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Angus Johnston @studentactivism
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Kevin Hart didn't get dumped from the Oscars because he acted like a jerk eight years ago. He got dumped from the Oscars because he doubled down on acting like a jerk this week.
Whether you're famous or not, when people get mad at you over something you said online, what you do after they get mad is almost always going to have a bigger impact on your long-term reputation than what you did to get them mad.
(And I think I've said this before, but if you're ever getting slammed online because you acted like a jerk and you need advice on how to make it right, my DMs are open. Whether I know you or not.)
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One more thing on youth voting: There are a lot of folks in my mentions saying kids aren’t cognitively developed enough to vote. But it’s not clear to me what that means.
At 12, the typical kid is more than able to meet baseline standards for voting—understanding what an election is, learning about candidates, managing the act of voting.
When we bar kids from making choices they’re not mature enough to make, it’s generally because we’re worried that they’ll do harm to themselves or others if allowed to choose.
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Just saw something on my feed that reminded me to remind you that if you’re a NYC (or vicinity) high school or middle school teacher and you’d like me to come talk to your students, all you have to do is say so and I’ll be there.
I've spoken with NYC middle school students about the history of youth activism, how they can make change themselves, whether we should lower the voting age—all sorts of stuff. And the conversations are always really lively.
And because it's so much fun, and because it's a subway ride away, and because I know that y'all don't have budgets for this stuff, I'm happy to do it for free. So shoot me a message if you want to set it up.
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Politico says Dems we’re “livid,” but quotes critics saying the comment was “not helpful” and not language I would use,” and saying “people should cool their jets.” “Livid” is a laughable overstatement.
No congressional Dem is going to praise that quote, but I’m not seeing anyone willing to criticize it in any but the most anodyne terms. If you’re going to do a reaction piece, that’s your story: “Dems shrug off Tlaib’s remarks.”
In addition to not being a lie, a “Dems to Tlaib: ‘Meh’” piece has the virtue of being at least vaguely counterintuitive.
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The first mention of mental health is in the context of gun safety reform. Too many people have written about the need to talk about mental health for the sake of mental health, and not simply within the context of preventing gun violence so this was disappointing.
It’s rather remarkable to see the words “recovery-oriented approach” and “severe and persistent mental illness” in the same sentence.
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I stopped doing heroin eight years ago today, in the Tompkins County Jail. People ask me how I did it, like I have some magic silver bullet. I don’t. But here are some thoughts abt getting sober, and Christmas in jail.
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#KevinHart's crucifixion reminds of #OscarsSoWhite in 2015/16.
Both were skirmishes in a massive clash between a bitter, selfish, and rootless #LGBTQ movement, and the noble and genuine black #CivilRights movement.
In this thread, I take a side:
#OscarsSoWhite #OscarsSoHomophobic
2016's all-white cohort of #Oscar nominees had some black actors and civil rights activists crying “racism!"
They were right.
Well, half-right.
2/?
Hollywood elites don’t literally say blacks are subhuman. But while “racism” once referred only to a doctrine that some races are genetically inferior, the word has evolved. “Racism” can refer to ideologies that ask a race to check its *ethnicity* (i.e. culture) at the door.
3/?
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Eight years ago I was a practicing internal medicine physician in a buttfuck town in the middle of nowhere Wyoming. Obamacare had passed and we were about to see the revolution of socialized healthcare.
Nearly overnight, practices stopped hiring, all talks about raises, increases in budget, and benefits ceased. In a field once that was saturated with high-quality jobs, there suddenly weren’t any.
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