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26 Oct, 6 tweets, 7 min read
I wrote about the coup in Sudan for @monkeycageblog.

washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
@monkeycageblog It was the fastest I've ever written anything for publication, and given the pace of events, I had to omit a lot of relevant issues. E.g. I don't talk a lot about the role of Egypt, the UAE, or KSA.
@monkeycageblog For instance, these statements from Egypt and KSA are very weak.

tellerreport.com/news/2021-10-2…

sis.gov.eg/Story/159695/F…
@monkeycageblog Also, even as I write this, Burhan is giving a truly bizarre press conference where he denies a coup has really taken place and insists that Hamdok is currently under guard in his (Burhan's!) house.
@monkeycageblog Some people you should follow as events unfold: @Meltilib @ikushkush @JamesCopnall @eddiethomas88 @WBerri85 @wasilalitaha @poliscisbh @Alden_Young @ReemWrites and many more besides.
@monkeycageblog @Meltilib @ikushkush @JamesCopnall @eddiethomas88 @WBerri85 @wasilalitaha @poliscisbh @Alden_Young @ReemWrites A lot more on Sudan will be coming from @monkeycageblog in the next few hours/days, including a great deal from Sudanese scholars. All I did (because I had the time yesterday afternoon) was a quick and dirty background piece. Stay tuned for more fine-grained analysis soon.

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21 Oct
Canadian faculty need to have a long, frank discussion about why so much attention and activism have been directed toward censuring Toronto over the Azarova Affair, but so little interest in doing likewise with Mount Allison.

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@censureutoronto is taking a well-earned victory lap these days, and I’m genuinely happy for everyone involved in that effort. But Rima Azar deserves the same level of support. And so far, it hasn’t materialized.
The most palatable reason is that unlike at Toronto, Mount A has a faculty union. That union has filed a grievance (which @CAUT_ACPPU supports), and a hearing is scheduled for next spring. So the system there is still “working”.
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This won't do. Bernstein is looking for a reason why Texas's anti-CRT law doesn't have to lead to instruction in Holocaust denial. But it just won't work.
Left is the relevant provision from HB 3979, which is currently in effect. Right is SB3, which the state hastily passed last month once the deficiencies of 3979 became apparent. Minor differences, but the way they handle this issue is pretty much the same.
According to Texas teachers, the Holocaust is a "currently controversial issue". In fact, they claim that members of the public have explicitly raised it as one meriting an opposing view.

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I have a serious allergy to this sort of thinking. Maybe it's because of rank self-interest (always a possibility!), but I genuinely think a big reason has to do with the Iraq War.
It's become popular these days to say that the "experts" were wrong about the Iraq War. That's not how it looked at the time to me. To me, it all just depends on which experts you were listening to.
I can recall, back during my undergrad days when the war was just starting and I was beginning to study Arabic, how all of my teachers and all the people whose books I was reading were vehemently opposed to the invasion.
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What the FUCK.
School administrator: "As you go through, just try to remember the concepts of Bill 3979, and make sure that if, if you have a book on the Holocaust that you have one that has an opposing, that has other perspectives."
Teacher: Holocaust?! How do you oppose the Holocaust? What?

Administrator: Believe me, that's come up.
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Valentina Azarova’s cancellation by UofT last year also generated massive pushback. Yet Cathy had no trouble treating that response as typical, and on that basis, playing down the Right’s threat to faculty free speech.

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The same thing happened when Emily Wilder and NHJ were cancelled. The pushback was enormous, but was it typical? After all, they are very high profile!

Cathy says yes, so how bad can the danger really be?

cathy.arcdigital.media/p/cancel-cultu…
Invariably? Invariably academics rally to their Leftwing colleague under fire? Tell that to Nathan Jun, whose life this past year was absolutely annihilated. What, beyond a few supportive tweets, has any pundit Left, Right, or Center done on his behalf?
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