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Musa al-Gharbi
Personal blog · musaalgharbi.compoliticsculture
Musa al-Gharbi's personal blog at musaalgharbi.com covers politics and culture. Since 2022, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “The ‘Great Awokening’ Is Winding Down”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked posts address race, humour and the New York Times, and why white-collar work has become bleak. Commenters discuss them in relation to socioeconomic status and elite overproduction.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Musa al-Gharbi explores the sociology of knowledge , cognitive sociology, social psychology and social epistemology across a range of cases.
Most-linked posts?
- The ‘Great Awokening’ Is Winding Down2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-15
What Hacker News says?
> I've never been talking about the people who aren't bothered by the jokes in question here because they're not personally carrying the baggage I'm referring to. I've talking about the people who are. Those people exist and are numerous It’s impossible to talk about these groups separately because our norms and policies around race have costs and benefits which must be balanced across all the minorities who will be…
Comment linking /2020/05/15/definition-racist-actions-actors
on “Our fundamental right to shame and shun the New York Times”Submitted The ‘Great Awokening’ Is Winding Down as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIt's cyclical. Socioeconomic status is relative, so when we experience absolute economic growth, we expect socioeconomic growth too, but that can't happen without kicking others out. This is called elite overproduction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_overproduction . Twenty five years ago, if you had a 40" TV, a 200 horsepower car, and a convection oven (now usually called an air fryer) you were well off, but t…
Comment linking /we-have-never-been-woke-available-now/
on “When Did White-Collar Work Start to Look So Bleak?”Submitted Liberal Faculty Don’t Hate Conservative Students Enough to Discriminate as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The “Great Awokening” is winding down as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
