The vast majority of us in Gen Z were raised on Instagram and Twitter—our ideas are tweet-length and infographic-sized. And the oppressor/oppressed framework was made for us.
My latest for
@TheFP
:
From the syllabus of a course I'm shopping at Stanford this fall: "In order to accommodate anticipated protests and potential disruptions this fall, professors have been asked to make the structure of our class meetings and assignments more flexible."
This is insane.
Stanford's "Best Honors Thesis in Jewish Studies" goes to "a ritual performance grieving the Israeli occupation and destruction of Gaza, heightened since October 2023."
Ibrahim Bharmal, seen here attacking a Jewish student, won the prestigious Stanford’s JE Wallace Sterling Award for outstanding community service as an undergrad. Stanford should revoke his award.
A Bay Area high school bureaucrat and CA Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Advisory Committee member named her kids... Falestine and Jihad. Jihad! Actually insane institutional takeover.
My dad and his parents went to L.A. public high schools where they learned calculus in 12th grade and read Plato even earlier. Now, most kids won't even get to learn calculus in California high schools (and certainly won't read Plato). More about California's War on Math below:
The new California Mathematics Framework promises to minimize racial inequity at the expense of mathematical excellence—and the promise of the Golden State.
Read
@juliaonatroika
:
In my freshman year 'Great Books' program at Stanford, I was denigrated as an aggrieved conservative while we were discussing Edward Said's writing. I said that approving all forms of violence under the banner of "decolonization" was dangerous. I wonder if my classmates remember
Stanford students’ predisposition toward indefinite stays at our country club of a university is a sign that adulthood is no longer as appealing as it once was.
I wrote about coterming, the Stanford fifth-year masters program, for
@StanfordReview
The latest iteration of Stanford’s “sit-in to stop genocide” has ties to the pro-China, pro-Russia, pro-Syria Party for Socialism and Liberation. My latest for
@StanfordReview
Friend making $20/hr as a barista: “No worries bro, I"ll cover this one and you'll get the next one!”
Friend making $450k as a software engineer: “Can you Venmo me $3.62 for your share of the Uber ride?”
remembering the time my Los Angeles high school sent out an email condemning students for dressing up as prisoners for Halloween because they’re an oppressed population
Ameer Loggins, the Stanford lecturer who was fired for making Jewish and Israeli students stand in the corner in a mandatory class, just filed a lawsuit against
@Stanford
. My favorite part is where Stanford admins are written about as if they were Loggins' crazy ex.
As California math is imploding and Boeing planes keep exploding, I wanted to share my article on the supersonic dream—and the doomers who fought to kill it— for
@arenamagdotcom
vol 001.
A coup? A mutiny? A rebellion? You don’t need to know much about Wagner or Putin to think that the events in Russia over the past few days are bizarre.
So, we wanted to share with you some of the pieces that helped us make sense of a baffling story.
We are heartbroken and outraged at the news that Hersh Goldberg-Polin and five other hostages were killed in the hands of Hamas. As President Biden and Secretary Blinken just said, we will not rest until all of the hostages are home. We grieve with Jon and Rachel Goldberg-Polin
Prof Ron Hassner led my study abroad trip to Israel last winter. We were supposed to be the first cohort of many to study military history on the ground in Israel. He is a mensch and I am so thankful for him.
A letter from Ron Hassner to students at UC Berkeley.
"Dear students,
I have hatched a strange plan. I am launching a sit-in protest against antisemitism and for student safety in my office, starting today, Thursday, March 7, at 6PM. If my students feel that they cannot
Fantastic article by
@SnoozyWeiss
and
@FrancescaABlock
about how progressive Jews — often young — are turning against the ideology that has turned them away.
“I’m trying to explain to them why this is so important, why Israel matters and why Jews need a homeland.”
On the convincing, muting and blocking of friends, and despair among progressive Jews: my latest, a collab w/
@FrancescaABlock
Something that stuck out to me after jumping out of bed to see the occupation of the Stanford President’s office was the relative apathy of the protesters. Most of them have picked up and left
Just heard from several Jewish friends of mine at Stanford that the university hasn’t reached out to the many Jewish students who have filed hate crime reports, despite saying they have online.
Somehow just noticed that
@Stanford
’s main library refers to Israel as “occupied Palestine” in its current exhibit. This is the view from the entrance to the library.
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Please welcome MAGA Communism to our ever-crazed political scene. Their policy wishlist includes banning “ANTIFA Street Terrorism,” subsidizing gyms, and deporting the Bush family. My latest for
@TheFP
the WSJ published an op-ed on the Stanford break-in. "Will McKinsey or OpenAI hire them after this?" if the WSJ really didn't want them to be hired, why not publish their names?
Update — the worst part of the Maoist "is your fav author a Zionist spreadsheet" is the entry for Salman Rushdie. "participated in books for gaza in feb 2024 EDIT 5/7/2024: participated in some festival with PEN america, an org that supports the genocide. at best, both sides-ing
the affirmative action debate has no real impact because college admissions offices, like most military operations, keep most things secret and therefore act extrajudicially
JUST IN: Columbia University has announced classes will be remote for the rest of the year as anti-Israel protests rock the school.
There are now growing calls for tuition refunds for the $70k a year college now that it has practically turned into an online school.
"It’s vital
doing basic tasks for people is a token of friendship. it's hard to make friends now because these basic tasks (e.g. dropping off soup for a sick friend, picking up a friend from the airport) are now outsourced to apps. friendships develop thru small/medium tasks!
a while ago i remember being taken aback by some friends who called covid "the virus," not wanting to utter its name. now i do the same with "the war," though it takes up 70% of my headspace on any given day
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“Stanford made a name for itself as a center of symbiosis, combining the mission of national defense with novel research and engineering. Today, however, this symbiosis has withered among the students of our Graduate School of Business.”
EXCLUSIVE: A Jewish student’s on-campus safe housing was vandalized with “Free Palestine” graffiti. Students weren’t notified. My latest for
@StanfordReview
The glaring mistakes in Jo Boaler's new book "Math-ish" reveal her unsolid and erroneous conceptual understanding of fractions and simple multiplication. If anything, the mistakes suggest weak procedural fluency and vague conceptual understanding reinforce each other.
Today, Stanford admin ordered that both the pro-Palestine and pro-Israel sit-ins must evacuate by 8 p.m. tonight. This is an affront to students’ right to protest. My latest for
@StanfordReview
:
@yogiforcali
@mualphaxi
The first two can be verified by looking at Stanford's news reports. I can't independently verify the third, but I have text messages I sent on that day to my friends about the incident.
today,
@Stanford
released two, probably mutually exclusive reports about antisemitism and Islamophobic/anti-Middle Eastern bias.
though mainstream outlets the latter report cites are overwhelmingly anti-Israel, the "media status quo" ought to be rejected. but, saying "the war
New Stanford Daily op-ed "written by members of Stanford Students for Justice in Palestine leadership" are too cowardly to attach their names to their article endorsing Hamas' rape, mutilation, murder, etc.
tents are back up in
@Stanford
’s White Plaza a day after Stanford emailed students warning that “Campus disruptions, overnight camping, use of tents or other unapproved structures, and other violations will result in referrals to the Office of Community Standards (OCS) student
If you're still in high school, my first piece of advice is to touch grass. My second piece of advice is to apply to
@TheFP
's high school essay contest!
INSANITY: Ibrahim Bharmal is a Harvard Law School student charged with two misdemeanors for assault and battery, violating the Massachusetts Civil Rights Act, and faces up to 100 days in jail after physically assaulting another Jewish student at Harvard.
I went to a pro-Palestine rally at Stanford and asked a fellow student what she meant when she chanted “from the river to the sea.” She said that, after admitting she wasn’t knowledgeable about the issue, Palestine must be free from the Tigris River (in Iraq) to the Black Sea
From which river to which sea? “Only 47% of the students who embrace the slogan were able to name the river & the sea. Some of the alternative answers were the Nile & the Euphrates, the Caribbean, the Dead Sea (which is a lake) & the Atlantic…. There’s no shame in being
Days after Rabin & Arafat’s White House handshake in 1993, a 20 year-old Josh Shapiro wrote in his college newspaper that Palestinians are “too battle-minded” for peace.
He said Arafat will be killed “by his fellow belligerent Arabs.”
@anna_orso
reports.
As course registration comes around at
@Stanford
, I thought it may be worthwhile to share some of the classes I can this quarter...🧵
Starting off strong with the Taylor trifecta.
there are two kinds of women: women who want an airline heir to engineer a lovely meetcute and women who think that responding positively to male attention is Stockholm Syndrome incarnate
finally read the ballerina farms article. please can we talk about how this billionaire heir engineered a “first date” with a vulnerable young woman travelling alone, locked her in and then completely isolated her in a foreign country to be his own personal incubator
Vivek is right.
If he or any other President wants to beat Trump or Biden they need the youth.
It might be a shock to y’all that most 18-28 year olds don’t use this platform or let alone care about politics.
We need our youth to VOTE and to IDENTIFY with a president. HOW
Aborted occupation of an engineering building at Stanford.
“The marchers who entered the building blocked entryways with constructed barricades they had brought with them and furniture from the building, and vandalized an interior wall and door with spray paint.”