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Fred I. Lee 李志興

@fredleept

6 months

Tenured professors, moments like this are very reason tenure exists. Use it.

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If you weren't working on race/empire prior to summer 2020, yet are suddenly publishing in this area, I'll check back on your research in around 10 years.

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@JoshuaPotash I like Graeber's take on this: online utopia is what they started promising once it was apparent that the flying cars and Jetson's like future wouldn't pan out, to say the least

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@alvinsights @pengdangcomedy Agreed it shouldn't have happened. He's punching up, though; he just doesn't know it.

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US cultural industries rewards Asian diasporas for being ignorant of our cultures, while claiming "expertise"... for the crudest geopolitical motivations, while claiming "neutrality." This isn't about authenticity at all; it's about Asian American *cultural underdevelopment.*

Shannon Liao

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NEW: Wrote about how Chinese nationalists and Gamergaters likely got together to push out massive sales of a ultimately mediocre game, Black Myth: Wukong. I also dived into the IGN report from last year and verified the translations myself. More here:

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If my scholarship isn't good enough to get past the desk reject stage at your journal, I don't see how I'm qualified to review the papers that get sent out for review.

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2 years

@PurdueNorthwest Funny how the word "racism" appears nowhere in this apology... it was just a "mistake"

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Fred I. Lee 李志興

@fredleept

9 months

I teach about 375 students a year at a public university. I am teaching 94 right now with zero TA support.

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10 months

Being a professor is a cake walk compared to the day-to-day exertion & exhaustion of K12 teaching.

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7 months

"But the rest of it is a way to globalize a story that was very heavily Eastern-focused into a Western perspective, a global perspective." Same old false universality of Western = global.

NBC News

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7 months

‘3 Body Problem’ cast addresses whitewashing criticism from fans of the original Chinese novels.

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1 year

The situation is even sadder: Asians who dunk on their parents do it because (they think) it's what non-Asians want to hear. They are willing to mock their own families to demonstrate "I'm not like them," that is, to signal their desperation for "belonging."

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10 months

The attack on Claudine Gay was never about plagiarism and its absurd to debate the charge on technical merits. It was about anti-Blackness, anti-Palestine, and disciplining the Ivy League Management.

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The acceptable ways to speak about class in a liberal society (a) class as identity/culture (b) as opportunity/lack thereof (c) as psychology/attitude (d) as privilege/status

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@ClarityInView @chineseciv Um... you do realize that all words are symbols/signs right?

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3 months

A bit late to this conversation, but let me just say the obvious: this book is for white New Yorker/New York Times readers

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3 years

The idea that some European thinker (Foucault, Hayek, etc.) is responsible for worldly injustices is an idealist conceit. It makes much more sense for a moralist Right than a materialist Left to hold it.

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Far less secure workers and students are putting their bodies and careers on the line.

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9 months

Do what you want with "Asian hate," but STOP this East Asians are the white people of Asia talk. White people are the white people of Asia. In fact, "white status" was the point (reason for existence) of the first global spanning racial systems.

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The claim that liberalism turns to fascism as a last ditch effort to save capitalism is an infantile fantasy. The reality is that, from the very beginning, liberalism's treatment of colonial subjects has been utterly fascist.

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7 months

The basic deal on offer for Asian diasporas in North America is serve as a tool for white pleasure/capital accumulation, but renounce any dimension of political agency/cultural development. This is the key differentiator of "good (model) Asian" vs "bad Asian (peril)."

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"Race theories" propose that Asian groups have high incomes in North America due "proximity to whiteness" and/or "distance from Blackness." This is ideology in its purest form: it mistakes consequences (racial identification) for causes (which are actually political economic).

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3 years

If you think revolution is impossible, just wait until you hear about keeping things the same.

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1 year

In event of US/China war, the US will open "selective" rather than mass incarceration camps for Chinese people. (They will be comparable to Japanese Hawaii camps during WWII.) I will bet money it. This is also the wager of Chinese American conservatives.

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7 months

Imagine voluntarily cutting off all ties with ancestors, ruthlessly subordinating oneself to market forces, faking ones way into a fake culture, and calling this... "liberation" and "progress."

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2 years

If you, an Asian in the West, do not have a fist clenched with rage, I doubt that you respect yourself.

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@fredleept

6 months

Students are exercising their rights to assemble in solidarity with Palestine on the UConn Storrs campus. Two students have been arrested already, and the arrest vans are looming on site. PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE:

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2 months

Believe it or not, "decolonization" and "land back" doesn't mean kill and expel all settlers. It means, roughly, indigenous collectives wielding political on their lands. Not monopolizing it like settlers.

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3 months

Unacceptable: Class rule Class antagonism Class struggle Class exploitation Class formation

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2 years

@DrSarahLiu I take your point. I also think we should spend less time announcing our accomplishments.

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3 months

"There is no 'Asian American' culture" and "your 'homeland' culture is backwards" are two sides of the same colonial messaging: "In short, you have no culture, none of any value at least... naturally, you will assimilate."

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SYMPOSIUM: ASIAN/AMERICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT @theory_event , Number 45, October 2024 This symposium is the first on Asian American Political Thought in Political Science.

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1 year

"Europeans, you must open this book and enter into it. After a few steps in the darkness you will see strangers gathered around a fire... They will see you, perhaps, but they will go on talking among themselves, without even lowering their voices." —Jean Paul Sartre

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7 months

The US has lost control of the Palestine narrative. Once this happens, the facade around "free speech" drops.

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Video from Pomona College showing the massive police presence. School administration has ordered the arrest of at least 21 students. This should be getting national attention.

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4 years

“Racial formation” is academic talk for the question of what alliance of political forces can transform a society's racial fundamentals. Few use “racial formation” in this fashion anymore because few read Michael Omi & Howard Winant seriously. 1/6

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4 months

Anti-Asianess is not a violation of the norms of US democracy; rather, anti-Asian violence is normative for US empire.

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7 months

It is just so obvious when a US intellectual has never had a real conversation with anyone from another country. It's actually embarrassing for them.

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8 months

Stand up for yourself. They're going to hate us anyways. You might as well be hated with dignity.

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1 year

Adjuncting is the average academic worker's fate. When we talk about solidarity with labor, it starts HERE.

N. Bourbaki is in his anglophile arc

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1 year

are you fucking insane lol

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Fred I. Lee 李志興

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2 years

On my estimation, the average undergrad today at a large public university is surveilled, supervised, performance reviewed, and professionalized about ten times as much as their counterpart from twenty years before. All this has zero to do with learning.

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@fredleept

2 years

Asian Americans, we don't need the Ivies, much less to get obsessed over them. Just go to an Asian American university like the UC Berkeley or the UH Manoa. The worst that will happen is you'll never write for the New Yorker or serve on the Supreme Court. *The Horror*

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2 years

This anti-Asian attitude is absolutely normal in US academia. Were I feeling suicidal about my "career," I could name a dozen white guys exactly like this. The only difference is he thought could get away with saying the quiet part loud bc he's Upper Management.

Rich Lee

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2 years

WTF. Can’t get more racist than this @PurdueNorthwest administrator. Who is this person? #AntiAsianHate #StopAsianHate @AcademicChatter

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7 months

There are Asians who say "pick me," there are Asians who say "fuck you," and there are Asians who say "who cares."

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2 years

@nhannahjones @Lemmy012 @caitlinmoran Agree 100% with this explanation. The "had a brain freeze on camera" or "all words are hard to define" explanations are, ironically, also short on specifics.

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@fredleept

2 months

@SecondRingSZN Yes, that too... all non-US pride is a no-no, but taking pride in being Chinese is especially evil according to the industry. Writing about being ashamed of being Chinese/Asian, by contrast, is almost an guaranteed YES to publication.

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3 years

Dear Methodologists: reading a book over and over, taking notes, speaking about it with other readers, relating it to other writing, and maybe writing about it... this is a "method." And a rigorous one at that.

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2 years

Some Asian diasporics seem unaware that they're seeing themselves through white and/or Western eyes. Some of them know it and like it. Our very own fear of our very own existence.

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4 years

No thanks, I will not be killing myself for this institution.

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2 years

"Both sidism" at the National Museum of the American Indian

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2 years

In examining Asian diaspora thinkpiece writer-white editor alliances, we must ask ourselves: why we are politically and intellectually *underdeveloped*, what the conditions of this condition are, and who/what benefits from this cooptation/containment.

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2 years

@NYMag We all know who this kind of article is addressed to and for... it is definitely not us Asian Americans.

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1 year

There is an especially bitter buyer's remorse when an Asian wholesale assimilates into white US culture, only to find they hate it (after all, it hates them) and who they are as a product of it. This, I venture, explains A LOT of diaspora shenanigans.

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6 months

An easy way to tell whether an Asian diaspora criticism of the Asian diaspora is motivated by concern for us: Do they make these criticism, in person, to other Asians/Asian orgs or is it for their largely non-Asian audience online?

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11 months

POLS2998 UConn Spring 2024 Bong Joon-ho and Boots Riley on Racial Capitalism Professor Fred Lee

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@fredleept

2 years

The correct answer to the Marx vs Foucault debate is Frantz Fanon

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@fredleept

1 year

Academics who speak on topics outside their expertise aren't pretending to have universal expertise. We speak as -citizens- or -people- on matters of common or worldly concern. We are more and less than our expertise.

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@fredleept

4 years

You didn't pull a fast one on me; I've seen these little tricks before. I'm letting it slide because I'm overworked and I don't care.

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@fredleept

2 years

Imagine of still thinking your biggest problem is being stereotyped as a model minority

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@fredleept

2 years

Undergrads, in my experience, don't care about disciplinary boundaries, transdisciplinary, ethics of citation, politics of publishing, methods war, etc. Their indifference makes sense. They're not professional scholars. Why are you trying to professionalize them?

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@fredleept

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Schools that I rejected: Harvard, Princeton, Yale

Alex Moskowitz

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i got into harvard princeton and yale for my phd. then i went to harvard princeton and yale. now i am a TT professor at harvard princeton and yale

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4 years

Protect your time as if it were your life, because it is.

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8 months

It's alarming how many academics are utterly convinced they aren't the white liberals Dr. King warned about

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@fredleept

3 years

_Politics, Groups, and Identities_ ( @PGI_WPSA ) has done more for the study of Asian Americans in political science/political theory than any other journal in the discipline

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2 years

Prediction: EEAAO is going to sweep the Oscars. Hollywood's task is to affirm liberal multiculturalism as competition with China heats up. So, the Oscars are the "love the Chinese (American) people" part, while the US government is "hate the CPC" part.

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7 months

This is the worst book I've read in some time. I cannot believe Oxford published it. The basic thesis is Xi Jinping is Thanos and Darkseid.

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4 years

Abolish letters of recommendation

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How are we on season 4 of Emily in Paris and this woman hasn't learned French yet? It's practically the same language as English

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@fredleept

9 months

Just stop reading and responding to Rawls, Habermas, Dworkin, Nusbaum, and Walzer, all of them. Just ignore them. It's really easy. It's what they did to... well, the rest of us. "Critique" just increases their citation count, and drags out the death throes of their death cult.

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I have learned after 4 years of marriage that the question upon seeing a new, unidentifiable gadget in the house is never "what even is that"

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I taught about 380 students last year. Which is more than anyone else in my department. It's a miracle that I publish anything at all.

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4 months

The Western academy wants from East Asian diasporic intellectuals is assimilation—with just a hint of difference. The required assimilation, however, is not total; there must be a residual, a remainder, a "beauty mark."

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Asian American and Latine/x Studies should be in closer conversation bc our positions ("alien labor") are more analogous to each other than to other racialized positions in the US. The great delusion (a false reality at most) is that either of us have more in common with whites.

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@fredleept

11 months

Is a bit ironic, but it's almost impossible to learn at a university. Certification and career functions have taken over completely. The result is cynicism and utter demoralization.

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Diaspora Asians are the actual Asians. "Asia" is the racial/colonial category the West imposes on us. We have the most direct, most embodied experience of the category. We live in the Heart of Whiteness.

gone! on bluesky & threads 👋🏼 ✌🏼

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I am greatly disliking the comments that are steering towards “Asian diaspora don’t know shit compared to ‘Actual’ Japanese people” because I don’t like this attitude that diaspora as somehow “less” Asian, so it would be great if we could avoid such comparisons

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Asians marrying other Asians across ethnic, national, and cultural lines is one the most heartening trends in "Asian America."

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@fredleept

2 years

Whites only want to hear about Asians in the West losing language, culture, and kinship. To play this role is to vindicate their "ideal" of national assimilation, which by virtue of our non-whiteness is supposedly open to all. Refuse it.

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Looking at some new Asian American novels with disdain and wondering is this self hatred?

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One way of understanding the "Asian American" position is (a) the US excludes us from homo politicus (e.g. citizenship) and (b) in the same gesture claims we are homo economicus (e.g. market actors) incarnate.

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3 years

The "political" in "political economy" is just a reminder. There is no non- political economy.

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5 months

You may scoff at the lack of subtlety but this is actually the role they have reserved for Asians with the right pedigree in "the humanities"

Johnathan Bi

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1% of the world own 43% of the wealth. 1% of startups drive over 80% of returns. This power law is even stronger with books: 1% of books contain all the important ideas. My new lecture series will take you through the only books you'll ever need. Watch the launch trailer:

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All imperial languages.

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3 years

These unrewarded, zero-course-release "diversity and inclusion" projects are ironically institutionalized attempts to work "faculty of color" to death

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2 years

My non-expert opinion is: I don't think Affirmative Action as a policy discriminates against Asian Americans; I think elite white universities, in particular Ivies, have a rough "cap" on Asian American admissions. These are distinctive problems.

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@justinpodur @Bobabestie49 So, you’re dealing with a man whose bias and prejudice are making him lose his mind, his intelligence, every day. He’s frightened. He looks around and sees what’s taking place on this earth, and he sees that the pendulum of time is swinging in your direction. —Malcolm X

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Gonna be that guy and say the Hegelian egirls are no more ridiculous than any other online or for that matter academic theory community. The sneering contempt from the Academic Twitter comes from the sense that we've seen all this before... in our own circles.

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The history of political thought is not the history of political activity. The former is not isomorphic with the latter. The former is not the "royal road" into the latter. The relation is estranged, tenuous, and distant at best.

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Everyone needs affirmation, recognition, and belonging. What we are actually refusing is the weaponization of these needs for purposes of negation, misrecognition, and domination.

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The Asian American Dream is even more ludicrous than the American Dream. You're supposed to be the "foreign" believer in some nonsense even the "nationalist" isn't credulous enough to believe in themselves.

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What coheres the US nation state "domestically" is anti-Blackness, "territorially" is anti-Indigeneity, "internationally" is Orientalism. It is pointless to claim priority in any of these dimensions.

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Story was already globalized. What they mean is the story hadn't been globalized in the way that Westerners wanted it globalized: bad stuff = China, good stuff = "Oxford 5."

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The truly pessimistic view is that our world is not coming to an end.

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You don't hate your students. You hate the system that turns you into your student's customer service representative and micro-manager.

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Riddle me this, USians: how do you have cultural wars when you have no culture?

DiscussingFilm

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7 months

The first trailer for Jerry Seinfeld’s Pop-Tart film ‘UNFROSTED’ has been released. Releasing May 3 on Netflix.

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We don't need to "save democracy"; we need to transform this world.

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@slashfilm Asian side-kicks, though, are totally fine right

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Held a class discussion about what students feel the crisis of higher education is. For almost everyone who spoke, the crisis about high costs of tuition with low expectations of return on investment. One or two students of color talked about accessibility after AA has ended.

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Imagine if I read no English, read only John Locke in translation, learned about a few decades of English history through Locke, never had a serious discussion with a living English person, and read zero other European authors ... and called myself a "Locke-ist." LMAO.

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This is a great example of how neutral sounding, anti-historical "social science" functions as propaganda. Even if these numbers actually measure something, could there be a *systemic reason* that Gaza Strip is "not free"? If so, what might that be?