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“In 1958, 94% of whites opposed [Interracial marriage] — yet just 10% do today,” writes political scientist, Prof. #EricKaufmann, @epkaufm, as evidence for the reduction in RACISM in America.
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In so doing, he reveals his own commitment to the moral-supremacist & Orwellian ideology of Post-Racial #Multiculturalism, DIVERSITY, Inclusion & #AntiRacism.
It's an ideology we usually associate with the woke, whom Prof. Kaufmann vigorously opposes.
It's an ideology we usually associate with the woke, whom Prof. Kaufmann vigorously opposes.
But here he is revealing his own commitment to this very same ideology.
Unlike the woke, he won’t demonise me a RACIST for pointing this out, but he is a lot closer to them, ideologically, than he himself realises.
I wonder, is he really committed, or just beholden to it?
Unlike the woke, he won’t demonise me a RACIST for pointing this out, but he is a lot closer to them, ideologically, than he himself realises.
I wonder, is he really committed, or just beholden to it?
#EricKaufmann has some, what shall we call it--authoritarian?--idea for warning labels to be placed on some university courses. So students are foretold if they are to encounter material that anti-academic hacks indiscriminately call "CRT."
I, too, am eagerly awaiting the day when universities employ a syllabus inspektor to whom course materials must be submitted in time, and who will then put little red stamps beside course numbers where evidence of "CRT" subversiveness has been found.
Here is the top of the thread in which Kaufmann is responding. I put "CRT" in quotation marks because as soon as you're in a conversation where Chris Rufo is participating, you've got to distinguish his fever dream from the work of actual critical race scholars.
A few days ago, in this thread on #EricKaufmann's #AcademicFreedom report, I thought I would let other points slide in favour of this point: that the upper end of this 7-18% of NA faculty who he says support academic freedom violations is inflated by bad survey design. 1/
But my mind gets stuck on certain issues sometimes and this time it kept reminding me of what I didn't elaborate. So here goes: the lower end of this figure of 7-18% of NA faculty is inflated, too, by the choices Kaufmann made in processing his survey results. Let me explain. 2/
Here are two of the questions that led to the 7% lower edge of that range. You'll note that half the participants were given option A and the other half option B (or so I presume). 3/
As I mentioned, I've been looking at #EricKaufmann's report on #AcademicFreedom. I want to share another head-scratching moment with you today. 1/
My earlier thread:
My earlier thread:
Top of the report is a set of questions for which he received answers from 803 US scholars in social sciences & humanities. Here are questions 1-3 along with the graph representing the answers. In the report, the answer key is: 1. support, 2. oppose, 3. neither, 4. don't know. 2/
Participants were given 1 of 2 versions of each question with either students or admin campaigning. There is a difference between the two. We might question answers being lumped together into "students/the administration" as well as the very odd "find work elsewhere" phrasing. 3/
What is cancel culture?
One of the burning questions of our time, surely.
Been reading one of #EricKaufmann's #AcademicFreedom reports. In it, he cites the National Association of Scholar's data sheet on cancellations to highlight how many there have been. 1/
One of the burning questions of our time, surely.
Been reading one of #EricKaufmann's #AcademicFreedom reports. In it, he cites the National Association of Scholar's data sheet on cancellations to highlight how many there have been. 1/
So I went and looked at that. It was fun. It had a number of cases on it that I didn't know yet, and there are links the news pieces and blog posts, so it's useful in its way. 2/
The association itself way oversells what they think the data sheet shows. Just listen to the snippy description below. Aside: the article from which it's taken leads with a dictionary.com definition, ahem. Follow the links for the data sheet. 3/
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