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”John Cheney-Lippold, an associate professor of American Culture at UM, is no longer eligible for a merit pay increase for the 2018-19 academic year. The university has also frozen his sabbatical eligibility for two years, until the fall of 2020.” mlive.com/news/ann-arbor…
“In an Oct. 3 letter from UM Interim Dean Elizabeth Cole said his behavior "was inappropriate and will not be tolerated." The letter also mentions that "further conduct of this nature is subject to additional discipline, up to and including initiation of dismissal proceedings."
This will receive 1/10th - no, 1/50th - the coverage that Bruce McCall’s resignation did. What happened to McCall was very wrong! But I’ve already seen approx. two dozen articles about it, and I’d feel a lot better about that if the attention was symmetrical.
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I’d reframe this. One rarely asked, but quite legitimate, question is this: What do we owe to our allies? If structurally oppressed people are going to say that their allies have an obligation to defer to them (politically, epistemically, etc.), what is owed to them in return?
It’s a big thing, asking someone to entrust their energy and political judgment to you! I think Jade Schaff (Oberlin) wrote something about this, but can’t find it now. Anyway, it’s a legitimate issue that will not/should not go away.
To be clear: I don’t mean “what is owed” in the “what do we get in return?” sense. Rather, what obligation of care, of consideration, of caution does such a relationship create for the allied-with party?
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This doesn't mention me directly, but it's obviously directed at me. And since it reflects the objections that many people had to my thread, it merits a response.
Objection #1: What about Trump/Orban/Brexit/Bolsonaro?

What about them? Yascha knows better than anyone that the illiberal/authoritarian turn in consolidated democracies long precedes contemporary SJW activism. See Brownlee 2002, Wright 2008, Levitsky and Murillo 2013.
As for populism in Europe and the United States, that too predates any kind of social justice activism. In fact, its rise is probably due much more to neoliberal failures (e.g. austerity) than left-liberal ones.

books.google.ca/books?hl=en&lr…
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The SJWs Are Winning and You're All Just Going to Have to Deal With It: A thread.
Reading this @JohnHMcWhorter piece is an exercise in vertigo. The central claim is that "third wave anti-racism" (i.e. the broad nexus of PC, social justice, and ID politics) is doomed to failure. That the aims are good, but strategically it's a dead end.

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
This is a common view among centrist liberals and libertarians: "Yes, racism and sexism are serious problems and must be addressed, but the SJW Left is going about it all wrong. In fact, its tactics are actually making these problems worse, not better."
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As the new #academic year beckons, I'm preparing new lectures and materials, including on the EU single market. The irony that I, as a British citizen, may not be allowed to work in the EU without a visa post-March isn't lost on me.

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Given that the UK will be days away from leaving the @DSMeu when I deliver one of the lectures... on the #digital #singlemarket it's going to call for some agile teaching because I have no doubt the UK government will still be making it up as they go along as they have thus far.
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#American friends, if I lived in your great country, near an outstanding public official like @SecretaryCarson, I'd respond to this #LeftistHarassment by standing silently outside with 🇺🇸 & a #MAGA sign.

"Protesting" can't undo the election. It helps with #WalkAway though.😄
Exhibits A, B, C, and D.

Stay classy, Leftists. #WalkAway
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One day as a pedicab driver that actually net cost me money.
The upshot is that once I made it to grad school I was *extremely* fortunate and was always able to make ends meet doing only academic-track work.
And before that...I was extremely fortunate in being able to find work that would pay enough bills to someday get me to grad school.
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