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Yeah, Quillette is problematic. I've read some great stories there but I also recognize it's considered a far-right source with a mixed history of fact-checking: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/quillette/

Sometimes shitty sites have good articles. A writer I respected on Medium mentioned an article she was consulted for as a therapist; the subject of the article was on victimhood and its ideological narratives and how harmful they can be; this is a therapist whose work and articles I respect. So I checked out the article she was featured in; great article, but the source? The Epoch Times, a notoriously far-right site with a lousy history of fact-checking. It's hard for me to recommend that article even when it's good when it's on a shitty site even though a broken clock is right twice a day, y'know?

Haidt talks about increased polarization, especially on college campuses, since The Righteous Mind; read The Coddling of The American Mind yet? Killer book!!! It's about Gen Z snowflakes.

Just started this morning Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender and Identity. Fascinating so far, and offering a good explanation of what 'post-modernism' is and how it has tainted public discourse and discussion and turned its back on objectivity and evidence-based thinking.

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