Ideological succession happened first at some of the world’s most exclusive private schools. Will be chatting with @pauldrossi, who witnessed and documented this event, on Callin tonight at 7:30 pm EST callin.com/link/RKjRcaaBTS
Read his resignation from the Grace Church School, and, listen to his recordings of the principal of that school admitting the wrongs and harms of the policy he continues to pursue full speed ahead here: fairforall.org/grace-church-w…
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Imagine disputing the moron-level "white supremacy culture" copypasta in a Zoom meeting and being told by the principal of one America's most exclusive private schools that you had created "neurological disturbance in students' beings and systems." bariweiss.substack.com/p/i-refuse-to-…
You can be "held accountable" at Grace Church school for "suggesting that we treat everyone with respect," "a belief in meritocracy," and "just silence..."
In order to preserve the consensus around BLM, it was necessary to replace a Glenn Loury reading with one from a white conservative lest Loury's ideas "only and/or enflame students..."
Yglesias did a post about the "White Supremacy Culture" copypasta -- some made up BS by a physical education major...turned anti-racism consultant that has become holy writ at all Anglosphere institutions because of pervasive mediocrity and cowardice slowboring.com/p/tema-okun
This footnote by Amia Srinivasan, taken from her book, the Right to Sex, poses the question in a useful way. It is a hard question that is part of the psychosexual pre-history of our times. I will feel I have satisfied my purpose as I writer when I have answered it.
What I like about the framing is the way at looks at two pieces by the same author and uses it as a lens to look at the way the world change. Here are two of my favorites: salon.com/2005/09/20/kun…
The story told in Srinivasan's sequence is in a way the same story told in mine. This is the story that hasn't quite been told, merely acted out by the culture industries.
There are still people claiming that wokeness is about the rhetorical excesses of college students or celebrity cancellations when public health officials in Minnesota are prioritizing a black 18-year old over a white 64-year old for lifesaving treatment freebeacon.com/coronavirus/fo…
I really didn't want to be this right when I said back in 2018 that this purely discursive phenomenon would sweep through institutional America and shatter all Constitutional restraints
Activist copypasta jargon -- professional cadres within nonprofit sector and professional guilds -- Democratic party messaging -- national legislation -- bounty of federal sinecures -- unconstitutional public policy that redistributes vital public resources by race
Whoops, it's from 2 years ago. Not sure why this account just posted now. So not going to go anywhere, but an interesting peek back at what Liz Warren was up to back then.
When the woke rail against “whiteness”, they are railing against the rule of the most WASPified 2nd through fourth Gen Italians, Irish, Jews, Greeks, Slavs, and Poles
*the ones who scored highest on the SAT
The test was the instrument for picking from the various European ethnicities for incorporation into an Ivy League superclass — but concurrently to the project of black-white integration