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Sociologist. Author #oncriticalracetheory @penguinrandom , @CarrCenter Fellow, repped by @sarahburnes @TheGernertCo , speaking: @prhspeakers .

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@victorerikray

Victor Ray

2 years

So, I wrote a book #oncriticalracetheory that is available for pre-order. CRT often centers stories and narratives, so here’s the story of this book.

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On Critical Race Theory by Victor Ray: 9780593446461 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

What exactly is critical race theory? This concise and accessible exploration demystifies a crucial framework for understanding and fighting racial injustice in the United States. “A clear-eyed,...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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free speech is when they canceled the whole graduation ceremony rather than letting the valedictorian speak

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — USC won't hold main commencement ceremony amid Gaza war protests on campus and criticism over canceled student speaker.

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I know I’m cynical but, “We can’t fight our global warming fires with our hyper-incarcerated prison labor because too many of them are infected by the uncontrolled pandemic” is really too much.

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As I've said before: Making laws that ban the teaching of structural racism confirms a central point of critical race theory--racism is embedded in the law.

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New anti-CRT bill introduced in North Dakota.

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“Why do they make everything about race?” they asked, driving to their restrictive covenant, GI bill home, on a freeway bisecting a historically black neighborhood while listening to NPR.

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I don’t know who needs to hear this but some organizations can only become “antiracist” by ceasing to exist.

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If only there was a theory about race that criticized the legal system that could help explain this.

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Black jurors in the Ahmaud Arbery case could be struck if they answered—truthfully—that they believed the Confederate flag was a racist symbol. Unbelievable the question was even allowed to be asked. Unbelievable that this was considered a “race-neutral” reason to strike.

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A central tenet of conservative ideology is that the powerful should be insulated from the horrors they inflict on others.

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Please don't protest at people's homes. Please don't intrude on people attending their houses of worship. Organize politically, be civil civically.

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I don’t know man Jefferson enslaving his own children is pretty bleak.

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Harry Litman

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Not clear if you could convict him of attempted murder of the Vice President but not clear you couldn't. This has to be the darkest moment in Presidential history.

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Universities: we want scholars studying the pressing problem of structural racism *Scholar does the work they were hired to do and points out structural racism* Universities: not like that

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Dying also causes "learning loss" and is much harder to reverse.

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If only there was a theory that was critical about race that explained whiteness as an invisible but normative category of belonging. #oncriticalracetheory

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In which Sen. Mitch McConnell distinguishes “African-American voters” from “Americans. “ “…If you look at the statistics, African-American voters are voting in just as high a percentage as Americans."

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Claiming that other people’s politics are identity-based—and one’s own views derive from pure reason—is the purest form of identity politics.

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It will never not be strange to me that some folks think calling this fascist is intellectually unserious.

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Please no more, “education will save us from racism” takes. The most sophisticated racism in American history has been designed by the most educated. And arguing that education will save us is a category error. You can’t just educate away a power system.

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One time I wrote: "This is a common American political narrative: venerating dead black heroes while pillorying the living. The United States has a history of lionizing black folks it helped send to the grave."

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Tom Cotton

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75 years ago, Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier as the first African American Major League Baseball Player. Today we honor him and his lasting legacy.

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me as a grad student: I wish people would take CRT seriously me these last few weeks: not like that

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I've said a version of this before. But making laws outlawing critical race theory confirms the point that racism is embedded in the law.

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It is not hard to understand. Police aren't there to defuse a crisis.

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It's hard to understand why an economics professor showing concern for a student would be thrown to the ground and arrested. This is not an obvious way to defuse a crisis.

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It's hilarious to me that the Dems *might* have done something strategic and everyone is shocked.

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Race neutral admissions don’t exist. Pretending they do exist just benefits dominant groups who want their unfair advantages in a rigged system to remain invisible.

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It is impossible to "leave race out of admissions" because race is built into neighborhoods, schools, jobs, and the general fabric of America. The question is misspecified. "Race-neutral" admissions don't exist.

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“Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever” was already taken.

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The Hill

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. @GovRonDeSantis : "We must fight the woke in our schools. We must fight the woke in our businesses. We must fight the woke in government agencies. We can never, ever surrender to woke ideology. [...] The state of Florida is where woke goes to die."

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I wish more judges (and journalists) were like: "no, really, explain your dog whistle."

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Eλf Sternberg

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DeSantis' lawyers were forced by the court to define "woke." The lead lawyer described it as "The belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them."

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Critical race theory argues that law is an exercise of power that clothes itself in neutral abstractions. Republicans have been fighting critical race theory for years because they know this argument is correct.

@ChrisMurphyCT

Chris Murphy 🟧

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Republican Senators on Twitter today admitting that their strategy was to pack the courts with political conservatives in order to enact an agenda that was too unpopular to pass through an elected, popularly accountable Congress.

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If something is harming people right now—a lack of infrastructure, segregated schools—that is not a “legacy” of structural racism. It is contemporary structural racism.

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There is a lot to say here, and the Mayor claims he wasn’t aware of the officer’s history. Vetting was the council’s job. But hiring an officer who shot a 12 year old Black boy two seconds after contact is inexcusable.

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Officer who shot, killed Tamir Rice hired as sole police officer of Tioga, Pennsylvania

Former Cleveland Police Officer Timothy Loehmann has been hired as the one and only officer of Tioga, a small borough in Pennsylvania.

www.news5cleveland.com

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I need to log off because if folks think NPR is too radical on race, we are really lost.

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Looks like the police are funding themselves.

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Well that's a statistic.

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A totally normal country in which a democratically unaccountable judge-for-life can accept millions in gifts from an equally unaccountable billionaire who collects Hitler memorabilia and owns a garden full of dictator statues. Inspires nothing but faith in the system.

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"Crow was visibly uncomfortable with questions about his dictator statues and Hitler memorabilia, preferring to discuss his other historical collections."

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Anyone trying to convince you that Pell Grant recipients are rich is lying,

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Whenever this dude writes something, I think of his classic tweet on contemporary conservative self-awareness.

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One thing that I haven't seen get nearly enough attention is that the leading architect of the critical race theory moral panic is a former employee of the Discovery Institute, which pushed the "evolution is just a theory" nonsense. They are literally the same people.

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The Times branding DeSantis’ anti-Black plan to destroy of Florida’s education system as “taking on the educational establishment” at the start of Black History Month is a bit much.

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Today’s assigned readings are on the “glass cliff,” where women and people of color are promoted to leadership during collapse.

@washingtonpost

The Washington Post

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Rishi Sunak to become U.K. prime minister, first person of color in the job, after Penny Mordaunt withdraws from leadership contest

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Humiliated, defeated leader of the ruling ethnic faction incites a riot at the parliamentary building.

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My students regularly ask me why they didn’t learn basic facts about race and racism earlier in their education. And they often recognize this lack of education itself as a kind of structural racism.

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I'm pretty tired of "culture war" being used as a cover for the more honest "taking marginalized people's rights" or "persecuting people with less power."

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3 years

A formal complaint against satire from the people who brought you hits like “learn to take a joke,” “facts don't care about your feelings,” “what about diversity of ideas,” and “snowflakes.”

@mjs_DC

Mark Joseph Stern

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NEW: I spoke with Nick Wallace, the student who is not allowed to graduate from Stanford Law next week because a top member of the school's Federalist Society chapter issued a formal complaint against him for making fun of FedSoc. @Slate

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Imagine being this boring. I prefer James Baldwin, "one of the paradoxes of education was that precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience, you must find yourself at war with your society."

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Mark Shulgasser

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@victorerikray Education is not about changing the world -- it's about fitting in to the world.

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Arguments over language are arguments about power.

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Victor Ray

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Between loan servicer MOHELA not knowing the Missouri AG sued on their behalf and the fake threat of a same-sex website request, the Court is reshaping the country based on imaginary friends.

@LeahLitman

Leah Litman

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WOW reporting from @melissagira @newrepublic : the man who supposedly asked the website designer in 303 creative to make a wedding website for a gay wedding says ... he did no such thing.

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We don't have to imagine a self-serving hypothetical. When I worked at the University of Tennessee, actual nazis twice reserved a room and gave speeches. The police *protected* the nazis, ensuring they were safe and could speak.

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Alex Morey

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"If campus officials imagine that they can accept dozens, scores, or hundreds of chanting pro-Palestinian protesters setting up tents on a campus quad, would they show the same grace toward students wearing MAGA hats engaged in the same behavior? If students in their tents were…

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The Confederacy killed white people in defense of white supremacy. Eugenicists killed and sterilized white people in defense of white supremacy. This isn’t hard to grasp. People pretending to misunderstand how this works aren’t in good faith.

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Death cult isn't metaphorical.

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It's real! Hardcover copies of my book #OnCriticalRaceTheory arrived today!

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Making woke into a dog-whistle has always been an openly (and transparently) white supremacist project that lots of supposedly smart folks in the media helped along.

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This is authoritarian and terrifying. I've said this before, but at some point, political interference in state universities will start to impact accreditation.

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If you can’t recognize the “error in judgment” in praising white supremacists, you don’t have good judgment.

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Yesterday, as soon as I saw the police being sent in at Columbia, I thought about how repression encouraged the spread of sit-ins.

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Braxton 🟥

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UNC students right now starting an encampment outside of the university administration building in solidarity with Columbia students and Palestine 🇵🇸

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Pitching The New Yorker: “What if I hung out with a bunch of bigots and just wrote up what they said?”

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Emma Green

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A while ago, someone mentioned to me, offhandedly, that a friend of theirs had become akin to "the mother hen of the cancelled." Naturally, I was like, "I need to know everything about this." That's how I met the Thought Criminals. (1/x)

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It is impossible to "leave race out of admissions" because race is built into neighborhoods, schools, jobs, and the general fabric of America. The question is misspecified. "Race-neutral" admissions don't exist.

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The Washington Post

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Over 6 in 10 Americans favor leaving race out of college admissions, a Post-Schar School poll finds. But an equally strong majority backs programs to boost racial and ethnic diversity among students.

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As a former head waiter in a four-star New York City restaurant turned academic, I can assure you this is nonsense.

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The right-turning critical race theory into a dog whistle is the exact type of political move CRT was designed to explain. #oncriticalracetheory

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I often tell my students that some oppose ameliorative policies like affirmative action not because they don't work but because they do. But you rarely see the point spelled out so clearly.

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This whole discourse about who deserves poverty wages is driven by insecure people whose sense of self depends on others down the social hierarchy making less. It’s gross.

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saw someone say “if you pay fast food workers a livable wage, they’ll stay in those jobs forever” ok, so? if someone loves working at waffle house why shouldn’t they get paid enough to make that their career?

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failed state

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KUT Austin

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School districts are asking parents to fill in as substitute teachers as COVID cases rise in Central Texas. | @ClaireMcInerny

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Victor Ray

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Wokeness represents (among other things) the appropriation of Black vernacular by reactionaries in hopes of transforming said vernacular into a dog-whistle. This process has a long history documented by many critical race theorists.

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Ross Douthat

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Wokeness represents (among other things) a turning-inward of American liberal-Protestant energy after the failure of post-1989 US imperial projects, commercial and military and ideological, vis-a-vis China and the Muslim world.

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Humbled to announce that my article: “The Originalist Case for Accepting Bribes from Billionaires” won the 2023 Antonin Scalia Prize for Sophistry in Defense of Corruption. Special thanks to the generous funding from the Federalist Society that made this work possible.

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When I see claims like this, I wonder if these people know that lynching postcards were a popular genre and did nothing to discourage the practice. Quite the opposite.

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CNN

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Some journalists argue that if lawmakers and American citizens were able to see the graphic images of dead bodies in classrooms, there could be a shift in how some in the country approach gun rights.

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Also reminded that these universities *welcomed* white supremacists and didn't arrest them but *provided state protection* to white supremacists in the name of free speech.

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anthony christian ocampo 🇵🇭🏳️‍🌈

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reminder that these universities would never mobilize this much for police for campus rapists.

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Victor Ray

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Team coup lecturing others on protest norms is a lot.

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The mythology of widespread white support for the Civil Rights Movement has really done a number on a lot of people’s thinking.

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Nothing shows the media’s lack of objectivity more than their adoption of “woke” as a pejorative to mean anything the right hates, alongside their refusal to call even white supremacist murderers racist.

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Victor Ray

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I believe this is called telling on yourself.

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Tom LoBianco, 24sight News, "Pence whisperer"

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WSJ ed board member on Fox saying there can be no unity as long as Democrats keep talking about white supremacists

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2 years

The idea that economists are apolitical is hilarious.

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Victor Ray

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Every single story about the affirmative action cases should make it absolutely clear that they were organized by Eduardo Blum—who also brought the case that gutted the voting rights act. Both “causes” are about restoring white dominance.

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Victor Ray

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Saying that not all the insurrectionists were white supremacists is like saying everyone at a lynching wasn't in the Klan.

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Victor Ray

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Watching people maintain hope in the reasonableness of institutions at this historical moment is absolutely wild.

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Victor Ray

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Anyway, in my race and ethnicity class today, we discussed @JonathanMetzl 's book, arguing that some whites would rather destroy public goods before sharing.

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Sawyer Hackett

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Wow. Two weeks ago a judge ordered the public library in Llano County, TX to return books banned by conservative activists. Now, this week county officials will meet to discuss eliminating the library entirely. More from @serrano_alej :

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It is embarrassing that people with supposedly high intellectual standards (the New York Times) are allowing themselves to be led by the nose by people with no intellectual standards (Rufo et al).

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Michael Hobbes

@RottenInDenmark

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Losing my mind. There's not a single instance of plagiarism here. They're not even saying the same thing! One of these paragraphs is about crime and the other is about political turnout. Using cliches like 'there are two primary reasons' is not fucking plagiarism!

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I'm thinking of using the text of Iowa's critical race theory ban for a teaching exercise. First, students will read academic articles defining critical race theory. Then they will read the ban to see if it is faithful or a misrepresentation.

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Maybe, contra the headline, America was never “theirs,” and thinking they owned it is the root of the problem.

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Their America Is Vanishing. Like Trump, They Insist They Were Cheated. (Published 2022)

The white majority is fading, the economy is changing and there’s a pervasive sense of loss in districts where Republicans fought the outcome of the 2020 election.

www.nytimes.com

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Victor Ray

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When I worked at the University of Tennessee, I was repeatedly told that literal Nazis speaking on campus was free speech by legislators who defunded the diversity office for suggesting we respect preferred pronouns. So this checks out.

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Rep. Justin Jones

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We can’t separate these heinous actions from the racist policies being pushed by those in the legislature.

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The movement to destroy black voting rights and the moral panic around accurate information on this country's history of white supremacy are treated in the media as discreet stories. But they are the same movement. #oncriticalracetheory

@mjs_DC

Mark Joseph Stern

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BREAKING: By a 5–4 vote, with Roberts joining the liberals in dissent, the Supreme Court halts a lower court order that required Alabama to redraw its congressional map, which diluted Black votes in violation of the Voting Rights Act.

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What if I told you legally banning discussions of structural racism is structural racism?

@NicholsUprising

John Nichols

@NicholsUprising

3 years

Wisconsin Republicans enact legislation that proposes to bar K-12 classroom discussions of: “structural racism” “systemic racism” “racial prejudice” “white supremacy” AND “anti-racism” “abolitionist teaching” “social justice”

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I appreciate all the "don't stress about productivity during a [global pandemic, climate disaster, rising fascism, end of democracy]" tweets. But the stress is structural and not unreasonable. Work and economic expectations haven't stopped, so folks can't go easy on themselves.

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Victor Ray

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I’ve seen serious scholars argue we should measure racial progress by asking Black people in which era they would prefer to live. I’ve always thought asking white people that question would be more telling.

@CawthornforNC

Madison Cawthorn

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Our Founding Fathers wouldn't recognize the America we live in today. They would be horrified, and rightfully so.

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So, this headline is a kind of racism of omission. By not pointing out that Rep. Johnson is white, they obscure what happened and deny the reader crucial explanatory information.

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ABC News

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BREAKING: Reps. Justin Pearson and Justin Jones are ousted from Tennessee House after gun protest, marking the first partisan expulsion in the state's modern history. A third lawmaker, Rep. Gloria Johnson, survived an expulsion resolution.

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Ah…the context for “switching” parties and predicting political attacks revealed. A SpaceX flight attendant said Elon Musk exposed himself and propositioned her for sex, documents show. The company paid $250,000 for her silence. via @businessinsider

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They were really just letting people die. Biden inheriting nonexistent coronavirus vaccine distribution plan and must start 'from scratch,' sources say - CNNPolitics

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Given the Sinema news, I’m re-upping the first piece I wrote this year.

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Victor Ray

5 months

It is an indictment of American media that Rufo’s blatant racist propaganda has been so successful.

@deonteleologist

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@deonteleologist

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Might be Rufo’s most cartoon villain tweet yet

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@thenation

The Nation

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“This is not America,” a woman said to a small group, her voice shaking. “They’re shooting at us. They’re supposed to shoot BLM, but they’re shooting the patriots.”

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Meeting peaceful protests of state violence with more state violence is...not going to convince the protesters they are wrong. But it will definitely teach them the connection between violence abroad and at home.

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If a body of scholarship designed to explain how racism permeates American institutions "is an attack on our country's core values," what are those values?

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Pete Ricketts

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Critical race theory is an attack on our country’s core values.

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As someone who studies how organizations treat people differently based upon race, there is something almost hilariously perfect (in its injustice) that the Justice Department and FBI can’t figure out what to do with white supremacist insurrectionists. #racializedorganizations

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The Washington Post

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Justice Department, FBI debate not charging some of the Capitol rioters

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I'm calling for a moratorium on emails from the Department of Education unless it includes the line “your loans are canceled” or “you are debt free.”

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The purest form of identity politics is claiming other people's interests are based on their particular background, whereas yours are rational and disinterested. #oncriticalracetheory

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There are truly astounding layers of intellectual dishonesty in this tweet. They denied the Muslim woman valedictorian her right to speak because they feared she would critique US foreign policy. It is racist cowardice from an organization supposedly supportive of free speech.

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David Frum

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"Hello class of 2024. Your family will be deprived of the chance to honor your achievements because a small minority of your classmates feel entitled to break the law in order to express their support for a foreign terrorist organization."

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Why We Need New Pundits

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I have seen the best minds of my generation denied tenure by less accomplished people.

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The idea that a protest's boundaries should be acceptable to the people you are protesting is self-contradictory and undermines the very point of protesting.

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This anti-positionality statement is also a positionality statement.

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Jukka Savolainen

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#Positionality statements do not belong in the research literature. This is what my coauthors and I argue in the article published in Perspectives on Psychological Science. @PsychScience Our objections to this growing practice are three-fold (1/6).

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It’s always “we are doing a cluster hire” and never “we need to do some cluster retentions, too.”

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Some very serious commentators could stand to read these plainly stated facts about using "woke" as a description.

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Brian Winkeler

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A seismic shift has occurred when truth like this can be published as an editorial in The freaking Oklahoman.

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"Almost a third of Americans polled in April 1968 felt that King himself was to blame for his assassination, felt that he had “brought it on himself.” When King was killed, he was one of the most hated people in the United States," Thank you @DrIbram

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The Second Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

King’s nightmare of racism is being presented as his dream.

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