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@jbraunstein914 @xwanyex So we’re back to Kendi’s proposal that the only remedy for past discrimination is current (righteous) discrimination. Which, fine, you can make an argument for. But until… when? Or what? 50 years? Three post Jim Crow generations? Forever?

What do you think we should have done to address codified racism in America? Nothing at all? Or was just making the law colorblind enough? After centuries of subjugation, instantiate formal equality and then say “good luck”? Every time right wingers complain about how liberals deal with racism, they conspicuously leave out any alternative ideas that grapple with correcting injustice. Almost as if they don’t care

This is the logic of disparate impact, which is found all throughout anti-racist thought. The idea here is that, you know, even if we don’t have any evidence of racist intent, we should still be really worried that people are secretly doing racist stuff. And since it’s possible to be secretly racist in a way that provides no evidence of racist intent, we need to give government a lot of power to investigate any situation in which the relevant pie chart doesn’t map exactly onto the demographic distribution of the country. We just have to do this, because there could be all kinds of people with secret racist motivations. How could we ever really know if these people aren’t acting out of hidden racial intent? This is the demand for a kind of paranoid, invasive overseer who is always checking to make sure that the outcomes perfectly match the census, so that we don’t accidentally let some secret racists pull one over on us. It’s a completely absurd way to operate a government, a legal system, a university, etc.

@mattyglesias 90% of people involved in education are fucking retarded. It’s a national crisis.

@EvaLovesDesign 💯 AI

A book lover lives here

@espn sweet strobe effect on this Yankees Red Sox game

@mtracey You never used to be this retarded. What happened?

2020: STARBUCKS EMPLOYEES MUST ATTEND MANDATORY CORPORATE STRUGGLE SESSIONS ON WHITE PRIVILEGE 2025: STARBUCKS EMPLOYEES MUST EXALT OUR SLAIN SAVIOR, CHARLIE KIRK, BY WRITING HIS NAME ON BEVERAGES

@AyannaPressley Ew. Even for you this is low.

Trey Reed deserved to grow old, to be with his family, & pursuing his dreams.   Instead, he was found hanging from a tree at Delta State University — a predominantly white institution in Mississippi.   We'll never have true justice for Trey, because that would mean he would still be with us — but there must be answers.

@RepPressley How are you so consistently on the wrong side of every issue? It’s impressive, really.

Republicans are pushing a bill to try 14-year-olds in DC as adults. This doesn't make communities safer—it only traumatizes children & perpetuates racism. Just ask the Exonerated 5. If they really cared about safety, they'd support trauma-informed solutions & violence prevention programs.

@NUFC Congrats to Newcastle for their bold signing of Machine Gun Kelly

That big Nick energy 🔥

@BigP4P4Smurf @Read_Acted I see someone has read Gatsby

@Read_Acted Social status is a universal human motivator. Even if material inequality could be eliminated, something else would replace it as a status marker. If you don't like wealth inequality, you'll like whatever replaces it even less

CHALLENGE: Please comment with the most succinct retort to this image possible. Write from the viewpoint of someone trying to govern, or write a Constitution.

@MatRyanELATeach Conclave?

For my Catholic friends (and non-Catholics as well!), what is one Catholic film (movie with a clear Catholic theme) that you would recommend?

@MatRyanELATeach @erickalenze I’m listening to your interview with Zelden right now and had to revisit this thread. I forgot to ask (a year and a half ago, I know), do you do these with pencil and paper or digitally? I’m thinking of implementing something similar and have got to know!!

@abbey_hc @erickalenze Thank you! Mostly short answer, sometimes MC. Very specific details; 8-10 questions; 3-4 minutes at the beginning of each period.

This is how I get my students to read. The quizzes ensure that they have to read. By the end of the school year, each of my students will have read nearly 3000 pages (11 texts) of assigned reading. This is @erickalenze's method as well. chronicle.com/article/is-thi…

@ChuckModi1 @bendreyfuss You just proved his point

WAY too simplistic. As ex-liberal, my main 2 diff was changing TIME and SPACE. TIME: I never saw past next election & sacrificed any longterm health SPACE: I never saw past U.S. borders—96% world population did not matter Once you extend these lenses (& see interconnectedness), everything changes Once you study U.S. gangster global role & punctuated right now by support for a genocide, America is OBJECTIVELY bad. Just as Germany in 1940s was objectively bad. It’s not an opinion. It’s your increased knowledge (& increased caring) leading to the only reasonable conclusion. My increased global knowledge & understanding U.S. military industrial complex & how Lockheed Martin, etc. is more powerful than any Prez & a major threat to death of this entire planet (& climate change) also helped reshape my shift to anti-capitalism. Your anti-intellectual good/bad analysis in a vacuum really dumbs it all down to a symptom while ignoring the root. It dumbs down leftism to some random emotion devoid of all facts, all context & all analysis that led to that completely rational result.

I think that the main difference between “the left” and “liberals” is that “the left” thinks America is bad. There are other differences but the main one is that operating thesis of “the left” is that America is bad and should be sorry. For what? Glad you asked. Everything.

@MatRyanELATeach They are apparently unrelated. I, too, made the assumption that prude was derived from prudence or a common ancestor, but… nope. Ce la vie 🤷🏻

Interested in the etymological history of "prudence" and "prude" that led to a split: the first is a virtue while the latter is a typically a pejorative. Perhaps akin to the split between "virtue" and "virtue signaling."

@ramcdk @avidseries Retreat to the motte!

@avidseries It wasn’t about “white” violence - it was about *police* violence. You’re well more than smart enough to understand why violence by agents of the state is uniquely sinister/dangerous, and why it might merit special concern/treatment. Why post a cheap disingenuous shot like this

@larissaphillip Fucking lunatics, all of them

Revisiting Rudolf Fleisch's classic Why Johnny Can't Read. The mid-century quotes from doctors of education are really stunning. It seems they all just jumped on this bandwagon, that there were better, more modern ways of teaching reading. Here are a few:

@heymrsbond @audreyalison I’m sorry you can’t see it. Enjoy your Sunday!

@heymrsbond @audreyalison Now apply this reasoning, word for word, to “children from marginalized backgrounds.”

@sage_stage These kids need a clear and obvious pathway to learning a trade. As it stands, they will offer nothing of value to society and develop the psychopathologies that accompany a prolonged lack of self respect and dignity.

This year there seems to be a larger number of students who are passing nothing, yet show up every day. Not cutting class, not sleeping all period, not on their phones in my class at least. But sitting there all period and doing nothing. And failing all their classes

@sage_stage White

I noticed two things about all, or almost all of the teacher's who were reassigned against their will. Anyone wanna guess?

@neiltyson It is easier for a camel to fit through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Have you given away your wealth? No? Then you have not been thinking seriously about the morals of Jesus. You are pretending to make a cheap political point.

Been thinking a lot lately about the morals of Jesus of Nazareth. As a tan man from the Middle East, if Jesus were an undocumented American immigrant, I wonder if angry mobs would get ICE to deport him — especially for speaking out against greed and advocating for the poor.