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Eric Kaufmann

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Eric Kaufmann

@epkaufm

Professor of Politics. Focus on national identity, cultural left, political demography. (Ice) hockey player, Dad, from Vancouver, BC.

London, England, UK

sneps.net

Born May 11

Joined June 2011

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Eric Kaufmann
@epkaufm
Jan 24, 2024
The first public online course on Woke at a western university @UniOfBuckingham. Enroll now, from anywhere in the world. Choose lecture-only, lecture-seminar or MA in the Politics of Cultural Conflict. Deadline for lecture-seminar option Jan 30. Lecture-only apply any time.
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Eric Kaufmann
@epkaufm
Oct 14, 2025
1/ NEW: trans identification is in free fall among the young (h/t @fire data in particular)
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Eric Kaufmann
@epkaufm
May 15, 2025
1/ We are entering a post-progressive era. The cultural left-liberalism which emerged a century ago and took off in the late 1960s is exhausted. This ‘vibe shift’doesn’t just repudiate the last decade, but the last 60 years. My latest @WSJ
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Eric Kaufmann
@epkaufm
Oct 14, 2025
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2/ Non-conforming sexual identity (queer, questioning, etc) is also in sharp decline. Gay and lesbian are stable while heterosexuality has rebounded by around 10 points since 2023.
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Eric Kaufmann
@epkaufm
Oct 19, 2025
If you keep saying you are on stolen land, don’t be surprised when judges give it away to the natives you said you stole it from
Jim McMurtry
@JimMcMurtry01
Oct 18, 2025
When will they come for your house? City of Richmond is telling home owners that the “status and validity of their ownership” is in doubt because a Vancouver Island band said their great grandparents once fished there.
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Eric Kaufmann
@epkaufm
May 30, 2022
1/15 A thread: The LGBT share among young Americans tripled in the last decade to 21%. Trans & non-binary identification may be up as much as 1000%. My new @CSPICenterOrg report shows that this is, as @billmaher suggested, shaped by social trends: cspicenter.org/reports/born-t…
Eric Kaufmann
@epkaufm
Oct 14, 2025
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3/ Not only this, but freshmen in 2024-25 were less trans and queer than seniors whereas it was the reverse when BTQ+ identity was surging in 2022-23. This suggests that gender/sexual non-conformity will continue to fall.
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Eric Kaufmann
@epkaufm
Dec 9, 2020
This is huge. Woke leaders and activists at Cambridge have been dealt a resounding blow by academics, who voted overwhelmingly against a policy change that would have forced them to 'respect' the identities of others in their speech and work
Cambridge University votes to safeguard free speech
From bbc.co.uk
Eric Kaufmann
@epkaufm
Oct 14, 2025
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8/ The fall of trans and queer seems most similar to the fading of a fashion or trend. It happened largely independently of shifts in political beliefs and social media use, though improved mental health played a role.
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Eric Kaufmann
@epkaufm
Oct 14, 2025
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5/ Is it improved mental health? Yes, in part. Less anxious and, especially, depressed, students is linked with a smaller share identifying as trans, queer or bisexual.
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Eric Kaufmann
@epkaufm
Feb 16, 2019
Rigorous study finds that Twitter bans essentially fall exclusively on conservative commentators
Twitter Really Does Treat Conservatives More Harshly
From quillette.com
Eric Kaufmann
@epkaufm
Oct 15, 2024
1/ Authors of a pro-DEI paper published in Nature and reported in Science made critical errors which nullify their findings. Not only did they bury inconvenient findings, they reported junk results.
Racial bias can taint the academic tenure process—at one particular point
From science.org
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Eric Kaufmann
@epkaufm
Oct 14, 2025
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4/ What explains the sudden reversal of trans and queer? It’s not because the kids became less woke, more religious or more conservative. Those beliefs remained stable throughout the 2020s.
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Eric Kaufmann
@epkaufm
Oct 14, 2025
Replying to @epkaufm
6/ But not entirely. Mental illness fell after the pandemic but the sexuality and gender shifts happened at least a year later. All groups, including LGBT, got less mentally ill after the pandemic.
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