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13 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
What percentage of those who heard the phrase "Stop AAPI Hate" knew what "AAPI" means?
If you know what it means, what's the likelihood you are bashing anyone in the street?
Whereas, if you know what it means, what's the likelihood you are working tirelessly to ensure that Asian elders in cities being targeted for vicious assaults...won't get police protection?
But that instead the blip of media attention you received will instantly be routed into the pockets of nonprofit executives?

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Powerful framing here. "Traditionalists say..." "pure math inquiry should be neutral of politics..."
Did you know that recognizing and acting in accordance with the value-free operations of pure rationality is "traditionalism"?
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There is a specter haunting Democracy and covertly assaulting academic freedom.

It is the specter of “INSTITUTIONAL NEUTRALITY.”

A Danger to Democracy arises in the pages of the Atlantic Magazine

#ProtectDemocracy

#FireFriedersdorf
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Something so poignant about that assertion
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Now there is some concern among the hardcore partisans that the monster they've been feeding for a half-decade may consume things other they intended washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
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