Becky Aizen
Middle name: Pepi
First fandom: Blyton
Melbourne born & bred. 20 years a Londoner. Probably the only person in human history to pinch the title of their PhD from Fran Drescher’s autobiography. Will never not prefer Vegemite.
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- Small Talker: What music do you like? Me: Songs where artists insert their own names. Small Talker: Oh. youtube.com/watch?v=FY5N...
- First time I've heard that!
- Someone walk me through the steps of how signing a 2020 *anti-Trump* open letter (read the text of it!) makes someone responsible for the dangerous right-wing illiberalism that self-same letter saw left illiberalism as potentially encouraging.
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View full thread1) Harper's letter (and many signatories, individually, in the years prior) warns that left illiberalism though not as dangerous as the right-wing version makes it easier for the latter to win. 2) This happens. 3) Signatories repeatedly declared Why Trump 2.0 Happened.
- The 'how'dya like it now that what you wanted has happened?' line, hurled on loop to a group of people who said quite specifically that we wanted to *avoid* this outcome.
- You don't have to take my word for it! harpers.org/a-letter-on-...
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- 2 things struck me here: 1. Non-Jewish students who are ok w Israel are ostracized by their peers. How effective this social contagion is. 2. Columbia & others hired Arab professors in the 1990s to get better perspectives. To this day many never promote dialogue & peace. Why is it the default?
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- Not to put too finer point on it Say you'll be my Klee when it's sonnig Make a little Bauhaus in your soul...
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