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John Warner
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This is an extremely tired piece of writing, ostensibly doing a good faith critique of the meritocracy, but essentially attempting to rally the troops around propping up the edifice. A total waste of valuable space. h/t @JennBinis nytimes.com/2019/06/12/opi…
Here's all you need to know about the state of our existing "meritocracy." slate.com/news-and-polit…
There's an interesting tidbit about Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld doing ROTC in college, which is ostensibly unexpected from the daughter of two Yale law professors, but it's going to look great when she runs for President in 2044, presuming we still have a functioning democracy.
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John Warner
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One of the reasons a certain faction of Republicans embrace the Trump presidency despite knowing his manifest unfitness and corruption (and saying as much before the election) is their belief they can manipulate him into doing their bidding, like a war with Iran in this case.
Lindsey Graham cozies up to Trump because he knows that Trump knows nothing, trusts only his "friends" (meaning loyalists) and has no knowledge of history or political compass by which to make decisions. So...he works him like this, in public, on his favorite medium.
We have a government without a chief executive who can make informed decisions who nonetheless holds all the power of a chief executive and is easily manipulated by anyone in his orbit be it a foreign dictator or a warmongering U.S. Senator. Incredibly dangerous times.
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Speaking about the debate on reparations, @LindseyGrahamSC said this, "“I think it’s too remote in time. I think it’s too divisive." I don't think the harm of slavery and Jim Crow and segregation tis all that remote. 1/2 thehill.com/homenews/senat…
Consider the education of @LindseyGrahamSC's home state as exposed by a @postandcourier series as "minimally adequate" and systematically biased against black students. This is a direct legacy of slavery and Jim Crow segregation and it's happening today. postandcourier.com/news/minimally…
The reality is that @LindseyGrahamSC's state would benefit from a policy of reparations, but he only represents the portion of the electorate that wants him superglued to President Trump.
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John Warner
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I spend a lot of my day job hours thinking about numerical data and am increasingly fascinated about the inferences we can draw from even single charts. Ex: Based on these ratings, is this a good book?
We could say that we can't tell because N=17 isn't a large sample, though I'm betting that in Amazon's data how a book looks after 15 responses isn't likely all that different than after 100.
The two most common answers are 5 stars and 1 star. This suggests at the least that if you read the book you won't be indifferent about it. There's a good chance you'll be moved to give the book 5 stars, but there's a non-trivial chance that the book will be truly terrible.
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A few general thoughts about this.

Lots of people use the language of free speech to criticize the academy, but it's often unclear whether their critique is being made in good faith, or if it's actually cover for something more craven.

This of course is an example of the latter. What presents itself as a critique of academic illiberalism is actually something quite illiberal itself. It's a common maneuver, as @adamsteinbaugh, @sarahemclaugh, and the rest of the folks at FIRE can attest.

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Hey, if you're a straight person at a non-affirming church, & not actively working to dismantle that LGBTQ oppression, you're perpetuating it.

I don't care if you're "personally affirming." If you sit in that pew, & aren't working towards full equality, you're hurting gay kids.
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