@erinoverbey
Ouf, I went back to the original tweet and read it all again; and it’s bad, not because Theo is white or Hakeem is black, but because Theo refuses to acknowledge how narrative itself, the way language is used, creates bias even when ‘objective’ things are being reported on.
dear reader, the audible gasp i gave when reading the emails a certain nepo baby journalist sent to a respected Stanford professor
these go beyond a sense of entitlement…this is something uglier. this level of disrespect toward a distinguished Black professor is just appalling
@erinoverbey
This is the screenshot that started it all. There is a lot to pick out from here, but I’ll just focus on the last two words - she conformed. The reporter could have said this exact thing like, ‘she gained the support of her colleagues to make her decision.’ ‘she displayed a…
@erinoverbey
Theo, with arrogance that might serve him well down the line (or not), took Hakeem’s snarky comment about the reporting on student protesters and implied that because Hakeem made the analysis that the reporting was lopsided, he was seeking more positive reporting on the…