Elijah McMurtrie

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Elijah McMurtrie

Elijah McMurtrie

@elijahXmcm

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Elijah McMurtrie
Elijah McMurtrie@elijahXmcm·
@tosuperego @mattyglesias Kallikomos may well only mean "nice hair," but academics would happily lie about that for ideological or financial reasons The whole cast could look Middle Eastern and that'd work. Yglesias's peers, though, assert that the most non-European choice possible is the "real" West
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SuperEgo
SuperEgo@tosuperego·
@elijahXmcm @mattyglesias Today's academics, to my knowledge, don't deny in the least that kallikomos has nothing to do with colour/shade of hair.
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Matthew Yglesias
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias·
When you see a Black actor cast to play a character described as fair-haired in an ancient epic poem, there's a clear agenda at work — an agenda to claim canonical works as the common patrimony of the entire West, and that's good! slowboring.com/p/a-diverse-od…
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Elijah McMurtrie
Elijah McMurtrie@elijahXmcm·
@Oakmanbearcow @charlesmurray Critics of this artistic choice have no power to "gatekeep" anything. Yglesias's classmates and brunch friends make these decisions and will guard that prerogative forever. The critics value their own patrimony, which Yglesias et al. clearly state should be redistributed
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Oakman
Oakman@Oakmanbearcow·
@elijahXmcm @charlesmurray Sorry are the complainers not trying to gatekeep a vision of the west that’s to their liking?
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Elijah McMurtrie
Elijah McMurtrie@elijahXmcm·
@CathyYoung63 If Chase Infiniti were cast as Esther or Bathsheba you'd reject such artistic choices, if only in private. Your interest here is in discouraging "the West" from conceiving of its canon in a way that's *potentially* disadvantageous to you personally
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Cathy Young 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱
Cathy Young 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱@CathyYoung63·
The mindset behind the Helen backlash. (At least for me, the only rational response is "Get fucked" followed by an insta-block.)
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Elijah McMurtrie
Elijah McMurtrie@elijahXmcm·
@tosuperego @mattyglesias Today's academics would *absolutely* lie about the connotations of "kallíkomos," but we can only accept their word "Patrimony of the *entire* West" mandates that the latter's canon must align with Yale's 2026 viewbook. Thus, a Luo noblewoman plausibly resembles a Spartan Queen
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SuperEgo
SuperEgo@tosuperego·
@elijahXmcm @mattyglesias Didn't disagree with the analysis. I disagreed with using the term "fair" to mean "light haired". In Homeric, it meant beautiful/nice, the word he used wasn't ambiguous that the translation "fair" in English is. It can't be misinterpreted as being about colour.
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Elijah McMurtrie
Elijah McMurtrie@elijahXmcm·
@Oakmanbearcow @charlesmurray If a work is already acknowledged to be canonical, why is it then necessary to “claim it as the patrimony of the entire West”? Nolan has made an artistic decision that Yglesias praises precisely because it *redefines* the West to his own liking, hoi polloi be damned
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Oakman
Oakman@Oakmanbearcow·
@charlesmurray It’s Orwellian to suggest that 3000 years on from the origin of this myth it has become relevant to people that are not ethnically Greek?
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Dr Terry Simpson
Dr Terry Simpson@drterrysimpson·
No medical school in America admits students by simply rank-ordering MCAT scores and taking the top downward. Not Yale. Not Hopkins. Not Stanford. Not Harvard. None. Why? Because the people who actually train physicians learned long ago that standardized tests measure something important — but nowhere near everything that matters in medicine. Your entire argument depends on pretending correlation equals destiny and that population-level score distributions reveal a complete hierarchy of future physician quality. Real medicine is more complicated than your spreadsheet
Charles Murray@charlesmurray

1. MCAT tests have a substantial correlation with performance in medical school. 2. Performance in medical school has a substantial correlation with various measures of physician competence. 3. Black scores on the MCAT for the last four decades have been substantially lower than white/asian scores. Around an SD or more. 4. Black mean performance as physicians on various measures of competence have been lower than white/Asian performance. None of the first three assertions can be empirically denied. The evidence is too consistent and replicable. The fourth assertion is not only empirically undeniable. It is logically inevitable.

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Elijah McMurtrie
Elijah McMurtrie@elijahXmcm·
@tosuperego @mattyglesias Nolan wanted this film’s Helen to be visually striking (whether in context or generally), and that’s an artistic choice. Yglesias is conceding, though, that the Odyssey is a “canonical work of the West” specifically, suggesting both he and Nolan are redefining what “the West” is
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SuperEgo
SuperEgo@tosuperego·
Matt, do not make this mistake too. Translation issues have made Anglos impossible to interact with. She wasn't described as fair haired if fair means light. The wording in Greek is explicitly referring to how beautiful it is. But in the English language, unfortunately, fair can mean beautiful as well as lightly coloured. In Greek, it has no such double meaning, it was clearly related to the beauty of her hairstyle, not colour.
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Elijah McMurtrie
Elijah McMurtrie@elijahXmcm·
@mattyglesias The canonical work in question was already the patrimony of the entire West. Your project is to redefine the West as something less threatening to you personally, and anybody who disagrees with you is a moral leper
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Elijah McMurtrie
Elijah McMurtrie@elijahXmcm·
@souljagoyteller Readers: Type "Anne Boleyn TV" into a search engine. No need for the images tab. Countless other examples Carmen Bsaibes or Dina Shihabi would have worked, but Nolan wanted something more striking. Souljagoyteller, Yglesias, Surowiecki et al. just want to stick it to "the Canon"
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Bill Kristol
Bill Kristol@BillKristol·
“Rasmussen said, ‘The rupture in the post–World War II order has happened. The United States no longer has the will to lead. But we do not have the luxury to lament what has passed into history. Our job is to build what comes next.’” thenextmove.org/p/the-free-wor…
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Ben Dreyfuss
Ben Dreyfuss@bendreyfuss·
There are a lot of stupid tweets like this. The fact that Pocahontas was a Native American interacting with European colonialists is central to the story. If you make her white, the story doesn’t make sense. Helen of Troy’s race is not a central part of the story.
Taya Bass@travelingflying

Imagine the outrage if a historically non-White character like Pocahontas were made White in a movie. Yet it’s considered acceptable to make all historically White characters non-White in movies. This is racism against White people.

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