
James Lindsay: The monkey is out of the box and it HATES liberalism
Decoding the Gurus
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The Social Media Issue Feels Like Apolitical Football
i think the modern situation is an interesting one because you have these different institutions which are dominated to one degree or another by groups with a different political persuasion like from all the surveys it does seem for instance that academia has a very strong skew towards the left and i guess the same would be true of many but critically not all of the mainstream media outlets as well. I just want to make the point that the social media issue always feels a bit like apolitical football and that people are always looking for it from one lens so they find examples of people being banned or of bad decisions and don't look for disconfirming examples, he says.
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