Uri Harris

Still learning. Occasional writer. Philosophy, culture, economics

[Liv Boeree @Liv_Boeree]

This is so f*cked. If someone kept a dog or cat like this for even a few hours people would lose their minds. Yet this law would force these animals live like this for YEARS. Unimaginable evil.

[Uri Harris @safeortrue]

The article:

https://t.co/uzPxsbtsTq

[Uri Harris @safeortrue]

Something to think about next time you're on pornhub. Don't delude yourself because the truth is uncomfortable.

Respect to @buttonslives for describing the series of circumstances that led to this. Tough to read but you should.

[Uri Harris @safeortrue]

@buttonslives This is very good. Painful to read but worth it. Thanks for sharing.

[Christina Buttons @buttonslives]

I’ve been very open about the severe mental health crises I faced in my youth and often alluded to the "bad decisions" I made as a young adult. Now that they are known, I want to share my story of recovery from the brain disease model of mental illness. https://t.co/u9VYayRXYL

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

At some point humanity is going to realize that industrialized factory farming is one of the world's greatest moral evils: just extreme, relentless cruelty imposed on beautiful, emotionally complex, and highly social animals:

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Israel ordering 1.1 million people to flee northern Gaza does NOT then justify indiscriminate attacks on anyone who remains. Many civilians cannot or will not flee their homes. Israel STILL has a duty not to target or indiscriminately fire upon them. https://t.co/4ktceUj6Hj

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

This is insane. Even if collective punishment or a whole population made sense, which it doesn't, the Gazans already tried to fight Hamas and lost. Where were they supposed to even get weapons to resist an army supplied and trained by Iran???

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Opinion by Karen Attiah: We cannot stand by and watch Israel commit atrocities. The United States and other global leaders must not allow Israel to carry out the collective punishment it has declared it will exact on Gaza. https://t.co/jSjoM9MH4o

[Nicholas A. Christakis @NAChristakis]

How is this happening?!

I have seen “trainings” of freshmen at colleges where students are sorted into identify groups according to race, sexuality, etc for >12 years, in an (absurd and illiberal) effort to “educate” them. Who could have imagined it might eventually lead to this

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

We said ‘never again.’ The UK was a safe haven. Now, after the biggest massacre of Jews since the holocaust, British Jewish children are being advised to hide their identities as they walk to school, for their own safety. There should be mass outrage that this is necessary.

[Yael Bar tur @yaelbt]

This is Abad El Rahman Alansasra, a Muslim Israeli-Arab.

Abad drove young people escaping from the Nova party to safety under live fire, saving countless lives until he was shot at the entrance to the kibbutz. He left behind a wife and 7 children. I don’t know how many lives he saved.

Terrorists - you will never have this!

[Uri Harris @safeortrue]

@jonkay I don't know about Canada, but there's been an undeniable (imo) explosion of antisemitism online and I think it's genuinely unclear whether that will have an offline effect down the line. At the very least it's a bit early to celebrate.

[Uri Harris @safeortrue]

@Scareywrestrock @jonkay @nationalpost The "Jews like money" stereotype supports the more harmful stereotypes "Jews are greedy" and "Jews are conmen." The "Jews are (excessively) frugal" stereotype is often used to mock Jews, supporting the old trope of Jews being weird and alien and best kept at arms-length.

[Uri Harris @safeortrue]

I'm not sure there's a good solution, which is why it hasn't happened yet despite an obvious need. The people who have tried just end up producing culture-war motivated caricatures of their subject matter.

I wrote about this a few years ago in a series:

https://t.co/O0VuyhecKg

[Uri Harris @safeortrue]

It will be interesting to see how @epkaufm deals with the juxtaposition below.

An academic field that examines the dominant left-liberal culture from an outside perspective could produce useful knowledge, no question. But no one has managed so far without RW audience-capture.

[Uri Harris @safeortrue]

The problem is when your business model relies on a paying (non-academic) audience you're bound to attract people who demand a strict culture-war stance toward the subject matter. Even if you yourself are interested in a fairly dispassionate stance your customers won't be.

[Uri Harris @safeortrue]

@epkaufm Good luck. Sounds useful, although imo you might be underestimating the difficulty of making the course "non-normative." Tough to avoid bringing your own norms to the analysis (seems apparent in some of the wording you use). Might be better to just acknowledge biases upfront?

[Uri Harris @safeortrue]

Not a great development that "antisemite" has (openly) become a term of endearment on parts of the online right.

[Uri Harris @safeortrue]

@jonatanpallesen The finding on proposing is interesting (if it holds up). Certainly goes against the mainstream conservative message that if you're in doubt just take the plunge. Wonder how much of the response is due to rejection (thus damaging the relationship) and how much due to acceptance.