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2 years

In US academia in fifteen years there will be no more Shakespeare profs in English departments. There will be no French profs who work on the 17th century. History will be made up of area studies. Maybe you say good riddance. I don’t

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3 years

Mutual Aid is not left politics. And Churches do it better.

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catherine liu

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4 years

I am not anti-woke for any-wokeness’ sake. I feel as if the innovations of work language are meant to humiliate non-college educated and non PMC people. Heard this anecdote about service union workers leaving first DSA meeting they attended bc of the pronoun intros.

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Almost every prof I know says the students can’t and won’t read, but why do we keep getting news that every incoming class has the highest standardized test in the history of X institution?

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3 years

Please abolish small liberal arts colleges, starting with Oberlin.

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Wokeness killed Leftism. The relentless focus on bias conveniently ignored the military industrial complex, Big Ag, Big Pharma, private equity and corporate/state collusion.

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People they are crazier and dumber than we ever imagined

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"Hillary 2024? Given the competition, she may be the Dems' best hope" ( @TheHillOpinion )

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Barbara Ehrenreich just passed away. Heartbroken. She was a giant in Left politics. Kept a light alive when so many Leftists turned to obscurantism or pandering

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2 years

@DrSarahLiu Stop announcing your accomplishments. Problem solved

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3 years

As far as I am concerned Tumblr TikTok content and then lockdown have created the ultimate society of the spectacle for young people. They are all hoping to be influencing machines.

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catherine liu

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3 years

For some reason, I am angrier at Big Pharma, Private Insurers, Zuck, Wall Street, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and the careless cruelty of startup culture, NatSec goons, K Street shills, etc than I am at the Jan 6 rubes.

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4 years

The activist Left is just repeating 1970s mistakes now: embracing niche politics with little to no mass appeal. Looking for punk rock catharsis hoping the masses will follow, but they won't

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1 year

Crushed to hear about the health crisis that @cushbomb : just one of the kindest smartest funniest most honest people I have ever met. Please send and his fam healing thoughts

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catherine liu

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I think Obama just cost the Dems the election: tone deaf PMC lectures to black men most of whom are working class are really going to do more harm than good. Nobody wants to hear about how enlightened you are with powerful women.

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4 years

In the 1970s, global counterculturalists thought that if everyone smoked pot, listened to rock and roll, did therapy and psychoanalysis, watched avant-garde films, read theory, had good sex, etc., the Age of Aquarius would dawn with no political effort at all. 1/2

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This is what it feels like to live in a dying Empire, its own working class exploted by private equity, its elites posturing on Left and Right, its edges fraying in war. It went so quick. When my parents came to the US, it was the envy of the world.

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3 years

DNC and Judith Butler: are most Americans just fascists and what do we do about it?

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3 years

Misunderstanding and awkwardness are critical to getting to respect for other people. You’re uncertain of how to proceed IRL: that is a good thing. The smoothness of tech fool us into thinking that friction is a problem solved by a protocol

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The Kamala euphoria has a quality of -- the professional classes can finally not talk about working class people of any race again!!! Yay!!! White Dudes, Black Men, Black Women, White Women United to defeat Evil and save Democracy

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catherine liu

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8 months

Privilege discourse is bad. Everyone should live like the bourgeoisie. That was Marx’s point.

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3 years

Libs want to center 'identity' and 'feelings' Marx wanted to 'center' labor and labor power.

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"Manipulative and managerial, twentieth-century liberalism has adapted itself...to the corporation's need to soften conflicts and to reconcile the...irreconcilable forces - capital and labor, bureaucratic efficiency and personal intimacy..to which it has given rise." Lasch

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3 years

Teenagers won’t save us.

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11 months

Claudine Gay is Roxane Gay’s cousin!!!! And she went to Exeter!!!!

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catherine liu

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4 years

You young people don't remember this particular form of wishful thinking but it is still going on now: if you don't have disciplined, political organization on the Left, nothing will change. Fetishizing looting riots and sex work is counter revolutionary fantasy 2/2

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catherine liu

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3 years

listening to @ShellenbergerMD on @joerogan talking about homelessness drug addiction and mental illness in CA and I cannot recommend it enough

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catherine liu

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2 years

I was kind of OK with WW3, but now that I know it's going to be triggered by some lady from SF who wants to go to Taipei to eat at the original Din Tai Fung, my blood is really boiling. This is NOT acceptable.

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4 years

As the PMC clears out vernacular street speech from all speech, including indirect speech, what PMC words would you like to see banned? Mine: "to journal." "the anthropocene" "to unpack" used not in the context of luggage 1/2

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catherine liu

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3 years

I am so sad that children have to grow up to be employees and consumers…just throwing that out there today. All that beauty and creativity has to be come labor power so that we can feed ourselves

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catherine liu

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8 years

Bernie in Irvine

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catherine liu

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4 years

just listened to the episode I did with Amber I will never respect a baby Frost and @willmenaker and my fave moment was when I talk about the IGiver in the sky that births sleek Apple gadgets into the world through her high tech vagina

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1 year

Do we still have to condemn Hamas and the murders of Oct 7 before we express our horror at the 5k killed so far with 700 dead from last night’s bombing?

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catherine liu

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3 years

@NPR did a second grader come up with this tweet?

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I like my social media life bc I can keep in touch with a group of people who are critical of liberalism and the Dems. IRL I have to swallow my tongue and it hurts my tummy to listen to people I love go on about how scary the Right is.

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Used to believe in the ideology of the 19th c bourgeoisie well rounded education, etc. but the last place you get can get that is in the Humanities. Learn a trade, read Marx in your spare time

The most lucrative majors? Some community college grads can outearn elite university peers

Community college graduates in healthcare fields can outearn humanities students even from elite universities such as Stanford, UC Berkeley and UCLA, underscoring how much majors can matter.

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catherine liu

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2 years

Centrists and Libs are all anti-war until NATO or Democrats order them not to be which is like 98 percent of the time…

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catherine liu

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4 years

There is no academic freedom as long as there is fear for one‘s livelihood. There just isn’t

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2 years

@thomaschattwill Have you ever done physical manual labor or driven a Metro train for 8 hours a day for years at a time?

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catherine liu

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4 years

Amber "I will never respect a baby" Frost and @willmenaker and I talk about PMC products.

Bonus: PMC Shopping feat. Catherine Liu

Amber and Will are joined by author Catherine Liu to discuss her new book Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class. Amber takes us through her shopping guide of “PMC product

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catherine liu

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3 years

In the Humanities so many people subverting so many expectations and norms, I'm surprised there are any expectations and norms left standing tbh...

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catherine liu

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2 years

For those of you who still think reading lots of great writing by writers like James Baldwin makes you a better person - here I mean more honest, with greater sympathy for the workers and their struggle, check out the New School admin.

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catherine liu

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3 years

My neighborhood chat going crazy about energy autonomy and carbon fuels and electric cars and flying around the world: I have one word for you: NUCLEAR

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catherine liu

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2 months

There are no serious people in US politics right now. One side offers scripted emptiness. The other unfiltered emptiness

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catherine liu

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4 years

@Sandernista412 @IlhanMN Xi should tell the US that there will be repercussions for us if we continue to incarcerate the largest number of people per capita in the world and allow for profit prisons to make $$ off them. I am serious. Go to your room US

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catherine liu

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6 years

Mom: clean your room Kid: what a nag Jordan Peterson: clean your room Kid: the man is a genius

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catherine liu

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5 years

@HeheWaitWhut @LukewSavage Sanders beats them all. Centrists are living in a fantasy where they can will their bad candidates into winning positions

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catherine liu

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3 years

CRT is not Marxism you dummies.

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catherine liu

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An academic writing block is a a sign of mental health. People don’t want to read your hyper professionalized passive voice esoterica. Touch grass love life. Write something that will make your peers mad.

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catherine liu

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I'm writing a book on Trauma Culture that is an intellectual history of liberalism's fantasy of "rescue": it permeates every US attitude toward social problems and international relations. Marxist POV, but I stay away from internecine fights over the big guy.

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catherine liu

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4 years

You know the early woke types tried to cancel Marx and Freud. Look at 80s feminism for Freud cancellation and 90s Cultural studies work to find that many academics thought that Freud was sexist Marx Eurocentric and universalist.

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catherine liu

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4 years

I am going to keep posting this until I am blue in the face: it isn’t white supremacy that makes a certain kind of US male thing Asian and Asian American women are disposable objects: it is 150 years of US imperialism in Asia that has produced this kind of racism.

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catherine liu

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2 years

I don’t want to see WW3 happen. I don’t want to see expansion of UKR war. I think there should be peace talks asap. I also think US military should stay out of Taiwan. These should not controversial opinions.

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catherine liu

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3 years

Post Corbyn Labour is like political laboratory proof of what happens when the PMC takes over the party of the Left.

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And some geniuses in the so called Left told me that the PMC doesn’t exist. Bwahahaha. I could not have made this up to prove Virtue Hoarder’s thesis more beautifully.

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catherine liu

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Macron refusing to form Left wing govt is going to have big consequences for Europe. The far Left helped defeat Marine Le Pen or fascism, and now the center right is ready to keep the Left out of power.

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catherine liu

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4 years

Vaccines are paid for by the public and should be radically accessible to the public. Not just upper middle class college educated types with friends who are doctors

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catherine liu

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1 year

I wish we lived in the times of grand narratives and I had a collective project I believed in more than my level of self knowledge. I wish political ideas mattered more to everyone

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catherine liu

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2 years

@johnpaulspiro Every Humanities dept will be ethnic studies service centers but inequality will be worse and worse. This is the CA formula. Oh and wishy washy environmentalism

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catherine liu

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4 years

I don’t want to think about the shooter. I want to think about the working women and their invisible lives and existences - which this tragedy put a light on. Working mothers many of them...the handyman. I want to think about them

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In 2003 the US was about to kill 600k Iraqis bc of a lie about WMDs, plunging Iraq into years of civil war and chaos. In the name of ‘freedom.’ If you think I trust a goddamn thing MSM and the military industrial complex say in 2023 you must think I am an idiot

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catherine liu

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3 years

Totally normal: woman shopping for her family behind me at Aldi in New Haven worried about being able to pay for $17.00 worth of groceries and AOC very concerned that calling this person a mother might be doing an exclusion.

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catherine liu

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9 months

I'm so disillusioned with protest culture: it's like the most implausible positions attract the most energy. The things that US working class needs -- Medicare for All get little to no attention from professional protestors

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catherine liu

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4 years

Our dog Buster was put to sleep on Wednesday...he had mouth cancer and stopped eating and drinking...we loved him so much....look at that happy boy on a winter beach walk

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catherine liu

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2 years

Libs have made modern life so cringe young people think being trad is cool.

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catherine liu

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4 years

Also "to center" a voice "to problematize" used in a positive way "to own" privilege "to be mindful" and all silly incantations such as these that are supposed to make the speaker appear virtuous and serious, but do neither except in the in-group of the liberal professions

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catherine liu

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3 years

some people have opinions that could just be summarized as: I read the @nytimes

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catherine liu

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2 years

My piece is out: @BusinessInsider How universities became giant piggy banks for hedge-fund billionaires via @businessinsider

Universities are turning into real-estate hedge funds — and students are paying the price

The sad truth is universities are investing more in real estate than in educating students, and it's killing higher education.

www.businessinsider.com

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catherine liu

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3 years

If God forbid, my family were hungry and we had run out of food stamps that month I would not go to a DSA mutual aid event for help. I would go to my local church or charity like Families Forward in the OC.

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3 years

Not gonna lie: I have no small amount of schadenfreude. That McAuliffe is a Clinton era ghoul and the Democratic Party is unchanged and unmoved by its failed politics. Double down in 2024 PMC people

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11 months

Out in Chinese!

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catherine liu

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3 years

Social Media is basically a censorship test module. I was told to kill myself in a comment when I criticized certain DSA practices. They also tried to doxx me by publicizing my salary which is public knowledge and not up to date. I make more.

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1 year

If you don’t care about the working class of other nationalities and countries, you’re not really on the Left are you?

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1 year

Ashton Kutcher scandal makes me want to put this PSA out there: Anti sex trafficking non profits are fronts for crazy people from CA - Scientology and evangelical churches in Latin America - just want make sure you all know that…remember Kony 2012.

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3 years

If you have a baby for a brain, listen to NPR for advice about how to cope with the news

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🧵 Thread: Russia’s attack on Ukraine means there’s a stressful news cycle ahead of us. The reality of conflict is always a shock to the system. Here are 5 ways to cope.

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catherine liu

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One of the many things I learned from Barbara Ehrenreich? Left history is not sacred. We don't need to go to church to read Marx. Also working class not holy identity. We need to define the problems of our times. So liberating her relentless skepticism and commitment.

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catherine liu

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Why do administrators with no rustic roots or background use ‘folks’ instead of people. ‘If folks are willing, we will be doing another performance assessment before deciding who to lay off.’

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catherine liu

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3 years

I've been accused of supporting "Putinism" at home and on line, all because I will NOT pay lip service to support US Imperialism or NATO. I am allowed my analysis of the situation and I see the Ukrainian people as victims of two kinds of aggression.

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catherine liu

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The medicalization of normal psychological reactions like anxiety and fear have crippled generations of Americans. If you're shy there is a condition for it and a drug or so you are led to believe...

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catherine liu

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4 years

Ibram X. Kendi, who supports the establishment of a federal department of anti-racism just got $10 million from Jack Dorsey. Kendi's policy positions supported by oligarchs may just come true. Authoritarian anti-racism here we come.

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catherine liu

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2 years

The culture wars are clown show distractions and make no difference to finance capital: but the language of liberal progressivism is being used as a bludgeon in foreign policy to justify US hegemony abroad. The US do not bring liberation on any front.

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When influencers and managers tell you do to "more with less" they are preparing you for a lifetime of austerity. You'll be living in a van, pooping in a paint can and calling it a lifestyle

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2 years

When people say ‘do the work’ what do you think that means?

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catherine liu

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3 years

Let's do all Russian music listening sessions together on Spotify...this cancelling of Russian music is really last straw. I'm going to do readings of Anna Karenina on youtube if this doesn't stop.

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catherine liu

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4 years

For upper middle class young people throughout the world so much gender theory and so little sex. Fading sensuous immediacy but lots more information....

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Technocracy is not pro-science. The Left should never cede scientific method to technocratic elites

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Hey libs maybe it is time to give up land acknowledgements that make us all settlers bc most working class young people are rent slaves and will never own their own homes.

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catherine liu

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3 years

@tyloralagier @EoinHiggins_ Evidence?

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catherine liu

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Reading Sophie Lewis’ Abolish the Family and came across this nugget: the family is a ‘disciplinary, scarcity-based trauma machine’!!!! Abolish trauma machines!

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I was invited by an individual scientist at a national lab to talk about DEI and then their administration cancelled the invite. The admin said I was too 'political." I would say that I am not shaken, but I am.

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The professional class Dems see the impending loss as a fundraising opportunity and a break from DC during which they go back to their Law Firm sinecures for four years to cook up a new proxy war.

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Goths and punks wanting to get rid of stigma against them? The stigma was the point back in the day…

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2 years

My piece on trauma culture: finally out on line. We Need To Decommodify Mental Health Care

The Problem With Trauma Culture | NOEMA

The focus on all forms of trauma except economic exploitation has helped to disguise the problem at the heart of neoliberalism.

www.noemamag.com

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Cannot deny that @mtaibbi is doing the heavy lifting for journalism and freedom of the press and journalists want to cancel him.

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If we all quit X together and just joined a crazy listserve and go back to the 90s would that work?

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3 years

Nearly half of American workers don’t earn enough to afford a one-bedroom rental: can we stop fighting over whatever and focus in economic issues

Nearly half of American workers don’t earn enough to afford a one-bedroom rental

About one in seven Americans fell behind on rent payments as housing costs continued to increase during the pandemic

www.theguardian.com

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Political analysts and liberal observers are saying Dems must stop doing X to win the support of the working class and Dems double down on X to make the PMC happy and pat each other on the back and talk about Russia and Jan 6.

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The East Germans had Stasi, the Iranians have the Guidance Patrol, we have identity protocol ideologues on Twitter in the post Bernie Left, making sure we all abide by the correct lines on HR sanctioned forms of progress.

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Some one just said but people see Biden and Bernie as old white men and I wanted to say people see Amy Chua and me as middle aged Chinese American profs but only one of us groomed students for effing Brett Kavanaugh! But stay positive: Bernie beats Biden ommmmmmm

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Ultimate gaslighters: PMC leftists who tell me the PMC doesn't exist.

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@zapatas_mom I was in Beijing this winter and clutching my bag in the alleyways at night until I realized I am not in a U.S. city. That said I wish people in China had more leisure time. People work too much!!!

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