Cedar Riener Profile picture
Cognitive/perceptual psychologist. Chair, Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Randolph-Macon College. Applier of cogsci to education. He/him.
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Nov 22, 2021 9 tweets 2 min read
One curious thing to me about discourse of critical race theory is I understand "theory" as a way to organize past evidence & predict future events. For social science theories, may be a bit less straightforward than physics experiments, but still overall clarifying. If we take events of, say, school segregation/ desegregation, facts of the case are Brown v Board desegregated by law, then followed some actual desegregation, but also massive resistance, white flight, and also resegregation of schools. US schools remain quite segregated overall
Jun 11, 2021 8 tweets 2 min read
The bad faith and strawman discourse around critical race theory obscures that the "anti-CRT" crowd is connected to a coherent historical pattern, running same play. Rising calls for civil rights, justice and equality always have met an anti-equality side. But the anti-equality has often recognized that "anti-equality" isn't persuasive, so they have to exagerrate and create an absurd version of the equality side. They act as if somehow in addressing equality, the activists will "go overboard" and flip the order of domination.
Nov 8, 2020 7 tweets 2 min read
Imho one underappreciated element of the "reach out to conservatives" side is the belief that social closeness plus empathetic persuasion plus coming to common understanding of facts will not only help bring us together, but will help conservatives renounce Trumpism. But... This view sees chaos and hyperbole of Trump and does not see trumpism as a coherent world view that existed before Trump and was reinforced and strengthened through his strategies. Trumpism is not a simple misunderstanding, or an unfortunate miscalculation based on a few lies.
Nov 7, 2020 9 tweets 2 min read
On Tuesday, from 6am to 8am, my son and I sat under a Democrat tent outside (40ft) a precinct here in very red Hanover County. We were polite, said "good morning" and "thank you for voting" to all who walked past. But most didn't speak to us first, most stopped at the other tent to get a sample ballot from the (maskless, chatty and boisterous) men at the other tent. That precinct ended up going over 80% for T.