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Ibram X Kendi

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Ibram X Kendi

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Ibram X Kendi is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between May 18, 2021 and September 05, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “There are lots of people in the US who have never heard of Ibram X Kendi”; “people in the US who have never heard of Ibram X Kendi”; “The social justice community is an order of magnitude bigger than the intellectual dark web, so how come it hasn’t produced proportionately greater celebrities? Ibram X Kendi, maybe”. It most often appears alongside Congress, facebook, Jordan Peterson.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 3
  • Issue count: 3
  • First seen: May 18, 2021
  • Last seen: September 05, 2023

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Highlights From The Comments On Culture Wars
May 18, 2021 · Original source
Yeah, was complicated to write. On the one hand, I wanted to focus on Internet culture wars in particular, and especially on a sort of vanguard of Internet culture warriors made of the most extremely online people. There are lots of people in the US who have never heard of Ibram X Kendi or Jordan Peterson, and they’re a valid and important part of the country, but this isn’t about them.
Contra Hoel On Aristocratic Tutoring
March 22, 2022 · Original source
I’ll give one even weirder example. A few years ago, I wrote a very political post, called Can Things Be Both Popular And Silenced? It touched on “guru” culture in politically incorrect discourse - the phenomenon of people like Jordan Peterson who became really famous by saying controversial things - and it asked: why aren’t there equally famous figures on the left? The social justice community is an order of magnitude bigger than the intellectual dark web, so how come it hasn’t produced proportionately greater celebrities? Ibram X Kendi, maybe. Ta-Nehisi Coates, ten years ago. But how come they aren’t bigger and more numerous.
Inline links: Can Things Be Both Popular And Silenced
My Presidential Platform
September 05, 2023 · Original source
Still, this would only buy us a few more years, and eventually we would have to think bigger. Mt. Rushmore (the whole mountain, not just the faces) is big enough that copying it would take twenty years of national coal production. Given that all the faces on Rushmore are white, I propose a companion mountain on the opposite side of the observation plaza, “Mt. Racemore”, featuring Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Henrietta Lacks, and Ibram X Kendi.