RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/September 2020

September 2020
The Social Delusion or how blaming society's problems and polarization on social media is incorrect as they are the result of economic inequality and corporate surveillance In an unusual twist, Trump's Supreme Court nominee, the Catholic traditionalist Amy Coney Barrett has received a ringing endorsement by one of the main Protestant Unionist newspapers of Northern Ireland, the News Letter. Scamademics?Right-Wing Lobbying Groups Reviving ‘Herd Immunity’ in the UK Playing with Fire: the Curious Marriage of QAnon and Wellness. Feminist Judith Butler talks about the culture wars, anti-intellectualism and TERFs in an interview with the New Statesman Irish headcases and in need of psychiatric attention "activists" Gemma O'Doherty, John Waters, and Dee Wall, as well as their growing throng of halfwits at dawn, decided to protest the studios of RTE last night, believing Anthony Fauci was there in person, and not talking via videolink. As bad as COVID-19 is, it looks like we are more at risk from the growing number of cretins in our society. The wrong sort of Jew: Or how Labour pursued complaints against elderly Jewish opponents of Israel What if Trump refuses to concede? (The Atlantic; private browser window recommended.) The cop who quit instead of helping to gentrify Atlanta

How the US Border Patrol has been a cult of brutality since its founding in 1924 How Andy Ngo has caused harassment against Portland protesters by posting their mugshots on his conservative Twitter account. And it's all legal. (Don't bother with the comments. They've been brigaded by his fans.)

Spiked publishes a very reasonable article on poverty porn. How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled. Capitalist nursery fables: The Tragedy of Private Property and the Farce of its Defense Harvard historian examines the white supremacist propaganda of American textbooks Decentralized economic coordination: Let a hundred flowers bloom Leaked internal documents and reports confirm that Amazon is spying on its workers to prevent labor strikes QAnon is basically a white evangelical cult whose believers become even more fanatical when the prophesied end does not come.