You can probably find a cheap hotel room in downtown San Francisco now. Social Justice ideology is destroying the city. Shellenberger has written an entire book on this decay. Read his Tweet thread and weep for a once great city.
I agree with Amy Alkon's position on "transphobia":
Transphobia" is usually a bullshit accusation, used to demonize people like me who believe ALL people deserve to be treated with kindness, respect, and dignity - but who refuse to go with the unscientific fiction that there are more than two sexes, & believe biological males do not belong in women's sports or women's prisons. And that 6-year-old girls shouldn't have to look at swinging dicks in women's locker room.Stonewall definition of transphobia is "fear or dislike of someone based on the fact they are trans." I have zero fear or dislike of trans people, and a lot of empathy for them.
What I won't stand for is vicious trans activists violently attacking women, mobbing women who refuse to parrot the language they demand or have beliefs like mine: there are 2 biolog sexes, & women's sports/prisons are no place for biological males.
I would add that shelters for abused women are not proper places for biological males.
Peter Boghossian Reports on the "Pretendians." An excerpt from Peter's article:
There is an epidemic of primarily white people—and white women in particular—who are pretending to be Native Americans for professional gain. Dubbed “Pretendians,” these individuals are predominantly active in academia and hold tenured faculty positions or even department chairs.
To be sure, this is a cultural oddity. It is not, however, particularly surprising given the career advantages the academy confers on Native Americans. What is bizarre is that once a university finds out that one of its faculty is pretending to be Native American, they do nothing about it. Nothing.
I invite you to ponder this: The same institutions that start meetings with land acknowledgments, champion Native American history, obsess over equity-based racial solutions to contemporary ills, and perseverate on historical tragedies, completely ignore known instances of fraud by white people who are pretending to be indigenous and who receive direct financial reward as a result. I cannot believe that the Pretendian scam is not a bigger story. It is a clear example of staggering hypocrisy on multiple levels.
Here is Peter's interview with Jacqueline Keeler, a Native American author and journalist who has explored the phenomena of Pretendians.
Is the enormous amount of money spent on DEI programs helping America's poor and disenfranchised. Connor Friedersdorf doesn't think so. Here's an excerpt from his article at The Atlantic:
[T]he DEI-consulting industry is social-justice progressivism’s analogue to trickle-down economics: Unrigorous trainings are held, mostly for college graduates with full-time jobs and health insurance, as if by changing us, the marginalized will somehow benefit. But in fact, the poor, or the marginalized, or people of color, or descendants of slaves, would benefit far more from a fraction of the DEI industry’s profits . . .
[T]he reflexive hiring of DEI consultants with dubious expertise and hazy methods is like setting money on fire in a nation where too many people are struggling just to get by. The professional class should feel good about having done something for social justice not after conducting or attending a DEI session, but after giving money to poor people. And to any CEO eager to show social-justice-minded employees that he or she cares, I urge this: Before hiring a DEI consultant, calculate the cost and let workers vote on whether the money should go to the DEI consultant or be given to the poor. Presented with that choice, I bet most workers would make the equitable decision.
Two Tweets explain WHO's corruption and the Censorship of criticism of WHO:
