Since they can’t identify, point by point, where my debunking of James on CRT goes wrong, the noble knights dedicated to preserving the scholarly reputation of Jimmy Concepts have decided to attempt to influence potential readers via a coup of the comment section.
“Surely he was raised by lesbians in a privileged intellectual silo. And b4 Sam thinks this is from some anon homophobic account and uses it to further his twitterversies I'm gay as fuck and have a lesbian mom.”

Most convincing thing I’ve ever read, tbh
Is it just me or do all these comments and names have too much in common for them to all be from different people?

Clearly I’ve struck a nerve, either way. It seems some people are very invested in getting me to stop exposing James’ fraudulent bullshit. Gonna have to do better.
Getting heated over here.
Lmfao, two more comments by “TiredOfThisShit” — pretty damn sure a single person spent like 6 hours of their day just creating new accounts and writing new comments, as well as liking all the comments they already left on their other accounts. It’s really not that serious...

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6 May
I recently stumbled upon this panel on the topic of Critical Race Theory (what else?) hosted by The Manhattan Institute and was shocked by the lineup. Why the hell was Chris Rufo in the same conversation as Harvard Law professor Randall Kennedy?!?!

What I saw blew me away. 🧵 Image
For folks who don't know, Randall Kennedy was the first scholar to publish a full-throated critique of CRT. He and Derrick Bell were colleagues at Harvard for some time. Bell took his criticism seriously, but also noted how politically damaging it was to the movement: Image
The first 45 min of this "panel" consisted of @jasonrileywsj & @JohnHMcWhorter casually shooting the shit about how bad CRT is. When Prof. Kennedy was introduced, I was expecting more of the same. To my pleasant surprise, however, the conversation was turned entirely on its head.
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I am struggling to focus on my coursework because I keep thinking about the conservative media's engineered CRT panic based almost entirely on a total lack of respect for racially oppressed groups and a total disregard for reality.

So: a thread illustrating a prime example. 1/9
This is an article by Chris Rufo. It is one of *fifteen* he has released on CRT in the past 4 months. It's average for him in terms of its spin, dishonesty, sophistry; Rufo always plays no defense, only offense. But this article is far from his worst. city-journal.org/philadelphia-f… 2/9
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Gotta love the phrase “normal white males”
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After a closer read, I like this paper much less than I did after a quick skim. The primary reason for this: Martín seriously misrepresents Mills’ account of white ignorance.

@TLNewmanMTL asks: what’s Martín’s justification for using “white ignorance” in the first place? 1/
Mills’ original (2007) definition of white ignorance: “an ignorance, a non-knowing, that is not contingent, but in which race—white racism and/or white racial domination and their ramifications—plays a crucial causal role.”

Here is Martín’s first crack at it: 2/
@TLNewmanMTL correctly points out that, in introducing the notion of white ignorance, Martín relies on this study pnas.org/content/early/… but only cites one figure from it—one which is actually race-neutral (fn. 2) 3/
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