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Husband. Black dad. Stutterer. Davidson College Professor of Practice. McClatchy News columnist. Harvard Nieman Fellow. Sweet tea drinker. CIDP survivor.

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A lot of people are in favor of affirmative action because highly-qualified black people have been repeatedly passed over for jobs. Folks like Bo, because they don’t want to admit what they really believe (racist views about black people), come up with falsehoods like this.

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These dudes love taking racist positions- like this one - while pretending it’s just rational and logical.

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This is wrong. And the usual 'cancel culture' would immediately say so if their principles were true. FYI: I thought tearing down those posters were inhumane and unwise. But I don't have to agree with people to know that this type of punishment is wrong.

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Reminds me of this equally-sobering finding: 'In fact, only 8 percent of high school seniors can identify slavery as the central cause of the Civil War, according to a report released Thursday by the Southern Poverty Law Center.'
usnews.com/news/education…

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I can't talk about details but I've seen some emails that are part of an intimidation campaign against academics who are critical of Israel, including emails to university admins. What's notable about the emails is:
1. The emails contain outright lies that are easy to check.

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Y'all. It's only identity politics when non-white non-straight people finally have a voice. Before that, it was just straight-up objective truth and justice, and nothing else.

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Been getting a lot of requests to update this thread. So...

Since we published our first story on the juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, TN:

One state lawmaker said she was “horrified.” Another called it a “nightmare.” A third labeled it “unchecked barbarism.”
THREAD

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This is a good reminder from Bush about how congressional officials have been acting. When there was a gathering to mourn the Israeli lives lost, almost all of them showed up. When there was a gathering to mourn the lives of Israeli AND Palestinians killed, most did not show up.

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Translation: some people don't know what black people have actually been facing, and don't much seem to care to find out.

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Identitarianism is only an issue when someone uses identity as grounds for knowledge rather than base a claim on evidence. But anyone can do this using any identity in any historical period. It is what religious figures did for centuries as 'guardians' of knowledge.

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This is complete and utter bunk. It suggests universities were legit when they were mostly white and male and that racial-gender composition had nothing to do with identity. It's ridiculous. And yet folks like Haidt keep saying it.

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I know this is totally out of nowhere. But, damn, how crazy is it that there was a debate between Peyton Manning and Ryan Leaf?!

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What's happening now is complex but essentially this:

The fight against the very real scourge of antisemitism is being hijacked by bad actors who want a new McCarthyism to repress any type of free speech they don't like

We need the courage to stop this

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He satirized a debunked story in a way I likely would not have, a dark joke. But because he did that, several conservatives who say they are pro-life and pro-humanity are celebrating that he and several members of his family have been killed by Israel, some long before Oct. 7.

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