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Something I just learned white people have in common with commercial drugs: evocative, quasi-meaningful **fake names.** “Baylor, Hayes, and Haisley” = hay bales, the way “viagra” = vigor... nameberry.com/blog/the-red... health.clevelandclinic.org/how-are-medi...

The examples in this article are really interesting. Red State names often have first names that sound like surnames. The *aesthetic* of patrimony feels right to parents in red states. There’s a feeling of grief here, of filling in something for a missing ancestry

Something I just learned white people have in common with commercial drugs: evocative, quasi-meaningful **fake names.** “Baylor, Hayes, and Haisley” = hay bales, the way “viagra” = vigor... nameberry.com/blog/the-red... health.clevelandclinic.org/how-are-medi...

“White” is not a real ethnicity, but a new thing: a constructed ethnicity-brand that retroactively changes your ancestry. White names therefore have the job of *evoking* ancestry and *sounding like* names.

Something I just learned white people have in common with commercial drugs: evocative, quasi-meaningful **fake names.** “Baylor, Hayes, and Haisley” = hay bales, the way “viagra” = vigor... nameberry.com/blog/the-red... health.clevelandclinic.org/how-are-medi...

WELL The story of Jephthah and his daughter is haunting. What a horrible thing. A troubling parallel to Abraham and Isaac. It feels like an "empty" version. Judges continues to make me gasp at the absolute depths of human depravity. If there's a lesson here I wonder what it could be...

Nobody told Jephthah to vow to make a burnt offering; nobody told him to then burn his own daughter. This "duty" was his own invention. Maybe a lesson here about perversely following rules of piety for their own sake, especially rules you invented, without regard to whether your choices lead to evil

I am the very model of a Jordan Petersonian I keep my shoulders back to boost my levels serotonian: The lobster’s common ancestor with humans would be proud of me They call it pseudoscience but it’s wisdom spewing out of me!

I spent my days on litigating words and defini-si-ons And those who get their breasts removed by criminal physi-si-ans Until my tweet was challenged by the wokest of the moralists Which led the court to take away my license as a thorapist (Thorapist?)

I am the very model of a Jordan Petersonian I keep my shoulders back to boost my levels serotonian: The lobster’s common ancestor with humans would be proud of me They call it pseudoscience but it’s wisdom spewing out of me!

On Germany I’ve tried to study everything there is to know And as for Russia, well, I’ve read the Gulag Archipelago My innermost beliefs on immigration are Jacksonian I am the very model of a Jordan Petersonian

I am the very model of a Jordan Petersonian I keep my shoulders back to boost my levels serotonian: The lobster’s common ancestor with humans would be proud of me They call it pseudoscience but it’s wisdom spewing out of me!

In younger days I taught a Harvard class on personality Expounding on the Normal Rat and human sexuality So raving on a podcast is as normal of a day for me As chasing Richard Dawkins while he tries to get away from me!

I am the very model of a Jordan Petersonian I keep my shoulders back to boost my levels serotonian: The lobster’s common ancestor with humans would be proud of me They call it pseudoscience but it’s wisdom spewing out of me!

I had a hairy hangup with the notion of a gender gap and Tried to protest pronoun laws until my benzo bender happened My caree-er, icar-e-an—“bernt” as in a fire—toast— I went into a coma and came out a Daily Wire host!

WHY IS MY FAVORITE TWINK RAPPER DOING THIS??

Upset that the *only* thing Wikipedia seems to know about J. Mitchell Morse is the racist article on Black English. Morse wrote that in 1972; his thinking had changed a lot by the time he wrote *Prejudice and Literature.* A shame for this to be the last word on him, as he said so many words since.

Wikipedia should at least mention how he helped establish Joyce in America’s academic canon (whereas now it’s unthinkable that Joyce *wouldn’t* be there)! www.legacy.com/us/obituarie...

Upset that the *only* thing Wikipedia seems to know about J. Mitchell Morse is the racist article on Black English. Morse wrote that in 1972; his thinking had changed a lot by the time he wrote *Prejudice and Literature.* A shame for this to be the last word on him, as he said so many words since.

Morse should be known for writing a great deal about the relationship between language, thought, metaphor, prejudice, propaganda, racism, authoritarianism, and bad prose. I recommend in particular the first and last chapters in Prejudice and Literature: archive.org/details/prej...

Upset that the *only* thing Wikipedia seems to know about J. Mitchell Morse is the racist article on Black English. Morse wrote that in 1972; his thinking had changed a lot by the time he wrote *Prejudice and Literature.* A shame for this to be the last word on him, as he said so many words since.

Morse should be known for writing Matters of Style, the finest textbook on prose style I’ve ever seen: archive.org/details/matt...