how loudly can the subaltern speak? tone policing, violence, and the (un)knowing of working class lifeways - JD Vance, Gender Studies Quarterly, 2026
CEO: Hey did you get those glasses a guy like Elliot Gould might wear that I asked for?
Dev team: Sure did boss, real fucking unsexy, just like you asked
CEO: what
It saddens me that we left them to it when we should have supported them through the end, one of the many sources of the deep sadness I have about my country.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
DOUTHAT: Let's be honest -- the tone of the administration is not consistently a Christian tone. There is a tone of aggressive uncharity
JD VANCE: Tonal arguments are ways of, frankly, policing working class ways of communication, and covering them in elite preferences
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This didn’t age well.
one of the most personally depressing things for me in the past 5 years was when we opened the historian role and got literally hundreds of applications from fascinating, qualified scholars who were worried about US higher ed. I could have created an entire liberal arts college if I had the money.
