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essdeewickett: Some verse inspired by the death of Thomas Chatterton, the unknown poet: Auburn sleep, and auburn dream. Wake and take a final breath. A world was built, made just for thee; But it is someplace else. Now drift there in your auburn haze. Away, away, to sunny days;

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ethan_iverson: Happy birthday to Thomas Chatterton Williams, a very important voice in the choir

fullautoslur: that thomas chatterton williams guy is one the biggest flipflopping pussies, and he doesnt even live in america, he lives in france. one day hes a 'classical liberal' who just wants to talk about the facts and then next day hes a jew-brainwashed sjw.

TheRealElaschuk: I refuse to believe there’s an actual person named Thomas Chatterton Williams.

HillBeverlyhill: We need to discuss the word ‘woke’ | Malaika Jabali, Laura Kipnis, Rebecca Solnit, Bhaskar Sunkara, Thomas Chatterton Williams, Zaid Jilani and Derecka Purnell | The Guardian

DanPizzaGuy: I tried to read a Thomas Chatterton Williams article on

cohenss: Blocked by Thomas Chatterton Williams, imagine him being thin-skinned

brofromanother: One must imagine Thomas Chatterton Williams happy

jamescappio: Thomas Chatterton’s Willy needs to be stuck securely back in its pants.

girlcloudnine: What Thomas Chatterton Williams does couldn't be considered work so I can see how he wouldn't understand

thecoreyhotline: Insane, tragic missed opportunity that Thomas Chatterton Williams' new podcast isn't called Chattertown.

FilmPilled: When ‘wokeness’ migrated into general usage, even critics lost sight of its definition, Thomas Chatterton Williams argues. Should we stop using it?

SirCoach: That's a peak "My name is Thomas Chatterton Williams. Please say the "Chatterton." tweet.

forkboy84: Thomas Chatterton Williams is such a shitty writer that he has to be one of the few people who might actually lose his job to an "AI"

SwagBethlehem: Thomas Chatterton Williams *does* sound like the name of an AI bot that writes fancy garbage

DeedeeDazed: How does Thomas Chatterton Williams continue to have the worst opinions about every topic? It's actually embarrassing. I need Ta-Nehisi to return to Paris just to balance out this perspective.

jamescappio: Thomas Chatterton’s Willy is back on his bullshit again.

000Cana: it’s so crazy that there’s a real person named “Thomas Chatterton Williams”

thinkingbayonet: Evergreen - if you mute the following people your Twitter experience will improve dramatically: Matt Yglesias Noah Smith Bethany Mandel The Bruenigs Dan McLaughlin Thomas Chatterton Williams Michael Tracey Andrew Sullivan Conor Friedersdorf

blagojevism: Thomas Chatterton, le Marquis de Williams isn’t even especially evil as far as media people go. He just has a compulsion to say the most annoying thing possible. The poor man can’t help himself.

WingnutCraytown: Even Thomas Chatterton Williams concedes that the right is just using "woke" as shorthand for "whatever we don't like."

thetruelisa: Leylines is pronounced lay lines, so in keeping with Masters and Johnson being the master and virgin, let put young rowland as the ‘virgin’ and Ben the masters. The Complete Poetical Works Of Thomas Chatterton: The Rowley Poems by Thomas Chatterton

SnowdenJim: I just noticed Thomas Chatterton Williams has a new article out. This will call upon all my powers of ignoring.

chewacow: thomas chatterton williams's job is definitely gonna get taken by AI, utterly worthless

ElaineAtwell: thomas chatterton was created in a lab in the basement of the atlantic and they really gave the game away when they named him that.

jakebackpack: I wrote a sonnet about Thomas Chatterton Williams and the foundational value of work to the sense of self (

IMMikhailHafiz: "Political otganization around identity rather than ideology is one of the best predictors of civil strife and even civil war, according to an analysis of violent conflicts by the political scientist Barbara F. Walter." - Thomas Chatterton Williams

_GreatDelusion: Do the "cancel culture"-mongers ever propose solutions? What do Thomas Chatterton Williams and Conor Friedersdorf think should be *done* about the supposed crisis of "cancel culture" (which is nothing more than aggregate opinion)? Do their editors ever ask them that?

tzimmer_history: When asked to clarify what distinguished the Adams case from others, Thomas Chatterton Williams elaborated that “Cancel Culture is really about when someone is called out and made an example of by a social media mob for transgressing a not-yet-agreed upon norm.” 3/

tzimmer_history: This points to what is at the core of the current “cancel culture” debate. The real contention here is that people like Conor Friedersdorf and Thomas Chatterton Williams insist that they should get to define what is and what is not regarded as acceptable public speech. 11/

sammcbride19: I sarcastically called a Thomas Chatterton Williams tweet “stunningly brilliant” and he retweeted it thinking it was sincere praise before realizing his mistake and blocking me

gcnp58: I like it when The Atlantic has a long article by Thomas Chatterton Williams because I can skip over it without feeling guilty I didn't read it

brent_waggoner: Conor Frieserdorf, Ian Miles Cheong, and Thomas Chatterton Williams QTed me when I the TCW's book away. Ended up with National Review editors qting me and a bunch of racists calling me a Nazi for a few days. And I'd do it again, the little snowflakes.

tzimmer_history: There is indeed something going on in America, and it does make a lot of people – including Thomas Chatterton Williams, Conor Friedersdorf, and Graeme Wood – really uncomfortable. That is something I will try to unpack in Part II, a separate newsletter, later this week.  41/

tzimmer_history: Thomas Chatterton Williams, for instance, declared this *not* a case of cancel culture. He is right. But it’s not a position that is consistent with all the “cancel culture” moral panicking that TCW has often helped to legitimize in the eyes of a broader mainstream public. 3/

tzimmer_history: An interview with Thomas Chatterton Williams in The New Yorker is actually an excellent example of how the “evidence” quickly evaporates when exposed to even the slightest scrutiny. When pressed, TCW brings up two cases of academics who were supposedly “silenced”: 14/

tzimmer_history: I’m shocked to find out that I have not been able to persuade Thomas Chatterton Williams. Look, no level of specificity, of concrete engagement with the cases they themselves bring up as “evidence,” will ever get these people to even take a deep breath.

zboncak9tic: The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Chatterton: Volumes I & II LQQBBHS

adup512: Pretty interesting piece, including how different the climate in France is around discussions of race compared to the U.S. (And even though you know where this is going, the opening section shows Thomas Chatterton Williams sympathetic to the U.S. environmental, sort of.)

brent_waggoner: Thomas Chatterton Williams and Conor Friesdorf literally tried to cancel me, a nobody, for throwing away TCW's book, if that helps you assess how seriously to take them.

LodricAtkinson: In America, fame and fortune never whitens ... when you're Black, you stay back. Thomas Chatterton Williams: "... he [my father] shouted, for the first and only time in my life, “I’ll be damned if they make you white!”

LodricAtkinson: Thomas Chatterton Williams (b.1981) is an American cultural critic and author of the 2019 book Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race, from which this article is adapted.

welfordwrites: Thomas Chatterton: an 18th century poet accused of forgery.

the_nerd_skull: Thomas Chatterton Williams has zero self-awareness. He's defended multiple people who have done exactly this before.

thewayoftheid: The day Thomas Chatterton Forehead blocked me was the best day of my life

mxduki: If Thomas Chatterton Williams likes the thing that is criticized, it’s cancel culture; if Thomas Chatterton Williams doesn’t like the thing that is criticized, it’s not cancel culture. This is how cancel culture is defined.

Glenn__Kenny: So has Thomas Chatterton Williams come to the defense of Scott Adams yet?

blandCinema: “It’s okay when I do it” - Thomas Chatterton Williams

JoePBanks: And from Aidan Dun’s ‘Vale Royal’, describing the summer of 1770, when Chatterton had moved to London: “His verse-satires hang like vultures of conscience / in hot skies above the rotteness of the Tories” Where is our Thomas the Rhymer?

JoePBanks: A fantastic poetry event coming up on Saturday 4 March Aidan Dun will be reading from his celebrated work Vale Royal, reimagining the life of Bristol’s 18C teenage genius Thomas Chatterton. All in the atmospheric surroundings of St Mary Redcliffe church

balcilic: As much as i think matt walsh is a f** this is a certainly a better strategy than the alternative. Grifting centrists like Thomas Chatterton Williams are so usless it would be more valuable to wipe your ass with the pulp than read the words thats on them.

marcsimschicago: Black History Month What Are You? What Are Your Origins? Thomas Chatterton Williams talked about his book, Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race, in which he looked at race and identity. Clip by Marc Sims.

pleazanosqueeza: *16-year-old me learning about Thomas Chatterton* “I could’ve fixed him.”

ScituateHockey: Sailors take the opening round of the Gould Cup vs Pembroke 3-0. Pratt with 1 and Will Chatterton with the other 2 (EN). Thomas with the shutout. Stoney played amazing in net for Pembroke. Sailors are 11-2-1 in 2023. Let’s go. Hanover on tap for the final Wednesday. ⚓️UP!!

DeedeeDazed: The moment I saw this, I thought "Dear God, please don't let Thomas Chatterton Williams be the author!" but alas

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stmaryredcliffe: Join us for a special literary event featuring Thomas Chatterton: Live Poetry Reading at St Mary Redcliffe -

jehanneofarc: I feel like thomas chatterton

marcsimschicago: Black History Month What Are You? What Are Your Origins? Thomas Chatterton Williams talked about his book, Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race, in which he looked at race and identity. Clip by Marc Sims.

dropoutnation: [Nah, we haven't forgotten about Thomas Chatterton Williams making up that luncheon. Or that made-up Black people dialogue in his 'memoirs'. Or that he is a woman-beater.]

RichardHanania: The question that stumped Thomas Chatterton. I don’t like pointing out he’s not very smart, but it’s relevant because it seems at some level he understands what would happen if he wasn’t held to a lower standard.

dropoutnation: The only Black people Kenny knows are the folks in his imagination. Their dialogue is similar to the made-up jive in a Thomas Chatterton Williams 'memoir'.

jake_romm: Has l'wokisme has become a full blown Wokenschuuang? Thomas Chatterton Williams discusses with Bari Weiss this weekend at the Atlantic Center for Wokenschaft

EducationPubli2: Black History Month What Are You? What Are Your Origins? Thomas Chatterton Williams talked about his book, Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race, in which he looked at race and identity. Clip by Marc Sims.

ADASpota: Henry Wallis ~The Death of Chatterton (Tate version) Chatterton was Wallis's first exhibited work, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1856. The subject was the 17-year-old English early Romantic poet Thomas Chatterton, shown dead after he poisoned himself with arsenic in 1770.

theFermiParadox: The People Who Don’t Read Books “Immediately disregard anyone in the business of selling a vision who proudly proclaims they hate reading.” - By Thomas Chatterton Williams

timkellernyc: Here's a sympathetic takedown of "Le Wokisme" (and its critics!) by Thomas Chatterton Williams

cohenss: So tired of the David French/Thomas Chatterton Williams/Pamela Paul Axis of Awful False Equivalence Road Show

adamsolomons5: might have to unsubscribe from the atlantic if i'm gonna keep getting these thomas chatterton williams notifs

Maiya60Y: The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Chatterton: Volumes I & II QFV8NNY

AcadFreedom: An interesting and nuanced text by Thomas Chatterton Williams.

up_failing: Thomas Chatterton Williams sure does love to flatter white conservatives who think they're moderates or liberals with pablum that implies racism will eventually fix itself

memeorandum: The French Are in a Panic Over le Wokisme (Thomas Chatterton Williams / The Atlantic)

MiExecSearch: The French Are in a Panic Over le Wokisme (Thomas Chatterton Williams/The Atlantic)

nateffo: Thought for a brief second this would be the moment for Thomas Chatterton Williams to say ‘You know what? Seeing this as an outsider, it’s all silly and not at all important, I was wrong and feeding into a right-wing culture war, I made a mistake’ but no, he’s doubled down

_Zeets: Hmm I wonder why racists love him

RokhlK: Thomas Chatterton Williams is simply a grifter who struck gold. Unfortunately, it seems there is a limitless appetite among ppl who want to get worked up by the bullshit he's slinging.

jakebackpack: Haha I will never forget the time when I was a nobody blogger, long before I ever published, and a VERY prominent editor emailed me personally to chastise me for saying that no man's writing had ever sounded more like his own name, and vice versa, than Thomas Chatterton Williams.

_Zeets: This is funny because Thomas Chatterton Williams is so insultingly stupid, and has the audacity here to present the nation of France as unified in this argument, as if there’s not a history past and present of Black French intellectuals/philosophers that are easily accessible.

EdwardAlexandrr: remember

vazquezwithaz: Some of you are secret Thomas Chatterton Williams stans. I can smell it.

ClassicLibera12: So the "Very Smart People" like Cathy Young, Yglesias, Singal, French, Thomas Chatterton and similar actors while they may chide at the more extreme versions (Queer Theory) the will always, always, ALWAYS enable gnostic faiths to persist.

pdkmitchell: do you think Thomas Chatterton Williams wakes up in the morning in his beautiful minimalist apartment, pulls on his discreetly expensive pants, cracks his knuckles, & opens up a giant spreadsheet of all the ways he's planning to be completely owned on the internet before he dies

SwitchGlitchmon: Thomas Chatterton Williams is always wrong.

mail_yard: Conservatives materialize a new version of this guy every 5-10 years but I think Thomas Chatterton Williams is maybe the dullest one yet

Dok845: Everyone who wrote for this site is so self-righteous and bad at their job that they lost this fight to Thomas Chatterton Williams lol

dan_sinykin: wait thomas chatterton williams is a visiting prof at bard this spring? are the students shitting on his head?

YodaQuavo: Aw, finally got blocked by Thomas Chatterton. I guess he really doesn't like when you bring up this passage from his book(which I learned about from this great piece;

iwritecoolstuff: thomas chatterton williams is the kind of biracial person who, similar to “formerly conservative”/“radicalized leftist” white people, thinks their close proximity to white people gives them a fundamentally better perspective on white supremacy

wil_da_beast630: Same for Thomas Sowell, Booker T. Washington, Walter Williams, Glenn Loury, John Sibley Butler, John McWhorter, Carol Swain, Bob Woodson, Thomas Chatterton Williams, Shelby Steele, Charles Johnson...and maybe a few others...amirite?

Kierkregards: Not believing for one second there is a person named Thomas Chatterton Williams. That is the name of the villain in a wacky snowboarding romp

semihsklave1: I think this is fair, with a (I hope) minor addendum: Nothing to counter them---the counter points and counter theorists must have something valuable to say about the African American experience in the US, so thomas sowell and Thomas Chatterton Williams yes, some guy we`ve never

rtwilliams16: "I submit that we’d save ourselves an enormous amount of trouble in the future if we’d agree to a simple litmus test: Immediately disregard anyone in the business of selling a vision who proudly proclaims they hate reading." -Thomas Chatterton Williams

Glenn__Kenny: Man you’d think Thomas Chatterton Williams would be a Tucker Carlson guest on the regular but maybe none of Tucker’s producers have gotten the swing of the Euro time differential thing…

flipyourface: My stairwell smells like a pungent and very sweet strain of weed, maybe I should invite noted culture jagoff Thomas Chatterton Williams over to chide everyone in the building

MarshfieldDale: We have never before had access to so many perspectives, ideas, and information. Much of it is fleetingly interesting but ultimately inconsequential—not to be confused with expertise, let alone wisdom. The People Who Don’t Read Books By Thomas Chatterton Williams

funnierhandle: of course Thomas Chatterton Williams the exact type of bloviating know-nothing that not only doesn’t comprehend but appears to have never encountered the argument that black working class are a policed surplus population and black cops can join the middle class upholding system



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