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Beigetreten Mayıs 2022
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ABTejana
ABTejana@MbProfesora·
@DavidRandallNAS @rclu But Prince Hamlet notoriously defies the two rules King Hamlet gives for his inquiry- to “Taint not thy mind” and to leave Gertrude alone. It’s not his inaction that’s the most fundamental issue, it’s the rules he contravenes
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David Randall
David Randall@DavidRandallNAS·
@rclu @MbProfesora Surrenders also form character. I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two, Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool, Deferential, glad to be of use, Politic, cautious, and meticulous. Et seq.
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Rachel Lu
Rachel Lu@rclu·
Really nice thread from @MbProfesora. To which I would only add that my own recent experiences with Rufo don’t give me much confidence that attempts at measured, civil discourse would be fruitful. He’s welcome to take a shot at disproving that theory.
ABTejana@MbProfesora

Rufo is missing the point, though, that there is a bigger horizon he rejects and these folks don’t. There are certain acts that when you do them change the nature of your heart and soul and make you become the thing you are fighting. 1/

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ABTejana@MbProfesora·
@ForeverModoc I’m certain there are litanies of what the right does in places they control. It’s silly and inaccurate to act like either one of these players are above any of this
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ModocForever
ModocForever@ForeverModoc·
@MbProfesora Rufo isn't the one running around burning down administration buildings and pogroming jews, whites and asians on campus. you will never achieve justice of any kind if you passively let this happen.
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ABTejana
ABTejana@MbProfesora·
To play with McLuhan, “the method is the message.” If you “fight” in terms of power with no mind to justice it doesn’t matter how just you think your ends are. What you did to get power turned you and your vision into something incapable of sustaining the good or just on earth
Wokal Distance@wokal_distance

This is not Rufo just aimlessly trying to be a dick. he is attempting to show that the methods of the Elizabeth Corey types have failed because they don't understand that the problem is not a matter of communication or persuasion. The right is having power politics done to them by the left, and Rufo's point is that you can't fight power politics with persuasion. It is impossible to reason with power politics for the exact same reason that it is impossible to reason with a punch in the face. You cannot appeal to the better nature and intellectual honesty of a person who thinks that all intellectual engagement is merely masks for power and all justifications are merely rhetorical moves in a discursive struggle for political position. Again, academics simply refuse to engage with Rufo's theory of change, what he is trying to do intellectually and politically, or his normative and strategic justifications for doing so. If academics want understanding, perhaps they could, you know, ask him (or me! we worked and work together!) about what is being done, why it is being done, and what the normative and strategic justifications for doing so are.

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ABTejana
ABTejana@MbProfesora·
@youtwitface @rclu I don’t think it justifies it- but I think people think there is a time of merit in the system that we can return to and that AA ruined and removing that just solves any problem of discrimination and returns us to the pursuit of merit
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Kam Fong as Chin Ho@youtwitface·
@MbProfesora @rclu I suppose this is where we break ranks. Past discrimination doesn't justify present discrimination based on race. Now if the gov't wanted to disciminate and give preference to poor people over wealthy people, I'd be much more tolerant of that.
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ABTejana
ABTejana@MbProfesora·
@ForeverModoc @JacobB75646 this just seems factually incorrect after everything we have learned from the email exchanges between Bannon and Epstein.
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ModocForever
ModocForever@ForeverModoc·
@MbProfesora @JacobB75646 They are the vast majority of them with insitutional power, and the ones who engage the the largest number of acts of public ritualistic degeneracy.
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ABTejana
ABTejana@MbProfesora·
Rufo is missing the point, though, that there is a bigger horizon he rejects and these folks don’t. There are certain acts that when you do them change the nature of your heart and soul and make you become the thing you are fighting. 1/
Wokal Distance@wokal_distance

This is not Rufo just aimlessly trying to be a dick. he is attempting to show that the methods of the Elizabeth Corey types have failed because they don't understand that the problem is not a matter of communication or persuasion. The right is having power politics done to them by the left, and Rufo's point is that you can't fight power politics with persuasion. It is impossible to reason with power politics for the exact same reason that it is impossible to reason with a punch in the face. You cannot appeal to the better nature and intellectual honesty of a person who thinks that all intellectual engagement is merely masks for power and all justifications are merely rhetorical moves in a discursive struggle for political position. Again, academics simply refuse to engage with Rufo's theory of change, what he is trying to do intellectually and politically, or his normative and strategic justifications for doing so. If academics want understanding, perhaps they could, you know, ask him (or me! we worked and work together!) about what is being done, why it is being done, and what the normative and strategic justifications for doing so are.

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ABTejana@MbProfesora·
@youtwitface @rclu inequality and the resulting uneven access to the things that help the human mind to expand and grow is selling a bill of false goods and no real solution to any problem in the present moment.
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ABTejana@MbProfesora·
@youtwitface @rclu which isn't to say that your experience of CA was a good or just one, but it is to say that anyone who either can't a) accurately characterize previous eras of education/hiring practices and b) ask legitimate questions about what merit means in times of great socio-economic 3/
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ModocForever@ForeverModoc·
@MbProfesora @JacobB75646 Mission: The overthrow of the communists and satanic pedophiles KPIs: Reduced public trust in Satanic Pedophiles, Reduced market for satanic pedophile industries, mitigation of future satanic pedophiles It certainly isn't: Find middle ground with the satanic pedophiles.
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ABTejana
ABTejana@MbProfesora·
@youtwitface @rclu Being willing to do anything to gain control of institutions they ultimately just offer another corrupt structure that also stifles all real free thought and questioning for the sake of maintaining power. Finally it’s kind of you to want to read something I’ve written on this 2/
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ABTejana@MbProfesora·
@youtwitface @rclu either an accurate or complete depiction of what is happening? And I’d ask b) How do you determine which accounts of what you’re disturbed by are free of being twisted into justifications for power for political actors who oppose actors you have rightly learned to distrust?
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ABTejana
ABTejana@MbProfesora·
@youtwitface @rclu Well, first I’m sorry if I’m breaking Twitter etiquette/norms bc I don’t really use it to talk back and forth a lot. But I guess first I’d ask a) what is it that you’re troubled by that you think Rufo has the answer to b) no insult, but why do you think what troubles you is 1/
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ABTejana
ABTejana@MbProfesora·
@youtwitface @rclu I don’t really think in terms of supporters, and I think that’s part of the harm of our world’s Twitter-driven deliberation generally. People should be able to move between “friends” and “enemies” when deliberating and now we just argue by mascots.
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Kam Fong as Chin Ho@youtwitface·
@MbProfesora @rclu I have zero institutionalized knowledge. I'm mostly here for fantasy football takes. I'm persuadable.....I'm just astonished at how little you care about persuasion and just want to get likes from your own supporters
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ABTejana@MbProfesora·
@ibmmiller I don’t think “not the left” is interchangeable with “good.”
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Ian Miller 👣
Ian Miller 👣@ibmmiller·
@MbProfesora I have often questioned the populists and Trump supporters in the Right for the past 10 years, asking if we use the exact same tactics as the Left, how are we different. Rufo, however, DOES articulate what and why he's gaining and using power to accomplish, and it is not The Left
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ABTejana
ABTejana@MbProfesora·
@youtwitface @rclu If you’re troubled by that, argue from an account that isn’t a Twitter anon so you show you have some skin in the game and institutional knowledge.
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Kam Fong as Chin Ho@youtwitface·
@rclu @MbProfesora Your more troubled by Rufo's attack on Corey than you are by institutionalized discrimination in academia. Just know, some of us are troubled by that.
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ABTejana
ABTejana@MbProfesora·
@rclu @youtwitface It’s also a good example of his overconfidence. He saw your critique, got hurt, googled lazily and had no context for your credentials/skills. Then he looked ignorant in a lame attempt at character assassination instead of dealing with your arguments, so he looked weak and wrong
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Rachel Lu
Rachel Lu@rclu·
@youtwitface @MbProfesora I have never "retreated" from Rufo. I merely answered his question. If a lot of other people were entertained by the spectacle of him calling a mom of 5 a failure for leaning out... that's on him.
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Philip Bunn
Philip Bunn@PhilipDBunn·
I’ve spent many years trying to explain to my friends to my left what it feels like to be a conservative navigating academia. It certainly would have been easier not to be one. But based on current discourse, I guess the whole time I’ve been a secret lefty doing lefty things.
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ABTejana@MbProfesora·
Another thing (thinking about it more): a lot of people who believe they’re realigning themselves to strength/power end up becoming really submissive to leaders/funding that control their speech/thought tightly and let no one step out of line. That’s not very strong or powerful
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Rufo is missing the point, though, that there is a bigger horizon he rejects and these folks don’t. There are certain acts that when you do them change the nature of your heart and soul and make you become the thing you are fighting. 1/

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