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14 Jun, 10 tweets, 4 min read
„Around the country, parents are showing up to school board meetings to protest what they call communism. It's worth seeking out local newspaper articles and reading quotes from those parents to see how they understand the ghost ideology they're objecting to.“
What Mark said.

HT to Kevin for the idea of the above tweet.

Conor elsewhere: „This bill does not make it compelling enough what is being astroturfed. What is the best evidence for this outrage campaign? Can we make things clearer still <tags Chief Propagandist> by getting more intrusively into teachers‘ faces?“
Also Conor: „What we have in over 20 states are bills (likely unconstitutional) by a propaganda campaign from a Discovery Institute guy, but let’s put that aside entirely so I can both-sides how proponents and detractors aren’t always using the phrase ‚banning CRT‘ correctly!“
Yes.

Conor to himself: There are the small group of men who have devoted all their energy to this propaganda effort and who are boasting daily about how successful they have been. People keep mentioning that to me but I must not acknowledge it. How can I both-sides my way out of this?
Conor looking out the window: Now what if—in the middle of this propaganda campaign and it’s messy discussion on my timeline—I suddenly did a series of sixteen pas de chat towards the back of the stage? Would that work? Let’s try.
Conor: „I don’t see any racism in this campaign. Could you hold both my eyelids open to show me? I’m happy to reevaluate if you travel to where I am, come very close to me, and manage to open my eyelids. Should be easy.“
I hasten too add that even though my tweets above highlight the influence of one propagandist (because Conor eagerly copied the windbag, acting as if he was a serious investigator), this is a larger, well-funded racist effort.

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15 Jun
On the concept of good faith.

Let's contrast two views.

View 1. Good faith as interactional tool. Be nice. Remain polite. Summarize the other's views strongmanly.

If your own views are quite different, you could exhibit this kind of good faith almost to the point of trolling. ImageImage
In fact, some perceive it as trolling and will complain about that.

Say you want to listen. You want to learn. (Whether you do or not.) Genuinely, you want to understand. You have one more question. And another question.

All might go well.

Or not.
View 2. Good faith as faithful attitude. Say what you think. Be honest about your feelings. You owe it to your interlocutor to make your views clear.

If those views are views directly critical of your interlocutor's, oh boy. You may be accused of misrepresenting their views.
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15 Jun
Jimmy Concepts thinks that the concept of structure in critical race theory refers to (1) structuralism in language (!!!)—which he thinks is postmodernism saying there is no agency (!!!)—and (2) Marx’s superstructure (!!!).

ROFL.

ROFL.

*gasps for air*

*laughs louder still*
I really cannot express how funny that is.

His words are a salad mixed from miniature children’s toys and clown figurines.
The salad bowl. And a closeup of well-tossed clown faces. ImageImage
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14 Jun
Florence spent the evening slaughtering the poor little schoolboy Jon Kay. 🤩

It's quite funny that he's got a group of cowardly academics sending him little gossipy messages, hoping he'll publicly bare his teeth at other academics they don't like but are afraid to talk to.
Hello, academics who send snitchy little DMs to Jon Kay! Come at me directly, if you dare.
And also, if you believe this posturing by our Jon, you have some reading to do.

1. anti-trans activist
2. defender of sexual harassment

Oooops. I already exhausted the two points!

I didn’t yet get to „publisher of race science,“ or „minimizer of Nazism & insurrection“! Image
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13 Jun
There's the both-sidesing.

There's the, "Oh deary, I guess we'll never know how anyone uses the term once people use it a bit differently, we won't ever know what they mean, will we now" incomprehension.

There's the "some call being at work on time white supremacy!" hyperbole.
It's just a whole bouquet of vapid hackery.
Anyone correct me if I missed something: Helen is still onside with #JamesLindsay's work. When she manages to use her liberalism soapbox to criticize him and his rapid descent into further bigotry, she may yet have a point again.
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3 May
I would be curious to hear what my fellow #AcademicFreedom researchers think of the details in this recent Canadian story at @RyersonU. (HT @ColleenDerkatch) 1/
theeyeopener.com/2021/05/ryerso…
The gist of it:

1. "In 2016, the Suzanne Rogers Fashion Institute (SRFI) opened with a $1 million donation from The Edward and Suzanne Rogers Foundation. . . . In past, the Rogers family has donated almost $34 million to various programs at Ryerson."

2/
2. "On May 1, 2021, Suzanne Rogers, honorary patron of the Suzanne Rogers Fashion Institute, posted a photo of herself and her family with former U.S. president Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, as reported by Canadaland."

3/
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30 Apr
Warning: this article contains hogwash. It claims universities--as a whole, as administrations, as institutions--can't take a stance on anything on which some of its members dissent.

It's about Middlesex U rejecting the race report, of course. 1/

spiked-online.com/2021/04/30/uni…
Despite the specificity of the rejection of the race report, the argument at play is more general and can be applied to other topics. My uni recently took a stand--in response to government directive, no less--that it will fully open and have face-to-face classes in September. 2/
I don't have to imagine it, I know that there is vigorous dissent amid faculty about this decision. What if I said: because the uni adopted this official stance towards opening, thereby accepting the nature of the pandemic as managed at that stage, this diminishes free speech. 3/ Image
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