Gary Frankel
@FrankelGarion
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PhD student in PK-12 Ed Administration @TAMU. Aggie 3x over. Education policy. History. Political theory. Emeritus @JoinYoungVoices. Opinions mine.
DFW/College Station/Austin, TX
Joined July 2020
My latest in @ChronOpinion, on Texas A&M. "Even if you, like me, generally support the DEI ban, lambasting a conference meant to encourage students from disadvantaged communities to become business professors seems like a waste of time and energy."
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@davidbmcgarry @AviWoolf You had two children, but both of them, and your widowed wife, developed consumption. Oh well.
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RT @FrankelGarion: @AviWoolf I'm sure the people fantasizing about being a medieval peasant have absolutely zero concerns about the price o…
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A whole lot of the graffiti from Pompeii and Herculaneum remains funny. And the Romans loved ironic, punching-up humor.
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@AviWoolf I'm an anarchist when it comes to art. I think almost all expressive material qualifies as art in some way. Whether it's *good* art is a completely different question with a million different ways you can answer it.
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@neerajadeshp @ReubenR80027912 I'll have a glass or two of wine/Twisted Tea/etc (sweet enough to overcome the alcohol taste) but I just don't see the point of drinking beverages I don't like to make me lose my mind.
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TIL that Joseph Bonaparte — yes, that one — has a living American descendant who was very active in Hollywood in the 70s and 80s.
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I don't think this is the main animating force behind contemporary *conservatism* but it certainly explains a lot of the influencers! A huge chunk of people in conservative media tried and failed to make it in Hollywood.
The main animating force behind contemporary conservativism is that they desperately want to be embraced by the entertainment industry. They're deeply upset that they are cut out of contemporary culture - despite the fact that they are fundamentally incapable of creating art.
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RT @RealBPhil: Texas Home School Coalition: "@THSC conducted a 50-state bonafide research project to assess the impact of [school choice] p…
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This is a pretty good article, but my problem with it is that it neglects the many ways in which the American founding was NOT just a continuation of Anglo political ideas — ways that have nothing to do with John Locke. The Huguenots, Dutch, Scots-Irish, Irish Gaels, Pennsylvania Swedes, Quakers, Germans, and even the Iroquois, just to make a few, all contributed important ideas and principles to the American founding.
@ThomasDHowes There is a fundamental difference between American conservatism and liberalism that goes all the way back to the founding. I highly recommend this article by @yhazony and @haivry on the origins of American conservatism.
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@ShadowyZephyr @micah_erfan It's almost as if people really don't like being patronized or something
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RT @HedgeDirty: This view is everything wrong with American 'urban planners' today Suburbs are the majority mode of living, and the majori…
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@ConservaMuse And the whole point of having all-Black dancers was to prove a point to Drake. The Super Bowl gave a platform to the winner of the biggest battle in the music industry in 30 years, and it was great.
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@ConservaMuse It was also funny watching the WASP contingent remind everyone why South Park made fun of them for decades before the left became more easily mockable. But regardless, you're spot on here.
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@neontaster F. Scott Fitzgerald's prose is some of the best ever written in the English language, but his characters are horrible, his narrative work is not great, and everything he ever wrote just makes me hollow.
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