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4 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
I'm more sympathetic to TCW's concerns than I think NHJ is, but it does seem ludicrous to me how much more attention "CRT runs amok at school" gets compared to, say, this:

nytimes.com/2021/10/25/us/…
Reflexively dismissing all expressions of anxiety over "CRT" in schools as racism or a political ploy is a mistake, imho. But people come by that skepticism honestly.
That the DOJ ever found out about the Utah scandal is because of the leader of a local BLM chapter, by the way. Unfortunately, she had to flee the state last year due to threats to her safety over some social media posts.

deseret.com/utah/2021/10/2…
Here's one last question for the room:

How many administrators and school board members in the Davis School District have lost their jobs over this? And do you think it's more or fewer than the number who would have lost their job over teaching CRT?
As far as I can tell from some googling these last few days, the answer to the first question is zero.

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2 Nov
Well that settles it, doesn't it?
How many other profs at UF has this happened to? What about at other Florida universities? You think this is going to be it?
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2 Nov
Great piece here from @DavidAFrench on the threats posed by the anti-woke Right. And the fact is that he only mentions just a few of the countless disturbing episodes out there right now.

bariweiss.substack.com/p/the-threat-f…
@DavidAFrench I encourage everyone to read the ACLU's lawsuit against the state of Oklahoma. That state passed an anti-CRT law last spring. Since then, it has caused public schools to drop To Kill a Mockingbird and A Raisin in the Sun from curricula.

aclu.org/legal-document…
@DavidAFrench Look at what's happening in Iowa, where the impossibility of drafting a non-censorious law is on full display.

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2 Nov
I awoke this morning to Richard Hanania’s Dems-are-Readers-but-Reps-are-Watchers theory taking Twitter by storm. It’s bedtime now and this post tears that theory to shreds. dochammer.substack.com/p/contra-hanan…
Here’s the partisan breakdown of where people get their news, focusing just on those who say they follow politics closely. You really think these differences are stark or large enough to support Hanania’s conclusions about partisan elites?
Here it is for those who are most knowledgeable about politics.
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26 Oct
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…
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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.

cbc.ca/news/canada/ne…
@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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18 Oct
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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