Also, while body cams captured this encounter, they did not and so not prevent things like this from happening, which seems to be what a lot of people hope they will do.
All this over an “unspecified traffic violation.” Not even a “crime.”
It’s telling that the reform-minded police voices in the story take issue with how Greene was treated after the police had him on the ground — but they don’t take issue with the fact of the encounter itself.
10 minutes into the @yourewrongabout episode on politics correctness and it already feels like a look at the intellectual history that led to that moral panic-y NYT story about Smith College a few months ago.
One thing that’s important context for fights over “culture” and “free speech” on campuses is that they are primary sites of conflict re: historical and ongoing segregation.
1) These are PWIs established *for* white students and white academics that are still reckoning with the reality that “integration” is more complicated than simply beginning to admit people who ain’t white. (Or straight or able-bodied or...)
Look, i hate the tourist-ification of this word, too. But we were saying this long before all these suburbanites decided they wanted to get their reverse-white flight on and putting it on t-shirts and ugh
Oh, a Penn Law professor from Montgomery County doesn’t like a piece of appropriated Black Philly slang?