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Christina Hoff Sommers Profile picture
@CHSommers
Feb 1 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
🧵For more than 20 years, the National Science Foundation @NSF has sponsored a spurious gender equity program called ADVANCE. NSF spent half a billion dollars imposing the the “intersectional lens” & identity politics on academic science. As of yesterday, ADVANCE is no more.
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3.From NSF guidelines on ADVANCE grant:
“All ADVANCE proposals are expected to take an intersectional perspective and consider the salient categories of social identity when appropriate. Specifically, proposers should recognize that gender, race and ethnicity do not exist in isolation from each other.”

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4. NSF was founded to promote the progress of science. ADVANCE was antithetical to that purpose. It promoted tendentious nonsense for nearly 25 years. Image
FWIW: My critique of ADVANCE from 2008. aei.org/articles/why-c…

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Dec 20, 2022
My God. Scroll through this list of “potentially harmful” words that @Stanford IT administrators wish to eliminate. “Blind
review” & “tone deaf” are ableist. “Guru” & “bury the hatchet“ —culturally insensitive. Term “trigger warning”—stress-inducing. 😬
s.wsj.net/public/resourc…
Don’t say “American,”say “US citizen.” Don’t say “immigrant, “ say “person who immigrated.” Avoid “he” & “she” unless you know the individual’s preferred pronoun. But don’t use “preferred pronoun” because “that suggests non-binary gender identity is a choice.” 😵‍💫@Stanford
The @Stanford guide says not to use term “rule of thumb.” “Although no written record exists today, this phrase is attributed to an old British law that allowed men to beat wives with sticks no wider than their thumb.” Urban legend, as I explain here:
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Oct 7, 2021
The Professor, a renowned composer who survived the Cultural Revolution, showed his class at @UMich a video of Laurence Olivier playing Othello. Now he’s being investigated, vilified, & shamed for subjecting students to blackface. He apologized, but that only made things worse.
One colleague has accused Sheng of “pedagogical racism and abuse”—and she has alerted the MacArthur Foundation and Pulitzer Committee about his behavior. Imagine having a colleague like that.
Here is one of Professor Sheng’s accusers, Evan Chambers—who clearly thinks he is teaching pre-schoolers. @UMich
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Sep 9, 2020
@tamler 1. Ok. Now I am worried about you. The issue is not whether critical race theory has “taken over” universities, but that it has made substantial inroads. I hope you are not denying that. As a concerned stepmother, I have a few questions to help me gauge your grip on reality.
@tamler 2. The following article by Black feminist & intersectional scholar Barbara Johnson strikes me as a reckless, question-begging screed. (Also batshit crazy—but let that go, dear.) Would you agree? 
thenation.com/article/politi…
@tamler 3. Whatever you want to call Johnson’s worldview-critical race theory, radical identitarianism, neo-fuckwitery— ideas like hers are increasingly common. Aren’t you worried that 300 Princeton faculty signed this unhinged letter?
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
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