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29 Sep, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Very interesting piece by @DavidAFrench, who argues that a principal cause of the right/left disparity among students at Harvard or Yale is the differing cultures of college prep among cons vs. libs.

frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/american-hig…
I offered a related argument, also about culture and fit, a while back to explain the skew in the professorate.

heterodoxacademy.org/blog/viewpoint… Image
I still think there’s something to it, even though I believe anti-con discrimination does happen to some degree. Image
@mattyglesias looks like you had a similar approach in Slow Boring today.

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1 Oct
In one North Carolina county, teachers can be fired for failing to present American founders as "heroes to our culture".

There is no off-ramp on anti-CRT legislation highway. It is a one-way ticket to insanity.

newsobserver.com/news/local/edu… Image
You tell me how this is supposed to work. Explain it to me like I'm a total, gibbering moron. Because I must be. The alternative is that an entire county school board has gone 100% off the deep end. Image
Obviously this is being aimed at @nhannahjones at the 1619 Project.
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29 Sep
One more audit study relevant to this issue. Does intraracial discrimination exist in college admittance? For example, do some institutions screen for *a certain kind of black student*? Thornhill 2019 says yes.

@mattyglesias possibly of interest.
@mattyglesias Researchers sent two emails a piece to white admittance officers at 500+ universities. All were purportedly from black high school seniors inquiring about the school. The question was whether the student would get a response.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.117…
@mattyglesias Here's the trick. The emails were divided into four different narratives: apolitical and racially neutral, political and racially neutral (e.g. "I care about the environment"), racially salient and focused on culture/unity, and racially salient and focused on racial justice. ImageImage
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29 Sep
Randall Kennedy, who is nobody’s idea of a pro-woke free speech squish, is out with a scorching take on the anti-CRT Right.

prospect.org/civil-rights/r… ImageImage
One more time:

“The right-wing campaign against racial equity discussion, however, eclipses by several degrees of magnitude left-wing censoriousness.”
“The power that the latter is able to mobilize is dramatically overborne by the power of the former, especially its demonstrated capacity to mobilize governmental authority in furtherance of its aims.”
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Jeffrey Sachs Profile picture
28 Sep
Is it anti-conservative discrimination? Empirical study of the question is still quite sparse, but the available evidence suggests no. Results from two audit studies below.
Druckman and Shafranek (2020) sent an email, purportedly from an interested high school senior, to 1,500+ universities. The "student" was variously identified as black/white, politically engaged/unengaged, liberal/conservative. How would response from the universities differ?
Very little, at least across most treatment conditions. Neither race nor political ideology made any statistically significant difference on its own. In other words, there was no evidence that admissions officers were racially or politically biased.

faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~jnd260/pub/Dr…
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28 Sep
Imagine you're a lowly grad student teaching your very first course. Now imagine that a US Representative writes a letter to your university threatening to strip federal funding if they don't fire you immediately.

Your crime? Tweets.

budd.house.gov/news/documents…
The school is UNC Chapel Hill. In 2019, the OCR launched a Title VI investigation into that school and Duke over a joint conference on Gaza. Complaints were filed over the subject matter and a musical performance that were perceived as antisemitic.

dailycaller.com/2019/06/18/dev…
As part of its attempt to resolve that complaint, UNC vowed to take steps to ensure that Jewish students did not feel unwelcome at the school or unable to enjoy its educational opportunities. Laudable and good. But to the unscrupulous, this was an opportunity to exploit.
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24 Sep
Theater students at Coastal Carolina University are demanding that a professor be fired for comments they felt were dismissive of their concerns about racism.

wbtw.com/news/ccu-stude…
Apparently, the students found a whiteboard with all their names on it, but divided into two groups. One group had all the white students, the other had everyone else. Initially they cried foul, but were persuaded that the intent was actually innocuous.
Somewhere along the way, the prof said “I’m just sad people get their feelings hurt so easily. And they are going into theatre?”

For this, they are now demanding his head.
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