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1 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
This thread is interesting because it describes academics constrained from speaking what they believe to be true for fear of social consequence while denying that they are “afraid of being canceled” or that such a development is a “crisis of free speech”
It shows how one may describe precisely X but still being constrained from calling it X, thereby...underscoring the depth and intensity of X in the very act...
Thread about my Chronicle of Higher Education piece on this subject:

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I'm pointing out that this cuts in both directions: 1.) she stole a position that was supposed to help native people and appropriated it for herself as a white woman, 2.) she was responding to a system that favors POC and a class of wealthy white incumbents.
Her act was far more revealing of the nature of the system than anyone quite lets on
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(more competence than Trump that is.)
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Non-BIPOC Vermonters presently have to be over the age of 50 to sign up for the vaccine.

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CDC withdrew guidance that would prioritized essential workers before the elderly (who are the by far the most likely to die from covid) because the latter group was disproportionately white after the guidance attracted controversy.

But here's Scott just going for it.
This is how it works...a tentative trial balloon, then tactical retreat in the face of pushback...then you barrel over the finish line in defiance of the Equal Protection clause because the new elite consensus supports it and nothing ultimately hems in elite consensus
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31 Mar
Defending free speech is a precondition of restoring the integrity of truth-seeking within academia, but it is only a precondition. Forms of discipline and abnegation constitutive of the dignity of the vocation must also be resuscitated. patreon.com/posts/on-acade…
It is a bizarre irony that these principles have to be stated at all, and a compounding irony that they must be stated under the cover of pseudonymity. patreon.com/posts/on-acade…
But so it is these days. Some regimes protect the autonomy of truth seeking while others subordinate it to political agendas; in this sense truth seeking is always political. But the integrity of the act itself, where it is permitted, always transcends politics.
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