Michael Taylor

Interested in community-engaged learning, social studies, and citizenship education | Doctor of Education student

[Michael Taylor @MikeTaylor87]

@ianbremmer @gzeromedia Leave it to Ian to offer the most Eurocentric, dismissive perspective with not a hint of concern for the Iranian people or grasp for their true concerns. The Iranian people are in the midst of a revolution, wake up. They'll do anything to be free.

[Michael Taylor @MikeTaylor87]

@ianbremmer @m_boustani @gzeromedia Couple bold claims, Ian. Don't forget your academic roots. Continued military strikes could weaken the regime further and they may still be a paper tiger if fully confronted. The Iranian diaspora, at least, overwhelming welcomes continued strikes. I'd say most Iranians too.

[Michael Taylor @MikeTaylor87]

@hahussain What an abhorrent comment, and exceptionally premature.

[Casey Babb @DrCaseyBabb]

In Toronto, a young Jewish girl named Esther has been missing for over a week. To make matters worse, people have been ripping down posters about her disappearance, just like they did with the hostage posters after 10/7—one of the more appalling things I've ever seen in my life.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Its apparently of little interest to the world what actual Iranians in Iran think about what's going on with their country

But the messages I'm getting are universally of despair, betrayal and abandonment.

[Michael Taylor @MikeTaylor87]

@Joyce_Karam Most the of 90 million Iranians would say otherwise. Your analysis is so great that haphazardly just brush over the suffering of millions of oppressed people.

[Justin @jewald25]

Does the deal include the Iranian people and the internet? It's a very simple question @POTUS

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Iranians are enduring the longest and most intense internet blackout in history. https://t.co/b9O1EW9N45

[Jonathan Schanzer @JSchanzer]

And nobody seems to give a damn.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

In @nytopinion

“The United States cannot bring about regime change in Iran,” our columnist Bret Stephens writes. “But it can do what it can to tilt the scales in favor of the millions of disaffected Iranians who can.” https://t.co/c392kSeeCc

[Michael Taylor @MikeTaylor87]

@TheEconomist I don't know a single Iranian in the diaspora (and I know dozens) rethinking support for the war. Look at the continued, unwavering protests happening every weekend in large North American cities. Yet another ill-informed article published by The Economist. Do better.

[Michael Taylor @MikeTaylor87]

@AJWVictoriaBC I and many others would happily pay 20-30% more for true insurance. When injuries are life altering people deserve their day in court. If a 20-40yr old becomes disabled no fault completely negates their future earnings potential. Individuals are falling through the cracks.

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

"It’s a pity that all of this substantive work often gets overshadowed by the performative political theatre that grabs headlines. But to some extent, UN officials only have themselves to blame. The UN chief recently congratulated Iran’s mullahs on the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution—which, in case anyone needs reminding, ushered in the ruthless theocracy that just slaughtered tens of thousands of protesters.
This kind of misjudgment contaminates the whole UN brand, not just the organisation’s top administrator."

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

"I think this might be one of the few instances in modern history where a greater percentage of the society being bombed was supportive of military action than the society that was doing the bombing." - @ksadjadpour

Incredible line.

https://t.co/JprxBKhFqn

[Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert @KMooreGilbert]

What we are seeing is the disintegration of the last remnants of the international rules-based order and the precarious dawn of a new era of might-is-right in international affairs. You might start the clock with Russia's invasion of Ukraine, or even earlier with the US war in Iraq, but the fact remains that the UN has lately proven itself both incompetent and irrelevant. Make no mistake, this is a troubling state of affairs- the world would be a more perilous place in the absence of international law. But to carry on as though this is not the case, to rail against the violation of international law which this war undoubtedly is and not to mention the fact that these same international laws and norms did not prevent the slaughter of 30,000+ innocent Iranians just 6 weeks earlier, nor stop the regime from terrorising its people and others in the region for decades... at best you a misdiagnosing the problem. At worst you are complicit in it.

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

In The Anxious Generation, I underestimated the harm from the phone-based childhood because I focused on the mental health outcomes, which is where we had the best data while I was writing the book.

I now believe that the widespread diminishment of the human capacity to pay attention is an even larger harm, affecting the majority of children, and even many adults. Diminished focus, executive function, and book-reading means diminished life chances.

[Michael Taylor @MikeTaylor87]

Photos: Hugh Boyd students spread kindness on Pink Shirt Day https://t.co/oaxiuw8UMh via @TheRichmondNews

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

After the theocrats in Iran slaughtered tens of thousands of peaceful protesters, American politicians and analysts are only talking about nukes, missiles, and terrorist support, and not at all about how to help these brave Iranian democrats. Sad.

[Alyssa Farah Griffin @Alyssafarah]

Been thinking a lot abt social media’s impact on our brains. Like millions of Americans I was deeply moved by @JonHaidt’s the Anxious Generation & the massive amount of data on how unhealthy it is for children. But we need to have a bigger national conversation on the impact of social media on *adults*.

Every time I log into this app I am stunned by the way countless adults with massive followings see fit to engage with one another. The name calling, cruelty, compulsiveness - it’s not normal, healthy, or virtuous. And as a society we chalk it up to being a normal part of our political discourse.

It’s worth considering that our developed adult brains have been just as warped by algorithms and amplification-chasing as we’ve warned our kids about.

We need to look in the mirror.