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22 Sep, 6 tweets, 3 min read
A TN law says that teachers cannot make students feel bad about their race: parents are using this to remove discussion of Blacks experiencing racism.
Gives the game away about whose feeling are worth protecting and validating and whose can be ignored.
reuters.com/world/us/criti…
1. This makes the job of teachers even harder - any kid with a blowhard parent can’t accuse them of violating the law.
2. Chilling effects reflect the existing power structure. Teachers are incentivized to tiptoe around white feelings at the expense of Black history.
One trend I wish we knew more about is the extent to which narrow culture-war groups are socializing and running candidates for positions that are traditionally low-visibility but have high importance
The greatest effect of the CRT moral panic many not be suppressing speech (though it is doing that), or making the job of educators impossible (that too), but in creating a salient issue to active radical forces to take control of public services
Too on the nose?
Members of the Moms for Liberty group trying to impose a law that says their kids can't have their feelings hurt by discussion of race and US history are toting the "Leftist Tears" mug from the "Facts don't care about your feelings" guy. reuters.com/world/us/criti…
Beginning to think that these folks are not the ones who should be deciding what kids read in school

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21 Sep
Save the Child Tax Credit from administrative burdens!
Joe Manchin is pushing to add work requirements to the CTC. Here is why that is a terrible idea.

(This is my first Substack post. Please consider signing up if this sort of stuff is of interest). donmoynihan.substack.com/p/save-the-chi…
With @pamela_herd I also wrote @TheHillOpinion about what Manchin gets wrong about the Child Tax Credit. thehill.com/blogs/congress…
In our piece in The Hill we provide a series of data points about the effectiveness of the CTC at reducing poverty.
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21 Sep
Yes, you could berate APSA for giving the guy who designed Trump's blueprint to overturn the 2020 elections a stage, but honestly, how often do political scientists get to hear directly from the coup organizers?
APSA organizers hearing that Idi Amin might be available
I honestly would welcome a robust back and forth where Eastman is challenged about what he did. But it's more likely that a couple of grad students will shout him down, and that they guy who tried to end US democracy will go on Tucker to complain how he has been canceled.
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20 Sep
Hi folks: I am starting a Substack
(waits for groans to subside)
It will be about the relationship between politics and governing, and ways to reduce administrative burdens. If you are interested in what I do on twitter, you might enjoy it.

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Couple of reasons I am doing this. One is that I often write long threads here, which might be better structured as a blog. I write op-eds occasionally, but often want to respond more quickly and informally to policy discussions.
I have been doing an informal listserv on administrative burdens, and wanted to make it a bit more professional and extend it beyond other academics and policy wonks, so this is a way of doing so.
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20 Sep
This is a thoughtful piece in many respects. I'd add to it: the singular focus on cancellation misrepresents how political power and ideology shape personal autonomy on campuses.
An example: I was back in Madison a couple of weeks back and spoke to a dozen faculty. Not one mentioned the topics of the two McWhorter essays in the NY Times in the last month. All were concerned they were being forced to work in unsafe conditions.
A couple of faculty I had talked to had been personally subject to a College Fix/YAF attack, part of a well-funded anti-speech ecosystem that has no equivalent on the left. In general FIRE does not count these in their databases even though they are a routine campus risk now.
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17 Sep
The claim here is that a school superintendent was forced to resign because he promoted critical race theory. The anti-CRT people are claiming it as a victory for parents. Whats most striking is just how little evidence there is his claimed wrongdoing. 1/
From different reports it is clear that some parents were really angry about a mask mandate in school, and some previous school board meetings turned into massless melees. 2/
The Superintendent had also delayed and then stopped an anti-racism presentation that explained BLM. Some students were angry about this. But this hardly seems like the action of someone avidly pushing racial theories about race in his schools. 3/ lohud.com/story/news/edu…
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15 Sep
Sally Rooney, wildly successful author, is facing a backlash. Maybe I don't understand literary review format, but I understand a little about argumentation, and the basic claims involved seem pretty weak.
A thread of some examples (and welcome others, both pro and con). 1/
First a lot of the reviews are less about her book, then about Rooney as a literary phenomena, and what that represents. Which seems like a fine topic, but maybe better to separate from the actual book review. 2/
So for example, this Sally Rooney sounds like a complete narcissist. Complaining about winning awards! Oh wait, this isn't actually a quote from Sally Rooney, from from a fictional protagonist in her new book. That, uh, might be worthy clarifying. 3/ lithub.com/winning-the-ga…
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