"Masculinity... is always under threat and eating animals is its protection racket.... Our whiteness is part of the problem of meat-eating..."

I have been saying for years that eating meat is an act of patriarchal white supremacy.

This womxn is a genius…pic.twitter.com/yXWEzUBhd1

— Titania McGrath (@TitaniaMcGrath) February 11, 2022

A look into how people talk at Microsoft.

If you’re not announcing your pronouns, race, hairstyle and accessories, you’re on the wrong side of history.pic.twitter.com/cfmynPoFX4

— Titania McGrath (@TitaniaMcGrath) November 5, 2021

I am person, hear me roar make a sound associated with a non-human animal..

The @ACLU is right to celebrate the achievements of Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the anniversary of her death.

And also to point out that she was a vile transphobic bigot whose words must be erased from history. https://t.co/Q8yvY8bnCX

— Titania McGrath (@TitaniaMcGrath) September 22, 2021

The following songs have been approved by the @ACLU. 🎶

“No [Person] No Cry” - Bob Marley

“I’m Every [Person]” - Chaka Khan

“Isn’t [They] Lovely” - Stevie Wonder

“Does Your [Birthing Person] Know” - ABBA

“Bring Your [Offspring With A Cervix] To The Slaughter” - Iron Maiden

— Titania McGrath (@TitaniaMcGrath) September 23, 2021

AOC at the Met Gala.

Thank you @AOC!! 👏👏✊

The most effective way to tackle economic inequality is through the medium of haute couture.pic.twitter.com/qf4wDKdEJS

— Titania McGrath (@TitaniaMcGrath) September 14, 2021

I see Jonathan Chait is trying to help AOC with her PR problem: "What is the clearest and best articulation of the view that AOC has done something hypocritical or wrong by attending the Met gala in a 'tax the rich' dress?" 

Chait is ostensibly soliciting attacks on AOC, but I assume this is in the spirit of making a steel man argument: What are the strongest arguments for the position I want to disagree with? Get those all out in the open so I can work on my argument against them. Or just give me a basis for declaring that there is no good argument on the other side.

I'm not going to read every answer to Chait's tweet, but mostly I'm seeing support for AOC. That is, people aren't answering the question. The fact that the gala is full of rich people certainly doesn't establish that she's a hypocrite. She's telling the rich folk to their face that they ought to be taxed. 

 Of course, they are taxed. She didn't even say "Soak the rich" or "Tax the hell out of the rich," but even if she had, she'd be forthrightly advocating policy change in front of the people who'll get stuck with the burden. That makes her more brave than hypocritical. But it still wouldn't be especially brave. I'm sure that socially these rich folk would endorse the notion that they ought to bear a heavy burden of taxation. 

Smiling at black people.

This is such powerful advice. ✊🥲

When approaching a black person, it’s also helpful to gently hum a Tracy Chapman song to let them know you’re not a threat. pic.twitter.com/OADNhdnb4v

— Titania McGrath (@TitaniaMcGrath) July 28, 2021

"I’ve seen lots of Trump supporters asking why the Chinese Embassy’s account hasn’t been banned for this tweet..."

I’ve seen lots of Trump supporters asking why the Chinese Embassy’s account hasn’t been banned for this tweet.

This is how much conservatives hate people of colour, *especially* when they promote women’s rights. pic.twitter.com/2gPRLYICZG

— Titania McGrath (@TitaniaMcGrath) January 9, 2021

Bleeders.

The term” female” is outdated and disrespectful.

From now on, I demand to be referred to as a bleeder. https://t.co/7jUwBVjPNk

— Titania McGrath (@TitaniaMcGrath) October 24, 2020

"The most effective way to combat racial discrimination..."

The most effective way to combat racial discrimination is to continually remind white people that they are inhuman demons who are beyond redemption. pic.twitter.com/WclBps4IKz

— Titania McGrath (@TitaniaMcGrath) September 7, 2020

Meanwhile, at the New York Times, "More Than Ever, Trump Casts Himself as the Defender of White America" and the basis for that assertion is this:

Trump Orders Purge of ‘Critical Race Theory‘ from Federal Agencies https://t.co/ygXcTXRHsQ via @BreitbartNews This is a sickness that cannot be allowed to continue. Please report any sightings so we can quickly extinguish!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 5, 2020

Inappropriate appropriation.

White people have NO RIGHT to culturally appropriate black hairstyles. 😡

Clearly defined racial boundaries MUST be policed.

(Unlike gender, which is totally fluid.) https://t.co/zKM83zhBCs

— Titania McGrath (@TitaniaMcGrath) August 31, 2020

"Reed Hastings is the founder and CEO of Netflix. Here is he and his leadership team — the whole lot of them grooming little girls for sexual exploitation."

"These are little girls, and this Netflix show has the acting like strippers as a way of finding their way to liberation. What is wrong with these Netflix people? Do they not have children? Do they think our daughters are only valuable insofar as they can cosplay as sluts who are sexually available to men? What is wrong with you, Netflix?"

From "Cuties" by Rod Dreher (at The American Conservative).

The Titania McGrath take:

Feminism has come a long way...

1918 - Female suffrage

1967 - Foundation of Women’s Liberation Movement

1975 - Equal Pay Act

2020 - 11-year-old girls *finally* allowed to twerk on mainstream TV

✊♀️ pic.twitter.com/QU0MjZ4tj3

— Titania McGrath (@TitaniaMcGrath) August 20, 2020

Titania's back on Twitter.

"You should have killed me while you had the chance..."

Suspending Titania.

Twitter is suspending satirical accounts that make fun of wokeness. All this has done is prove the satirists’ point -- that wokeness is an authoritarian, humourless ideology. Silicon Valley nerds need to lighten up.https://t.co/akywxEMuFr

— spiked (@spikedonline) August 18, 2020

"You're white and you're telling this to 2 black police officers — do you see the problem with that a little bit?"

The insane jargon. The fanaticism. The lack of decency. The absolute certainty. https://t.co/YwO9MKpc5n

— Andrew Sullivan (@sullydish) June 23, 2020

ADDED:

In order to defeat white supremacy, it’s important to rebuke black people who won’t do what they’re told.pic.twitter.com/7m7chVobIg

— Titania McGrath (@TitaniaMcGrath) June 23, 2020

ADDED: She fell into that white-person rhetoric — which I think has been identified as not politically correct — where you start naming the colors and go on to colors that are not people colors. She says: "white, black, fucking brown, purple."

"Fucking brown"? Is that like shocking pink?

"Racism begins in the crib."

This child is perpetuating offensively xenophobic Italian stereotypes.

Racism begins in the crib. pic.twitter.com/MH06sVCLWP

— Titania McGrath (@TitaniaMcGrath) May 7, 2020

Bookshelves.

The best thing about these Skype TV interviews is we can be on the lookout for problematic material on politicians’ bookshelves.

I’m compiling a database of MPs who might be reading beyond the scope of permitted opinions.

Report any suspicious books to me. I’ll do the rest. pic.twitter.com/dPTKvj6Aes

— Titania McGrath (@TitaniaMcGrath) May 4, 2020

Ha. Not looking to call down the PC police, but this is just something else about the lockdown and the bookshelves, from Roz Chast:

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That's the one Philip K. Dick book that I read, loved, and found to be sufficient: "The 3 Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch."

Also:

Nailed it. Depth. Color. Composition. And cool glasses. 10/10 @AlRoker pic.twitter.com/hUM7FoH2x4

— Room Rater (@ratemyskyperoom) May 3, 2020

We're all doing what we can.

The next time someone tells you that celebrities aren’t making sacrifices for the community, just show them this... https://t.co/iRM7PaMsbg

— Titania McGrath (@TitaniaMcGrath) March 26, 2020

"When the New York Times starts imitating a satirical character..."

When the New York Times starts imitating a satirical character, you know something's gone very wrong...

From my conversation with @joerogan.

Full video here: https://t.co/UXlxOeWbaz pic.twitter.com/Y9wA4YcYYg

— Andrew Doyle (@andrewdoyle_com) February 8, 2020

Andrew Doyle's "satirical character" is Titania McGrath. I've listened to Doyle's entire conversation with Joe Rogan and recommend it: here.

"Joseph Goebbels didn’t die. He just got a job at Hallmark."

Joseph Goebbels didn’t die. He just got a job at Hallmark. https://t.co/oKKOyYxXa6

— Titania McGrath (@TitaniaMcGrath) December 26, 2019

ADDED: The linked article at Salon is "Hallmark movies are fascist propaganda/Forget 'Triumph of the Will' — the most insidious authoritarian propaganda comes in the form of schmaltz" by Amanda Marcotte. Isn't this like what Jonah Goldberg did — from the right — in his book "Liberal Fascism"? Goldberg wrote:

For generations our primary vision of a dystopian future has been that of Orwell’s 1984. This was a fundamentally “masculine” nightmare of fascist brutality. But with the demise of the Soviet Union and the vanishing memory of the great twentieth-century fascist and communist dictatorships, the nightmare vision of 1984 is slowly fading away. In its place, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is emerging as the more prophetic book. As we unravel the human genome and master the ability to make people happy with televised entertainment and psychoactive drugs, politics is increasingly a vehicle for delivering prepackaged joy. America’s political system used to be about the pursuit of happiness. Now more and more of us want to stop chasing it and have it delivered....

The history of totalitarianism is the history of the quest to transcend the human condition and create a society where our deepest meaning and destiny are realized simply by virtue of the fact that we live in it. It cannot be done, and even if, as often in the case of liberal fascism, the effort is very careful to be humane and decent, it will still result in a kind of benign tyranny where some people get to impose their ideas of goodness and happiness on those who may not share them...

Make people happy with televised entertainment... sounds like the Hallmark channel. So let's read the Amanda Marcotte thing, published jollily on Christmas at Salon:

When most of us think about fascistically propagandistic movies, we think of the grotesque grandeur of Leni Riefenstahl's films celebrating the Third Reich... even in Nazi Germany, the majority of movies approved by the Nazi minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, were escapist and feather-light, with a Hallmark movie-style emphasis on the importance of "normality."

There's plenty of reason that empty-headed kitsch fits neatly in the authoritarian worldview. It's storytelling that imitates the gestures of emotion without actually engaging with real feeling... Hallmark movies, with their emphasis on returning home and the pleasures of the small, domestic life, also send a not-at-all subtle signal of disdain for cosmopolitanism and curiosity about the larger world, which is exactly the sort of attitude that helps breed the kind of defensive white nationalism that we see growing in strength in the Donald Trump era.

Both Marcotte and Goldberg are afraid of oppressive government and think cheap televised entertainment is softening the people up to accept it.

"He announced his pronouns..."

I genuinely don’t understand how Jeremy Corbyn could have lost.

He announced his pronouns and everything. pic.twitter.com/sPu4NNF487

— Titania McGrath (@TitaniaMcGrath) December 13, 2019

Last year's comedy is this year's seriousness.

I’m not saying @thenation’s writers are plagiarists, but this article is remarkably similar to the one I wrote last December. pic.twitter.com/n83PwDJCGi

— Titania McGrath (@TitaniaMcGrath) November 29, 2019