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20 Sep, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I really, really, really feel like this warrants greater attention than it is currently receiving.
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18 Sep
Look, either we're allowed to chastise journalists for paying too much attention to "the wrong thing" or we're not. You don't get to insist on your right to work the Oberlin banh mi beat on Friday, but then scoff at all coverage of the Jan. 6 protest on Saturday.
Not unless your *real* argument is actually that one of these is important but the other isn't, and that journalists should, through the sheer velocity of their reporting, impress that importance on their audience. In which case, that's what you all should have told @mehdirhasan.
@mehdirhasan Which by the way is a totally respectable argument! But it obviously is much less likely to persuade people of opposing priors than what I saw instead, a kind of assertion of journalistic independence: We cover what we want, when we want, how we want.
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Jeffrey Sachs Profile picture
16 Sep
"Long story short: the far right - in concert with the soulless, amoral administration of Midwestern State University -has succeeded in destroying my academic career and, frankly, my life."

This is from Professor Nathan Jun, who resigned today from MSU.

leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2021/09/n…
Jun's offense was insulting the honor of America's police, one of the genuine third rails of academic discourse. I talked a bit about that third rail, and what happened to Jun when he touched it, here.

Attn @EmmaJanePettit and @meganzahneis
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Jeffrey Sachs Profile picture
15 Sep
This is how it happened. First, an email to the CIJA.

"The hope is that through quiet discussion, top officials will realize that this appointment is academically unworthy, and that a public protest campaign will do major damage to the university in fundraising." #AzarovaAffair
CIJA then reaches out to Tax Court judge David Spiro to see whether he is willing to deliver the threat to UofT.
The documents, which you'll find here, reveal that CIJA supplied Spiro with a memorandum on Azarova for use during his conversation with the university. It contained information about her scholarship and public statements.

censureuoft.files.wordpress.com/2021/09/t-1005…
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Jeffrey Sachs Profile picture
14 Sep
The conservative Club for Growth surveyed Americans about school choice. The bottom line: Proponents are making a huge tactical mistake by going after school boards, teachers, and teachers unions. A big turn-off.

clubforgrowth.ftlbcdn.net/wp-content/upl…
They also tested whether anti-CRT messages would appeal to respondents. They found it did not, at least not for anyone who isn't already a committed Republican, and discourage framing school choice as an answer to political correctness, CRT, etc.
All of this is discussed by @BisforBerkshire in her piece over at The Nation. Overall, it's very encouraging news.

thenation.com/article/politi…
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Jeffrey Sachs Profile picture
12 Sep
Strange finding! Here’s what actually happened.

Sept. 15, 2001: Balbir Singh Sodhi, a Sikh American who was shot to death because his killer thought he was Muslim. The killer also shot up multiple Muslim-owned businesses that same day.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of…
The same day in Dallas, Waqar Hassan was killed by a man seeking revenge for 9/11. That same man will also kill an I dian man, Vasudev Patel, for the same reason the following month.

nbcdfw.com/news/local/vic…
Sept. 30, 2001: Abdo Ali Ahmed is shot to death in Fresno. The killer was never found, but an anti-Muslim death threat had been stuck on his windshield days earlier.

nytimes.com/2001/10/06/us/…
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8 Sep
It's very useful to be precise about what Boghossian says he endured.

1) In 2016-17, he was accused under Title IX, but exonerated by his university.
2) In 2017, someone did this to a bathroom stall.
Later, someone also posted this.
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