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May 13

"How could it be that the university is zealous about policing pronouns but blasé about the advocacy of hateful violence?"

Roland Fryer's latest for the WSJ, "Anti-Israel Protests and the ‘Signaling’ Problem," reproduced here in full. 🧵

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"The anti-Israel protests on college campuses present a puzzle for observers of academic norms and mores. Today, even relatively minor linguistic infractions, like the failure to use someone’s preferred pronouns, are categorized as abuse at many elite institutions, some of which even define potentially offensive speech as 'violence.' One need not even speak to run afoul of campus speech codes; I recently participated in a training in which we were warned of the consequences of remaining silent if we heard someone 'misgender' someone else.

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"Definitions of 'harmful' speech have become so capacious that one assumes they include antisemitism. In some cases, they surely do: A university wouldn’t take a hands-off approach to a student or faculty member who expressed prejudice against Jews in the manner of Archie Bunker or the Charlottesville marchers. Yet that’s what many of them have done when faced with protesters’ speech that is offensive to Jews, even when it crosses the line into threats, intimidation and harassment.

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Free Black Thought

@FreeBlckThought

May 8

"I understand the ethics underpinning the protests to be based on two widely recognized principles:

1. There is an ethical duty to express solidarity with the weak in any situation that involves oppressive power.

2. If the machinery of oppressive power is to be trained on the weak, then there is a duty to stop the gears by any means necessary.

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"The first principle sometimes takes the 'weak' to mean 'whoever has the least power,' and sometimes 'whoever suffers most,' but most often a combination of both. The second principle, meanwhile, may be used to defend revolutionary violence, although this interpretation has just as often been repudiated by pacifistic radicals...

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"t is difficult to look at the recent Columbia University protests in particular without being reminded of the campus protests of the nineteen-sixties and seventies. At that time, a cynical political class was forced to observe the spectacle of its own privileged youth standing in solidarity with the weakest historical actors of the moment, a group that included, but was not restricted to, African Americans and the Vietnamese. Young Americans risked both their own academic and personal futures and—in the infamous case of Kent State—their lives. I imagine that the students at Columbia—and protesters on other campuses—fully intend this echo, and, in their unequivocal demand for both a ceasefire and financial divestment from this terrible war, to a certain extent they have achieved it.

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Free Black Thought

@FreeBlckThought

Apr 16

The ORIGINAL original "woke":

The Wide Awakes was a youth "marching club" formed in 1860 to support Abe Lincoln.

Slave-owners feared them: "One–half million of men uniformed and drilled, and the purpose of their org to sweep the country in which I live with fire and sword."

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Wide Awakes—the ORIGINAL original "woke":

Our cause is Abolition,
And for the Nigger we do cry;
For we do love the Nigger,
And will love him till we die.

'Tis honest Abe and Hamlin,
We want to rule our nation,
And for the Nigger we do claim
Equality of station.

loc.gov/item/amss-cw10…

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Wide Awake Club ribbon depicting Lincoln:

"In February, 1860. Cassius M. Clay [an abolitionist] spoke in Hartford, Connecticut. A few ardent young Republicans accompanied him as a kind of body-guard, and to save their garments from the dripping of the torches, a few of them wore improvised capes of black glazed cambric. The uniforms attracted so much attention that a campaign club-formed in Hartford soon after adopted it. This club called itself the 'Wide-Awakes'."

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Free Black Thought

@FreeBlckThought

Apr 2

"By requiring academics to profess — and flaunt — faith in DEI, the proliferation of diversity statements poses a profound challenge to academic freedom."

—Randall Kennedy (Harvard Law) 🧵

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"DEI statements will essentially constitute pledges of allegiance that enlist academics into the DEI movement by dint of soft-spoken but real coercion: If you want the job or the promotion, play ball — or else."

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"Playing ball entails affirming that the DEI bureaucracy is a good thing and asking no questions that challenge it, all the while making sure to use in one’s attestations the easy-to-parody DEI lingo. It does not take much discernment to see, moreover, that the diversity statement regime leans heavily and tendentiously towards varieties of academic leftism and implicitly discourages candidates who harbor ideologically conservative dispositions.

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Free Black Thought

@FreeBlckThought

Mar 6

"Tonight, I learned the name of Alderman would be removed from Alderman Library. I became a student scholar at Alderman Library. ... This is not the first time a part of me, my cherished memories, have been 'disrupted' by ideologues.

—Winkfield Twyman 🧵

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"When you change parts of my memory, you are sending a message to my generation. You are signaling the awesome positive race stories of the 1970s and 1980s are less important than dishonoring 18th century slaveholding families and segregationists before the Civil Rights Era.

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"For the Soviets, changing the names of places and landmarks and memories was about a restart of history. It was a brute force show of propaganda. Names more befitting ideology were slapped onto the side of buildings. The aim was to influence local identity, create a unifying identity and impose a totalitarian regime."

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Free Black Thought

@FreeBlckThought

Feb 18

https://twitter.com/kareem_carr/status/1758918102702567586

Guys like Kareem will never stop pretending that there are grave doubts about Roland Fryer's study showing lack of racial bias in police shootings.

Here are SIX additional studies, using different data sets and different methodologies, that show the exact same result. 🧵

https://twitter.com/kareem_carr/status/1758918102702567586

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Pre-Fryer:

"what the data does suggest is that eliminating the biases of all police officers would do little to materially reduce the total number of African-American killings.
...
African-Americans have a very large number of encounters with police officers. Every police encounter contains a risk. ...having more encounters with police officers, even with officers entirely free of racial bias, can create a greater risk of a fatal shooting."

—@m_sendhil (Roman Family University Professor of Computation and Behavioral Science at Chicago Booth)

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"Blacks have high arrest and stop rates, and per capita are much more likely than whites to die at the hands of police. However, when blacks are stopped or arrested, they are no more likely than whites to be injured or die during that incident.

A systematic review identified 10 studies that found suspect race/ethnicity did not predict use of force or its escalation. However, one study found blacks were more likely than whites to face force during compliance checks [NOTE from FBT: this study is consistent with Fryer's finding of bias in *non-lethal* force].

Blacks are arrested more often than whites, and youth more often than the elderly. However, blacks are not more likely than non-Hispanic whites to be killed or injured during a stop/arrest, and youth have the lowest injury ratios."

—Ted R. Miller, et al.

injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/injury…

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