Andrew Hofer

“universities need to make defending pluralism a top institutional priority, not an afterthought. If they do not, politicians—the world’s worst judges of scientific integrity—will try to do it for them.”
― Jonathan Rauch, The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth

“The alternative to appropriation is a world where white European people make art about white European people, with only white European references in it. Swap African or Asian or Latin or whatever culture you want for European. A world where everyone is blind and deaf to any culture or experience that is not their own. I hate that world, don’t you? I’m terrified of that world, and I don’t want to live in that world, and as a mixed-race person, I literally don’t exist in it.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“In practice, deconstructive approaches to language therefore look very much like nitpicking at words in order to deliberately miss the point.”
― Helen Pluckrose, Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody

“after the financial crisis, the Obama DOJ slammed big banks with massive fines so it could trumpet that it was sending tons of relief to consumers. Then it told banks they could pay less than half that much if they donated the money to Obama’s favorite nonprofits instead. And being fond of money, the banks took the DOJ up on the offer. Now that’s a great quid pro quo—the DOJ gets to look good, the banks get to keep most of their money, and the liberal nonprofits get lots of funding.”
― Vivek Ramaswamy, Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam