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2 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I'm not going to make a personal argument about "Defund the Police," but it sounds like Obama is just talking about the slogan and the slogan itself. He is not criticizing the underlying idea of redistributing resources
Obama specifically mentions 1. putting resources into helping people before they are involved in any crime and 2. redistributing funds such that police are not charged w/ responding to situations that are better taken care of by mental health professionals/social workers.
Again: I have said it before and I will say it again: I think I have no place in the actual debate over the slogan. I think that's a within-community debate w/ a lot of different opinions & I don't see what my voice adds to it.
I do think it's generally important for onlookers such as myself to learn about what people are actually saying. Are they criticizing the underlying ideas or are they in favor of them & just talking about the rhetoric to sell them? In Obama's case, it seems like the latter

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3 Dec
This article raises a number of different ethical Q's that functionally overlap. 1st is the prioritization of placebo recipients for the real vaccine. 2nd is the quality of the data. If placebo recipients receive the vaccine too soon, will that compromise efficacy results?
One thing that is of potential concern is how well the researchers defined the length of the placebo trial--both for themselves in terms of data quality & for participants who chose to enroll in the trial. Were participants fully informed of how long the placebo trial would last?
Additionally, it should be noted that participants should be able to get the vaccine regardless of the length of the placebo phase. This could just generally involve them dropping out of the trial. If they want to be prioritized, however, that involves a more complicated process
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2 Dec
This take is somewhat a-historic and does not incorporate what we know about the election results so far. Image
Dems have been on-trend to gain w/ white college ed voters (esp women) over the past few years. It makes sense to target these voters as a demographic. Would it make sense to target these voters over and above POC? Absolutely not. So it's a good thing that's not what happened.
Is there evidence that trying to flip white college voters hurt Dems' performance down-ballot?

No. This evidence does not exist.
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1 Dec
I'm not sure if people realize this, but a lot of the plans that have come out of @amprog during Neera Tanden's tenure are to the left of Biden's platform. This includes their healthcare proposal.
CAP has also highlighted issues that too often go ignored. Their work on disability is extensive. Under Tanden's lead, they've also taken a very intersectional approach to economic policy. For an example:
americanprogress.org/issues/economy…
Overall, I would highly recommend looking at the work put out by CAP. The team is skilled at both describing the origins of weaknesses/disparities in our society & how to build solutions to these problems. Another example is their work on Early Childhood: americanprogress.org/issues/early-c…
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1 Dec
It's interesting that Neera Tanden's nomination to OMB has rattled conservatives more than any other proposed member of the administration and yet the Twitter Left has simultaneously declared this nomination as some kind of personal affront.
Sure, y'all, put on your full battle make-up to oppose someone who is already opposed by some in the right-wing of the Senate for being too progressive. I am sure this will result in someone more progressive as a nominee. Makes perfect sense.
Maybe, and I'm just spitballing here, if the GOP is opposed to Tanden b/c she is too progressive, your own attacks won't result in a more left-wing appointment. Given that the Senate--not pod-casters--makes these decisions, we might just end up w/ someone more conservative.
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30 Nov
Some folks on the left sound remarkably like conservatives when they speak about race/gender and representation in positions of power.
The fallacies are certainly analogous. Conservatives attack affirmative action and other proposals for greater equality by arguing that liberals are placing race as a *more important* feature than qualifications. . . .
. . . .when, in fact, liberals are trying to fight systems of inequality that *prevent* people's qualifications from being recognized in some cases and/or form life-long barriers to the accumulation of qualifications in other cases.
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29 Nov
There is no moral difference if 55% or 45% of white women voted for Trump. That's either slightly > than half or slightly < than half that are complicit in white supremacy. If you see a white woman in the grocery store, there's around a 50% chance she voted for Trump either way.
There are, however, gigantic electoral consequences to these numbers. No woman who is white should seek emotional solace in 45% over 55%. It's close to 50% either way. But that is different than attempting to understand the behavior of the electorate, where a 10 pt diff matters.
And here's the thing: we have been told over the past 4 years that we have to throw away "identity politics" (Civil rights!) in order to win votes. The Biden campaign & the Democratic party didn't do that. They embraced diversity. And they won.
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