Love living in a time where the main thing I'm thinking about when interviewed by a local paper about Black History Month is how much hate email and threatening voicemail I feel like dealing with.
For a bunch of people who are supposedly being silenced, the Right wingers sure don't shut the fuck up on my voicemail
(and I guarantee you what I get is just a fraction of what POC activists and educators do.)
(Though the "you're a race traitor" stuff seems to be increasing. There are some white folx who reeeallly don't like it when I name--and critique--whiteness.)

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Thread. I wonder how every Harvard faculty member who signed that letter of support can reconcile that with this. The 38 faculty (Gates, Bhaba, Beckett, Farmer, Kennedy, Greenblatt, the Jasanoffs, EVERY ONE OF THEM) who signed that letter should never be allowed to forget it.
Holy Christ, Harvard took the plaintiff's therapy records WITHOUT HER CONSENT and gave them TO HER PREDATOR. If you supported that, you should never work with students again.
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If I see one more purportedly elite academic both-sides this thing...not being permitted to make rape jokes to female students is not similar to state suppression of curricular material. "People are being illiberal on both sides" is a fucking cop-out and you should be ashamed.
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Thanks @brennacgray for this thoughtful and important addition to the conversation. Critique is at the heart of what we do. I've certainly been disappointed to see attacks on folks' teaching abilities and ethos in response to their legitimate questions. That can't be it, y'all.
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Well now. What do you have to say, @CollegeBoard? Because this is all sorts of fucked up, and you have a serious problem.
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State and *District Partnerships.
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I find it interesting that the historians who have denounced 1619 have used the one line about protecting slavery being the chief motive of many revolutionaries to characterize the whole thing, which is...much more than that. It's almost like they didn't do all the reading. 1/4
And Rakove's argument is basically "I disagree with NH-J and Woody Holton because reasons," and while there's a historiographical debate to be had here, the fact it's animating such a vehement denunciation of the entire 1619 Project-covering *all* of US history-is telling. 2/4
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