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11 Sep, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Students demand Skidmore College fire art professor David Peterson for attending a pro-cop rally, and they don't care that he was just watching it from the sidelines reason.com/2020/09/11/ski… via @reason
It's hard to overstate how crazy this is. The professor, Peterson, did not attend the rally as a supporter of cops, he just went to watch. He has told the students this, but they don't care.
Students put a note on Peterson's door, warning other students that if they entered the classroom they were in effect crossing picket lines, and it was a matter of safety for the marginalized. Safety! reason.com/2020/09/11/ski…
I can't imagine how the students would behave if they encountered a professor—or, another human being in general—who held genuinely very conservative beliefs. They are not being prepared for real life, but real life better be prepared for them.

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14 Aug
White Fragility author Robin DiAngelo will conduct a training workshop for University of Connecticut administrators this fall. Her fee is $20,000. reason.com/2020/08/14/uco…
Note that she's training the administrators—the campus speech cops—rather than lecturing to the students in a forum where her ideas could be scrutinized. It's not an exchange of ideas, it's new HR policy enforcement.
'White Fragility" is a book that @JohnHMcWhorter called a "racist tract." Difficult to imagine, in any other circumstance, a university training its employees in the methodology of an author whose book was accused of being racist! theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
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One of the most absurd cancel culture stories I've yet covered: Edward Ball is the author of "Life of a Klansman," in which he reckons with a white supremacist ancestor. It's an acclaimed anti-racism book. Students forced Tulane to cancel his virtual talk. reason.com/2020/08/06/tul…
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If public schools insist on not re-opening until it's 100% perfectly safe (i.e. never) because they are beholden to teachers unions, we really should just defund them and give the money back to parents so they can arrange private education, tutors, daycare, homeschool pods, etc.
For K-8, education via Zoom is a total farce. If that's the best public schools can offer, lol don't bother, just give us the money back.
Frankly, I'm not sure I'd want my child being taught by someone who fought tooth and nail against having to actually do their job. I'm talking about the teachers who drove past my apt building yesterday with signs protesting the city's plans to even partly re-open schools.
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For those who say Cancel Culture Isn't Real, a museum curator was accused of being a white supremacist because he—get this—said that he would still curate *some* art created by white men. Totally inoffensive, yet he was branded a racist and forced out. reason.com/2020/07/14/gar…
"Gary's removal from SFMOMA is non-negotiable," read the petition to fire him. "Considering his lengthy tenure at this institution, we ask just how long have his toxic white supremacist beliefs regarding race and equity directed his position curating the content of the museum?"
The sum total of his "toxic white supremacist beliefs" was... saying it would also be a form of discrimination to not accept art because the artist was white. Not only this is NOT racist, it's something the overwhelming majority of people agree with.
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I have arrived at the Black House Autonomous Zone
Sort of a shanty town setup around the church
What I am seeing is peaceful protesting: Mostly just people hanging out and screaming at the police. Cops have formed a line around Lafayette Park, and things are pretty calm.
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The Washington Post Halloween blackface story is an embarrassment to journalism. For the love of all that is good, please let this be the zenith of cancel culture. reason.com/2020/06/18/was…
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The article is titled "Blackface incident at Post cartoonist's 2018 Halloween party resurfaces amid protests." The only reason this incident is "surfacing" at all is that the Post lacked the courage to tell the two women pictured in the article's photo to get over themselves.
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