Senior Fellow Emeritus, AEI. Former philosophy professor. Author of War Against Boys and Who Stole Feminism? Host of YouTube’s The Factual Feminist.
Feb 1 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
🧵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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Dec 20, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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
Oct 7, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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.
@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…
