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Sep 4 • 3 tweets • 1 min read
Even compared to other outstanding entrants in the genre, the Oberlin debacle is a standout.

Deranged administrators of an $80k a year social justice college conspired to malign and destroy a small, storied family business in a fake racism panic?
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In the aftermath, the family members are slowly dying off one by one, the remaining matriarch struggling to keep the doors open.

Oberlin loses again and again in court feeding an endless stream of money to lawyers in hopes of leveraging the power differential to…
…evade responsibility?

The arrogance, incompetence, and malevolence are almost too much to believe.

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Sep 3
The DEI takeover is an interesting form of radicalism in that the transformational vision was explicitly to be effectuated by something akin to a late Soviet repressive bureaucracy.

No gulag, but step out of line + maybe you lose your job, your apartment, + you’re unpersoned.
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The revolutionaries are not disaffected young men, veterans, criminals, a recently disinherited class, or a newly ascendant class.
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They are librarians, grade school teachers, assistant professors, Brooklyn-based journalists, MPHs… a jumble of ineffectual, interstitial, lower end, over credentialed white collar workers.
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Sep 1
If only someone could have predicted this totally predictable outcome!

If only we could have opened schools like everyone else!

If only technocrats had pointed out the costs way outweighed the benefits!

wsj.com/articles/educa…
Turns out kids aren’t resilient and are unlikely to catch up with lost learning!
When the Ed school professors are saying it’s bad you know it’s bad.
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Aug 31
I’m poorly read on black politics historical and present. But from my little niche I find Adolph Reed’s critique devastating.

The laundering of racial health disparities in service of the authority of Afropessimist elites and institutional legitimization is cheered on by… Image
…leadership at the highest level. There is no good quantitative evidence that racism not effectuated through political economy accounts for differentials in health outcomes. *Support* for the explanation of racism relies significantly on coercion and reputational threat.
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A technocracy that placed addressing health disparities first (and subordinated class status) would not pretend to know things it doesn’t know, in service of a fancy millenarian project.

I don’t know what it would take for more people to scratch the surface…
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Aug 29
This editorial in a Nature journal advocating editorial censorship of scientific research on ideological grounds is getting a little attention.

This has already been happening informally for years, so I don’t think this type of thing changes what will get published.
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On another level it is significant: the transition from ‘it’s not happening’ to ‘it’s totally fine and normal.’

The formal consolidation of gains made under the new dispensation.

Next step: ‘…and it’s a good thing.’
One thing I thought was neat:

They give themselves the option of retraction (post-publication removal) on ideological grounds.

So, your research must be compliant with both current and future orthodoxies.

Compliance with future diktats is a lot to ask for! 😬 😅
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Aug 28
Is the fever breaking? Maybe time for a recap.

There have been a few really good ones the past few years:

We elected a game show host president.

His foreign policy was actually better than his predecessors.
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We fantasized the president was a Russian asset and were very disappointed when it turned out not to be true.

We became big cheerleaders of pornography and prostitution and simultaneously became incapable of managing sexual encounters not involving financial transactions.
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We thought it would be a great idea to *literally* defund the police, end the state monopoly on violence, and effectively decriminalize many forms of crime.
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Apr 20
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Trump was a liberatory figure for elites and institutions.

His unusualness and the *emergency* he posed were a pretext for suspending and abrogating all sorts of professional, procedural, epistemic, and methodological norms and standards and responsibilities.
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Unfettered, evidentiary requirements could be ignored. Nakedly self interested individual, class, and institutional ends could be pursued under cover of the *emergency.*

Restrictive professional restraints and obligations to the public were undone.
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Exit Trump, there has been little enthusiasm for a return to pre Trump norms.

Hysteric and nonsensical COVID policy and discourse, as compared to Europe, is evidence of this.

As is education policy, policing and crime, etc.
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