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31 May, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Reminder that the most thoroughgoing critique of the 1619 Project came from the World Socialist Website
The Trots have their own idiosyncratic line that has in recent years led them into a general anti-PC stance....however, the critique of the project was substantive and painstaking wsws.org/en/topics/even…
What a lot of folks seem to do is wait until the conservative enemy appears on the field of battle and fight them.

Case to be made that conservatives largely exist to consolidate support for certain positions by signaling through their opposition what must be supported...
The Washington Generals of US politics

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I have difficulty believing that anyone has any real emotional investment in these months, including those who these months ostensibly honor
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Oh, okay...
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Both the MAGA and the equity agendas are deconstructed by the existence of a non-white immigrant group that outperforms all native groups, including whites, on certain key metrics.

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Both of those tweets are trolls working out the inconsistent inner logic of two ways of looking at something that resists simple partisan framing -- and that calls on us to think harder....
Sorry guys, I'm sure you know MAGA types that are not bigots or xenophobes and only care about the legality of immigration.

But a movement that seeks to end birthright citizenship is taking a big step beyond that.
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22 May
Jeremy Lin on his experience in the NBA

This is why Asians max out on all the quantitative measures they can.
But precisely because they max out so much, they effectively broke the curve on testing and now they're getting rid of the tests altogether....
They did a study where they sent emails to professors seeking meetings using various racially coded names.

The names that were likely least likely to receive a reply by a wide margin were those from names that sounded Asian.
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21 May
Did they purposely choose a guy named "Loving" for Loving vs Virginia?
The law allowing Virginia to imprison interracial couples for marrying was invalidated by the Supreme Court in 1967 -- 7 years before I was born in St. Louis.

That this was surprising to me was an indicator of how my racial innocence was preserved by the educational system.
Learning about the scope and persistence of institutional racism does not, however, mean that I should, must, or do agree that objectivity and "worship of the written word" are parts of "white supremacy culture."
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19 May
"The command of the Delphic oracle—“Know thyself”—was not a mandate to plumb the soul but rather to accept the role that nature had assigned you..." theparisreview.org/blog/2021/05/1…
I've been saying different versions of this for twenty years:

"We spend our lives trying to figure out what kind of person we are, but others can understand us, in our entirety, at a glance."
Another study to this effect found that showing people one minute of video of politicians and polling people based on their impressions was more predictive of the eventual outcome than any other metric....
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19 May
We did it, fam.
We memed a slur against white women that white women use against each other and that nobody would dream of criticizing as a racist, sexist aggression into life!
Generative power of online discourse in action
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