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20 Jun, 4 tweets, 1 min read
There's nothing "risible" about this. I have my own ideas about how to reform literacy education & assessment, but it's undeniable that our current system disadvantages many Black children
Also, "literacy" is not so simple. We teach sound-letter correspondences based on standard American (white) English. Same with morphology & syntax. We provide no "bridges" for kids who speak other, equally valid, dialects, & this places lots of Black kids at a disadvantage
We basically just throw Black kids into literacy education w/o recognizing that many kids are going to have to build different connections btwn sounds/letters. This places an extra burden on AAVE speaking kids. Not b/c their dialect is "less." B/c it is less well *represented*
This was part of the whole California "Ebonics" controversy. Teachers realized literacy was white-centered & this caused an unfair situation. They wanted to get AAVE classified in a such a way that educators put more work into incorporating dialect-knowledge into literacy.

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18 Jun
Something I think about a lot is how, growing up in AK, I was never taught about anti-Native racism, at least not in elementary school. We were taught about Native traditions, but not anti-Native discrimination. This was despite the fact that such discrimination was all around us
We were taught about anti-Black racism. This education was terrible. There used to be racists and then Martin Luther King marched and then The Dream was achieved & all was well. Nothing to worry about now. Anti-Native racism wasn't mentioned at all.
In 5th grade, a Pakistani friend was called an anti-Black slur & I wrote an anti-racism manifesto for the playground. It's good that I did this. It's bad that I didn't even know my Native friends--and even my cousins--were experiencing the same. It was like I was blind to it.
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18 Jun
I think familial connections are worthy of scrutiny. The Ricchetti case seems potentially problematic. The other cases seem fairly normal, such that it's regular for people who are married to each other to be in similar fields and/or for their kids to go into similar fields
"Having connections" is not in & of itself abnormal or nefarious. The important Qs are: Are there conflicts of interest? Are children working directly under their parents? Are they qualified for the jobs? And were there unfair hiring practices?
My dad was the vice provost of my university. When I applied for jobs there, we reviewed nepotism rules. It was fine for me to get a job at the uni. It would not have been ok for me to have been my dad's assistant. Nor would it have been ok for him to have input in hiring
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Elizabeth Bruenig has defined her brand of public intellectualism as centered in ethical theory and yet she consistently shows the opposite of any moral commitment to her fellow citizens.
Bruenig knows that when she QTs small accounts they will be subjected to bullying that will make this site unmanageable at best and psychologically distressing at worst. Yet she does it all the time. In this case, the bullying has been anti-semitic
I'll also add that wielding asymmetrical power to encourage bullying is a way to suppress criticism. Imagine if a professor encouraged the entire class to mock a student w/ a dissenting opinion. They might not feel comfortable dissenting again. It's bad intellectual behavior.
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Mr. Lamar Johnson has spent 26 years in prison for a crime to which other men have confessed. Even local prosecutors think Mr Johnson has been wrongfully convicted. However, he is unable to get a new trial due to the state AG & Supreme Court. news.stlpublicradio.org/show/st-louis-…
Mr. Johnson has been languishing in prison for *years*. I respectfully ask that people retweet his story to put pressure on public officials in Missouri. Please include the name of the AG--Eric Schmitt--in tweets. Schmitt is standing in the way of justice. Get his name trending.
Eric Schmitt-State AG of Missouri--is working to deny an imprisoned man a trial even though other men have admitted to the crime AND local prosecutors think Mr. Johnson was wrongfully convicted. At the very least, Mr. Johnson deserves a trial.
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15 Jun
I keep seeing "White Fragility" referenced as the text given to white academics in workshops on diversity, anti-racism, white privilege, etc. Has this book been specifically recommended by Black academics/activists/specialists or did white people just pick it out for themselves?
I am fully supportive of academia taking a very pro-active anti-racism approach that extends far beyond a single day of training. However, when I look at some of the descriptions of this stuff, I wonder about the specifics of the approach (even though I share the common goal)
This kind of activity seems to be designed to mitigate how much POC have to deal w/ white feelings. That's a good goal, but it also seems to have ended up as white people reading a book by a white woman (that has been criticized by Black experts) & talking about white feelings
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There's a thing called Mutually Assured Destruction. Russia doesn't want it. And if you go on twitter and claim they do, you don't understand the country at all.
Now there's the slightly less hyperbolic claim that Ukraine joining NATO would trigger just a regular war with the U.S. (not nuclear). This is very unlikely. Russia likes proxy wars & micro-aggressions. Militarily & economically, they would be at a disadvantage in a war w/ the US
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