From roughly 2012–2020, being called racist, fascist, Nazi, or transphobe could shut someone down. By 2023–2024 even “pedophile” has been turned into a political insult, not a careful charge. When words meant to stop real abuse get used as weapons, shame stops working and even true accusations lose their power. image
On diluting powerful shame insult language:
On diluting powerful shame insult language
From about 2012 to 2020, labels like racist, fascist, Nazi, homophobe, and transphobe functioned as social kill switches. If you were tagged, you c...
The Deportation Industrial Complex: America’s New WPA
The Deportation Industrial Complex: America’s New WPA
How America’s next trillion-dollar domestic spending spree won’t build bridges or cure cancer — it’ll build detention centers, fund surveil...
The Deportation Gold Rush
The Deportation Gold Rush
When the Forever Wars came home: inside the trillion-dollar domestic surge to deport, detain, and deliver jobs to a waiting army of American war wo...
Deportation Industrial Complex Goes Full DWOT
Deportation Industrial Complex Goes Full DWOT
From Immigration Enforcement to a Domestic War on Terror
Isn’t “fair treatment” different from “preferential treatment?” I guess it depends on the who.
Isn't "fair treatment" different from "preferential treatment?" I guess it depends on the who.
We thin skinned Americans:
We thin skinned Americans
You’re right, Britain, British, English people, Irish people, Scottish people, Welsh people, we Americans have no natural spidey sense when i...
We Americans have zero spidey sense for having the Mickey or the piss taken out of us. We’re dead serious and miss the joke even when it’s right in our grill. Looking back at my UEA Norwich days, I finally feel compassion for the British Isles for having to deal with me. I knew I was thin-skinned, but not that thin. Brits learn to laugh at themselves decades before Americans do.
I mean, of course it’s already in online stores and TikTok shop. You gotta love the free market. I guess. image