Respectfully, Secretary Reich, you have drunk the Kool-Aid.

Not that it should matter, but I’m a liberal. And, for 15 years, I was a college professor, an educator. I saw first-hand the damage that Critical Race Theory wrought.
At its founding, CRT was indeed interested in “the role that race has played in American politics, policy, and law.” Now, though? It’s a weaponized bludgeon used to move power from one place to another, without doing anything to change the underlying dynamics that got us here.
CRT sounds honorable and important, but instead of teaching actual history, with a diversity of viewpoints, it shuts down conversation, weakens people by assuring them that their true identity is “victim,” and pits us all against one another. It makes us more tribal.
We need to recognize and celebrate our differences, while reveling in our common humanity. That is the way forward.

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Dude, please. “GOP supporters believe that rampaging mobs burned and looted major cities”?

I’ve never voted GOP (not that it should matter), and I know—not believe, *know*—that a tiny but rampaging mob continues to do damage in Portland on the regular. [thread 1/11]
Saturday, April 17, downtown PDX. The night before, yahoos set a dumpster & the bathrooms on fire outside the Apple store. Awning is gone, tree is charred.

Burned to the ground? No.
Insane to accommodate this kind of behavior? Yes.
Insane to deny it is happening? Also yes. 2/
New graffiti nearby from the same night. This is the sentiment that you are de facto defending when you claim this isn’t happening, or that all the protest is peaceful, or indeed, that this particular thing has anything to do with protest at all. This is raw, vengeful hate. 3/
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13 Apr
Ignorance, arrogance, and the wielding of credentials to shut down discourse: a triple threat.

When these three characteristics show up in one place, I feel a responsibility to at least slow the spread of misinformation. Here we go. [thread 1/26]
We are all ignorant of some things. Ignorance should be forgiven. 2/
Add arrogance and you have a problem brewing: an undeservedly confident tone that spews garbage will be confusing to some people, people who do not deserve to be confused by the ignorant, arrogant person in their feed. 3/
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2 Apr
@GodflyThe @JenelopeJohnson @maxrenke @SadLittleKobold I don’t tend to do remedial evolution on Twitter. But since you say you are an evolutionary geneticist, I’ll make an exception. I’ll go slow, since you seem to have missed a lot already. Consider it a public service. [thread 1/14]
@GodflyThe @JenelopeJohnson @maxrenke @SadLittleKobold This is an evolutionary tree. Some branches display parts of history that we never inhabited. One of those branches on this tree, for instance, terminates in the taxon called “orangutan”. We were never orangutans. But we were—and still are—apes. As are orangutans. 2/
@GodflyThe @JenelopeJohnson @maxrenke @SadLittleKobold (Tree thinking—really grasping what phylogenetic trees are conveying, and what they are not—takes some time, but turns out to be necessary if you are to grok lineage level thinking, and macroevolutionary concepts like synapomorphy, homology, monophyly, etc.) 3/
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18 Mar
The mainstream narrative on the search for SARS-Cov2 origins reads like the dystopian endgame of a postmodern world. It’s anti-scientific, anti-reason, and anti-human. Humanity can do better, and we must. [thread 1/12]
wsj.com/articles/who-c…
The WHO’s verdict on SARS-CoV2 origins was arrived at by a show of hands, an informal vote in which how individuals voted was visible to all.

Guess what, though. Reality doesn’t care about democratic norms. Reality is what it is, regardless of what people think about it. 2/
“The team members said they didn’t have the mandate, expertise and access to investigate a potential lab leak.”

My god. And then they voted on whether lab leak was a plausible explanation for the origin of SARS-CoV2 in a show of hands in front of their Chinese counterparts. 3/
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21 Feb
I had a conversation with Meghan Murphy on science, and SARS-CoV2, and feminism, and sex and gender, and more. Meghan Murphy was booted from twitter for the 21st century crime of stating the obvious. She’s still on YouTube, which is good for all of us.
I made two errors of (biological) fact in this conversation. I’m not going to say here what they are. If you watch and you think you spot them, let me know!
Privately, I've heard from a few people as to what the two "errors of (biological) fact" might be, but since twitter is apparently not like a classroom in which patience can be inculcated, I will state the errors here:
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16 Feb
On top of the global pandemic, Portland, Oregon had months of protests & riots; 10 days of wildfires that gave us the planet’s worst air quality; and now this: snow and ice storms that wiped out power *and* cell service for a huge number of us. (Portland is under all the red.)
Earlier, I was out walking the dog in the deep icy slush as an explosive melt kicked in: The sun broke through, and days of accumulated ice loosened, breaking off trees, shattering on the ground like porcelain , crystalline ice casting shard-shadows.
I spoke to many strangers, all out in the strangest conditions many of us had ever seen, marveling at what we saw. Many roads were blocked by branches and trees. I carried the dog over a downed power line. One man said, “I thought 2020 was bad. But here we are: apocalypse.”
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