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1 Jul, 4 tweets, 1 min read
ah i see the supreme court has once again decided that the 15th amendment doesn’t really count
very cool how the VRA has been dismantled by a handful of justices 15 years after it was reauthorized by a near-unanimous vote of congress.
it also rules that this time the “majority” included 3 justices nominated by a minority president & confirmed by a senate “majority” representing about 45 percent of americans.
i know, i know. “tHIs iS WhaT tHe FoUNdeRs inTEndED” and “wE’Re a rEpUbLiC NoT A DeMoCrAcY”

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29 Jun
hmm people appear to be arguing about views i do not hold
i recall arguing very vociferously on an episode of @yourewrongabout that it is in fact an error to think of key institutions as being developed to keep slavery around.
my view, which i have stated on here and elsewhere, is that the constitution of 1787 obviously reflected the extent to which slavery was an important economic interest (albeit one among many) and that it did this by insulating the institution from newly enlarged federal power
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29 Jun
to me the most important background to have for reading this “review” is that the author once angrily disputed the use of “plunder” to describe american racism
“Plunder is what Britain did to Ireland. It is what Thaddeus Stevens wanted to do to the prostrate South.”
anyway i put scare quotes around “review” because this piece is more like a screed.
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25 Jun
incredible interview with @BarryJenkins on the craft of “Underground Railroad” vulture.com/article/barry-…
one of the things i really want to be able to do one day is just observe a film set
you don’t have to tell me that sets are boring, i know they are. that’s the whole reason i want to be on one.
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24 Jun
recently finished listening to james mcpherson’s “Tried By War” on lincoln as commander-in-chief. it ends with lincoln’s final public address, for which john wilkes booth was in the audience. i have read about this countless times and each time i feel so much dread!
it’s almost like watching a horror movie. you want to warn him of what is coming next!
exactly this! it feels fictional.
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24 Jun
the third largest state in the union has passed a law requiring universities to survey their students and faculty for “intellectual diversity” with possible sanction if the legislature decides the institution is not diverse enough. tampabay.com/news/florida-p…
the law also allows students to record lectures and classes without consent of the instructors for use in criminal and civil proceedings against the schools
anyway, this left wing political culture is out or control, the left has a free speech problem, etc. etc.
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23 Jun
@ijbailey @TPCarney @powellnyt The short of it is that if “white supremacist” implies a belief in biological inferiority and a permanent, natural hierarchy of “races”, then I’m not sure I would describe “the founders” as a collective as “white supremacists,” since many of them did not hold those views…
@ijbailey @TPCarney @powellnyt …Instead, many saw blacks (and natives) as “degraded” humans who, with time and education, could become “civilized” and able to co-exist as equals, albeit in their own separate societies. Hence the colonization movements that emerge in the early 19th century.
@ijbailey @TPCarney @powellnyt But if by “white supremacist” we mean something like “white chauvinism” — a belief that the society is primarily for whites, with others as (for whatever reason) subordinate — then I think that’s a fair description.
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