The EAs were too “woke” and too concerned with appearances.
The EAs were too “woke” and too concerned with appearances.
GuyInPlace
19h
I don't have issues with elected officials saying performative stuff to connect with their constituents. But the discourse on "elites" really has become it's own weird entity disconnected from reality. We're at the point that the characters on The Office would be considered elites because they work in an office, some have college degre... See more
19h
I don't have issues with elected officials saying performative stuff to connect with their constituents. But the discourse on "elites" really has become it's own weird entity disconnected from reality. We're at the point that the characters on The Office would be considered elites because they work in an office, some have college degre... See more
What can we learn from politicians who overperform
precarity, fear, competition, and ruthless self-optimization direct us away from the sort of solidarity and small and large sacrifice and patience that would enact change. And so we flounder, eager and anxious, wondering what it will take to actually act .
Anne Helen Petersen • Themes of a Year
I embraced all these half-baked opinions without doing my homework. Whatever their politics were, I thought, they were now outdated. It concerns me how fast I dismissed the hard work of my activist predecessors after hearing enough “experts” spout off on the frivolity of identity politics when the international and interracial politics of Kochiyama
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