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Just what the country needs in these trying times: a... [checks notes]...
self-absorbed businessman with no political experience who thinks that social welfare programs are tantamount to Stalinism.
I mean, it seems like he's basically a combo of straight-up GOP economic policies and a willingness to say Trump is tacky. Does Jeff Flake know that Schultz is ripping off his schtick?
"How are we going to pay for all these things?" demands the wealthy white guy who wasn't asking that question until it had to do with social programs and not tax cuts for people like him.
Normally, rich white guys who are uncomfortable with what @AOC is saying just write crappy op-eds, not consider a presidential bid.
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Kevin Gannon
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Another one of these rants--notice it's always tenured white men who are writing them. (Full disclosure: I am a tenured white man. Full prof, even). That's actually the key to understanding all of these pieces' fatal flaw (1/)
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Zimmerman--and others who write these coddled-snowflakes-threaten-my-free-speech pieces--uses the "slippery slope" argument, arguing that taking down Silent Sam, for example, is tantamount to historical erasure, like getting rid of "historical remnants".
3. But Zimmerman's already pulling a sleight-of-hand here. Silent Sam is not a "historical remnant." The statue of Davis at UT is not a "historical remnant." They are monuments, occupying prominent and privileged spaces at these institutions.
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Kevin Gannon
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judging by all the snarky replies to this tweet, I'm going to guess not many ppl actually read this nuanced and thoughtful article exploring a complex pedagogical issue--an issue for which there are no easy answers or absolutes.
Maybe rather than yelling YES LECTURE IS ALWAYS GOOD or NO IT NEVER IS, read what @dgooblar actually has to say?
I'm stuck by the irony, though, of the academic Twitter threads arguing the traditional conference paper format is worthless and boring one week, then running to the barricades to defend lecturing against its critics the next.
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Kevin Gannon
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Yeah, well you've received more than 3 credible rape and sexual harassment accusations allegations against you.

You shouldn't be anywhere near college students.
Receipts:
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Michael Shermer likes to get women drunk, sexually assault them, and then lie through his teeth and slut-shame his accusers. I wouldn't let my kids be within a thousand feet of this smug-ass predator, much less the same classroom.
Allegedly.

whatevs.
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