Jake 🇺🇸 @omni_american Twitter profile

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Jake 🇺🇸

2 years

"Gen Z is hard at work dismantling Western Civilization with its political correctness & pathological fragility—or so say commentators left, right, & center alike. We’re here to report, however tentatively, that all is not yet lost." In @JoinPersuasion :

The Kids Are Alright

Scratch beneath the surface and it’s clear Gen Z are often conscientious and tolerant.

www.persuasion.community

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@omni_american

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A Yezidi woman wrote a book about being raped and tortured and having her family murdered by ISIS, but her "book event was cancelled in Canada because organizers felt 'her story could promote Islamophobia'."

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Nadia Murad, a Yezidi girl, was 19 years old when lSlS kidnapped and held as a slave for 3 months, tortured and raped. lSlS kiIIed her mother and 6 brothers. Nadia's book event was cancelled in Canada because organizers felt 'her story could promote Islamophobia'

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I've been approached as an employee repeatedly, despite being a white man's white man. A deep problem with our social justice discourse is that it trains us to interpret every interaction in the worst possible hyper-racialized light. It's anti-mental health, anti-social harmony.

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"My everyday experiences as a chemistry professor at an American university in 2021 bring back memories from my time in the USSR. Not good memories—more like Orwellian nightmares." —Anna I. Krylov, Chemistry, USC I've heard this from others who experienced life in the USSR. 🧵

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Daniel Smith, last living child of an enslaved person, died Oct 19 at 90. His father Abram Smith was born in slavery in VA, 1862. Daniel was born 1932. "We could never talk negatively about America in front of my father. He did not have much but he really, really loved America."

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"The median American earns more income than the median resident of almost any other country on the planet," and yet colleges like mine teach students that the US is unique in history for the exploitativeness of its capitalist system. From @Noahpinion :

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Talk me out of this: No student will ever write a paper at home on their computer for me again. They'll do it in class, with pencil and paper. It's the only way to ensure that they don't have an AI write it for them.

College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using...

The growing number of students using the AI program ChatGPT as a shortcut in their coursework has led some college professors to reconsider their lesson plans for the upcoming fall semester.

www.businessinsider.com

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70% of @Harvard students, regardless of race, come from the top socioeconomic quintile. 15% of its students come from the wealthiest 1%. Only 3% of its students come from the bottom quintile. None of this will stop Harvard from squawking about "creating a more just society."

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"One of the largest groups of exploited workers" are the 'adjuncts' who "now account for more than 70% of all faculty." Before tenure, I was denied my federally mandated parental leave *twice* at two different colleges, by supervisors who were Prius-driving Bernie-voters. 🧵

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"An Asian-American student cited federal inmate demographics: About 60% of the incarcerated are white. Black students said they were harmed. They'd learned, in one of their workshops, that objective facts are a tool of white supremacy." Devastating essay by a former colleague 🧵

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Remember @Stanford 's asinine list of terms that were "harmful," including "American" and "brown bag lunch"? Well, they've removed it due to scathing feedback, which is proof that sensible people can defeat foolish wokery if only we raise our voices.

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The academic left behaves as though it believes that if we lie about human nature rigorously enough, then we can change it.

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California Community College system "is implementing new DEI rules, mandated by state bureaucrats, that trample on free speech while coercing faculty members on how to teach their subjects, which scholarly conclusions to reach, and even what political positions to advocate." 🧵

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I was Antifa in the 1980s. (Tho' we didn't call it that). A 🧵 on how I got into far-left ideology, on the most destructive rioting I participated in—it was reported in the New York Times—and how I came to my senses. My story is a parable showing there's hope for all extremists.

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@sfmcguire79 "Israel has...targeted hospitals" and they link to the debunked report about 500 dead. I'd have thought they'd have learned to cite reliable sources in grad school.

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"The speed of the hostile takeover is astounding. The # of administrators employed by @Yale has risen 3x faster than the undergrad student body since 2003, while new managerial jobs have risen by 150% vs. a 10.6% increase in tenure-track jobs in the Faculty of Arts & Sciences."

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Fully half of Harvard faculty—HARVARD FACULTY—would be at least somewhat reluctant to teach a controversial issue in class, and over 2/3rds would be reluctant to discuss a controversial issue with colleagues outside the classroom.

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@omni_american

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2/ "Parallels between USSR & US today: (i) atmosphere of fear & self-censorship; (ii) omnipresence of ideology; (iii) intolerance of dissenting opinions (suppression of ideas & people, censorship, and Newspeak); (iv) use of social engineering to solve real & imagined problems."

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"Reactions to the Hamas massacre have exposed the moral cul-de-sac occupied by the intersectional left. Democrats and liberals should seize this opportunity to dissociate themselves from the entire world view that has produced bad policy and worse politics in area after area." 🧵

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6/ "Just as in the USSR everything was analyzed through the Marxist theory of class struggle, we are now told to view everything through the lens of Critical Social Justice. We hear about systemic racism and systemic sexism lurking everywhere."

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3/ "When I choose not to say in a faculty meeting that considering only diversity candidates for a faculty search is discriminatory because I am afraid of being ostracized, or worse—that is self-censorship."

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@omni_american

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Lightgassing: "When one person agrees with another person's false beliefs in order to be supportive." Lightgassing is *essential* to survival in academia, where you must accept contested or false claims without question in order to signal alignment with the "correct" worldview.

Spencer Greenberg 🔍

@SpencrGreenberg

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Gaslighting, where someone causes another person to doubt their feelings and senses, can cause psychological damage. There's an opposite thing, though, that can also be damaging. As far as I know, it has no name. I call it Lightgassing. Here's how it lightgassing works: 🧵

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5/ "In 1953, 13% of Americans self-censored. In 2019, 40% of Americans self-censored (60% among college students). MIT poll, November 2021: 83% responded 'Yes' to the question 'Are you worried that your voice or your colleagues’ voices are increasingly in jeopardy?'"

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@omni_american

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"George Floyd’s lingering impact can mainly be seen in the DEI programmes in corporate offices nationwide, where the main beneficiaries are 28-year-old college-educated white women, who lecture their coworkers on the importance of pronoun exchanges and microaggressions." 🧵

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4/ "Compelled speech is when your institution pledges to fight systemic racism and you are afraid to ask, 'Is there any evidence of systemic racism in our university?' Instead you stand up at the faculty meeting and pledge to apply yourself fully to dismantling systemic racism."

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I grew up in India in the '70s-'80s and the poverty was so shocking that I felt guilty just to witness it. India's poverty-reduction seems to be due to massive investment in infrastructure and of course free markets, which US Humanities profs teach kids are "white supremacist."

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼

@Noahpinion

2 years

This is just an incredible graph. India is making absolutely amazing strides against poverty. (ht @scienceisstrat1 )

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Bayard Rustin, who introduced MLK to nonviolence, co-organized the Freedom Riders and the 1963 March on Washington, and was openly gay, wrote in 1983: "It would be convenient to ascribe all the problems confronting black Americans to the persistence of racism...🧵

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8/ "In California, there is a proposal to do away with advanced math programs in schools. Why? Because they are racist. Instead of raising the quality of education for everyone, [they are] bringing everyone down to the lowest common denominator."

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Hayek on welfare: "There is no reason why in a free society government should not assure to all protection against severe deprivation in the form of an assured minimum income, or a floor below which nobody need to descend. 🧵

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A lot of the "destroy capitalism" talk you hear from the college-educated is just sour grapes over the fact that they didn't attain the positions they thought their elite diplomas and correct positions on all the issues entitled them to.

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16/ Read "From Russia with Love: Science and Ideology Then and Now," by Anna I. Krylov (Dept of Chemistry, University of Southern California), on the @HdxAcademy STEM Substack: (Thx to @PsychRabble for alerting me to it here: !)

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Jake 🇺🇸

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The idea that you're a victim of "Structural Racism" who faces "Food Insecurity" if you don't have a Trader Joe's could only persuade the kind of person who drives a Tesla to their "White Fragility" book club. Tell me you've never shopped at a Mexican grocery without telling me.

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7/ "Just as happened in Soviet Russia, the new ideology is declaring entire disciplines—for example, mathematics—racist. There are proposals, some already enacted in Oregon and California, that call to “dismantle white supremacy” in the mathematics classroom."

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I inhabit the wokosphere, whose consensus is there's no such thing as wokeness. But how else to explain LA Councilwoman Nithya Raman's vote AGAINST criminalizing possession of stolen catalytic converters and blaming such thefts on Toyota? (Disclaimer: my cat was stolen in LA!)

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9/ "Proficiency tests are being dropped, grading standards lowered, standardized tests eliminated. What will the consequences be? I think they will be devastating, possibly on the scale of Lysenkoism. These initiatives are not limited to K–12. They are everywhere."

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"If diversity trainings have no impact whatsoever, that would mean that perhaps billions of $ are being wasted annually. But there’s a darker possibility: Some diversity initiatives might actually worsen the DEI climates of the orgs that pay for them." — @jessesingal on DEI:

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@omni_american

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New theory: "The virtuous lie" A virtuous lie is a falsehood that's promulgated & not corrected despite known falsity b/c it serves an "emancipatory" end. #1619Project , New History of Capitalism, Hawaiian indigeneity: lies that're "good" b/c they free us of an oppressive past.

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@sairasameerarao It' happened to me on numerous occasions, and I'm one of the whitest dudes you'll ever meet.

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"Diversity and inclusion roles have increased 71% globally over the last five years, with median salaries ranging from $84-126K." The DEI position, which began as a sinecure for over-credentialed, under-useful elites, has become an industry unto itself.

New Major Focuses on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

To help students meet the business world's growing need to transform corporate culture, Bentley is now offering a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) major for undergraduates. Beginning July 1,...

www.bentley.edu

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There's an odd disconnect on the left. On the one hand, we are infinitely morally superior to everyone who ever existed, including Abraham Lincoln, because they were all a bunch of vicious bigots. Yet on the other hand, somehow despite our vast superiority, it's still 1850.

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I realized what "social justice" meant in practice when I saw activists take brilliant, successful black students and convince them to write about how being black was a "trauma." I see my own kids in these students, and I know these merciless activists are coming for them, too.

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10/ "Now we live in the shadows of Cancel Culture. People are being disinvited & de-platformed. Scientific papers are being retracted or self-retracted. Not because of scientific concerns—but because findings are deemed to be offensive to some or they contradict the narrative."

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11/ "The mechanism of censorship is different from the USSR. It is not administered by the gov't, but by Twitter vigilantes. But mobs alone would not be able to enforce censorship. Outrage mobs do not retract papers. They do not cancel seminars. People in positions of power do."

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The dereliction of duty of public K-12 schools counts as systemic racism if anything does. In contrast, Defense Dept "schools had the highest outcomes in the country for Black and Hispanic students, whose 8th-grade reading scores outpaced nat'l averages for white students." 🧵

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12/ "The war on language is an essential part of Woke ideology. Just think about the cost associated with developing a Microsoft Word feature for identifying offensive language or rewriting computer code to eliminate mentions of 'master database.'"

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15/ "We must forcefully resist this rise of illiberalism before it is too late. It will not go away on its own. What can be done? First, speak up. Do not submit to bullies. Second, organize. Do your share in defending humanism, democracy, and the liberal Enlightenment."

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2/ Example from my own life: I was born with no left hand. For this, I was bullied/assaulted, but also "micro-aggressed," as when people tell me they're amazed I can tie my shoes. Here, I faced a choice: fume with resentment or realize it did not diminish me. I chose the latter.

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14/ "Race-based admissions have become common practice. The UC system has abandoned admission tests, in the name of equity. Faculty hiring now prioritizes diversity over merit. Social Engineering is a reality. Is it the right way to address past injustices? I do not think so."

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California's new math framework focuses less on math and more on teaching that “math plays a role in the power structures and privileges within our society.” When these students graduate, they'll learn that ignorance of math plays a big role in "power structures and privileges."

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The word "field" is racist. So says the @USC School of Social Work: "We have decided to remove the term 'field'" to support "anti-racist social work practice by replacing language that could be considered anti-Black or anti-immigrant in favor of inclusive language."

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“At @Princeton today you see a penetration of DEI in every department and office of the university. They are a bit like the Party functionaries. Every organization [in Romania] no matter how small, had to have someone who represented the Party... —Sergiu Klainerman, Prof of Math

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"The steady erosion of free speech values is generational. Today’s young people are far more censorious than those of 1980 or even 2000, and they won’t grow out of it. While Zoomers are scared of being cancelled, they accept this risk as part of their political ideology."

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"12 studies demonstrate that when children w/ cross-gender or gender variant behavior are left to develop naturally, the vast majority—'4 out of 5'—come to terms with their bodies & learn to accept their sex. When socially transitioned virtually none do."

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"The idea that the US is a horrible, racist place is one that elite institutions often propagate. People like me can see the country from a more realistic perspective, having traveled here from countries that face problems many Americans have no concept or understanding of." 🧵

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13/ "These performative actions also create a smoke screen, detracting attention from real problems. Our complicity w/ these 'initiatives' allows the DEI apparatus to grow & intrude further into our institutions—from policing the language to policing the content of our courses."

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Sometimes people tell me I present a caricature of the left. I don't. I was one of them and I live among them. I was with a Dem when we heard about Trump. She cried out in dismay that the attempt had failed. Another soon called and expressed disappointment Trump hadn't died.

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3/ Daniel Smith, last living son of an enslaved person, was a medic in the Korean War, "attended the March on Washington, 1963; crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, AL, with MLK, 1965; and stood in the audience to watch Obama take his oath of office as president in 2009."

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The fact that 75% of Latinx folx who've heard of "Latinx" reject "Latinx" is just too bad for Latinx folx. Their feelings can't stop white professors like me from using "Latinx" to be inclusive. Doing what's right is non-negotiable, even if it alienates the folx you're helping.

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@Harvard 3/ "Affirmative action is very often *not* targeted at individuals who, because of disadvantage, are achieving below their potential. 71% of Harvard’s Black & Hispanic students come from wealthy backgrounds. A tiny fraction attended underperforming public high schools."

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8th-grade son: "Do POCs get upset if you ask where they're from?" Me: "Not necessarily. Did someone tell you that?" Son: "Yes." Me: "Who?" Son: "Ms. [middle-aged white woman] at school." (Note: son is a POC. This is how Ideological State Apparatuses interpellate subjects.)

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35% of white liberals "secretly wish bad things" upon political opponents "sometimes" to "all the time." 1/2 as many white conservatives say they do the same. Matches what I began to see after 2016 and is one reason I distanced myself from this "left."

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"Nikole Hannah Jones's contribution to the 1619 Project is a head-scratcher. The notion that the American Revolution actually was about extending slavery is kind of bizarre, if you look at what happens in the Northern states during and following the American Revolution... 🧵

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The culture of the American left has become viciously but self-righteously anti-intellectual. It's shocking, because the American left used used to be the home of intellectual culture: "Last Tuesday, I was supposed to have launched my first book, 'Tablets Shattered: The End of

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It's inevitable that when our most privileged knowledge-producing industry is so ideologically skewed, the public will lose faith in the legitimacy of its product. If academia doesn't tackle this emergency in-house, it'll be tackled by external agents, and they won't be gentle.

Crémieux

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My friend has made another graph! This one shows the proportions of academics surveyed in 1970 and 2018 that reported being liberal. Over 48 years, the academy had gone from an even split to 9/10 academics being a liberal.

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The "privilege walk" came out of a weird alliance of Herbert Marcuse and Scientology. Invented by Marcuse's 3rd wife, Erica “Ricky” Sherover-Marcuse: "Central to cults like Scientology...is the act of confession and self-abnegation in front of a group."

The First Privilege Walk

How Herbert Marcuse’s widow used a Scientology-linked cult’s methodology to gamify Identity Politics and thus helped steer the U.S. Left down the dead-end path of identitarian psychobabble.

nonsite.org

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@omni_american

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"More DEI personnel are associated w/ notably worse attitudes toward free expression among college students. There is a significant amount of evidence that DEI is bad for campus speech climates and an even greater amount that DEI does very little to promote viewpoint inclusion."

The Missing Data Depot

@data_depot

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Is DEI destroying campus free speech? In my new Substack, I show that the greater the size of a university's DEI bureaucracy, the more discomfort students feel expressing their views on social media & in informal conversations with each other. More here:

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2/ "When Daniel was 5, he'd sneak out of bed after dinner to listen as his father told his older siblings about the 'whipping & crying post,' racial terror lynchings, & enslavers’ cruelly violent treatment of enslaved people. 'My father cried as he told us these things.'"

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I spend my days with "woke" whites. What I heard yesterday was typical: "I'm thinking of moving somewhere less white." "The project's main effect was to get white men tenure." I get valuing diversity, etc. But who does reflexively signaling antipathy toward fellow whites help?

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WVU "is facing a $45MM budget gap, and is seemingly uninterested in shrinking administrator salaries, creating artificial conditions for austerity." Many schools exist largely to provide administrators a sinecure. Fire them before you cut any majors.

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"In 2014, SFUSD denied access to algebra 1 for all 8th graders, regardless of preparation and motivation, justifying it with the word 'equity.' Only harm has come from SFUSD’s failed education experiment on our kids." 🧵 on the Progressive assault math:

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"The antisemitism of my classmates did not develop in a vacuum. It is the result of obfuscations by our professors, many of whom have portrayed Hamas as merely a 'resistance group,' as well as the refusal of our universities to denounce the terror. 🧵

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"There are many people in Western democracies today who will not speak about issues they care about because they are afraid of “social censure,” vicious retaliation, not from the government, but from other citizens." Absolute🔥 from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie @ChimamandaReal : 🧵

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"Progressives" against America: "Armed with trendy buzzwords and false promises of greater equity, California is promoting an approach to math instruction that’s likely to reduce opportunities for disadvantaged students—in the state and wherever else educators follow its lead.🧵

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"Our society is the most preoccupied with victims of any that ever was. Even if it is insincere, a big show, the phenomenon has no precedent. No historical period, no society we know, has ever spoken of victims as we do." —René Girard, "I See Satan Fall Like Lightning," 1999.

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Stopped for the night in Balmorhea, TX (pop. 408) on a trip from LA to Austin. Went to the local bar. Parking lot all trucks. "Diverse" crowd of ~8 Hispanic, black, and white patrons, all conspicuously Texan, all male. One of two bartenders is a woman. Loud country music. Rodeo

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2/ Look, I don't want to promote Islamophobia either, let alone fear of Muslims. Muslims number 2B people, 24% of the world. They range from highly secularized, to Sufi mystics, and, yes, a few are mad ISIS Islamists. But these organizers are suffering from moral derangement.

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An under-appreciated factor in the subordination of the social sciences to trendy causes and the resultant delegitimization of academia is the fact that petulant, incoherent grad students exert inordinate power over the hiring decisions of tenured professors and administrators:

Jesse Singal

@jessesingal

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1/ Here's the full letter from grad students that Yoel Inbar believes prevented him from getting hired as a psych prof by UCLA. On the one hand it's pretty wild, but on the other it's pretty much exactly what you'd expect, in all the worst ways.

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@ThinkItThroug17 That's exactly what it is, yes. It filters for the wealthy white candidates who know what to say in a diversity statement.

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My college's Board of Trustees rejected a request by SJP/JVP to divest from Boeing, Elbit Systems, Caterpillar, and Lockheed Martin. Student paper reached out for comment. Here's what I said. "I endorse the decision of the Board of Trustees regarding the divestment proposal.🧵

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@omni_american

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Americans appear to be resolutely sane on trans issues. They recognize: —gender identity usually tracks sex; —trans people shouldn't face discrimination; —sports should be segregated by natal sex; —kids need counseling not medication; —young kids needn't be taught about trans.

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@omni_american

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I can't count how many times I lay awake after a day of teaching college classes worrying whether I'd find myself fired in the AM, not for something I intended to communicate, but for how something I said was misinterpreted. I know I'm not alone. This is not a healthy culture.

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@omni_american

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NORWAY now joins Sweden, Finland, UK in revising gender-affirming care: "there is insufficient evidence for the use of puberty blockers and cross sex hormone treatments [= 'treatments under trial'] in young people" Meanwhile, Archives of Sexual Behavior retracts paper on ROGD.

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@profjmb

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I have just been notified that my paper with Suzanna Diaz will be retracted by the publisher due to concerns about lack of informed consent. This paper:

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@omni_american

2 years

Pre-ordered.

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@omni_american

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Much of the activism of liberal arts college graduates would be an unsustainable luxury if the black and brown working-class people whom it is supposed to benefit ever stopped reporting for duty the next morning to clean up after it.

Anthony Bradley

@drantbradley

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It’s almost always working class men (of color) who have to clean up behind the graffiti of liberal elites: climate change, Gaza protests on college campuses, etc. Put that in the slow cooker…

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@omni_american

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Five Hispanic Democrat legislators in CT seek to ban use of "Latinx" in state gov't documents. “The Spanish language, which is centuries old, defaults to Latino for everybody. It’s all-inclusive. They didn’t need to create a word, it already exists.”

Hispanic Connecticut Democrats Introduce Bill to Ban ‘Latinx’ from State Documents | National Review

‘I’m of Puerto Rican descent and I find it offensive,’ the bill’s sponsor, Democratic state representative Geraldo Reyes said.

www.nationalreview.com

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@omni_american

2 years

"We can never forget that almost all totalitarian orders begin as youth movements disgusted by nearly everything in the established order and impatient with the slow, difficult processes of actual human development within the context of individual liberty under the rule of law."

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@omni_american

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Economics Prof Roland Fryer, born in poverty, was cancelled for his wrongthink on issues of race by @Harvard administrators from elite families. He has this to say about Affirmative Action: "I benefited greatly from affirmative action. I very much hope my children will not."🧵

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@omni_american

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TENURED conservative Prof. Matthew Garrett fired for criticizing proposed DEI program. A Kern Community College District trustee says publicly that this is how we “cull” the “bad actors”: “we put a rope on some of ‘em and take ‘em to the slaughterhouse.”

Kern Community College District board of trustees votes to fire professor Matthew Garrett for...

After a four-year campaign by some faculty and administrators at Bakersfield College to rid the campus of professor Matthew Garrett and his inconvenient views ended last week with Garrett's termina...

www.thefire.org

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@omni_american

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Crenshaw is not so much a statistical idiot as a purveyor of what I dubbed "virtuous lies," that is, "false, misleading, or highly contestable claims promulgated as flatly true in order to serve purportedly emancipatory ends, despite the fact that evidence of their falsehood is

Dave Gilbert

@docgotham

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Kimberlé Crenshaw—one of the founders of Critical Race Theory—is a statistical idiot. African American women represent a very small proportion of overall victims of police use of lethal force—significantly less than 1% rather than 33%. When focusing

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@omni_american

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One thing that "sanepilled" me in 2020 was seeing foreign-born art historians who teach at US institutions re-post to FB instructions for how to destroy an American monument. Some monuments needed to go, but thru democratic processes not destruction orchestrated by professors.

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@omni_american

5 months

Thus begins the pretending that The Serious People weren't "all in" on this transparently ideological nonsense from the get-go!

Steve McGuire

@sfmcguire79

5 months

NEW: The Washington Post Editorial Board comes out against the use of DEI statements in academic hiring: “The last thing academia — or the country — needs is another incentive for people to be insincere or dishonest. The very purpose of the university is to encourage a free

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@omni_american

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Not good news. @Harvard 's new president is the woman who as dean tried to destroy Roland Fryer, Harvard's star economist, credibly at least in part because his research on "acting white," reforming K-12 ed, and police violence undercut all the traditional academic pieties.

Harvard University

@Harvard

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Claudine Gay has been elected the 30th president of Harvard University

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@omni_american

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"The American Psych. Assoc. has decried 'traditional masculinity.' The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Assoc. published a paper describing 'Whiteness' as a 'malignant, parasitic-like condition.' A psychiatrist speaking at Yale shared her fantasies of killing white people."

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@omni_american

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The Roman emperor Diocletian issued his "Edict on Maximum Prices" in 301 CE, in an attempt to curb inflation resulting from "avarice." It didn't go well.

Jeff Stein

@JStein_WaPo

2 months

News: Kamala Harris will on Friday propose the first ever “federal ban on corporate price gouging” in the food and grocery industries on Friday, the campaign says in a statement Will also announce measures on housing & prescription drugs

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What have we done to Gen Z? My mother-in-law just had her 60th reunion at Fisk. She recalled that as her father put her on the train to go, he died of a heart attack on the platform. Still, she attended that semester & thrived. Meanwhile, at my college, suicidality is up 600%.

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