joseph, 138 Stanford University, 179 statactivism, 74 statistics, 62–91, 161, 186 status, 88–90 Stoermer, Eugene, 206 strong man leaders, 16 suicide, 100, 101, 115 suicide bombing, 44, 146 superbugs, 205 surveillance, 185–93, 219 Sweden, 34 Switzerland, 164 Sydenham, Thomas, 96 Syriza, 5 tacit knowledge, 162 talking cure, 107 taxation, 158 Tea Party, 32, 50, 61, 221 technocracy, 53–8, 59, 60, 61, 78, 87, 89, 90, 211 teenage girls, 113, 114 telepathy, 39, 176–9, 181, 185, 186 terrorism, 17–18, 151, 185 Charlottesville attack (2017), 20 emergency powers, 42 JFK Airport terror scare (2016), x, xiii, 41 Oxford Circus terror scare (2017), ix–x, xiii, 41 September 11 attacks (2001), 17, 18 suicide bombing, 44, 146 vehicle-ramming attacks, 17 war on terror, 131, 136, 196 Thames Valley, England, 85 Thatcher, Margaret, 154, 160, 163, 166 Thiel, Peter, 26, 149–51, 153, 156, 174, 190 Thirty Years War (1618–48), 34, 45, 53, 126 Tokyo, Japan, x torture, 92–3 total wars, 129, 142–3 Treaty of Westphalia (1648), 34, 53 trends, xvi, 168 trigger warnings, 22, 113 trolls, 18, 20–22, 27, 40, 123, 146, 148, 194–8, 199, 209 Trump, Donald, xiv and Bannon, 21, 60–61 and climate change, 207 and education, 85 election campaign (2016), see under presidential election, US and free trade, 79 and health, 92, 99 and immigration, 145 inauguration (2017), 3–5, 6, 9, 10 and inequality, 76–7 “Make America Great Again,” 76, 145 and March for Science (2017), 23, 24, 210 and media, 27 and opinion polling, 65, 80 and Paris climate accord, 207 and promises, 221 and relative deprivation, 88 and statistics, 63 and Yellen, 33 Tsipras, Alexis, 5 Turing, Alan, 181, 183 Twitter and Corbyn’s rallies, 6 and JFK Airport terror scare (2016), x and Oxford Circus terror scare (2017), ix–x and Russia, 18 and sentiment analysis, 188 and trends, xvi and trolls, 194, 195 Uber, 49, 185, 186, 187, 188, 191, 192 UK Independence Party, 65, 92, 202 underemployment, 82 unemployment, 61, 62, 72, 78, 81–3, 87, 88, 203 United Kingdom austerity, 100 Bank of England, 32, 33, 64 Blitz (1940–41), 119, 143, 180 Brexit (2016–), see under Brexit Cameron government (2010–16), 33, 73, 100 Center for Policy Studies, 164 Civil Service, 33 climate-gate (2009), 195 Corbyn’s rallies, 5, 6 Dunkirk evacuation (1940), 119 education, 85 financial crisis (2007–9), 29–32, 100 first past the post, 13 general election (2015), 80, 81 general election (2017), 6, 65, 80, 81, 221 Grenfell Tower fire (2017), 10 gross domestic product (GDP), 77, 79 immigration, 63, 65 Irish hunger strike (1981), 43 life expectancy, 100 National Audit Office (NAO), 29 National Health Service (NHS), 30, 93 Office for National Statistics, 63, 133 and opiates, 105 Oxford Circus terror scare (2017), ix–x, xiii, 41 and pain, 102, 105 Palantir, 151 Potsdam Conference (1945), 138 quantitative easing, 31–2 Royal Society, 138 Scottish independence referendum (2014), 64 Skripal poisoning (2018), 43 Society for Freedom in Science, 163 Thatcher government (1979–90), 154, 160, 163, 166 and torture, 92 Treasury, 61, 64 unemployment, 83 Unite for Europe march (2017), 23 World War II (1939–45), 114, 119, 138, 143, 180 see also England United Nations, 72, 222 United States Bayh–Dole Act (1980), 152 Black Lives Matter, 10, 225 BP oil spill (2010), 89 Bush Jr. administration (2001–9), 77, 136 Bush Sr administration (1989–93), 77 Bureau of Labor, 74 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 3, 136, 151, 199 Charlottesville attack (2017), 20 Civil War (1861–5), 105, 142 and climate change, 207, 214 Clinton administration (1993–2001), 77 Cold War, see Cold War Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), 176, 178 Defense Intelligence Agency, 177 drug abuse, 43, 100, 105, 115–16, 131, 172–3 education, 85 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 137 Federal Reserve, 33 Fifth Amendment (1789), 44 financial crisis (2007–9), 31–2, 82, 158 first past the post, 13 Government Accountability Office, 29 gross domestic product (GDP), 75–7, 82 health, 92, 99–100, 101, 103, 105, 107, 115–16, 158, 172–3 Heritage Foundation, 164, 214 Iraq War (2003–11), 74, 132 JFK Airport terror scare (2016), x, xiii, 41 Kansas populists (1880s), 220 libertarianism, 15, 151, 154, 158, 164, 173 life expectancy, 100, 101 March For Our Lives (2018), 21 March for Science (2017), 23–5, 27, 28, 210 McCarthyism (1947–56), 137 Million-Man March (1995), 4 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 23, 175 National Defense Research Committee, 180 National Park Service, 4 National Security Agency (NSA), 152 Obama administration (2009–17), 3, 24, 76, 77, 79, 158 Occupy Wall Street (2011), 5, 10, 61 and opiates, 105, 172–3 and pain, 103, 105, 107, 172–3 Palantir, 151, 152, 175, 190 Paris climate accord (2015), 205, 207 Parkland attack (2018), 21 Patriot Act (2001), 137 Pentagon, 130, 132, 135, 136, 214, 216 presidential election (2016), see under presidential election, US psychiatry, 107, 111 quantitative easing, 31–2 Reagan administration (1981–9), 15, 77, 154, 160, 163, 166 Rumsfeld’s “unknown unknowns” speech (2002), 132 Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE), 180, 182, 200 September 11 attacks (2001), 17, 18 Tea Party, 32, 50, 61, 221 and torture, 93 Trump administration (2017–), see under Trump, Donald unemployment, 83 Vietnam War (1955–75), 111, 130, 136, 138, 143, 205 World War I (1914–18), 137 World War II (1939–45), 137, 180 universal basic income, 221 universities, 151–2, 164, 169–70 University of Cambridge, 84, 151 University of Chicago, 160 University of East Anglia, 195 University of Oxford, 56, 151 University of Vienna, 160 University of Washington, 188 unknown knowns, 132, 133, 136, 138, 141, 192, 212 unknown unknowns, 132, 133, 138 “Use of Knowledge in Society, The” (Hayek), 161 V2 flying bomb, 137 vaccines, 23, 95 de Vauban, Sébastien Le Prestre, Marquis de Vauban, 73 vehicle-ramming attacks, 17 Vesalius, Andreas, 96 Vienna, Austria, 153–5, 159 Vietnam War (1955–75), 111, 130, 136, 138, 143, 205 violence vs. power, 19, 219 viral marketing, 12 virtual reality, 183 virtue signaling, 194 voice recognition, 187 Vote Leave, 50, 93 Wainright, Joel, 214 Wales, 77, 90 Wall Street, New York, 33, 190 War College, Berlin, 128 “War Economy” (Neurath), 153–4 war on drugs, 43, 131 war on terror, 131, 136, 196 Watts, Jay, 115 weaponization, 18–20, 22, 26, 75, 118, 123, 194, 219, 223 weapons of mass destruction, 132 wearable technology, 173 weather control, 204 “What Is An Emotion?”

Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody by Helen Pluckrose, James A. Lindsay

"hyperreality Baudrillard"~20 OR "Baudrillard hyperreality", affirmative action, Albert Einstein, barriers to entry, battle of ideas, centre right, cognitive dissonance, colonial rule, conceptual framework, critical race theory, deplatforming, desegregation, Donald Trump, equal pay for equal work, European colonialism, fake news, feminist movement, gentrification, germ theory of disease, Isaac Newton, late capitalism, meta-analysis, microaggression, moral panic, neurotypical, phenotype, sexual politics, Social Justice Warrior, Stephen Hawking, Steven Pinker, the scientific method, transatlantic slave trade, W. E. B. Du Bois, white flight, women in the workforce

“Hypatia Editorial Office,” archive.is, June 9, 2017, archive.is/kVrLb. 19.Jerry Coyne, “Journal Hypatia’s Editors Resign, and Directors Suspend Associate Editors over Their Apology for the ‘Transracialism’ Article,” Why Evolution Is True, July 22, 2017, whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2017/07/22/journal-hypatias-editors-resign-and-directors-suspend-associate-editors-over-their-apology-for-the-transracialism-article/. 20.Jesse Singal, “This Is What a Modern-Day Witch Hunt Looks Like,” Intelligencer, New York Magazine, May 2, 2017, nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/05/transracialism-article-controversy.html. 21.Kelly Oliver, “If This Is Feminism …” Philosophical Salon, May 9, 2017, thephilosophicalsalon.com/if-this-is-feminism-its-been-hijacked-by-the-thought-police/. 22.Adam Lusher, “Professor’s ‘Bring Back Colonialism’ Call Sparks Fury and Academic Freedom Debate,” Independent, October 12, 2017, www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/colonialism-academic-article-bruce-gilley-threats-violence-published-withdrawn-third-world-quarterly-a7996371.html. 23.Peter Wood, “The Article That Made 16,000 Ideologues Go Wild,” Minding the Campus, October 18, 2017, www.mindingthecampus.org/2017/10/04/the-article-that-made-16000-profs-go-wild/. 24.Ben Cohen, “The Rise of Engineering’s Social Justice Warriors,” James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, January 3, 2019, www.jamesgmartin.center/2018/11/the-rise-of-engineerings-social-justice-warriors/. 25.Donna Riley, Engineering and Social Justice (San Rafael, CA: Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2008), 109. 26.Enrique Galindo and Jill Newton, eds. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (Indianapolis, IN: Hoosier Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators, 2017). 27.Catherine Gewertz, “Seattle Schools Lead Controversial Push to ‘Rehumanize’ Math,” Education Week, October 22, 2019, www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2019/10/11/seattle-schools-lead-controversial-push-to-rehumanize.html. 28.Seriously … “Seven Things You Need to Know about Antifa,” BBC Radio 4, n.d., www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/X56rQkDgd0qq-B7R68t6t7C/seven-things-you-need-to-know-about-antifa. 29.Peter Beinart, “Left Wing Protests Are Crossing the Line,” Atlantic, November 16, 2018, www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/11/protests-tucker-carlsons-home-crossed-line/576001/. 30.Yasmeen Serhan, “Why Protesters Keep Hurling Milkshakes at British Politicians,” Atlantic, May 21, 2019, www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/05/milkshaking-britain-political-trend-right-wing/589876/. 31.Shaun O’Dwyer, “Of Kimono and Cultural Appropriation,” Japan Times, August 4, 2015, www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2015/08/04/commentary/japan-commentary/kimono-cultural-appropriation/#.XUdyw5NKj_Q. 32.Ade Onibada, “Macy’s Admits It ‘Missed the Mark’ for Selling a Portion-Sized Plate That Some People Online Aren’t Happy About,” BuzzFeed, July 24, 2019, www.buzzfeed.com/adeonibada/macys-pull-portion-control-plate-mom-jeans. 33.Crystal Tai, “Noodle-Maker Nissin Yanks ‘Whitewashed’ Anime of Tennis Star Naomi Osaka,” South China Morning Post, January 24, 2019, www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/2183391/noodle-maker-nissin-withdraws-whitewashed-anime-ad-campaign. 34.Sarah Young, “Gucci Apologises for Selling Jumper That ‘Resembles Blackface,’” Independent, February 13, 2019, www.independent.co.uk/lifestyle/fashion/gucci-blackface-sweater-balaclava-apology-reaction-twitter-controversy-a8767101.html. 35.Ben Beaumont-Thomas, “Katy Perry Shoes Removed from Stores over Blackface Design,” Guardian, February 12, 2019, www.theguardian.com/music/2019/feb/12/katy-perry-shoes-removed-from-stores-over-black-face-design. 36.Julia Alexander, “The Yellow $: A Comprehensive History of Demonetization and YouTube’s War with Creators,” Polygon, May 10, 2018, www.polygon.com/2018/5/10/17268102/youtube-demonetization-pewdiepie-logan-paul-casey-neistat-philip-defranco. 37.Benjamin Goggin, “A Top Patreon Creator Deleted His Account, Accusing the Crowdfunding Membership Platform of ‘Political Bias’ after It Purged Conservative Accounts It Said Were Associated with Hate Groups,” Business Insider, December 17, 2018, www.businessinsider.com/sam-harris-deletes-patreon-account-after-platform-boots-conservatives-2018-12?

The Glass Half-Empty: Debunking the Myth of Progress in the Twenty-First Century by Rodrigo Aguilera

"Friedman doctrine" OR "shareholder theory", "World Economic Forum" Davos, activist fund / activist shareholder / activist investor, Alan Greenspan, Anthropocene, availability heuristic, barriers to entry, basic income, benefit corporation, Berlin Wall, Bernie Madoff, Bernie Sanders, bitcoin, Boris Johnson, Branko Milanovic, Bretton Woods, Brexit referendum, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, capitalist realism, carbon footprint, Carmen Reinhart, centre right, clean water, cognitive bias, collapse of Lehman Brothers, Colonization of Mars, computer age, Corn Laws, corporate governance, corporate raider, creative destruction, cryptocurrency, cuban missile crisis, David Graeber, David Ricardo: comparative advantage, death from overwork, decarbonisation, deindustrialization, Deng Xiaoping, Doha Development Round, don't be evil, Donald Trump, Doomsday Clock, Dunning–Kruger effect, Elon Musk, European colonialism, fake news, Fall of the Berlin Wall, first-past-the-post, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, fundamental attribution error, gig economy, Gini coefficient, Glass-Steagall Act, Great Leap Forward, green new deal, Hans Rosling, housing crisis, income inequality, income per capita, index fund, intangible asset, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), invisible hand, Jean Tirole, Jeff Bezos, Jeremy Corbyn, Jevons paradox, job automation, job satisfaction, John Maynard Keynes: Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren, joint-stock company, Joseph Schumpeter, karōshi / gwarosa / guolaosi, Kenneth Rogoff, Kickstarter, lake wobegon effect, land value tax, Landlord’s Game, late capitalism, liberal capitalism, long peace, loss aversion, low interest rates, Mark Zuckerberg, market fundamentalism, means of production, meta-analysis, military-industrial complex, Mont Pelerin Society, moral hazard, moral panic, neoliberal agenda, Network effects, North Sea oil, Northern Rock, offshore financial centre, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, Overton Window, Pareto efficiency, passive investing, Peter Thiel, plutocrats, principal–agent problem, profit motive, public intellectual, purchasing power parity, race to the bottom, rent-seeking, risk tolerance, road to serfdom, Robert Shiller, Robert Solow, savings glut, Scientific racism, secular stagnation, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley ideology, Slavoj Žižek, Social Justice Warrior, Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits, sovereign wealth fund, Stanislav Petrov, Steven Pinker, structural adjustment programs, surveillance capitalism, tail risk, tech bro, TED Talk, The Spirit Level, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, too big to fail, trade liberalization, transatlantic slave trade, trolley problem, unbiased observer, universal basic income, Vilfredo Pareto, Washington Consensus, Winter of Discontent, Y2K, young professional, zero-sum game

In fairness, Pinker is at least notionally supportive of ideas like universal basic income and does not appear to have much sympathy for the more rapacious type of capitalism seen in the US, something which certainly sets him apart from libertarians like Norberg and Ridley. Still, it’s hard not to understand his broader disdain for inequality as yet another attempt at scoring points against the left-wing “progressophobic” intellectuals and social justice warriors to which inequality matters a great deal. It is impossible to define what an acceptable level of inequality would be, although it is amusing to note that polls suggest even Republican voters in the US would prefer a distribution of income similar to Sweden’s (insofar as they are not told it is Sweden’s lest it exposes their subconscious socialist).48 Perhaps it is only when inequality ceases to be a dominant social/political imperative, but this too is shaped by existing narratives and cultural norms as evidenced by how easily the Reagan–Thatcher laissez-faire revolution convinced people that it was not an issue that mattered.

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But with creationists and other religious fundamentalists no longer seen as the threat to enlightened, Western, secular civilization, a new bogeyman was needed to replace them. This would end up becoming the “regressive left”, composed of postmodern academics (mainly in the humanities and social sciences), angry college campus “social justice warriors” obsessed with identity politics and political correctness, and a liberal cultural establishment eager to exalt non-Western cultures and values for the sake of diversity while at the same time accusing the West as the root of all evil. By painting this “regressive left” as irrational as the religious fundamentalists of the noughties, the New Right has thus been able to continue weaponizing its obsession with rationality and reason which it tends to attribute exclusively as a product of Western Enlightenment.

Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class by Charles Murray

23andMe, affirmative action, Albert Einstein, Alfred Russel Wallace, Asperger Syndrome, assortative mating, autism spectrum disorder, basic income, behavioural economics, bioinformatics, Cass Sunstein, correlation coefficient, CRISPR, Daniel Kahneman / Amos Tversky, dark triade / dark tetrad, domesticated silver fox, double helix, Drosophila, emotional labour, epigenetics, equal pay for equal work, European colonialism, feminist movement, glass ceiling, Gregor Mendel, Gunnar Myrdal, income inequality, Kenneth Arrow, labor-force participation, longitudinal study, meritocracy, meta-analysis, nudge theory, out of africa, p-value, phenotype, public intellectual, publication bias, quantitative hedge fund, randomized controlled trial, Recombinant DNA, replication crisis, Richard Thaler, risk tolerance, school vouchers, Scientific racism, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), Silicon Valley, Skinner box, social intelligence, Social Justice Warrior, statistical model, Steven Pinker, The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, the scientific method, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, theory of mind, Thomas Kuhn: the structure of scientific revolutions, twin studies, universal basic income, working-age population

Cordelia Fine, Daphna Joel, and Gina Rippon, “Eight Things You Need to Know About Sex, Gender, Brains, and Behavior: A Guide for Academics, Journalists, Parents, Gender Diversity Advocates, Social Justice Warriors, Tweeters, Facebookers, and Everyone Else,” S&F Online, issue 15.2 (2019), sfonline.barnard.edu/neurogenderings/eight-things-you-need-to-know-about-sex-gender-brains-and-behavior-a-guide-for-academics-journalists-parents-gender-diversity-advocates-social-justice-warriors-tweeters-facebookers-and-ever/. 60. Marco Del Giudice, David A. Puts, David C. Geary et al., “Sex Differences in Brain and Behavior: Eight Counterpoints,” Psychology Today, April 8, 2019, www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sexual-personalities/201904/sex-differences-in-brain-and-behavior-eight-counterpoints. 61.

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., treating male and female brains as binary).[58] If you want to compare the arguments side by side, I recommend a pair of articles easily obtainable online. The first is by Cordelia Fine, Daphna Joel, and Gina Rippon: “Eight Things You Need to Know About Sex, Gender, Brains, and Behavior: A Guide for Academics, Journalists, Parents, Gender Diversity Advocates, Social Justice Warriors, Tweeters, Facebookers, and Everyone Else.”59 The second is a response by Marco Del Giudice, David Puts, David Geary, and David Schmitt: “Sex Differences in Brain and Behavior: Eight Counterpoints.”60 If you’re trying to compare the positions in Jordan-Young, Fine, and Rippon with mainstream science on the crucial issue of masculinization of the male brain, I recommend two evenhanded reviews of the literature on early androgen exposure written by acknowledged experts in the field.

Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker

affirmative action, Albert Einstein, autonomous vehicles, availability heuristic, Ayatollah Khomeini, backpropagation, basic income, behavioural economics, belling the cat, Black Lives Matter, butterfly effect, carbon tax, Cass Sunstein, choice architecture, classic study, clean water, Comet Ping Pong, coronavirus, correlation coefficient, correlation does not imply causation, COVID-19, critical race theory, crowdsourcing, cuban missile crisis, Daniel Kahneman / Amos Tversky, data science, David Attenborough, deep learning, defund the police, delayed gratification, disinformation, Donald Trump, Dr. Strangelove, Easter island, effective altruism, en.wikipedia.org, Erdős number, Estimating the Reproducibility of Psychological Science, fake news, feminist movement, framing effect, George Akerlof, George Floyd, germ theory of disease, high batting average, if you see hoof prints, think horses—not zebras, index card, Jeff Bezos, job automation, John Nash: game theory, John von Neumann, libertarian paternalism, Linda problem, longitudinal study, loss aversion, Mahatma Gandhi, meta-analysis, microaggression, Monty Hall problem, Nash equilibrium, New Journalism, Paul Erdős, Paul Samuelson, Peter Singer: altruism, Pierre-Simon Laplace, placebo effect, post-truth, power law, QAnon, QWERTY keyboard, Ralph Waldo Emerson, randomized controlled trial, replication crisis, Richard Thaler, scientific worldview, selection bias, social discount rate, social distancing, Social Justice Warrior, Stanford marshmallow experiment, Steve Bannon, Steven Pinker, sunk-cost fallacy, TED Talk, the scientific method, Thomas Bayes, Tragedy of the Commons, trolley problem, twin studies, universal basic income, Upton Sinclair, urban planning, Walter Mischel, yellow journalism, zero-sum game

Think of a court of law, where in judging the probability that the defendant is guilty, you ignore inadmissible and prejudicial background information and consider only the strength of the prosecutor’s case. It was the evidential interpretation that made it rational to judge that Linda, having been presented as a social justice warrior, was likelier to be a feminist bank teller than a bank teller. Finally there is the frequentist interpretation: if you did toss the die many times, say, a thousand, and counted the outcomes, you’d find that the result was even in around five hundred of the tosses, or half of them. Ordinarily the five interpretations are aligned.

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Kahneman and Tversky confirmed this in experiments in which they asked participants to consider a sample of 70 lawyers and 30 engineers (or vice versa), provided them with a thumbnail sketch that matched a stereotype, such as a dull nerd, and asked them to put a probability on that person’s job. People were swayed by the stereotype; the base rates went in one ear and out the other.9 (This is also why people fall for the conjunction fallacy from chapter 1, in which Linda the social justice warrior is likelier to be a feminist bank teller than a bank teller. She’s representative of a feminist, and people forget about the relative base rates of feminist bank tellers and bank tellers.) A blindness to base rates also leads to public demands for the impossible. Why can’t we predict who will attempt suicide?

Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal by George Packer

affirmative action, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Alan Greenspan, anti-bias training, anti-communist, Berlin Wall, Bernie Sanders, Big Tech, BIPOC, Black Lives Matter, blue-collar work, Branko Milanovic, British Empire, business cycle, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, collective bargaining, coronavirus, COVID-19, crony capitalism, defund the police, deindustrialization, desegregation, disinformation, Donald Trump, failed state, fake news, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Ferguson, Missouri, fulfillment center, full employment, George Floyd, ghettoisation, gig economy, glass ceiling, informal economy, Jeff Bezos, knowledge economy, liberal capitalism, lockdown, Lyft, Mark Zuckerberg, mass immigration, meritocracy, minimum wage unemployment, new economy, Norman Mailer, obamacare, off-the-grid, postindustrial economy, prosperity theology / prosperity gospel / gospel of success, QAnon, ride hailing / ride sharing, road to serfdom, Ronald Reagan, school vouchers, self-driving car, Silicon Valley, social distancing, Social Justice Warrior, Steve Bannon, too big to fail, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, Upton Sinclair, white flight, working poor, young professional

What we should remember from Greeley’s life is not any particular view or enthusiasm, but the kind of American it was possible to be: an extraordinary man who never stopped identifying with ordinary people; a journalist whose vocation was to be a citizen. * * * Frances Perkins was as woke as any social justice warrior. Her story shows us a way to be woke that we need to remember if we hope to do half as much for social justice as her generation achieved. The Progressives grew up in a world whose scale and complexity the Civil War generation of Lincoln and Greeley and Whitman had never dreamed of. They were mostly middle-class Protestants, as anxious about their status as today’s professionals.

Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy by Jonathan Taplin

"Friedman doctrine" OR "shareholder theory", "there is no alternative" (TINA), 1960s counterculture, affirmative action, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Airbnb, AlphaGo, Amazon Mechanical Turk, American Legislative Exchange Council, AOL-Time Warner, Apple's 1984 Super Bowl advert, back-to-the-land, barriers to entry, basic income, battle of ideas, big data - Walmart - Pop Tarts, Big Tech, bitcoin, Brewster Kahle, Buckminster Fuller, Burning Man, Clayton Christensen, Cody Wilson, commoditize, content marketing, creative destruction, crony capitalism, crowdsourcing, data is the new oil, data science, David Brooks, David Graeber, decentralized internet, don't be evil, Donald Trump, Douglas Engelbart, Douglas Engelbart, Dynabook, Edward Snowden, Elon Musk, equal pay for equal work, Erik Brynjolfsson, Fairchild Semiconductor, fake news, future of journalism, future of work, George Akerlof, George Gilder, Golden age of television, Google bus, Hacker Ethic, Herbert Marcuse, Howard Rheingold, income inequality, informal economy, information asymmetry, information retrieval, Internet Archive, Internet of things, invisible hand, Jacob Silverman, Jaron Lanier, Jeff Bezos, job automation, John Markoff, John Maynard Keynes: technological unemployment, John Perry Barlow, John von Neumann, Joseph Schumpeter, Kevin Kelly, Kickstarter, labor-force participation, Larry Ellison, life extension, Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, Max Levchin, Menlo Park, Metcalfe’s law, military-industrial complex, Mother of all demos, move fast and break things, natural language processing, Network effects, new economy, Norbert Wiener, offshore financial centre, packet switching, PalmPilot, Paul Graham, paypal mafia, Peter Thiel, plutocrats, pre–internet, Ray Kurzweil, reality distortion field, recommendation engine, rent-seeking, revision control, Robert Bork, Robert Gordon, Robert Metcalfe, Ronald Reagan, Ross Ulbricht, Sam Altman, Sand Hill Road, secular stagnation, self-driving car, sharing economy, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley ideology, Skinner box, smart grid, Snapchat, Social Justice Warrior, software is eating the world, Steve Bannon, Steve Jobs, Stewart Brand, tech billionaire, techno-determinism, technoutopianism, TED Talk, The Chicago School, the long tail, The Market for Lemons, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, Tim Cook: Apple, trade route, Tragedy of the Commons, transfer pricing, Travis Kalanick, trickle-down economics, Tyler Cowen, Tyler Cowen: Great Stagnation, universal basic income, unpaid internship, vertical integration, We are as Gods, We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters, web application, Whole Earth Catalog, winner-take-all economy, women in the workforce, Y Combinator, you are the product

But the problem wasn’t just the scorned lover. It was the Internet mob of young men with a deep hatred of women and their efforts to be part of the gaming community. Because other women came to Zoe’s defense, the mob has “morphed into a neo-reactionary movement, bent largely on fighting ‘social justice warriors’ online.” But for the young men spending hours harassing Zoe Quinn, it is feminism that is the problem. Of course Peter Thiel felt this back in the early 1990s when he wrote in the Stanford Review that “the passionate hatred of men, the utopian demands for an elimination of all gender differences and the belief in widespread gender discrimination” were the biggest problems on the Stanford campus.

HWFG: Here We F**king Go by Chris McQueer

call centre, Donald Trump, Kickstarter, Nelson Mandela, sensible shoes, Social Justice Warrior

The lads are aw howlin as Mo sulks away back tae the caravan, rubbin his wee fat airm. Ah cin tell it’s nervous laughter, though; they’re fuckin shiteing theirselves. Parker next. Poor cunt is the token ginger ae the group, his skin’s rid raw. ‘Look, I don’t agree with this,’ he says. ‘I mean, I’m all for equality and all that, just ask my friends, they call me a social justice warrior, but this isn’t right. Men shouldn’t compete against women in sports like this. If you ask–’ ‘Stoap talkin mince an gies yer airm.’ He disnae put up much ae a fight. Ah feel as if he’s let me win but a win’s a win nonetheless. Disco is lookin worried. Ahm comin fur your title, big man.

Poverty Safari: Understanding the Anger of Britain's Underclass by Darren McGarvey

basic income, British Empire, carbon footprint, deindustrialization, do what you love, Donald Trump, gentrification, imposter syndrome, impulse control, means of production, side project, Social Justice Warrior, universal basic income, urban decay, wage slave

We wear those second-hand values like badges of honour, signalling to those around us that we are informed people of substance and principle, as opposed to that other sorry lot. That other lot, whose only function is providing the perfect absolute against which we, the enlightened, define ourselves. A slew of terms like ‘loony lefty’, ‘Tory scum’ or more recently slurs like ‘social justice warrior’ have become commonplace, deployed to reduce the groups with whom we disagree to a more manageable size. Dismissing challenges to our beliefs is as reflexive as blinking or breathing, because an unchallenged belief is easier to retain. Sticking to our guns, at the expense of all other considerations, appears to be the aim of the game.

Uncanny Valley: A Memoir by Anna Wiener

autonomous vehicles, back-to-the-land, basic income, behavioural economics, Blitzscaling, blockchain, blood diamond, Burning Man, call centre, charter city, cloud computing, cognitive bias, cognitive dissonance, commoditize, crowdsourcing, cryptocurrency, dark triade / dark tetrad, data science, digital divide, digital nomad, digital rights, end-to-end encryption, Extropian, functional programming, future of work, gentrification, Golden Gate Park, growth hacking, guns versus butter model, housing crisis, Jane Jacobs, job automation, knowledge worker, Lean Startup, means of production, medical residency, microaggression, microapartment, microdosing, new economy, New Urbanism, Overton Window, passive income, Plato's cave, pull request, rent control, ride hailing / ride sharing, San Francisco homelessness, Sand Hill Road, self-driving car, sharing economy, Shenzhen special economic zone , side project, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, Social Justice Warrior, social web, South of Market, San Francisco, special economic zone, subprime mortgage crisis, systems thinking, tech bro, tech worker, technoutopianism, telepresence, telepresence robot, union organizing, universal basic income, unpaid internship, urban planning, urban renewal, warehouse robotics, women in the workforce, work culture , Y2K, young professional

” * * * Back in the office, there was a lot of chatter about a group of internet trolls who had mounted a harassment campaign against women in gaming. The trolls had flooded social networks, spouting racist, misogynistic, and reactionary rhetoric. They railed against feminists, activists, and those whom they dubbed, pejoratively, social justice warriors. They had been banned from nearly every other platform, and responded by citing the First Amendment and crying censorship. This caught the attention of some right-wing commentators and white supremacists, who offered endorsement and solidarity. On the open-source platform, the trolls maintained a repository of resources and information on women they were targeting—photos, addresses, personal information—and outlined strategies for stalking, harassment, and media pressure.

Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy by Talia Lavin

4chan, Bellingcat, Black Lives Matter, coronavirus, COVID-19, dark triade / dark tetrad, deplatforming, disinformation, Donald Trump, end-to-end encryption, epigenetics, fake news, feminist movement, Ferguson, Missouri, game design, information security, Kevin Roose, lockdown, mass immigration, Minecraft, move fast and break things, Overton Window, phenotype, Scientific racism, Silicon Valley, Snapchat, Social Justice Warrior, Steve Bannon, Susan Wojcicki, The Turner Diaries, Timothy McVeigh, zero-sum game, éminence grise

Anyone female, or a member of a racial minority—or even simply critical of the tits-and-gore ethos of mainstream games—was a fair target for attack. GamerGaters were digital natives, utilizing all the tools at their disposal and innovating more, orbiting around a nucleus of reactionary politics. As one commenter on the gaming message board Escapist Forums put it, the movement was an expression of “anger at feminists and SJWs [Social Justice Warriors, a derogatory term for leftists] trying to dictate what’s in games and screeching when things don’t meet a ‘diversity’ quota”—and its end goal was a “crazy as all get out revolution.” It’s unsurprising that these scorched-earth tactics extended to racialized abuse of critics, and purposeful disinformation generated to blur the white, male nature of the movement.

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell

barriers to entry, behavioural economics, BIPOC, Black Lives Matter, classic study, cognitive dissonance, coronavirus, COVID-19, Donald Trump, en.wikipedia.org, epigenetics, fake news, financial independence, Girl Boss, growth hacking, hive mind, Jeff Bezos, Jeffrey Epstein, Keith Raniere, Kickstarter, late capitalism, lockdown, loss aversion, LuLaRoe, Lyft, multilevel marketing, off-the-grid, passive income, Peoples Temple, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Ponzi scheme, prosperity theology / prosperity gospel / gospel of success, QAnon, Ronald Reagan, Russell Brand, Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, side hustle, Silicon Valley, Skype, Social Justice Warrior, Stanford prison experiment, Steve Jobs, sunk-cost fallacy, tech bro, the scientific method, TikTok, uber lyft, women in the workforce, Y2K

It’s June 2020, one of the most contentious months in contemporary American history, and my Instagram algorithm is on the fritz. Amid posting about the global COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter, while keeping up with all the New Age swamis, MLM recruiters, and conspiracy theorists I’ve followed over the past year, my Explore page can’t seem to tell whether I’m a social justice warrior, a Plandemic truther, an antivaxxer, a witch, an Amway distributor, or just really obsessed with essential oils. There’s a smug satisfaction that comes with briefly allowing myself to believe I’ve confused the Instagram Eye, whose presence is so omniscient and mysterious (and indispensable to me), sometimes it feels like the only God I’ve ever known.

Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

anti-fragile, availability heuristic, behavioural economics, Benoit Mandelbrot, Bernie Madoff, Black Swan, Brownian motion, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, Cass Sunstein, cellular automata, Claude Shannon: information theory, cognitive dissonance, complexity theory, data science, David Graeber, disintermediation, Donald Trump, Edward Thorp, equity premium, fake news, financial independence, information asymmetry, invisible hand, knowledge economy, loss aversion, mandelbrot fractal, Mark Spitznagel, mental accounting, microbiome, mirror neurons, moral hazard, Murray Gell-Mann, offshore financial centre, p-value, Paradox of Choice, Paul Samuelson, Ponzi scheme, power law, precautionary principle, price mechanism, principal–agent problem, public intellectual, Ralph Nader, random walk, rent-seeking, Richard Feynman, Richard Thaler, Ronald Coase, Ronald Reagan, Rory Sutherland, Rupert Read, Silicon Valley, Social Justice Warrior, Steven Pinker, stochastic process, survivorship bias, systematic bias, tail risk, TED Talk, The Nature of the Firm, Tragedy of the Commons, transaction costs, urban planning, Yogi Berra

Even worse: the general and the abstract tend to attract self-righteous psychopaths similar to the interventionistas of Part 1 of the Prologue. In other words, Kant did not get the notion of scaling—yet many of us are victims of Kant’s universalism. (As we saw, modernity likes the abstract over the particular; social justice warriors have been accused of “treating people as categories, not individuals.”) Few, outside of religion, really got the notion of scaling before the great political thinker Elinor Ostrom, about whom a bit in Chapter 1. In fact, the deep message of this book is the danger of universalism taken two or three steps too far—conflating the micro and the macro.

Radicalized by Cory Doctorow

activist fund / activist shareholder / activist investor, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, air gap, Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, call centre, crisis actor, crowdsourcing, cryptocurrency, data science, Edward Snowden, Flash crash, G4S, high net worth, information asymmetry, Kim Stanley Robinson, license plate recognition, Neal Stephenson, obamacare, old-boy network, public intellectual, satellite internet, six sigma, Social Justice Warrior, stock buybacks, TaskRabbit

From the Eagle’s vantage point, the little clot of white-polo-shirt-wearing Nazis with their red armbands looked like the pupil of a great, seething eye of pro-cop demonstrators. The two camps were now close enough that they looked like they might merge. The on-duty cops—who had only a moment before been raptly listening to Sergeant Bianchi’s fumble-tongued speech about “protecting decent people” and “social justice warriors who’d let animals run wild” and “telling it like it is”—started to move between them, to serve as a buffer. Wilbur Robinson continued to walk forward slowly, relentlessly, until he ran up against the uniformed police lines. “Excuse me, sir, may I get past, please?” The American Eagle could read his lips from his vantage point, but even if he hadn’t been able to, Robinson’s body language was plain to see.

The Twittering Machine by Richard Seymour

4chan, anti-communist, augmented reality, behavioural economics, Bernie Sanders, Big Tech, Black Lives Matter, Cal Newport, Californian Ideology, Cass Sunstein, Chelsea Manning, citizen journalism, classic study, colonial rule, Comet Ping Pong, correlation does not imply causation, credit crunch, crisis actor, crowdsourcing, dark triade / dark tetrad, disinformation, don't be evil, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Erik Brynjolfsson, Evgeny Morozov, fake news, false flag, Filter Bubble, Gabriella Coleman, gamification, Google Chrome, Google Earth, hive mind, informal economy, Internet of things, invention of movable type, invention of writing, James Bridle, Jaron Lanier, Jeremy Corbyn, Jon Ronson, Jony Ive, Kevin Kelly, Kevin Roose, knowledge economy, late capitalism, Lewis Mumford, liberal capitalism, Mark Zuckerberg, Marshall McLuhan, meta-analysis, Mohammed Bouazizi, moral panic, move fast and break things, Network effects, new economy, packet switching, patent troll, Philip Mirowski, post scarcity, post-industrial society, post-truth, RAND corporation, Rat Park, rent-seeking, replication crisis, sentiment analysis, Shoshana Zuboff, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley ideology, Skinner box, smart cities, Snapchat, Social Justice Warrior, Steve Bannon, Steve Jobs, Stewart Brand, Stuxnet, surveillance capitalism, TaskRabbit, technological determinism, technoutopianism, TED Talk, the scientific method, Tim Cook: Apple, Timothy McVeigh, Twitter Arab Spring, undersea cable, upwardly mobile, white flight, Whole Earth Catalog, WikiLeaks

Online security discourses show a terror of identity theft. Online celebrity involves obsessively curating a personal self, which may include mobilizing elements of one’s ascriptive identity. Online politics is often a struggle over the thresholds of ‘cultural appropriation’ and identitarian belonging. The social justice warrior’s injunction, #stayinyourlane, suggests we can never transcend identitarian boxes. The era of the platforms has witnessed an explosion in identity-talk. There are some good reasons for this. Much of what is described as identity politics addresses long-standing injustices, impacting on people precisely because of how they’re identified, from Black Lives Matter to #MeToo.

The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success by Ross Douthat

Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, AI winter, Apollo 13, Bernie Sanders, bitcoin, Black Lives Matter, Boeing 747, Burning Man, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, carbon tax, centre right, Charlie Hebdo massacre, charter city, crack epidemic, CRISPR, crowdsourcing, David Graeber, Deng Xiaoping, deplatforming, Donald Trump, driverless car, East Village, Easter island, Elon Musk, fake news, Flynn Effect, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, Francisco Pizarro, ghettoisation, gig economy, Golden age of television, green new deal, Haight Ashbury, helicopter parent, hive mind, Hyperloop, immigration reform, informal economy, intentional community, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Islamic Golden Age, Jeff Bezos, Jeremy Corbyn, Joan Didion, Kevin Kelly, Kickstarter, knowledge worker, life extension, low interest rates, mass immigration, mass incarceration, means of production, megacity, meritocracy, microaggression, move fast and break things, multiplanetary species, Neal Stephenson, Neil Armstrong, New Journalism, Nicholas Carr, Norman Mailer, obamacare, Oculus Rift, open borders, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, out of africa, Panopticon Jeremy Bentham, Paris climate accords, peak TV, Peter Thiel, plutocrats, pre–internet, private spaceflight, QAnon, quantitative easing, radical life extension, rent-seeking, Robert Bork, Robert Gordon, Ronald Reagan, secular stagnation, self-driving car, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley billionaire, Silicon Valley ideology, Snapchat, Snow Crash, Social Justice Warrior, social web, Steve Bannon, Steve Jobs, Steven Pinker, technoutopianism, TED Talk, the built environment, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, Tyler Cowen, Tyler Cowen: Great Stagnation, wage slave, WeWork, women in the workforce, Y2K

The fiercest anti-Trump resisters are well-educated suburban liberal moms; the staunchest MAGA folk are seventysomething retirees in The Villages. Who among them is supposed to take up arms? Will the gamers and irony bros of the far right web-storm the bastions of liberal academia en masse, to be met by grapeshot from the social justice warriors? Will senior citizens inflamed by e-mail chains and Sean Hannity broadcasts roll into Berkeley in search of a rumble with Antifa and the New Black Panther Party? Even as the former Yugoslavia descended into civil war in the 1990s, it was difficult for the warring factions to find soldiers to fight the actual battles, to a point where the Serbian nationalists ended up relying on soccer hooligans and convicts.

Lurking: How a Person Became a User by Joanne McNeil

"World Economic Forum" Davos, 4chan, A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, Ada Lovelace, Adam Curtis, Airbnb, AltaVista, Amazon Mechanical Turk, Andy Rubin, benefit corporation, Big Tech, Black Lives Matter, Burning Man, Cambridge Analytica, Chelsea Manning, Chris Wanstrath, citation needed, cloud computing, context collapse, crowdsourcing, data science, deal flow, decentralized internet, delayed gratification, dematerialisation, disinformation, don't be evil, Donald Trump, drone strike, Edward Snowden, Elon Musk, eternal september, fake news, feminist movement, Firefox, gentrification, Google Earth, Google Glasses, Google Hangouts, green new deal, helicopter parent, holacracy, Internet Archive, invention of the telephone, Jeff Bezos, jimmy wales, John Perry Barlow, Jon Ronson, Julie Ann Horvath, Kim Stanley Robinson, l'esprit de l'escalier, Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, Marshall McLuhan, Max Levchin, means of production, Menlo Park, Mondo 2000, moral panic, move fast and break things, Neal Stephenson, Network effects, packet switching, PageRank, pre–internet, profit motive, Project Xanadu, QAnon, real-name policy, recommendation engine, Salesforce, Saturday Night Live, Sheryl Sandberg, Shoshana Zuboff, Silicon Valley, slashdot, Snapchat, social graph, Social Justice Warrior, Stephen Hawking, Steve Jobs, Steven Levy, Stewart Brand, subscription business, surveillance capitalism, tech worker, techlash, technoutopianism, Ted Nelson, TED Talk, Tim Cook: Apple, trade route, Turing complete, Wayback Machine, We are the 99%, web application, white flight, Whole Earth Catalog, you are the product

That is a core principle—not a rule that can be dodged with the “ignore all the rules” rule. The alt-right and other modern bigots ran the floor with it. In 2015, five editors attempted to clean up pages related to Gamergate and its targets, but soon they were banned from editing. One of them, a man in Alaska who “had no idea who Zoë Quinn was or what a social justice warrior was six months ago,” as he told Lauren C. Williams at ThinkProgress, was later doxed and harassed like any other Gamergate target. He was a longtime Wikipedian, editing the site for ten years, and simply volunteered his time to remove links to obviously disreputable websites like Breitbart and delete inappropriate, harassing language (“I don’t want [anyone] calling people a slut on the world’s most-read website,” he said at the time).

Power, for All: How It Really Works and Why It's Everyone's Business by Julie Battilana, Tiziana Casciaro

"Friedman doctrine" OR "shareholder theory", "World Economic Forum" Davos, Abraham Maslow, affirmative action, agricultural Revolution, Albert Einstein, algorithmic bias, Andy Rubin, Asperger Syndrome, benefit corporation, Big Tech, BIPOC, Black Lives Matter, blood diamond, Boris Johnson, British Empire, call centre, Cass Sunstein, classic study, clean water, cognitive dissonance, collective bargaining, conceptual framework, coronavirus, COVID-19, CRISPR, deep learning, different worldview, digital rights, disinformation, Elon Musk, Erik Brynjolfsson, fake news, feminist movement, fundamental attribution error, future of work, George Floyd, gig economy, Greta Thunberg, hiring and firing, impact investing, income inequality, informal economy, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), invention of movable type, Jeff Bezos, job satisfaction, Joshua Gans and Andrew Leigh, Mahatma Gandhi, means of production, mega-rich, meritocracy, meta-analysis, Milgram experiment, moral hazard, Naomi Klein, Nelson Mandela, Occupy movement, Panopticon Jeremy Bentham, principal–agent problem, profit maximization, Ralph Waldo Emerson, ride hailing / ride sharing, Salesforce, School Strike for Climate, Second Machine Age, shareholder value, sharing economy, Sheryl Sandberg, Shoshana Zuboff, Silicon Valley, social distancing, Social Justice Warrior, Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits, Steven Pinker, surveillance capitalism, tacit knowledge, tech worker, the scientific method, The Wisdom of Crowds, TikTok, Tim Cook: Apple, transatlantic slave trade, union organizing, zero-sum game

Perceived as too warm, they break with the image of leaders as strong and masculine, and they run the risk of being perceived as incompetent. But viewed as too strong and competent, they break with the image of women as warm, maternal figures, and run the risk of being seen as cold and insensitive.50 As a Black woman, Cheryl felt that she had to be especially cautious not to appear too aggressive. “I am a self-described social justice warrior, but I am always careful not to be the angry Black woman in the room.” Professional women, in general, tend to be penalized when they display anger.51 But gender stereotypes do not affect all women and men in the same way. In the United States, as Cheryl rightly pointed out, the stereotype of the angry Black woman—dominant, strong, aggressive, ill-tempered, loud, and hostile—finds its roots in the harrowing experience of female slaves in Antebellum America, and is still prevalent today.52 Cheryl worried that sounding angry would backfire on her, as people might then view her as “too emotional and erratic.”

The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World by Linsey McGoey

Alan Greenspan, An Inconvenient Truth, anti-globalists, antiwork, battle of ideas, behavioural economics, Big Tech, Black Lives Matter, Branko Milanovic, British Empire, Cambridge Analytica, carbon tax, Cass Sunstein, Clive Stafford Smith, conceptual framework, Corn Laws, corporate governance, corporate raider, Credit Default Swap, David Ricardo: comparative advantage, Donald Trump, drone strike, en.wikipedia.org, European colonialism, fake news, Frances Oldham Kelsey, hiring and firing, Howard Zinn, income inequality, it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it, joint-stock company, junk bonds, knowledge economy, market fundamentalism, mass incarceration, Michael Milken, minimum wage unemployment, Naomi Klein, new economy, Nick Leeson, p-value, Paul Samuelson, Peter Thiel, plutocrats, post-truth, public intellectual, race to the bottom, randomized controlled trial, rent-seeking, road to serfdom, Robert Mercer, Ronald Reagan, Scientific racism, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), Social Justice Warrior, Steven Pinker, Suez crisis 1956, The Chicago School, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, union organizing, Upton Sinclair, W. E. B. Du Bois, Washington Consensus, wealth creators

Occasionally, Pinker does acknowledge the value of laws that protect workers and reduce economic inequality: he hails the early 20th-century US labor movement for improving worker hours, for example. But this is precisely why Pinker’s blinkered approach to wealth distribution is surprising – he commends long-ago labour battles, but when low-paid service workers call for fair pay today he mocks them disparagingly as ‘social justice warriors.’ It’s an illogical double-standard – a double-standard that is similar to debates over economic inequality and economic justice that raged in the 18th and 19th centuries. VOLTE-FACE To suggest that late enlightenment thinkers were preoccupied with the problem of economic justice is not to suggest that they all had a uniform view on how to make the economy fair.

The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis

"World Economic Forum" Davos, Airbnb, contact tracing, coronavirus, COVID-19, dark matter, data science, deep learning, Donald Davies, Donald Trump, double helix, energy security, facts on the ground, failed state, gentleman farmer, global supply chain, illegal immigration, Marc Benioff, Mark Zuckerberg, out of africa, precautionary principle, QAnon, rolling blackouts, Ronald Reagan, Salesforce, Silicon Valley, social distancing, Social Justice Warrior, stem cell, tech bro, telemarketer, the new new thing, working poor, young professional

One guy from someplace in Florida raised his hand, then saw that he was alone and quickly lowered it. “So it’s only poor kids who need school lunch who should risk illness and death to go to school,” Carter said. “Why don’t we just find another way to feed them so they can stay home, too?” That was the moment that Lisa sensed people felt it. They stopped thinking like social justice warriors and became parents. Of course if there was a real risk of disease killing their children they’d keep their kids home from school! That, thought Lisa, was the moment she and Carter looked at each other and said, “We won!” That was the moment the CDC accepted various forms of social distancing as a viable tool in any future pandemic, because they saw that everyone else would.

News and How to Use It: What to Believe in a Fake News World by Alan Rusbridger

airport security, basic income, Bellingcat, Big Tech, Black Lives Matter, Bletchley Park, Boris Johnson, Brexit referendum, call centre, Cambridge Analytica, Chelsea Manning, citizen journalism, Climategate, cognitive dissonance, coronavirus, correlation does not imply causation, COVID-19, Credit Default Swap, crisis actor, cross-subsidies, crowdsourcing, disinformation, Dominic Cummings, Donald Trump, Edward Snowden, end-to-end encryption, fake news, Filter Bubble, future of journalism, George Floyd, ghettoisation, global pandemic, Google Earth, green new deal, hive mind, housing crisis, Howard Rheingold, illegal immigration, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Jeff Bezos, Jeffrey Epstein, Jeremy Corbyn, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Julian Assange, Kickstarter, lockdown, Mark Zuckerberg, Murray Gell-Mann, Narrative Science, Neil Kinnock, Nelson Mandela, New Journalism, Nicholas Carr, ocean acidification, offshore financial centre, post-truth, profit motive, public intellectual, publication bias, Seymour Hersh, Snapchat, social distancing, Social Justice Warrior, Steve Bannon, tech baron, the scientific method, TikTok, universal basic income, WikiLeaks, yellow journalism

Gradually, the idea takes hold that the criteria for being published in some of the most noted newspapers and magazines is not a respect for truth, knowledge or expertise. It’s . . . something else. Delingpole writes about critically serious issues with a winking titter. His jaunty delight in baiting feminists, environmentalists and social justice warriors of all hues leads to the impression of journalism as a kind of extended in-joke. There will always be a market for that, as there will apparently be editors willing to commission it. But pity the confusion in the general public’s mind as they try to understand the word ‘journalism’. DISINFORMATION It refers to intentionally disseminating mistaken information, sometimes covertly, in order to influence public opinion, obscure the truth, discredit an opponent or spread public cynicism, distrust or apathy.

Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World by Matt Alt

4chan, Apollo 11, augmented reality, Black Lives Matter, blue-collar work, coronavirus, COVID-19, Donald Trump, fake news, financial engineering, game design, glass ceiling, global pandemic, haute cuisine, hive mind, late capitalism, lateral thinking, lolcat, Mark Zuckerberg, mass immigration, megacity, military-industrial complex, New Urbanism, period drama, Ponzi scheme, Saturday Night Live, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, Skype, social distancing, Social Justice Warrior, Steve Bannon, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, strikebreaker, three-martini lunch, union organizing, work culture , zero-sum game

The harassment campaign would roil the Internet for close to two years. Gamergate was as decentralized as the original Anonymous escapades had been, making it maddeningly difficult to pin down exactly what it stood for or hoped to gain. Supporters quickly labeled any who attempted to push back against them online as “betas,” “cucks” (cuckolds), or “social justice warriors,” which in Gamergate’s twisted vernacular meant a man who espoused progressive stances for the sole purpose of tricking women into sleeping with him. Fueling it all was the deep-seated belief that feminism was a zero-sum game. It was bad enough that women were hell-bent on stripping all the fun out of life for boys in the real world, with all the political correctness and sensitivity training and forced inclusiveness.

March of the Lemmings: Brexit in Print and Performance 2016–2019 by Stewart Lee

Airbnb, AltaVista, anti-communist, Boris Johnson, Brexit referendum, Bullingdon Club, Cambridge Analytica, cognitive dissonance, coherent worldview, Donald Trump, Etonian, fake news, Ford Model T, imposter syndrome, Jeremy Corbyn, New Journalism, off-the-grid, Overton Window, Ronald Reagan, Russell Brand, Snapchat, Social Justice Warrior, Stephen Hawking, Steve Bannon, white flight

How come as hominem attacks on women’s appearances are just fine if they come out of the mouth of a lefty darling? You’ve got all of UKIP, Brexit and Windrush to play with Stewart, and one of your openers is to criticise Rudd’s face? Try harder. Girlstuff Besides this article being utter bullcrap conflating bureaucratic incompetence with racism I’m disgusted that a fully paid up Social Justice Warrior would be so misogynistic to shame Amber Rudd by mocking her for her looks. You should be ashamed of yourself. Hardboiledchicken May I quote Hardboiledchicken back at yourself from an April 11th comment? ‘Hopefully’, you wrote, ‘in a few more years there will be a backlash against this culture of taking offense at everything.

The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt

AltaVista, Bernie Sanders, bitcoin, Black Lives Matter, Black Swan, Cambridge Analytica, cognitive dissonance, correlation does not imply causation, demographic transition, Donald Trump, fake news, Ferguson, Missouri, Filter Bubble, helicopter parent, Herbert Marcuse, hygiene hypothesis, income inequality, Internet Archive, Isaac Newton, low skilled workers, Mahatma Gandhi, mass immigration, mass incarceration, means of production, microaggression, moral panic, Nelson Mandela, Ralph Nader, risk tolerance, Silicon Valley, Snapchat, Social Justice Warrior, Steven Pinker, TED Talk, The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, traumatic brain injury, Unsafe at Any Speed, Wayback Machine

And it is among the most shocking aspects of our current age that some Americans (and Europeans), mostly young white men, have openly embraced neo-Nazi ideas and symbols. They and other white nationalist groups rally around a shared hatred not just of Jews, but also of blacks, feminists, and “SJWs” (social justice warriors). These right-wing extremist groups seem not to have played significant roles in campus politics before 2016, but by 2017 many of them had developed methods of trolling and online harassment that began to have an influence on campus events, as we’ll discuss further in chapter 6. As for the identity politics originating from left-leaning on-campus sources, here’s a recent example that drew a great deal of attention.

Giving the Devil His Due: Reflections of a Scientific Humanist by Michael Shermer

Alfred Russel Wallace, anthropic principle, anti-communist, anti-fragile, barriers to entry, Berlin Wall, Black Lives Matter, Boycotts of Israel, Chelsea Manning, clean water, clockwork universe, cognitive dissonance, Colonization of Mars, Columbine, cosmological constant, cosmological principle, creative destruction, dark matter, deplatforming, Donald Trump, Edward Snowden, Elon Musk, fake news, Flynn Effect, germ theory of disease, Great Leap Forward, gun show loophole, Hans Rosling, heat death of the universe, hedonic treadmill, helicopter parent, Higgs boson, hindsight bias, illegal immigration, income inequality, intentional community, invisible hand, Johannes Kepler, Joseph Schumpeter, Kim Stanley Robinson, laissez-faire capitalism, Laplace demon, luminiferous ether, Mars Society, McMansion, means of production, mega-rich, Menlo Park, microaggression, military-industrial complex, moral hazard, moral panic, More Guns, Less Crime, Multics, Oklahoma City bombing, Peter Singer: altruism, phenotype, positional goods, power law, public intellectual, race to the bottom, Richard Feynman, Ronald Coase, Silicon Valley, Skype, social intelligence, Social Justice Warrior, stem cell, Stephen Hawking, Steve Jobs, Steven Pinker, Suez crisis 1956, TED Talk, the scientific method, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Timothy McVeigh, transaction costs, WikiLeaks, working poor, Yogi Berra

“I Have a Dream…” Speech by the Rev. Martin Luther King at the “March on Washington”. US Government Archives. https://bit.ly/2fmjJXA 5. BLM (#blacklivesmater), BDM (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions of Israel), MSM (Main Stream Media), LGBTQI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, questioning, intersex), SJW (Social Justice Warriors), #metoo (Harvey Weinstein), #TakeAKnee (NFL national anthem protests), Dreamers (children of illegal immigrants born in the USA), Google Memo (the firing of James Demore), Milo (Yiannopoulos), Charlottesville (neo-Nazis), Evergreen (protests against professor Bret Weinstein), Berkeley (protests against Milo, Ann Coulter, et al.), Yale (protests over Halloween costumes), Middlebury (protests against Charles Murray), Parkland (school shooting), microaggressions (offensive words or phrases), safe spaces (places for students to go after hearing offensive speech), no platforming (disinvitation of speakers), hate speech (v. free speech). 6.

Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency by Andy Greenberg

2021 United States Capitol attack, Airbnb, augmented reality, bitcoin, Bitcoin Ponzi scheme, Black Lives Matter, blockchain, Brian Krebs, Cody Wilson, commoditize, computerized markets, COVID-19, crowdsourcing, cryptocurrency, Edward Snowden, Elon Musk, Ethereum, ethereum blockchain, forensic accounting, Global Witness, Google Glasses, Higgs boson, hive mind, impulse control, index card, Internet Archive, Jeff Bezos, Julian Assange, Large Hadron Collider, machine readable, market design, operational security, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, pirate software, Ponzi scheme, ransomware, reserve currency, ride hailing / ride sharing, rolodex, Ross Ulbricht, Satoshi Nakamoto, Skype, slashdot, Social Justice Warrior, the market place, web application, WikiLeaks

She read and reread his every Roosh V message with morbid fascination, amazed by the lurid details of his sexual escapades, marveling at the hypocrisy of his commentary. “I strongly favor ethics rather than money,” wrote the secret kingpin of a massive marketplace for hard drugs and cybercriminal wares, explaining his decision not to do web design work for “social justice warrior” customers or rent his real estate properties to LGBTQ couples for weddings. “It is important to follow our principles even if it implies a loss.” As a money-laundering-focused agent, Sanchez’s central task in the AlphaBay case wasn’t to catalog Cazes’s affairs but to trace his financial assets, in Thailand and around the world.

The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution by Richard Wrangham

agricultural Revolution, Alfred Russel Wallace, Anthropocene, dark triade / dark tetrad, Defenestration of Prague, domesticated silver fox, experimental subject, Fellow of the Royal Society, impulse control, income inequality, meta-analysis, out of africa, phenotype, Ronald Reagan, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), Social Justice Warrior, Steven Pinker, Strategic Defense Initiative, twin studies, ultimatum game

Others thought that, if infanticide was indeed adaptive, the benefits must accrue to the group as a whole, not to the killer. For instance, the male who killed an infant could be benefiting the group by keeping the number of individuals in the group low enough so that everyone would have enough to eat. The idea had some political appeal. To social-justice warriors of the early 1970s who wanted a biological rationale, it implied that human behavior might have evolved for the good of a larger group. The major alternative explanation was that infanticide is a selfish action that increases the male killer’s chance of fathering an additional infant.

The Ones We've Been Waiting For: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America by Charlotte Alter

"Hurricane Katrina" Superdome, "World Economic Forum" Davos, 4chan, affirmative action, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, basic income, Berlin Wall, Bernie Sanders, Big Tech, Black Lives Matter, carbon footprint, carbon tax, clean water, collective bargaining, Columbine, corporate personhood, correlation does not imply causation, Credit Default Swap, crowdsourcing, data science, David Brooks, deepfake, deplatforming, disinformation, Donald Trump, double helix, East Village, ending welfare as we know it, fake news, Fall of the Berlin Wall, feminist movement, Ferguson, Missouri, financial deregulation, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, gentrification, gig economy, glass ceiling, Glass-Steagall Act, Google Hangouts, green new deal, Greta Thunberg, housing crisis, illegal immigration, immigration reform, income inequality, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), job-hopping, Kevin Kelly, knowledge economy, Lyft, mandatory minimum, Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, mass incarceration, McMansion, medical bankruptcy, microaggression, move fast and break things, Nate Silver, obamacare, Occupy movement, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, passive income, pre–internet, race to the bottom, RAND corporation, Ronald Reagan, sexual politics, Sheryl Sandberg, side hustle, Silicon Valley, single-payer health, Snapchat, Social Justice Warrior, Steve Bannon, TaskRabbit, tech bro, too big to fail, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, universal basic income, unpaid internship, We are the 99%, white picket fence, working poor, Works Progress Administration

The “outrage culture” on the left was very real, especially on college campuses, and Independent and conservative-leaning young people were constantly finding themselves accused of “hate speech” and “microaggressions” by their left-leaning classmates. In the Trump era, the thrill of rejecting the overzealous “social justice warriors” (also known as “owning the libs”) seemed to be one of the only things driving young people toward the Republican Party. Wide majorities of Americans said they thought the country was getting too “politically correct,” and in one Harvard poll, nearly half of young voters said they thought political correctness was at least partly responsible for America’s problems.

The Controlled Demolition of the American Empire by Jeff Berwick, Charlie Robinson

2013 Report for America's Infrastructure - American Society of Civil Engineers - 19 March 2013, airport security, Alan Greenspan, American Legislative Exchange Council, American Society of Civil Engineers: Report Card, bank run, barriers to entry, Berlin Wall, Bernie Sanders, Big Tech, big-box store, bitcoin, Black Lives Matter, bread and circuses, Bretton Woods, British Empire, call centre, carbon credits, carbon footprint, carbon tax, Cass Sunstein, Chelsea Manning, clean water, cloud computing, cognitive dissonance, Comet Ping Pong, coronavirus, Corrections Corporation of America, COVID-19, crack epidemic, crisis actor, crony capitalism, cryptocurrency, dark matter, deplatforming, disinformation, Donald Trump, drone strike, Edward Snowden, Elon Musk, energy transition, epigenetics, failed state, fake news, false flag, Ferguson, Missouri, fiat currency, financial independence, George Floyd, global pandemic, global supply chain, Goldman Sachs: Vampire Squid, illegal immigration, Indoor air pollution, information security, interest rate swap, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), invisible hand, Jeff Bezos, Jeffrey Epstein, Julian Assange, Kickstarter, lockdown, Mahatma Gandhi, mandatory minimum, margin call, Mark Zuckerberg, mass immigration, megacity, microapartment, Mikhail Gorbachev, military-industrial complex, new economy, no-fly zone, offshore financial centre, Oklahoma City bombing, open borders, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, pill mill, planetary scale, plutocrats, Ponzi scheme, power law, pre–internet, private military company, Project for a New American Century, quantitative easing, RAND corporation, reserve currency, RFID, ride hailing / ride sharing, Saturday Night Live, security theater, self-driving car, Seymour Hersh, Silicon Valley, smart cities, smart grid, smart meter, Snapchat, social distancing, Social Justice Warrior, South China Sea, stock buybacks, surveillance capitalism, too big to fail, unpaid internship, urban decay, WikiLeaks, working poor

They sought to remove the overall number of words in general in order to limit the range of ideas that could be expressed by the people. Through the political correctness police found on many college campuses, words that were commonplace just a decade ago in America have been deemed off- limits by the social justice warriors that are obsessed with protecting everyone’s feelings and handing out last place trophies. Memory Hole - If a document portrayed the government in a way that was critical, or if a person had somehow crossed the State and was disappeared, the documents would be put into the memory hole where it was whisked through a series of suction tubes down to the furnace where it was destroyed, and thus erased from history forever.

The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America by Victor Davis Hanson

"World Economic Forum" Davos, 2021 United States Capitol attack, 23andMe, affirmative action, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, airport security, Bernie Sanders, Big Tech, Black Lives Matter, Boeing 737 MAX, borderless world, bread and circuses, British Empire, business climate, business cycle, carbon footprint, centre right, clean water, coronavirus, COVID-19, creative destruction, currency manipulation / currency intervention, defund the police, deindustrialization, deplatforming, disinformation, Donald Trump, Dr. Strangelove, drone strike, El Camino Real, fake news, Ferguson, Missouri, fixed income, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, future of work, George Floyd, Gini coefficient, global pandemic, Herbert Marcuse, high-speed rail, Honoré de Balzac, illegal immigration, immigration reform, income inequality, Jeff Bezos, Joseph Schumpeter, laissez-faire capitalism, lockdown, Mark Zuckerberg, mass immigration, mass incarceration, Menlo Park, microaggression, military-industrial complex, mortgage debt, Nate Silver, new economy, New Urbanism, obamacare, old-boy network, Paris climate accords, Parler "social media", peak oil, Potemkin village, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Mercer, Ronald Reagan, school choice, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley billionaire, Skype, social distancing, Social Justice Warrior, tech worker, Thomas L Friedman, transcontinental railway, upwardly mobile, vertical integration, WikiLeaks, working poor, Yom Kippur War, zero-sum game

So why has twenty-first-century American race and gender victimization supplanted doctrinaire Marxist class oppression in the culture of resistance against establishment norms? Apart from the obvious reason that there are more nonwhites than poor in the United States, poor whites are the largest impoverished ethnic group and usually larger than all other poor minority groups combined. In short, today’s social justice warrior apparently would not wish to empathize with a West Virginian coal miner but prefers instead CNN anchor Don Lemon or billionaire rapper Jay-Z. Consequently, the effort to weaken citizenship has turned in part to race, because America is a fluid and often upwardly mobile society in which it is difficult to galvanize a permanent class of the oppressed.

Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio Garcia Martinez

Airbnb, airport security, always be closing, Amazon Web Services, Big Tech, Burning Man, business logic, Celtic Tiger, centralized clearinghouse, cognitive dissonance, collective bargaining, content marketing, corporate governance, Credit Default Swap, crowdsourcing, data science, deal flow, death of newspapers, disruptive innovation, Dr. Strangelove, drone strike, drop ship, El Camino Real, Elon Musk, Emanuel Derman, Fairchild Semiconductor, fake it until you make it, financial engineering, financial independence, Gary Kildall, global supply chain, Goldman Sachs: Vampire Squid, Hacker News, hive mind, How many piano tuners are there in Chicago?, income inequality, industrial research laboratory, information asymmetry, information security, interest rate swap, intermodal, Jeff Bezos, Kickstarter, Malcom McLean invented shipping containers, Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, Maui Hawaii, means of production, Menlo Park, messenger bag, minimum viable product, MITM: man-in-the-middle, move fast and break things, Neal Stephenson, Network effects, orbital mechanics / astrodynamics, Paul Graham, performance metric, Peter Thiel, Ponzi scheme, pre–internet, public intellectual, Ralph Waldo Emerson, random walk, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, Ruby on Rails, Salesforce, Sam Altman, Sand Hill Road, Scientific racism, second-price auction, self-driving car, Sheryl Sandberg, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, Skype, Snapchat, social graph, Social Justice Warrior, social web, Socratic dialogue, source of truth, Steve Jobs, tech worker, telemarketer, the long tail, undersea cable, urban renewal, Y Combinator, zero-sum game, éminence grise

The members of this ruling class furiously denied their very existence, however. Naturally, if you were to poll Southern whites about racism, they’d stubbornly maintain that the South was an exemplar of equal rights. The British upper class would declare their country to be the model of meritocracy. To the extent I can use the word “privilege” without feeling like a social justice warrior and puking in my mouth, the beneficiaries of such privilege <heave> never see it. Similar to the proverbial fish who doesn’t see the water it’s floating in, the FB nobility didn’t grasp their pride of place in the corporate hierarchy. At a more formal level, that attitude meant Facebook didn’t have table-stakes benefits like 401(k) matching for years.

Small Men on the Wrong Side of History: The Decline, Fall and Unlikely Return of Conservatism by Ed West

Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, anti-communist, assortative mating, battle of ideas, Beeching cuts, Berlin Wall, Black Lives Matter, Boris Johnson, Brexit referendum, British Empire, Broken windows theory, Bullingdon Club, centre right, clean water, cognitive dissonance, Corn Laws, David Attenborough, David Brooks, deindustrialization, delayed gratification, desegregation, different worldview, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, en.wikipedia.org, Etonian, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Ferguson, Missouri, future of work, gender pay gap, George Santayana, Herbert Marcuse, illegal immigration, Jeremy Corbyn, labor-force participation, laissez-faire capitalism, lump of labour, mass immigration, means of production, megacity, meta-analysis, moral hazard, moral panic, Neil Kinnock, Nelson Mandela, Norman Mailer, obamacare, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, Overton Window, pattern recognition, Ralph Nader, replication crisis, rising living standards, Ronald Reagan, Scientific racism, Social Justice Warrior, Stephen Fry, Steve Bannon, Steven Pinker, TED Talk, Thomas Malthus, Tragedy of the Commons, Turing test, twin studies, urban decay, War on Poverty, Winter of Discontent, zero-sum game

‘I Want to See How a Culture War Is Fought, So Badly’ 1 ‘I want to see how a war is fought, so badly’, in ‘Major Star’, Blackadder Goes Forth, episode 3, written by Ben Elton and Richard Curtis, directed by Richard Boden (BBC One, 12 October 1989). 2 https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/social-justice-warriors-are-the-democrats-electoral-poison/. 3 It’s arguable that Democrats had moved to the Right on welfare, with Clinton’s Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996. But welfare had also increased to such a degree that any cutting back on it was almost inevitable, and driven less by ideology. 4 Thomas Frank, What’s the Matter with Kansas?

New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson

Anthropocene, availability heuristic, back-to-the-land, Black-Scholes formula, Burning Man, central bank independence, creative destruction, credit crunch, crowdsourcing, decarbonisation, East Village, full employment, gentrification, happiness index / gross national happiness, hive mind, income inequality, invisible hand, Jane Jacobs, Ken Thompson, Kim Stanley Robinson, liquidity trap, Mason jar, mass immigration, megastructure, microbiome, music of the spheres, New Urbanism, offshore financial centre, Planet Labs, plutocrats, Ponzi scheme, precariat, quantitative easing, Reflections on Trusting Trust, rent-seeking, Social Justice Warrior, the built environment, too big to fail

I sometimes hoped someone would challenge this dual price arrangement in court; it struck me as highly prejudicial and possibly illegal, but no one had done it so far, and it occurred to me as I waited for Jojo to come back from the Flatiron, fuming at the way the evening was going, that anyone who cared enough to waste their time challenging this rule would be too poor to rent in the building in the first place. They were price selecting for wealthy indifference from their nonmember rentals, a smart move, probably the plan of the board chairwoman, a notorious social justice warrior both at work and here at home, a control freak in the same class as the super, a woman who had been running the board and thus the building for I wasn’t sure how long, but far too long; she had been chair when I arrived. Naturally she and the super were buddy-buddy. And lo and behold here she was herself, in conversation with the boys and the old man: Charlotte Armstrong, looking frazzled and intense, vivid and imposing.

Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities by Eric Kaufmann

4chan, Abraham Maslow, affirmative action, Amazon Mechanical Turk, anti-communist, anti-globalists, augmented reality, battle of ideas, behavioural economics, Berlin Wall, Bernie Sanders, Boris Johnson, Brexit referendum, British Empire, centre right, Chelsea Manning, cognitive dissonance, complexity theory, corporate governance, correlation does not imply causation, critical race theory, crowdsourcing, Daniel Kahneman / Amos Tversky, data science, David Brooks, deindustrialization, demographic transition, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, en.wikipedia.org, facts on the ground, failed state, fake news, Fall of the Berlin Wall, first-past-the-post, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, gentrification, Great Leap Forward, Haight Ashbury, Herbert Marcuse, illegal immigration, immigration reform, imperial preference, income inequality, it's over 9,000, Jeremy Corbyn, knowledge economy, knowledge worker, liberal capitalism, longitudinal study, Lyft, mass immigration, meta-analysis, microaggression, moral panic, Nate Silver, New Urbanism, Norman Mailer, open borders, open immigration, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, Overton Window, phenotype, postnationalism / post nation state, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Republic of Letters, Ronald Reagan, Scientific racism, Silicon Valley, Social Justice Warrior, statistical model, Steve Bannon, Steven Pinker, the built environment, the scientific method, The Wisdom of Crowds, transcontinental railway, twin studies, uber lyft, upwardly mobile, urban sprawl, W. E. B. Du Bois, Washington Consensus, white flight, working-age population, World Values Survey, young professional

Since 2015, Republicans’ views of the impact of colleges have turned much more negative (percentage who say colleges and universities have an effect on the way things are going in the country) Source: Pew, 10 July 2017 White liberal elites in this country are pushing ‘political correctness’. Taking their cue from ‘Social Justice Warriors’ and anarchists, they call ordinary White Americans [British] who are proud of their identity racist while encouraging the opposite among minority groups. They should feel proud, we should feel guilty. They get an identity, we get multiculturalism. Immigration benefits them and causes us to decline but we are prevented from expressing our feelings about the change.