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4 May, 3 tweets, 2 min read
Should you use racial slurs in the classroom? Two professor argue it is important for pedagogy.

My response to Kennedy and @VolokhC.

abovethelaw.com/2021/05/use-ra…

#lawtwitter #AcademicChatter
The article by Professors Kennedy and Volokh can be found here.
www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/epithet…
A friend reminded me of this great discussion.

Ta-Nehisi Coates on words that don't belong to everyone | We Were Eight ... via @YouTube

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Teenagers get stimulus checks?
And, there was that study in 2020 that found no decrease in employment related to the earlier stimulus.

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This adds some more information, although nothing about age breakdown. But still adds some value in terms of the initial claim in that tweet.

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I just finished listening to Simon & Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson," and I think they were trying to recruit her in the @CIA. (Thread)
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23 Mar
I was, for no particular reason, thinking today about an ENTIRE AND VAST LITERATURE on household reproduction that encompasses many voices across many fields.

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A LOT of those articles, books, and essays are written by WOMEN. So I imagine if I were, say, citing literature in my essay, I would want to be careful to ensure I encompassed it fairly. I might also look at who I am tending to cite in my footnotes.
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23 Aug 19
Hey @PennLaw, it's a good thing that you gave Professor Wax a sabbatical so she could enhance your brand!

And the @NewYorker was happy to help!

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(Gosh, I dunno, you never spoke to anyone about colonialism?).

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Me: Slice.
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