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15 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Russian spy president leaving White House. Fascism over. Nature is Healing.
Missed that chef's kiss reply
It's more than just a galactic self-own. It underscores a reality: meritocracy is being dismantled *at the precise moment when women are becoming dominant in academe* ; their dominance in turn hastens that dismantling...
Up there with that moment when a woman on a Vox podcast, confronted by the knowledge that the Title IX charges are disproportionately brought against black men, mused aloud about whether we could confine the rules to apply to white men only....

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19 Nov
NYC teachers union passes "Black Lives Matter at School" resolution calling for, among many other things, "disrupting the Western-prescribed nuclear family." Image
The disruption of course happened long ago.

Calling it an act of liberation from Western oppression is what's (relatively) new.

Stating that collective care should happen "to the extent that mothers, parents and children are comfortable" is a curious touch.
The recently introduced framework for the "Culturally Sustaining-Responsive Education" that the resolution affirms seeks a transformation of the way students are taught with a heavy emphasis on "power and privilege," and "decentering dominant ideologies" nysed.gov/common/nysed/f… Image
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17 Nov
Which fact you select to put in the headline colors the tone of the whole piece. The truth is: the definition is not uniform, the reporting is not close to comprehensive, the overall numbers are so low that what amounts to statistical noise can be made to seem large ImageImage
The first year these figures were collected nationally, headlines blared throughout the nation that "hate crimes are increasing"
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11 Nov
Note to Republicans: don’t go full Stacey Abrams
Sure there are differences. The point is, don't persist in claiming to have won an election you lost.
"She admitted she lost, she didn't insist otherwise!" OK. Image
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11 Nov
Odd to juxtapose these two poll findings against one another. I think the difference in wording -- "legitimately" -- accounts for the difference, and suggests that it's more of a "not my President" phenomenon at work. ImageImage
The contrast suggests that the typical Trump voter sees the expansion of mail-in voting as inherently illegitimate at the macro-level, without necessarily glomming on to "stolen election" conspiracy theories
It's self-evident that universal mail-in voting diminishes election security relative to in person voting by some significant margin
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11 Nov
There is no single term for all the academic discourses that define themselves in opposition to "Eurocentric cisheteropatriarchy". Thus, the need for a shorthand -- "Successor Ideology" -- to encompass all of it. link.springer.com/article/10.100… Image
Nor a term for the transition of such discourses from a largely self-referential body of texts to a series of real social movements situated in the professions seeking to "dismantle Eurocentric structures" in schools and hospitals and corporations
It will be a few years before your nurses have been trained to cease "privileging certain forms of evidence and ways of knowing" in favor of those that "dismantle Eurocentric structures" -- but it will happen, and the results will be noticeable.
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10 Nov
Hmm, just noticed I am blocked by Kara Swisher, probably because I asked when the point by point rebuttal to Balaji’s thread criticizing the Recode piece mocking SV VC’s bizarre obsession with Covid that she promised would be published...
Anyway, say what you want about Facebook, none of the specific stories cited here are false
These are just aggregations by right wing sites of process stories published by mainstream outlets
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