Articles worth reading
- Pluralistic: Tiktok's enshittification by Cory Doctorow. 21 January 2023. Why Tiktok, social media, online searches, and the overall internet gets shittier over time.
- How doctors die. It's not like the rest of us, but it should be by Ken Murray. 12 April 2016. Doctors often reject life-saving or life-extending treatments they offer to patients.
- No Politics But Class Politics: Class, Identity, Inequality by Adam Theron-Lee Rensch. 9 May 2023. Name drops Adolph Reed and his writing on why racial politics is the "politics of the left wing of neoliberalism".
- A Response to Clover and Singh by Adolph Reed Jr. and Walter Benn Michaels. 1 June 2023. In response to Reed's article directly mentioned above, some liberal academics became rather incensed at effectively being outed as grifters. Reed and Michaels retort quite effectively, with one of their key points being that if liberals want to obsess over race (and racial minorities), universalist class-based politics disproportionately benefit minorities anyway, in addition to the poor and marginalised who are considered a part of the majority racial demographic.
- Not So Black and White by Kenan Malik. 9 May 2023. (Note: this is similar to the Reed & Michaels and Rensch articles.) Malik claims that it is disingenuous and lazy to focus on racial identity in social issues, when the reality is that most divisions occur based on class lines (particularly income). More importantly, Malik argues for a universalist approach that's rooted in class, rather than race.
- Digital “Retrobait” Trades on Your Present Unhappiness to Collect Your Data by Grafton Tanner. 12 November 2023. Life in the not-so-distant past wasn't that rosy. Nostalgia is often exploited and comforting because present day life is worse, for you and many others.
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