#adichie

[blackswaneuroparedux]

There are many social-media-savvy people who are choking on sanctimony and lacking in compassion, who can fluidly pontificate on Twitter about kindness but are unable to actually show kindness. People whose social media lives are case studies in emotional aridity. People for whom friendship, and its expectations of loyalty and compassion and support, no longer matter. People who claim to love literature – the messy stories of our humanity – but are also monomaniacally obsessed with whatever is the prevailing ideological orthodoxy. People who demand that you denounce your friends for flimsy reasons in order to remain a member of the chosen puritan class.

People who ask you to ‘educate’ yourself while not having actually read any books themselves, while not being able to intelligently defend their own ideological positions, because by ‘educate,’ they actually mean ‘parrot what I say, flatten all nuance, wish away complexity.’

People who do not recognise that what they call a sophisticated take is really a simplistic mix of abstraction and orthodoxy – sophistication in this case being a showing-off of how au fait they are on the current version of ideological orthodoxy.

People who wield the words ‘violence’ and ‘weaponise’ like tarnished pitchforks. People who depend on obfuscation, who have no compassion for anybody genuinely curious or confused. Ask them a question and you are told that the answer is to repeat a mantra. Ask again for clarity and be accused of violence. (How ironic, speaking of violence, that it is one of these two who encouraged Twitter followers to pick up machetes and attack me.)

And so we have a generation of young people on social media so terrified of having the wrong opinions that they have robbed themselves of the opportunity to think and to learn and to grow.

I have spoken to young people who tell me they are terrified to tweet anything, that they read and re-read their tweets because they fear they will be attacked by their own. The assumption of good faith is dead. What matters is not goodness but the appearance of goodness. We are no longer human beings. We are now angels jostling to out-angel one another. God help us. It is obscene.

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

If social media was a house then twitter would be the under the floorboards sewage pipe where everyone’s shit would be clogging up the pipes.

[homopsychology]

Imagine having Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, one of the most talented and influential authors of the modern age, deliver talk at your university and deciding to instead host a talk with a white man because Adichie, a black Nigerian woman, is too ~problematic~

bonus: here's Dr Anastacia Tomson

[centipedehurts]

women are just. not allowed to disagree with a single party line of transactivism anymore. absolutely any shred of dissent sends these TRAs and their handmaidens rushing to cancel, blacklist and defame them.

adichie didn't call trans women men. she didn't misgender anyone. she didn't call for violence against anyone.

no, what she did was state that according to her, trans women have at some point benefited from male privilege. she said that trans women aren't the exact same thing as biological women (literally true). she exposed two of her former students for trashing her in public for clout while using her name for their own benefit behind the scenes.

she called those ex students manipulative and insincere because they were. and she provided the receipts too. the op of this post is a liar, and the person who added the next comment is also a virtue signalling misogynist for overlooking the fact that emezi actually did call for violence against rowling and adichie. but of course, it's far more evil and violent to politely disagree with some aspects of transactivism than it is to.... literally demand people "pick up machetes" against jkr and adichie.

women aren't allowed to defend themselves anymore. women aren't allowed to disagree with a single party line of the trans movement. forget defending their rights as women, they can't even expose trans/nb people for being clout chasing liars without being labelled the worst kind of bigot there is. no male author or celebrity with actually heinous views and crimes ever gets the amount of hatred these women do, but this movement is still convinced it's the most woke and just movement around.

these people have made it clear that if you're a woman, you better shut up and accept everything genderists demand. you better roll over and agree with everything they say, give up every one of your spaces without question, or you're a nazi. if someone trans is using you or defaming you, shut up and take it because otherwise you're a bigot. you cannot say a word against them, but they can publicly call for violence against you.

liberals don't believe women are an oppressed class anymore. but your vitriolic treatment of us in the name of defending the poor men makes it abundantly clear that we are.

[onequoteperday]

The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

[rapeculturerealities]

One of the worst aspects of any cancel culture debate is the tendency to obscure, deny, and dismiss as invalid any actual harm caused by whatever sparked the debate. Frequently, this cycle is tied to transphobia: Prominent public figures who’ve been criticized for making transphobic statements have frequently mounted angry backlashes against “cancel culture” as a way of denigrating their critics.

The latest person to fall into this pattern is the well-known feminist author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Earlier this week, Adichie published a lengthy and eloquent takedown of cancel culture on her personal website. In the essay, which has an estimated reading time of 16 minutes, she personally discusses two former students of hers, people who she feels have personally attacked and maligned her as a transphobe.

Though Adichie does not name either of the two former students, one of them appears to be Nigerian writer and queer activist OluTimehin Adegbeye. The other appears to be writer (and Vox Book Club selected author) Akwaeke Emezi, who is nonbinary. Both have spent the past several years criticizing a series of Adichie’s public statements that have seemed to increasingly embrace transphobic ideology and language — a framing Adichie claims is false.

Since 2017, Adichie has drawn criticism from trans activists for seeming to embrace rhetoric championed by trans-exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs), who argue that trans women are not women — and for dismissing her critics when called out. Adichie doesn’t really confront this history in her essay. Instead, she characterizes the two former students as manipulative, and accuses them of using progressive social justice rhetoric to mask motivations that are, respectively, “calculating and insincere,” and “seeking attention and publicity to benefit themselves.”

It’s not precisely clear what prompted Adichie’s essay, though many observers have questioned her motives in choosing to publish it during Pride Month. That timing, along with the letter’s tone, has made Adichie’s post come off as a direct attack against the individual students the essay refers to, even if she does not name them.

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[jhesite]

“She woke up torpid each morning, slowed by sadness, frightened by the endless stretch of day that lay ahead. Everything had thickened. She was swallowed, lost in a viscous haze, shrouded in a soup of nothingness. Between her and what she should feel, there was a gap. She cared about nothing. She wanted to care, but she no longer knew how; it had slipped from her memory, the ability to care. Sometimes she woke up flailing and helpless, and she saw, in front of her and behind her and all around her, an utter hopelessness. She knew there was no point in being here, in being alive, but she had no energy to think concretely of how she could kill herself. She lay in bed and read books and thought of nothing.“

Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

[metaphorwrites]

thinking back to 8th March

I started reading the book from where I had left it this morning.  “We don’t have the right to educate women. This is not acceptable in society. Bindu can easily read the religious books with whatever she has learnt so far.” Thus goes a paragraph in the book Sei Somoy (Those Times) by Sunil Gangopadhyay, the time frame of the novel being from 1840 to 1970. This was said by the home tutor who…

[feral-ballad]

Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is about language, the failure of language and the grasping for language.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, from Notes on Grief

[peachtwigs]

— chimamanda ngozi adichieq

[davisloadedblog]

Chimamanda Adichie reveals details of priest's actions at her mother's funeral

Chimamanda Adichie reveals details of priest’s actions at her mother’s funeral

In a special interview with TVC News which aired on Sunday, celebrated Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Adichie, addressed shocking events that unfolded at the church where her mother’s funeral thanksgiving Mass was held. Her father, James Adichie, died on June 10, 2020, and was buried on October 10, 2020. Her mother, Grace Adichie, died nine months later on her father’s birthday, March 1, 2021, and…

[le-coup-de-soleil]

Adichie, 2017. ‘Rereading Albert Speer’s “Inside the Third Reich”’

https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/rereading-albert-speers-inside-the-third-reich

[homopsychology]

Adichie called out a whole gender conforming woman who told people to "pick up machetes" against her

[onequoteperday]

If you don’t understand, ask questions. If you’re uncomfortable about asking questions, say you are uncomfortable about asking questions and then ask anyway.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

[speedyflowerenthusiast]

books i’m reading right now

- momo - michael ende

- the thing aroud your neck - chimamanda adichie

- why i’m no longer talking to white people about race - reni eddo-lodge

- the collector - john fowles

[perfectquote]

I don’t want to be a sweetheart. I want to be the fucking love of your life.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

[quotemadness]

I don’t want to be a sweetheart. I want to be the fucking love of your life.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie