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Sheluyang Peng's avatar

Came in here expecting to read an article about how Electronic Arts will be anti-woke and it was something video game related. This is still cool though.

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Todd Class's avatar

I've seen this claim in a few of your pieces, that liberals are reasonable but just have a blind spot on identity issues. I think energy/climate is another blind spot, a huge one. Here liberals want to pursue the goal of "decarbonization", which is absolutely insane -- an entire overhaul of the energy system (the most fundamental of industries) in pursuit of an incredibly vaguely specified goal. So you have lots of smart economists and scientists conducting rational discourse and employing utilitarianism (the way you describe in this essay) on the best strategies to go about this without questioning the underlying premises which are absolutely bonkers. This makes me think that it's not just identity issues that are a blind spot: liberalism (so e.g. the NYT and liberal media) has fundamental problems wherever social justice ideology holds sway, and this applied to a lot of things -- race and feminism, but also the environment, crime, homelessness, and more.

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