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“…someone who provides empathy and understanding for an alleged victim does so without imposing a cost on anyone else. I believe the tension arises when the implications of believing an accusation means taking punitive action”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 1 April 2019
The default posture of “believing women” conflicts with conceptions of justice predicated on the...
Tagged Abuse, allegations, Justice, MeToo, sexual abuse, Society |
Haredim/Haredi-ism, Society

“The way to rectify corrupt sexual mores is by replacing them with a healthy code of sexuality, not by advocating asexuality”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 23 October 2018
The way to rectify corrupt sexual mores is by replacing them with a healthy...
Tagged charedism, Halakhah, haredi tzniut, Haredism, modesty, sexuality, tznius, tzniut |
Culture, Society

“If there’s any historical development over the past few years that has reinforced the new allergy to devil’s advocacy, it’s the ascent of actual fascists…”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 12 April 2018
If there’s any historical development over the past few years that has reinforced the...
Tagged argument, argumentation, devil's advocacy, devil's advocate |
Internet, Society

“While modernity promised Jews and other minorities that they could move from the margins to the center, it’s the reverse that may have actually occurred”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 23 October 2017
While modernity promised Jews and other minorities that they could move from the margins...
Tagged Identity, Internet, modernity |
Society

“Fighting for the holy, big, silent majority, mainstream middle I think is going to be one of the major moral battles of our time”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 August 2017
They are playing in a social climate that is increasingly characteristic both here and...
Tagged civil discourse, Civil Society, moral battle, sociery |
Society

“As is often the case with fringe organizations who take on targets with significant more social capital than their own, their campaign is a tapestry of misinformation, disinformation, and a theory of cross-contamination which imagines that decontextualized anecdotal evidence can be most effectively understood, and then constructed into coherence, through the framework of conspiracy theory”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 20 August 2017
As is often the case with fringe organizations who take on targets with significant...
Tagged accusations, conspiracy theory, organizations |
Society

“…people can mistake truth for rudeness, and rudeness for truth. It may only be by examining the aftermath of each that it becomes possible to prove which was which”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 May 2017
The social code remains unwritten, and it has always interested me how many problems...
Tagged rudeness, social code, truth |
Society

“Is rudeness like nakedness, a state deserving the tact and mercy of the clothed?”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 May 2017
Are people rude because they are unhappy? Is rudeness like nakedness, a state deserving...
Tagged interpersonal behavior, rudeness, social behavior |
Society

“The old hierarchy of high and low has become a sham: pop is the ruling party”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 23 September 2014
The pop hegemony is all but complete, its superstars dominating the media and wielding...
Tagged Culture, Pop, Society |
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