Yeah. It’s a potentially interesting point buried under the most sophomoric smart kid crap with a soupçon of “wtf” from the “If the AI is accurate” thing
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I don’t think it’s a potentially interesting point at all. Drawing tortured inferences from a retired politician’s personal reading list like this is lunacy.
aug 31, 2025, 2:52 am • 2 0 • view
I think you could have an interesting conversation about the composition of the canon and the ways in which that fits into larger power structures! This is uh unlikely to be the lead in to that conversation.
aug 31, 2025, 1:41 am • 8 2 • view
even taking out the AI silliness, doing a pivot from a “recommended reading list” to a take about neoliberal multiculturalism and its blindspots…it’s a showoff move, a pretense of a thought, no more substantial than cake frosting.
aug 31, 2025, 1:46 am • 16 0 • view
would Obama’s reading list including a Native author suggest that neoliberal multiculturalism has an endless capacity to swallow dissident/anticolonial voices into a publishing industry format? who can say? only the whims of a Gifted Kid’s creative spirit can guide us!
aug 31, 2025, 1:53 am • 10 0 • view