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Clint Smith
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I know there can be the temptation from some to want these parents to go to prison for a long time to pay for what they did, but I would really push folks to interrogate where that desire is coming from. As was relevant with the Manafort case, punishment shouldn't be zero sum.
It can be true that these parents did a terrible thing and that they need to make amends *and* that sending them to prison for a long time won't make anything better. We shouldn't want wealthy people going to prison for longer, we should want poor people getting more mercy.
Prisons are terrible terrible terrible places that we should be constantly working to make less relevant in our society.
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There’s a recurring debate about how, or even whether, academics should orient their work towards the public. I know for me, seeing academics publicly put their scholarship in conversation with the world changed my life & led me to want to attend grad school in the first place.
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Twitter is far from a perfect medium, but a large part of what keeps me on here is the fact that there are brilliant ppl whose work I might not otherwise be exposed to, who I now learn from every day. It’s democratized the world of ideas, especially for underrepresented voices.
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Honestly I’m glad to see more players getting in the faces of fans who do this. You shouldn’t have to let someone get away with tit. If any grown man other than my father called me “boy” *especially* a white person, things are not ending well.
There’s often a bizarre expectation in the context of black performance—whether athletic or artistic—that a person should simply ignore someone heckling them, even in the context of outright racism. That’s BS. The more someone does it w/o consequence the more it emboldens others.
The rule in every sporting arena should be if you heckle a player with some racist or in any way hateful language you’re banned for life. Period.
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Some low-income students clean the bathrooms of their more affluent peers, have no food to eat during spring break, and enter through a separate door at school events. I wrote about how elite colleges are systemically failing their disadvantaged students. theatlantic.com/education/arch…
At some of the top universities in the country, there are policies in place that reify & amplify the class differences between their students. As a result, low-income students are constantly sent messages, both systemic & interpersonal, that they don’t belong at these schools.
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