Will Shetterly's Blog, page 39

The point of a bourgeois ideology

The point of a bourgeois ideology is to make rich people feel good about doing little or nothing to help the poor. In Europe, this was originally done with institutional Christianity and Judaism. As the rich grew more skeptical, liberal philosophy filled the niche. Currently this is handled by left identitarianism, which does all it can to keep social identities in the intersection and class out

The Birds of Prey creator controversy, or Why team creators may deserve more credit than creators of individual characters

There will be a Birds of Prey movie, but currently, the creators of the team won't get any money or prominent credit because they didn't create the members of the team. But in the history of comics, teams have often been more important than their members. This is most obvious with the X-Men and the Doom Patrol, whose individual members change, but the team continues, and with the possible

Three videos for studying T. T. Liang's demonstration of the Yang 150 form of Tai Chi

I divided T. T. Liang's demonstration of the Yang 150 into three parts and added links to the moves in the descriptions to make it easier to replay the part you want to study. Part 1 - T T Liang solo long form Yang style Tai Chi - YouTube Part 2 - T T Liang solo long form Yang style Tai Chi - YouTube Part 3 - T T Liang solo long form Yang style Tai Chi - YouTube

A little on the cancellation of James Tiptree

What I've said on social media: 1. James Tiptree, like HP Lovecraft, has been canceled. Tiptree Name Will Be Removed from Award | File 770 2. I also support this theory about Tiptree and her husband. They're terrible people. The long-term behavior prior to this event indicated it was almost certainly a suicide pact between two people who couldn't go on living life as it was. She was

Frederick Douglass showed that the Irish were always white in America

In 1853, referring to black people as us, Frederick Douglass wrote: Every hour sees us elbowed out of some employment to make room for some newly arrived emigrant from the Emerald Isle, whose hunger and color entitle him to special favor. These white men are becoming house-servants, cooks, stewards, waiters, and flunkies.

James Scaminaci's takedown of Mark Bray's book on Antifa

I found this quoted on Facebook and have not found the source. It deserves a wider readership. "Mark Bray, a historian with a new book on the Antifa, is everywhere. His central claim, upon which everything depends, particularly in the current situation, is his false claim that no one took the fascists seriously in the 1920s and 1930s, and therefore the Antifa of today is compelled by historical

Narrativity: the convention I needed

I loved Narrativity for many reasons, but I've resisted writing this because one reason makes me sad. I'll start as we tell people to critique writers in workshops and focus on the good: Perhaps the best was a happy accident. When Emma came up with the name, we were just trying to find something that seemed descriptive and hadn't been overused, but the name encouraged something none of us had

A list of the 105 postures of Yang family tai chi chuan

Posting this in case it's useful for anyone else. I don't know who created these sheets; I'll update this if I learn that. .

Bernie Sanders, like Robin Hood, loved by poor, hated by rich

“Among Democrats making $100k or more, Sanders gets 19% of the vote. Among those making less than $50k, he receives 30% of the vote.” And yes, because the latter group is more diverse, it means he’s disproportionately supported by women and people of color. Source: https://morningconsult.com/wp-content...

Why the New Deal began the black voter shift to the Democrats

See the “Mythologizing the New Deal” section of What Black Life Actually Looks Like by Cedric Johnson And African Americans and the New Deal: A Look Back in History