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Feb 3 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Good faith? Good faith?? What in the hell do you know about operating in good faith? LET'S LOOK AT THE RECIEPTS
Here's @ishapiro on Sotomayor: "In picking Sotomayor President Obama has confirmed that identity politics matter to him more than merit"
WAS THAT OFFERED IN GOOD FAITH?
Oh, your historic demeaning of women of color up for the Supreme Court is old news? Fine, let's look at @ishapiro on first Black Attorney General Eric Holder:
"Attorney General Eric Holder.. is “like a modern-day George Wallace,”
GOOD FAITH?
archive.thinkprogress.org/top-conservati…
Nah. You don't operate in good faith. You operate in dog whistle racism that you count on your white colleagues to either not acknowledge or secretly applaud. You think yourself a "truth teller" merely because you are willing to say racist things aloud.
Good faith. If you were operating in good faith, you wouldn't be asking Whoopi Goldberg, AN ENTERTAINER, to redeem your rank ass.

INSTEAD, you'd be begging @Sifill_LDF, you'd be prostrating yourself in front of @nhannahjones, to *educate* you on the lessons you apparently missed
But, no, you don't want to actually learn, BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT OPERATING IN GOOD FAITH. You wanted to set yourself up as a martyr who got *unfairly punished* for speaking his mind, no matter that what's in your mind is racist claptrap.
Good faith. Man, your daddy, Randy, won't even fall for that.
Bad news friends. I've been... cancelled. By the guy who believes in free speech so desperately he just needs to denigrate women of color all the time.
Good news, I think I now get tenure at Bari Weiss U. Oh wait, that's more bad news.

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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.
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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.
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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?
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Jan 27
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.
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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.
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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.
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