West Highland Privilege

Philosopher & professional napper

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@ZubyMusic Awe man. More discrimination.

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@BernieSanders It is not true that the “poor are getting poorer”. That is your own hyperbolic misrepresentation of the data. The poor have also become richer, by any metric you would care to analyze. If you disagree please show me your data.

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@RandPaul I can only assume Rand Paul has a deep seated hatred of people who are smarter and more accomplished than himself. He doesn’t realize how painfully obvious that is every time he tries to insult Fauci. #getsometherapy

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@GovRonDeSantis You can be a self-serving contrarian up to the point it gets people killed. Then you have to defer to the adults in the room, Ron. Sorry, go run a podcast or something. You can have Rand Paul as your guest every day.

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@coldxman Not sure I understand what would change even if the hypothesis is true? It’s China, not Cuba. How would we respond? Declare war on China? No. We would know what we already know, that the Chinese government is not our friend.

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@roderickgraham So I hope those “folks” committed to color blindness stick with their intuitions on this and reject your call to stay in our racial camps. It looks like a step backwards into societies organized by race and ethnicity that we’re trying to put behind us. No thanks.

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@roderickgraham I don’t want white people to think of themselves as “white” and therefore concerned about a set of interests somehow distinct from “non-whites”. If we can’t appeal to everyone to adopt a common set of interests and values, we’re doomed to endless conflict and violence.

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@gradydoctor @medpedshosp @SamirShahMD @JHospMedicine @WrayCharles @FutureDocs @acastellmd @ETSshow @aoglasser @TomVargheseJr @SocietyHospMed @freckledpedidoc @acweyand One thing is for certain, if you want to finely tune your power of attention to capture and amplify all offenses, great and small, you will be continuously outraged and triggered. Seems Iike a terrible recipe for a happy life, unless you enjoy apologies more than friends.

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@TheLaurenChen I actually just wanted to protect them (from my dirty germ-ridden hateful vessel).

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@TheLaurenChen Thank you for playing nice with others, Lauren. Anyone who gets triggered by you wearing a mask needs to launch their Talkspace app and freaking exhale. I was recently told wearing a mask reflected my hatred of people as dirty, germ-ridden vessels of infection. Uh, no.

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@DrJasonJohnson Or….maybe they were just trying to get her to follow the same rules of the sport as everyone else. Sorry to hear she’s having some emotional problems. Let’s all wish her well. Now, back to my systemic racism. I’m sure I haven’t oppressed enough people today. I’ll get back on it!

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@JeremyDBoreing Science never claims to be “settled” and “accepted as fact at all times”. Quite the opposite. All truth claims are considered provisional and will always be subject to revision or refutation. You seem to think science is weak because it is not certain. That’s a strength.

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@RealCandaceO That totalitarian democratic election they got people killed over? Oh yeah, that’s ridiculous. There shouldn’t be any consequences. Very reasonable.

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@roderickgraham Trump flattered them so much they didn’t care about his sins. Watch video of his speeches at their conferences. “Religious freedom is under attack!” They couldn’t get enough of it.

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@GadSaad We could start by acknowledging tribalism is a remnant of our hunter-gatherer origins and not a social construct that applies exclusively to white straight males. Affinity to tribe was apparently adaptive and is part of every human’s neural wiring. Not a product of “whiteness”

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@PaulVanderKlay Perhaps you could suspend your irritation long enough to allow the LGBT community their celebration. By comparison, it’s less irritating than religious holidays which insist on celebrating myths, magic, and human sacrifices. At least this one is centered on real social progress.

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@roderickgraham You can apply it to any human being on the planet. There are few things more corrosive of a person’s well-being than reinforcing their self-pity and telling them “the system” is against them. Try building a successful life with those themes as your guiding principles.

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@ZubyMusic Careful Zuby. If you were in a room of biologists and virologists and they read your tweets over the past year, they might be tempted to use the “s” word themselves. Best to stay humble and resist the urge to go 4th grade on the Twitterverse.