No, *this* below is not honest framing. You have to be off-the-wall mind-blowingly naive to think that the parent (I'll link to her comments in a second) is genuinely upset about pornographic material.
First, here's the actual text at issue. It's a 400+ page book and this is the sum total of the "anal sex scene". Which if you actually read it is clearly not an anal sex scene.
Maybe Wokal figured that out on his own. It would explain why he deleted this tweet and abruptly shifted his argument.
Once again, I want to draw attention to the plight of Nathan Jun, a philosophy prof at Midwestern State University who recently resigned his tenured position. The reason? Death threats.
For a full background on Jun, see this article from last year in the Chronicle. The gist is that during the height of the George Floyd protests, he took to his personal Facebook page to harshly criticized police. What followed was month after unremitting month of hell.
I'm entirely persuaded that Miller is an anti-Semite. I'm much less convinced that firing him wasn't a violation of academic freedom. Let me give a few quick words about why.
Last February, during a video conference on the UK Labour Party and (ironically) free speech, Miller described the criticism he's received from his own university's Jewish students and suggested that they were "pawns" of Israel.
Understandably, there was huge backlash. Denunciations in Parliament. Accusations of a hate crime. The whole sha-bang.
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.
Obviously this is being aimed at @nhannahjones at the 1619 Project.
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 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.
@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.
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.