Paul M. Jones | Social Justice2026-05-08T09:12:58-05:00What Is Communism?2021-12-02T15:26:21-06:00It means that a small group â letâs call them the nomenklatura â has absolute control over a much larger one, in every aspect of life, society, industry, and commerce. That control is enforced by:
a secret police,
a system of incentiv...Beating Back Cancel Culture2021-09-20T08:40:51-05:00Some high points from a successful virtual beat-down of SJWs:
Know what to expect. The cancel crowd has its own bullet-point playbook. And theyâll respond aggressively to any symbolic act that threatens their status, or erodes the impression th...Are You Being Criticized -- Or Cancelled?2020-11-03T22:45:36-06:00"How do we know if something is canceling vs. ordinary criticism?" I came out with a list of six things, kind of the warning signs of canceling. If you've got two or three of these, it's canceling and not criticism.
First: Is the intent of the campai...The Proper Consequences for Speech2020-11-03T11:28:13-06:00(Adapted from my talk Your Project Needs a Code of Conduct, OR ELSE.)
Leftists often say, regarding free speech, that "You might get freedom of speech, but you don't get freedom from consequences!" All right, then, let's go with that for a minute. Wh...I Violated A Code of Conduct2020-10-30T09:49:41-05:00Via Hacker News we have this from Jeremy Howard:
NumFOCUS found I violated their Code of Conduct (CoC) at JupyterCon because my talk was not âkindâ, because I said Joel Grus was âwrongâ regarding his opinion that Jupyter Notebook...Argo: Keep Your Content Cancel-Resistant2020-10-27T08:17:26-05:00I am proud to announce Argo, a flat-file static-site blog authoring and building system. It generates your site on your own computer, then syncs it to a remote host via Git or rsync.
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...Against XKCD 13572020-10-15T08:18:55-05:00Whenever I think about what did the most damage to internet culture over the past ten years, xkcd 1357 comes out on top. Not Twitter. Not Facebook. This simple comic.
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Freedom of speech isn't just a legal assurance that congress shall make no law ...Woke, Progressive, Left: It's All Marxism2020-08-28T05:57:54-05:00Anti-Marxist liberals have labored under numerous disadvantages in the recent struggles to maintain control of liberal organizations. One is that they are often not confident they can use the term âMarxistâ in good faith to describe those s...Implicit Bias Is Pseudo-Scientific Nonsense2020-08-19T15:34:59-05:00Via Ted Frank we have this:
The implicit association test ... is an excellent example [of the replication crisis in social "science"]. Banaji and Greenwald claim that the IAT, a brief exercise in which one sits down at a computer and responds to var...Knitting Has Always Been Political2019-09-12T12:26:24-05:00This is a couple of months old, but it echoes the totalitarian SJW attitudes in software as well:
Ravelry, a popular website for knitters and crocheters, took a political stand when it announced that it was banning content that supports President Tr...