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Law & Sociology Professor. Intersections of race, family, education, disability & property. From Philly. #FreePalestine
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Yesterday, John McWhorter, a linguist who the NYT gives space to opine about racism, wrote an op-ed that declared the Columbia protests to be “abusive” to Jewish students, and placed the blame for that abuse on “anti-racist academic culture.”
I have thoughts.🧵
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Still remember: a guilty verdict is not justice. Putting Chauvin in prison is not justice. Justice would have been for George to never have died, to never been subjected to the violence of the state.
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All faculty should be outraged that a student whose brilliance carried her four years is not being allowed to showcase that brilliance that she worked so hard for. All faculty.
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@TheMaleMaam
@blaqueerflow
They are also taunting us bc we have on masks. Caring for the vulnerable among us is apparently antisemitic.
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UCLA just newly created an "Office of Campus Safety" controlled by ... a cop.
Police do not keep us safe. Police do not keep students safe. Police do not keep faculty and staff safe.
Police do not keep us safe.
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Let’s be clear — our students in the encampment had NO interest in violence. These counter protestors attacked our students. The videos are clear that THEY were tearing at the barricade. THEY used bear spray. THEY came armed with weapons. MEDIA GET IT RIGHT.
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I've checked myself into the hospital for severe depression, and have three times attended intensive outpatient programs for severe depression. It's very hard, especially when people are depending on you. I'm proud of .
@JohnFetterman
and wish him so much peace.
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Are we all going to look on and just watch the system collapse, where political and economic power commandeer universities? This can and will spread. We are all worse off for it.
One down.
Two to go.
This is only the very beginning of addressing the pervasive rot of antisemitism that has destroyed the most “prestigious” higher education institutions in America.
This forced resignation of the President of
@Penn
is the bare minimum of what is required.
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i can't believe i'm about to retweet this
HIND’S HALL. Once it’s up on streaming all proceeds to UNRWA.
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Here is is. Anxiety through the roof on this one, but I hope it adds to the literature even a little bit.
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Instead, he falls on a belief in monolithic Jewish thought - because they are Jewish they must be offended by the chant -- which others have pointed out that such a view is itself antisemitic. Furthermore, he also unquestioningly assumes such a chant is inherently anti-Jewish. 5/
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This argument is curious, to say the least. First, college campuses are actually killing DEI. Hundreds of pieces of legislation and pursuant to the anti-affirmative action decision, schools are gutting DEI offices and renaming centers and events to distance from DEI. 8/
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Instead, he was offended by the “noise” he actually heard: “infuriated chants” against a devastating genocide, noise that is “continuous during the day and into the evening,” as if genocide has a start and stop time. 3/
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I'm not sitting here as woe is me. But when we base decisions on income without any acknowledgement that income is not what really gets you ahead, then we miss the key driver of inequality, which is not income, but wealth.
Felt like I needed to say this.
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Second, he ignores that his own university is doing exactly as he says would happen with anti-Black chanting: immediate arrest, silencing, suspending. And third, the fact is that anti-Blackness is rampant on campuses, often with very little institutional protection. 9/
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...or peace studies, yet feels expert enough to dismiss colonialism and genocide as seemingly only recent buzz words adopted by students. Of course, scholarly study of colonialism and genocide is as old as colonialism and genocide. His ignorance is a personal issue. 11/
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No matter how much data there is, it doesn’t matter. People think these kids want to fail. They don’t see these children as children, but rather criminals and low wage workers in the making. Why do they need certified teachers? Why do they need access to advanced classes?
Black and Latino students are at a disadvantage in nearly every measure of educational opportunity, with less access to advanced classes, counselors and even certified teachers, new data shows.
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I'm reading the Harvard case transcripts: "The Freedmen's Bureau for the most part did not draw any racial classifications. It was classifications on the basis of being a former slave or a refugee."
The Freedman's Bureau wasn't about race.
I don't know what to do with this.
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Under no circumstances is killing 34,000 people justified bc Hamas uses Palestinians as “human shields.” That Palestinian baby that is murdered is not a shield. It’s a baby, a HUMAN CHILD. Nothing else. Israel is killing babies, not shields.
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So my good news:
The
@UCLA_Law
graduating class of 2024 has honored me with the award of Professor of the Year.
(This the second time in 4 years. I'm not gonna stay humble on that 🥰 I put in work!)
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He begins by discussing a class where he asks students to listen for 4:33 “in silence to surrounding noise.” The noise McW hoped to have, curiously on an urban campus in New York City were “birds or people walking by in the hallway.” 2/
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Last class. This academic year, I:
- Got tenure
- Wrote two articles totaling 85+ pages
- Led a team tracking anti-CRT measures
- Co-wrote a 40-page report about said measures
- COVID 2x
- Taught 100 students family law & CRT...
While battling depression and anxiety.
I'm tired.
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He singles out the noise of “lusty chanting of ‘from the river to the sea,” identifying himself as a Jewish protector: “I couldn’t see making them sit and listen to this as if it were background music.” Of course, he never claims to know these students’ actual positions. 4/
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This sentiment is eerily similar to privileging the feelings of White children in instruction on the evils of White supremacy - then and now - as somehow more important than the facts on the ground of systemic oppression and dehumanization of Black people.
ok going out on an extremely-safe-for-your-Xian-twitter-pal limb to say this:
if Jewish colleagues who you have known to be not-crazy in a variety of professional contexts tell you that some of where The Discourse sits leaves them viscerally uneasy, maybe it is worth listening
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Some thoughts.
I am blessed beyond favor. I have a job I love. I have three healthy children. I'm married to the love of my life.
But it took a lot to get here.
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He claims “legitimate questions remain about the definition of genocide, about the extent of a nation’s right to defend itself and about the justice of partition,” but apparently he believes those contestation is settled when it comes to this chant. Of course, it is not. 6/
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He argues that the protests are too “relentless,” too “loud,” and too “angry” such that no one, including White people “should be expected to bear up under” such protest. Of course, Israel’s assault on the Palestinian people is relentless, horrifying, and angry. 13/
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He then claims these protests are really about “a larger battle against power structures — here in the form of what they call colonialism and genocide — and against whiteness.” As mentioned above, McW himself is not a scholar of sociology, international human rights, law... 10/
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The media must get this right. Our students were viciously attacked by pro-Israel instigators looking for a fight. This is an escalation from what I witnessed Sunday. After the glee I saw in threats to our students, the university should have been prepared to protect them.
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He attempts to delegitimize the protest by comparing to “anti-Black” chants & “DEI has got to die.” He argues that if these chants occurred on college campuses, it would be immediately shut down. 7/
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Peak McW for a Black man to proclaim that a movement of Black and brown folks (and Jewish folks!) against a state purposefully murdering civilians should be shut down for amorphous claims of fear. /end
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But McW does not seem to really care about that; he devotes one sentence to Gaza: the war is “no longer constructive or even coherent.” Yet, the students’ protests of an non-constructive and incoherent war funded by American dollars and supported by university dollars... 14/
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... where 34,000 people have died in 7 mo, where children and women make up the majority of those whom Israel has killed, where massive graves are being found in hospitals, and there is an impending attack on an area where a million people are just trying to survive... 15/
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...and does not mention at all the harassment and actual physical violence against Palestinian students -- three of them were actually shot! But that is clearly not McW's concern. Perhaps only some students deserve to be safe? 17/
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He then, perhaps most irritating and again with no evidence, claims that this boils down to opposition to “whiteness.” To him, bc Jewish students “are white” they are being required to “tolerate all of this” as part of an anti-racist witch hunt against White people. 12/
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It’s concerning that a Black man in New York City would endorse amorphous claims of fear and danger as a reason for punitive action. Remember Bernie Goetz -- many, many Black men have been lynched, murdered and jailed because someone “felt “unsafe.” 18/
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Thanks for y’all’s support on this thread. I’ve been waiting for 20 years for him to irritate me enough to take the time.
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... should adhere to norms of respectable protest?
McW then claims that while “some” of the protests are peaceful, “calling all of this” - by which I assume he means the movement against war - itself is not “peaceful.” His definition of a lack of peace is curious... 16/
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@StJamesStJames
@shutupmallory
But she *does* know about Twitter best practices. Which was the point of her tweet. Not politics. Not journalism. Making the best use of words on twitter.
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The actual repression of Palestinian thought, Palestinian concepts, and pro-Palestinian actions on a college campus shows the depths of the desire to act as if Palestinians and Palestine do not exist. It’s is an attempt to literally erase a people.
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He finishes with his claim that “antiracist academic culture”, with anti-racist -- code word for Black, used pejoratively -- is a part of his problem with the protests. And this is where he reaches peak McW -- blaming Black people. 21/
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As a property professor that constantly asks my students to interrogate the privileging of property over other human rights, the "but it's private property" argument isn't the flex folks think it is.
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Dear colleagues,
I write to share with you what I’ve witnessed over the past two days of being at the law school and on campus. Our students are right now struggling personally and collectively to process and discuss the mass murders and death in Israel and Palestine. 2/
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Knowing how “wokeness” is often a code word for Black, he goes on to make his most incendiary claim: that the protests are “a form of abuse” against Jewish students. Read that again -- he is claiming that “anti-racism” -- pro-Blackness -- is violent and abusive. 24/
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This is the same playbook used against the 2020 protests: Black folks protesting and demanding, en masse, is enough for us to be considered dangerous. That protest led by Black and brown folks about a horrific genocidal atrocity is inherently threatening and abusive. 25/
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As faculty, we owe a debt to the students whose tuition payments fund our salaries. We should be supporting students who are doing exactly what students at this time of their lives should be doing -- resisting, challenging, demanding -- not celebrating their arrest.
Video from Pomona College showing the massive police presence. School administration has ordered the arrest of at least 21 students. This should be getting national attention.
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Remember his claim to fame: In a 2001 article, he revived the “culture of poverty” and pathology to explain the lack of Black progress. A few years back he claimed that anti-racism was as bad as racism itself. 22/
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He predictably rails against “wokeness,” an unserious term that has been used to defeat any pro-Black progress following the 2020 protests. And now, according to McW, anti-racism is to blame for student voices protesting genocide. 23/
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... he ignores crucial difference: in 7 months, 34K people have been murdered and the entire strip is on the verge of a famine. I mean not to devalue the evil of apartheid, as apartheid is exactly what has allowed Israeli bombardment of a people trapped. 20/
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His reached to his nostalgic memories of the anti-apartheid movement, praising the tenacity of the movement but “they did not seek to all but shut down campus life.” In spite of the dubiousness of the claim that shutting down campus life is somehow generally bad... 19/
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I say all this to say -- just because someone has a high income it doesn't mean that there isn't negative net worth behind that. Everything we have, we paid for. Everything we have, we are still paying for. We do not own a home because we cannot afford to.
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I cancelled class today in solidarity with
#UAWonStrike
. Honestly, I’m a bit terrified of what the repercussions will be, both from above and below. But my intimate connection with not being sure I could feed my family as a grad student compels this choice.
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“I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store” by Eve L. Ewing
One of my favorite poems written by one of my favorite poets. What if Emmett Till grew up to be an older man, mundanely shopping for groceries?
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Just talked to some students. The universities have played this all wrong. The students are not going to stop. They aren't going to back down. The more draconian the reaction, the more intensive -- and creative -- the protest. Commencement is next.
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In his voice and tone I hear the voice and tone of my son. I hear him asking questions and calling for me. My heart weeps for his mother.
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law professors need to be doing the important work of explaining why this doesn't stop with abortion
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@DarrenRosenblum
I don't think that the student is doing something wrong. You've already given the phone number and started a somewhat non-professional relationship. You may have an email addresses that you prefer. I'm not sure why this is something that a student needs to know in this situation.
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Wow. I’m so proud to be a part of this community standing in solidarity with our students as we remember why they are there: 35,000 Palestinians dead, hundreds of thousands starving, further invasion imminent. And our universities are materially supporting this genocide.
The support for pro-Palestinian protesters and the Gaza Solidarity Encampment here at UCLA is absolutely massive. Hundreds forming a human barrier protecting the encampment from violent Zionists and law enforcement.
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That's it. It's done. Tenure self-statement submitted. File closed. I've done all I can do.
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I doubt there are Black woman academics eager to take that job right now. For who? For what?
The next president of Harvard University MUST be a Black woman.
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Why do white people think that these children belong to them? Is the ultimate expression of white supremacy. A critique in my file was that I didn’t teach ICWA neutrally. I can’t. White people do not have a constitutional right to Native children. No.
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A VERY prominent law professor told me that I would have no problem getting a job because I was a woman and black. I never had a black woman prof in law school, and most students have never had one besides me.
#blackintheivory
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@espinsegall
@DBRodriguez5
It is utterly obsessed with Black women. It’s a hit job to remind everyone that we are seen as less deserving and not smart and thus we don’t belong. It exposes what many of us have experienced first hand. Law profs need not only read, but condemn these attacks on Black women.
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The unis will regret this. Presidents are going to be fired for the right reasons: you cannot lead and claim to protect students when you sic the police on students, faculty, and staff. Remember: they created the circumstances of these protests by refusing to listen to students.
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@eveewing
Girl...I’m reading Derrick Bells the Space Traders and I’m like, what if my ancestors really wanted to be free of this? What if it means that they don’t care that I have advanced or anything? What if they wanted true freedom?
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Jesus. The defense of the paper is somehow worse than the paper itself. Thread. 1/
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My teaching goal is to make property one of the best classes they take in 1L. My evaluations suggest I’ve done well. I think property is foundational to our legal order which is why it’s so important to teach it well.
What was your least favorite subject in law school/bar exam? And why is it Real Property?
#lawtwitter
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I’ve never been outside of North America. And only out of the country 3 times. I’m not well-travelled bc I’ve never had money.
Law and Society is in Lisbon. July 13-16. And I am going. Get y’all’s shots and boosters because if I can’t go …
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Please stop telling us that unless we have a PhD in Israel-Palestine we have no right to speak. (Y’all will deny even those who DO have scholarly expertise!) There are basic facts that are not hard to understand. Israeli bombs and guns are killing Palestinians. Our government 1/
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law students are in the midst of final exams and they have to think about this shit
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“Starves the unborn human until death”
Reminder that fetal personhood is an end goal. They are constructing it opinion by opinion.
I mean. This is paragraph 4 of the opinion in Alliance for Hippocratic Med v FDA that aims to withdraw approval of mifepristone. This is how the judge describes medication abortion
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If you are not unequivocally condemning this lawsuit and its specific attack on Black women, as well as the folks who lended their names to this lawsuit…we know who our friends are and we know who our friends are not. It’s noted and won’t be forgotten.
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My 9-year-old vaxxed kiddo has COVID and is symptomatic. I’m not going to tell him that he has it because he’s been so concerned, always wearing his mask, questioning why others are not. He did all the right things.
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I had 14 offers of employment when I was on the law teaching market.
Black folks: post a true, non-humble, flex about yourself that you’d never say out loud because you have couth.
I wanna see Ya’ll BRAG on what your Ancestors have rendered!
Me: I’m one the best thinkers, writers and speakers of my generation.
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Last night in Lisbon. No one else I’d want to share this experience with.
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I'm writing my tenure self-statement (file closes in 10 days!)
I'm so proud of myself.
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@FeministaJones
My white kindergarten teacher said I was immature and not very bright and shouldn't skip a grade. My mommy cussed her ALL the way out. And I skipped to second grade and never looked back. Got a BS, MA, JD, and PhD. Fuck her.
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The feelings of grown people who are uneasy with the Discourse -- words and concepts being applied -- genocide, apartheid, settler colonialism -- should not take precedence over the on-going massacre of 30,000 people by a so-called democratic state.
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I am so happy to share that the
@YaleLJournal
solicited from me and is going to publish a Feature Article written by...me! It will introduce the law review world to the
@CRSatUCLA
#CRT
Forward Tracking Project, which tracks and analyzes the anti-CRT efforts at all levels of gov.
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Pretty sure Fred Hampton would not want his name on the FBI building
BREAKING: Biden administration proposing changing name of J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building to Fred Hampton FBI Administrative Campus
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She cited me.
#brag
#nothumble
In her recent talk at
@BerkeleyLaw
, Justice Sotomayor was asked whether legal scholarship is important at the Court. Her answer: Originalist Justices are super-interested in it, and seek it out. OTOH, she is interested mostly in areas she doesn't know.
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I'll add to this dress/professionalism conversation with my own thoughts.
TLDR; what it means to be and look "professional" should not be naturalized but rather understood as its own social performance that entrenches racism, sexism, ableism etc.
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Only people who don’t understand math would think this is “adding needless work.” I do this in my head all the time. This teaches it explicitly. This is a foundation for how any kid can be great at math.
My sons math homework. I simply can’t roll my eyes enough. Why are we adding needless work instead of teaching simple math.
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Again, the feelings of others are being privileged over the actual material realities on the ground.
Let me be clear: antisemitism is a real thing and is as evil as anti-Black racism. And it is on the rise -- but not by the left, but the right.
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Remember the point of the protest: Thirty four thousand Palestinians are dead. Over ten thousand children. Hundreds of thousands are starving. And an assault that threatens over one million people is impending.
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It's here! Family | Home | School, published in the
@NwULRev
. A thread about the piece (really just the abstract in tweet form :)
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That’s because MLK was a master technician on the minds of liberal Whites who care more about being late for work than Black peoples lives. He knew exactly who y’all are and the limits of your morality.
Fun fact: Martin Luther King Jr. opposed blocking roadways & transit paths indefinitely because he understood it was more likely to piss people off than convince them.
This is an exercise in vanity, not activism.
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We incentivize marriage & They want to make it harder for women to leave. All of this is about control. All women should find this terrifying.
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I respect many many people who signed this letter. They have been mentors and supporters me, and I hope that can continue.
But why are law profs — not just here, but nationally— so unwilling to say that calling the riot police on our students is simply wrong?
in stark contrast to letters from numerous departments at the university of virginia condemning the use of police violence against students last week, faculty at the law school have signed a letter supporting president jim ryan's decision to send in state police in riot gear
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I can't thank all of you who reacted with likes and words of congrats. I read each one and thank you.
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I’m not supposed to be on here but this is horrible but I’m on vacay so I’ll leave the analysis to others. I did get cited though. *back to self imposed exile*
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Intersectionality is structural, not individual. It interrogates how race, gender, class etc are mutually constitutive; you cannot understand the operation of any of them without understanding the super structure of subordination.
When Marxists say we reject intersectionality, we don’t mean we reject analyses that take into consideration race, gender, etc. What we mean is we don’t see these as separate issues that “intersect”, but as inseparable issues emerging from class society itself
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I start teaching for the fall semester in 1 hour. 58 students for 3 hours every day this week. Every time I gear up for the first day of teaching, my stomach does back flips. I’ve won awards for teaching and am often asked to speak on teaching. But the first day is still scary.
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