A good book on the subject is "Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science" by Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt.
Summary: With the emergence of "cultural studies" and the blurring of once-clear academic boundaries, scholars are turning to subjects far outside their traditional disciplines and areas of expertise. In Higher Superstition scientists Paul Gross and Norman Levitt raise serious questions about the growing criticism of science by humanists and social scientists on the "academic left."
I am not a conservative, but "I couldn't help but this the author's unfortunate skin tone affected their arguments" is racist as hell and we should never ever accept it. Ever.
It's the "brownshirts vs the redshirts" all over again. Yes, one side are literally waving Nazi flags and that's terrible. The other side are literally waving Socialist flags and the only reason that's not just as terrible if not worse is that for some reason the intellectual left got away with going to ground rather than admitting defeat. And if you think that's hyperbole because of Bush-Jr-era nonsense, I refer you to Christopher Hitchens who used to lead labor strikes and visit glorious people's work camps in South America before he finally realized the horrors of all the socialist regimes he'd been supporting.
You're also ignoring the times that went against your mantra, like when the liberal antifa supporter was handing out bike locks and brained a kid on camera. Antifa have also regularly been tossing explosives into crowds, beating people, lighting property and police on fire, etc. It's a wonder more haven't been injured.
I don't have any sympathy at all for Nazis.
I also don't have any sympathy at all for Socialists.
Not having any sympathy for Socialists, doesn't make me a supporter of Nazis.
Not having sympathy for either side, doesn't mean I support the other side.
I'd like for us to go back to rationality and working together.
That starts by reforming education. And yes, education is that bad. One quick example from my own time back at college a few years ago is that I had a professor teaching the university-required ethics course who taught ethics only through the lens of Feminist Care Ethics. If you wrote a paper dealing only with the issues at hand (Locke and Hobbes mostly), you failed. If you wrote a paper attacking white men and denying rationality as a positive basis for morality, you got an A. I just discovered my papers a few days ago, and yes it's all in there.
On the other hand, I also had a conservative department chair professor who taught me that white people only started to accept black people after slavery because black people were so good at entertainment and sports... so I'm all for generalized reform, and not just in this one politicized direction.
Now that the culture of coastal journalism has become completely insular, it's time to turn on the REAL heretics- those who share almost all of our beliefs. That's all I see here. Silicon Valley is like New York and San Fran, except while sharing most of our social values they disagree with out economics, so they're going to be the next against the wall.
Random example: I wanted to catch up on issues of Lucky Peach magazine, which until it went under combined cool new ideas about cooking (David Chang, Momofuku) with a hint of the old 'zine culture in the form of ridiculously cool photography and unusual graphic design. It's neat stuff. Except it's written almost entirely by and for residents of NYC and San Fran. Every single issue will highlight someone trawling ramen places in the Bronx, or diners by the Bay, or what cool new places are downtown on XXrd and XXst. Even though for instance they all worship Benton's Smoked Bacon, from Tennessee, which one assumes exists somewhere out in the wasteland where you find backwards regressive inbreds.
You can see this regarding YouTube as well. The real "monsters" on YouTube that people are most worried about fighting right now are people who believe in social programs, who want to help the poor and believe all people deserve human rights, but they're people who disagree about the best way to achieve those aims. So the New York Times is regularly writing hit pieces about how YouTubers don't serve the national interest, where you should really spend your money is on coastal print media which you can trust to always have correct opinions.
Note that I didn't vote in the last election, and do not support any major American political party.
I know a guy with for-real celiac disease. Although the active ingredient may be the same, not all generics are certified as safe for celiacs thanks to the additional padding in the pill.
Generics and brand name are NOT always equivalent depending on the drug and condition, and spreading this lie is incredibly dangerous to many people.
This is what happens when CEOs, politicians, and pundits are deciding health policies rather than the properly informed health officials.
Now if the insurance policy would be that a doctor must write medical necessity for avoiding the generic, go for it. But mandating that people can only take generics will cause harm.
"According to the source, an Apple representative, staffer, or lobbyist will testify against the bill at a hearing in Lincoln on March 9. AT&T will also argue against the bill, the source said. The source told me that at least one of the companies plans to say that consumers who repair their own phones could cause lithium batteries to catch fire … "
Sound a little more fishy to you yet? Oh no sorry, we can't let you repair your own car, there are dangerous corrosive chemicals inside. You must take it back to the dealership for service.
You should read up on Louis Rossman, a guy who runs a YouTube channel to help people repair Apple products.
To be fair to Apple- People were trying to sue them when 4chan had a campaign telling people you could recharge your phone in the microwave (look it up). Yes, it sucks how people will mess up their own devices and then try to sue Apple. But that's part of the cost of doing business.
To be fair to the repair shops- Apple and other companies constantly try to use dodgy legal efforts like copyright claims to keep repair shops from posting schematics from computers in an effort to diagnose and repair components. Louis Rossman talks about these battles constantly.
Yes it's messy. No, there's not a perfect answer. But the car analogy is a good one. Manufacturers could make "better" cars if they could seal the engine compartment against service. They could also make cheap cars that break constantly and force people to come in for service.
Given my experience in the field, Apple's reliability and support is not nearly as good as people claim it is. At my work we constantly have problems, not the least of which are Apple's dodgy power connectors so virtually everyone in the office is limping along with black tape covering a frayed power cable waiting until the day it breaks or starts to spark and the need a new one.
Or when they lied and said you couldn't upgrade the RAM, so when we slap in more RAM for work, we're violating the warranty and have to take it out to get service.
The fatal flaw in Curtis' documentary, and in most people who view it, is they think only Republicans suffer from hypernormalization. BOTH parties are guilty, and yes it's going to keep getting worse even if we have a D beside the president's name. Go back and watch The West Wing and see how long it takes until they're justifying the murder of innocent people in the middle east.
Summary: With the emergence of "cultural studies" and the blurring of once-clear academic boundaries, scholars are turning to subjects far outside their traditional disciplines and areas of expertise. In Higher Superstition scientists Paul Gross and Norman Levitt raise serious questions about the growing criticism of science by humanists and social scientists on the "academic left."