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Jan 27 4 tweets 1 min read
There really is something about nominating women of color that brings out the racism of white wing legal academia.

I WISH law schools would think about these before the unleash these professors on young women of color who are just starting out in the field.
But, I know that too many academics, especially but not exclusively white male academics, think that learning from people who will call you "lesser" to your face is some kind of right of passage that people of color just have to suffer through.
Anyway *I* won't forget what any of these assholes say about Biden's pick... just like I haven't forgotten what all these people said about Sotomayor.

But... you will. Law schools will. Deans will. Reporters looking for comment will. Producers looking for guests will.
There is simply no consequence, in legal circles, for slagging off a person's intelligence because they are a woman or a person of color. These profs will do it to your face while eating a cocktail shrimp.

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Jan 28
A Timeline:
*Law professor makes dumb tweet denigrated black women
* Law professor doubles down on dumb tweet
* Law professor triples down on dumb tweet.
* Other law professors notice
* People with functional hippocampus regions note that law profess has made racist tweets before
* Law professor apologizes
* Law professor deletes first tweets
* Outrage doesn't subside
* Law professor deletes other tweets
* Law school dean apologizes for tweets, now deleted, which apparently fell out of sky.
* White conservatives decide enough has been done...
* White conservatives start criticizing other people for being offended at offensive, deleted tweets
* White conservative publication write article defending professor while distancing from now deleted tweets which fell out of sky.
Read 6 tweets
Jan 27
This statement from the @GeorgetownLaw Dean is BS and I will tell you why.

If you are a law school that is trying to build a culture of equality and inclusion you DON'T hire Ilya Shapiro.

Dean Treanor wants you to think "the tweets" are damaging, not the DUDE WHO WROTE THEM
In fact, everybody who knows the dude who wrote them knows that this is how the dude who wrote them thinks. INCLUDING GEORGETOWN. He's said THIS EXACT CRAP about women of color before. IT'S HIS GODDAMN BRAND.

To DEFEND Ilya a bit, he has not hidden this about himself.
NOBODY who hires or is even vaguely familiar with him can be surprised by his tweets. So just cut the crap, Dean Treanor. You hired him, you know EXACTLY what you were getting.

What you thought, what *everybody involved* in the hire thought, was that he'd hide it better.
Read 8 tweets
Jan 27
Also... with Supreme Court audio open to all now, hasn't it really been obvious to people listening in good faith that Kagan, Sotomayor, AND BARRETT consistently ask *the best* questions while the dudes just make speeches or engage in hypothetical pontification.
Like, can we just be HONEST about that? Like, I hate everything that ACB stands for, but when she's got the mic I listen carefully cause she's gonna do a thing.

When Kavanaugh has the mic I listen carefully because his about to say some dumbassery I can dunk on.
Question format for each justice:

Roberts: Isn't it true that all these problems have been solved already?
Thomas: Why should the federal government exist?
Alito: Question? Fuck You is my question.
Breyer: Can you help me out of this hypothetical I've lost myself in?
Read 5 tweets
Jan 13
Every time Dems fail, somebody says "oh, if only we knew then what we know now, we might have done things differently."
But the reality it that Dems *never* do things differently. We always have the same playbook. And we always fail in exactly the same way.
* After winning power *thanks to* overwhelming support from black and brown people, Dems immediately tact towards the center mass of the white people who literally just got finished rejecting them.
* That's always matched with promise to "work across the aisle" and get Republican votes, even though that party lost and even though they VOW to act in bad faith and do everything they can to stop the incoming Dem administration.
Read 10 tweets
Jan 12
I wonder if any of the CEOs who are *desperate* to get people back into the office and have a newfound respect for in-person office collegiality will reconsider their plans to outsource jobs to India or Wheeling, WV or other places where they can pay people less.
Because these people packed in a recession's worth of "the miracle of technology means people don't have to be paid New York wages to do work that can be done from anywhere in the world"

But now... NOW... it's really the in-person culture that is important.
I know this is my @atlblog brain talking: but I've literally had conversations with Biglaw partners telling me that first year associates should live in WV, or that it's not worth hiring a lawyer till 5th year... but now TRAINING is why people need to get on the 6train everyday.
Read 4 tweets
Jan 12
On @JoyAnnReid right now are @emarvelous, @DrJasonJohnson and @Sifill_LDF on Voting Rights.

Three people who have been warning you what Republicans think about Black people voting from the jump.
Looooool... Ifill basically lets Biden off the hook (the hook of not using maximal power earlier) because she's basically done with pretending that Biden has real power anyway, as evidenced by BBB.
My read is that our only shot was to hold something hostage that Manchin wanted, which was infrastructure. But Biden and the centrists let themselves get straight played by Manchin and now we are here.
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