Thread by @biblioracle

Remember, the truly principled get to decide who is and isn't being a hypocrite without bothering to inform oneself of publicly available information at the time because they know what's correct, and you don't.

https://twitter.com/NAChristakis/status/1395124347447222278

Pay attention to what figures like this Christakis requires sober reflection v. what is worth blasting into the world uncritically. He's more than willing to hop on the latest ginned up Bari Weiss nonsense, but this case needs more investigation.

Notice what the most principled man in academia thinks is worth his time to better understand. There's articles at IHE & CHE, to glance at if he deems it worthy, but he's pretty sure Nikole Hannah-Jones doesn't qualify for tenure because he would know.

Here is the self-declared most principled man in journalism being extremely cautious about something that is utterly apparent in the case of the treatment of Nikole Hannah-Jones. So careful! At least he promises to study up on what's already known.

Many who thinks Charles Murray being criticized or newspaper columnists moving to lucrative newsletters is equivalent to being cancelled finds nothing to see here.

This is exactly right, but the highly principled men of academia and journalism will need much more proof to accept what is plain.

https://twitter.com/jelani9/status/1395104401644195842

Make no mistake, the highly principled men are concerned about diversity, but it is very important that they be the ones to decide what is and is not cause for concern because after all, they are highly principled and can be trusted to pursue the ethos of telos.

I sort of can't believe how many people fall for this crap from prominent, well-credentialed academics. It's more transparently phony than the average car salesmen, but we're supposed to listen to the highly principled men.

Studied disconcern and dismissal, even though the NH-J story has nothing to do with what's happening on college campuses in the way this is meant. A political reporter covering the same forces at work in Congress might be a tad more curious.