In researching my next book I’ve talked to a lot of family members of people whose autism is so severe they can’t communicate or manage their own bathroom functions or dress themselves. And it’s really discouraging to hear so many of them make the same lament: that the disability activist community frightens people like them out of criticizing the disability activist agenda. These are people who have sacrificed tremendously for loved ones whose lives are debilitated by autism, but they are acti…
Agree with pretty much all of this. I find it increasingly hard to get back into my left wing mindset and understand how I used to think. I’m not even sure I was sincere, although Robert Conquest’s first law is “Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.” And perhaps ignorance is my best excuse.
Very interesting comparison of 1950s McCarthy era UC Berkeley loyalty oath with the recent UC Berkeley Diversity and Inclusion Vow.
Judith Butler and Andrea Long Chu make Andrew Sullivan angry. I rather like him when he’s angry.
“They differ so much in degree they differ in kind.” (I think that’s a very good sentence; and in the context, it’s devastating.)
Quick point on Twitter (I may come up with other comments in due course): I think it's also worth mentioning how many retweets and likes (which aren't always approbation, I think some users still use them as bookmarks). Someone like Jolyon M can have lots of followers and very few retweets. That particular one has fewer than 100k views (…