Walter Kirn

Yeah, oddly, this ties back to the Taylor Loren story because she was famous, among other things, for a piece she did years ago where she sort of hit out in the new app Clubhouse and claimed to overhear Marc Andreessen using what she called the R slur. Yes, good memory.

Yeah, oddly, this ties back to the Taylor Loren story because she was famous, among other things, for a piece she did years ago where she sort of hit out in the new app Clubhouse and claimed to overhear Marc Andreessen using what she called the R slur. Yes, good memory.

Yeah, oddly, this ties back to the Taylor Loren story because she was famous, among other things, for a piece she did years ago where she sort of hit out in the new app Clubhouse and claimed to overhear Marc Andreessen using what she called the R slur. Yes, good memory.

She posted a tweet of all the people who didn't do anything when the R slur was used. Now, it turned out that it wasn't Andreessen who used the word. And it was actually a quote, a self-referential quote involving a group of Redditors who described their sort of GameStop stock ploy as like the... revolution of the retarded or something like that.

She posted a tweet of all the people who didn't do anything when the R slur was used. Now, it turned out that it wasn't Andreessen who used the word. And it was actually a quote, a self-referential quote involving a group of Redditors who described their sort of GameStop stock ploy as like the... revolution of the retarded or something like that.

She posted a tweet of all the people who didn't do anything when the R slur was used. Now, it turned out that it wasn't Andreessen who used the word. And it was actually a quote, a self-referential quote involving a group of Redditors who described their sort of GameStop stock ploy as like the... revolution of the retarded or something like that.

And so the question was, what do we think about this retarded revolution or something along those lines? And so the whole thing had to be kind of retracted, corrected, clarified, et cetera, et cetera. But what's interesting about that is that at the time,

And so the question was, what do we think about this retarded revolution or something along those lines? And so the whole thing had to be kind of retracted, corrected, clarified, et cetera, et cetera. But what's interesting about that is that at the time,

And so the question was, what do we think about this retarded revolution or something along those lines? And so the whole thing had to be kind of retracted, corrected, clarified, et cetera, et cetera. But what's interesting about that is that at the time,

There was this concerted effort to define the harm standard as even using this old word in a private setting, essentially, was somehow not even acceptable. Like the argument was we can't have apps like Clubhouse because people will be doing this all the time behind closed doors. We go from that.

There was this concerted effort to define the harm standard as even using this old word in a private setting, essentially, was somehow not even acceptable. Like the argument was we can't have apps like Clubhouse because people will be doing this all the time behind closed doors. We go from that.

There was this concerted effort to define the harm standard as even using this old word in a private setting, essentially, was somehow not even acceptable. Like the argument was we can't have apps like Clubhouse because people will be doing this all the time behind closed doors. We go from that.

to it's okay to shoot people in broad daylight if, you know, and that's a morally good person who does that. So there's harm over here, which she later described as the reaction to that is destroying her life to, you know, to this thing, which is a completely different idea about what harm is. It's mind boggling.

to it's okay to shoot people in broad daylight if, you know, and that's a morally good person who does that. So there's harm over here, which she later described as the reaction to that is destroying her life to, you know, to this thing, which is a completely different idea about what harm is. It's mind boggling.

to it's okay to shoot people in broad daylight if, you know, and that's a morally good person who does that. So there's harm over here, which she later described as the reaction to that is destroying her life to, you know, to this thing, which is a completely different idea about what harm is. It's mind boggling.

Oh, that was, that was me. Yeah.

Oh, that was, that was me. Yeah.

Oh, that was, that was me. Yeah.

Yeah, it was really an amazing thing because what they did is in response to the popularity of the Netflix show adolescence, uh, which Keir Starmer is now going to, uh, mandate that every secondary school student in the UK has to watch. Um,

Yeah, it was really an amazing thing because what they did is in response to the popularity of the Netflix show adolescence, uh, which Keir Starmer is now going to, uh, mandate that every secondary school student in the UK has to watch. Um,