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2 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
The problem with contacting a university employee's boss to try to get them punished because they offended you is that you forever lose credibility when you complain about a student trying to get university employees punished for offending them.
One reason that Stephens draws more ire than other conservative op-ed writers at the NY Times like Ross Douthat is that he is so obviously hypocritical on issues like tolerance for dissenting views.
See, e.g. these comments from @WajahatAli.
If you have not read @powellnyt's account of what happened at Smith College, you should because it is certainly troubling. nytimes.com/2021/02/24/us/…
But the NY Times writers who propose that cancel culture and threats to free speech are a massive societal risk are just not credible when they also try to use their power to shut down critics. And credibility matters on these issues.
(via @davekarpf) esquire.com/news-politics/…

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28 Feb
The anti-woke crowd are having a twitter civil war bunfight. But even the highbrow element of this crowd feel the need to use some causal ableism in their posts to remind you that their priorities are, and will always be, their right to insult & demean.
This is definitely a take. Have you road-tested it with families that include people with developmental disabilities?
Its definitely true that it doesn't hurt anyone...based on what? Your intuition? Entire groups organize to say the R-word is hurtful and launch campaigns to discourage it, but lets not believe them because you know better?
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28 Feb
About 1 in 5 people eligible for SNAP do not get the benefits. There are lots of techniques to reduce the scale of the problem (outreach, simplifying process, forms of automatic enrollment) but much depends upon political will and bureaucratic capacity.
Writing about SNAP was one of the most frustrating parts of our book because you see these completely cyclical pattern where govt. figures out how to increase take-up and then reverses course (e.g. 1990s welfare reform delinked SNAP from welfare)
amazon.com/Administrative…
Another example, the Trump admin tried to make it harder to get access to SNAP during a pandemic. This is not a popular position, but the post-Bush GOP has focused on tried to reducing the size of SNAP and argued there is excessive fraud.
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27 Feb
Four years ago I wrote about how WI legislators were trying to get a professor fired and threatened the university budget because a professor was teaching a class called "The Problem of Whiteness."
This form of govt censorship has become a national trend.
nytimes.com/2017/01/09/opi…
One change in the last four years is that the language and justifications for attacking what is now called "critical race theory" has become more sophisticated. It is a movement to use the power of government to silence speech. From @michelleinbklyn: nytimes.com/2021/02/26/opi…
The difference between individual legislators lashing out because they don't like a course title and the anti-woke movement is considerable. It means there is a framework that now encourages wide scale government censorship of dissent.
From @JeffreyASachs
arcdigital.media/the-new-war-on…
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26 Feb
Interesting case of politicians pushing back on audit studies in UK. My sense is that their response is less about the extra work caused by these studies, and more about being concerned that they are subject to a different form of accountability. theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
If you are unfamiliar, audit studies are designs where researchers send a contact to a a group of actor and vary one salient detail (such as a name indicating gender or race), and then look at differential responses. So they involve a) deception, and b) using the subjects time.
Audit studies have been a really useful social science tool, since they allow us to generate causal estimates of existence and scale of hard-to-detect forms of discrimination in e.g., access to public services, employment, voting.
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25 Feb
Area Senator unfamiliar with concept of inflation
Jamelle providing the math I was too lazy to do.
Really feels like these guys might have prepped a little more before using their own experience of low college tuition and relatively high minimum wage to launch their arguments against raising the minimum wage during a period of high college tuition
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22 Feb
Trump DHS officials (including Stephen Miller's wife) worked with Breitbart and Fox to further Trump's narrative that immigrants are criminals by illegally disclosing personally identifiable information. democracyforward.org/lawsuits/seeki…
This could be seen as a continuation of Stephen Miller's emails with Breitbart, where he was obsessed about the trope of non-white immigrant crime that features in white nationalist narratives
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019…
As always, it bears mentioning that the best empirical research shows that immigrants are, if anything, less likely to engage in crime than native borns. In other words, systematically tying immigrants to crime is an effort to build a false narrative.
pnas.org/content/117/51…
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