It's cool that your grandparents did this and you just kinda don't do anything remotely similar or even related but still get to parade their memory in defense of your political attitude on any given day
My grandparents helped hide Jews fleeing southern Italy in railroad tunnels, and then lived in those tunnels for weeks, eating dirt and grass, until American soldiers came through. You bought a kaffiyeh from Amazon and glamped for a week on the middle of Manhattan.
Very sweet post. What actually happened is that these guys followed the police, used them as protection, called a woman the n word, beat up a kid the police had already knocked over, and then followed a known local white nationalist organizer who led them to get the flag back up
(Thread) Today was a sad yet empowering day at Chapel Hill. When I walked to class, I saw the Palestinian flag raised on our quad flag pole, and was immediately upset at the act that these “protestors” had made. I cannot say I am fully educated on the Israel/Palestine conflict
Predictably, part time editors, adjunct faculty, working class people in all sorts of positions have shown in single instances more moral fortitude than all of the tenured faculty, university admin, and whining white house staffers have over the last five months
UNC created a violent and dangerous environment for students that did not exist prior to police incursion. Police beat students and used pepper spray, called them f*gs and d*kes, all under Lee Roberts watch
I'm glad that NY person saying Durham sucks led everyone to say it's classist to shit on the rural south, but this line of argument misses a more important point: literally anywhere in the south is unequivocally cooler than any part of Brooklyn where academics congregate
hamas has killed like 30 israeli civilians since 2004. Israel killed 20 Palestinians last night. The purchase Hamas has as a totem for Palestinian aggression in the US is totally deranged.
This is nice but the machinations of aid for "low income" students at a place like duke are parlor tricks. They don't fundamentally change who has access to the institution in the first place. The school is already free for actually poor people, they just don't accept any.
Any undergraduate student from North Carolina and South Carolina admitted to Duke whose household income is $150,000 or less will not have to pay tuition.
"... a Duke education can be affordable and accessible."
Wow, look at all the trailer trash trump supporters! Weird how they look like middle/middle upper white people from suburban michigan. Refusing to interrogate this any further bc it might lead me to reckon w the prevalence of white supremacy among those who are not abjectly poor
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Pro worker sentiment in pre-Reagan country music was so strong that a guy whose parents named him Stonewall Jackson wrote this socialist anthem
I am giving a talk at Duke via zoom Thursday at 6 about southern identity and conversion to islam, and also about maneuvering grad school when you want to write about country people and racial normativity and fishing and islam all at once. Here's the link:
UNC is in all-hands-on-deck mode to convince people that the student encampment was composed of outside agitators and intending harm to Jewish institutions because they don't want to answer questions about why this administration sent police to brutalize its students
This morning
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is at Dunbar High School in DC to announce a milestone in its Future Engineer Program. They had a surprise guest....Jeff Bezos.
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Graduate students in American Studies and Folklore at UNC Chapel Hill have issued a statement in solidarity with Palestine calling for a ceasefire and a commitment from UNC's administration to protecting student activists bravely mobilizing against genocide
-no showers for over 40 days.
-lights are kept on all night & people are sleeping on concrete floors.
-some are complaining they have gone hungry. ~ Rep. Jim McGovern
You know if Dogs were treated like this somewhere in America, someone would be in prison
I'm cracking up because I answered one of the spam phone calls and told the guy to quit calling me and he said "I will call and call you every day. Goodbye"
Universities should all go online, not pay their deans and provosts and presidents and viceroys and whatever, and use that money to continue paying groundskeepers, custodial staff, and other campus workers
Duke kids who work for palantr or McKenzie or some such: no one needs to hear from you today! Keep the vote crap to yourself and make a PowerPoint about how to decolonize the private prison industry or something
Living in a big city that you arent from and have no connection to, then trying to make friends by like, joining adult ultimate frisbee leagues and crap like that where teams are called like the Epic IPA Chugglers, LLC probably sucks
New York Discourse is for brain rotted grad students (not me), places mostly have the same stuff in them (people living and making life, people suffering and dying, restaurants you can go to sometimes) and the true test is: Are you being annoying wherever you are
I've never heard another white person talk about how much they love or respect "the police" except in these moments when people do it to establish their position on police violence against Black people. Every other day of the year, they hate the police like everyone else.
Tweet got too big and I'm being exposed to the worms that live at the bottom of this website. Thankfully I'm eminently chill and smart as well so I'm cooling 🙏
Lmao the religion department put up a pic where you can see my head and open desktop in the corner and my desktop wallpaper is a transparent image of the peanut butter baby overlayed on the Eiffel Tower
When I got in to Duke I posted on the Facebook page for our incoming class that I had grown up hating Duke basketball and was looking forward to becoming a fan, and some dork responded that I should consider that maybe I wasnt right for Duke. I hope hes crying right now
Having a word with snapchat due to personal reasons such as: the girl filter does not make me hot but there are people uglier than me that it does make hot
@HollyEvanMarie
Professors from generational academic families asked me why I wanted to go into a grad program, and I was like... I'll get paid for at least a few years and get to do some of the things I like? As opposed to landscaping while I job hunt for an indeterminate amount of time?
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And you will hear more about Haiti and Congo and Tigray from students engaged in these encampments than from bad faith detractors. Many of them have held teach ins on these subjects, specifically.
Beach week approaching....soon the smell of Duke kids will envelope my home town and the Spanish galleon will make more money in one weekend than it does the rest of the year
Here's the video of my zoom talk at Duke about white Southern converts and Redneck as a white cultural subjectivity. A duke prof emailed me to tell me its inappropriate to use words like "redneck" in this kind of work. Eat your heart out Duke Poli Sci
Trying to find a new place to live and getting pissed off at how many people in chapel hill want to make playing board games with them a prerequisite for being roommates
It is that time of year again where my students email me frantic questions about their final projects at the last minute while I frantically try to figure out my own final projects at the last minute
You could wish death on trump 1,000 times over and it would pale in comparison to what mainstream conservatives regularly said about obama, clinton, pelosi, etc. The idea that wishing mortal ill on people is outside of the pale is such a crock.
Pete Buttigieg is literally just a rich undergrad who keeps messaging campus activists to "help educate him" so he can learn a kitschy phrase or two for his student body president campaign
Buttigieg: "I have to confess that I was slow to realize -- I worked for years under the illusion that our schools in my city were integrated... But what I slowly realized... if you looked at the county, almost all of the diversity of our youths was in a single school district."
I wrote this for Southern Cultures about how a fish becomes a vessel for settler anxieties about place, and how interspecies violence underpins so much of the mundane matter that makes up idyllic representations of the rural:
Moved to chapel hill, miles closer to New York, where I will one day live and get paid 190k to write op eds to write about the decline of campus culture when I'm 36
A guy from my hometown died duck hunting and now the podcast industrial complex is honing in on their target: a family who lost their son, a woman who lost her husband, and a child who lost her father. This is an example of true crime brain rot.
Weird story happening in my area involving a missing duck hunter. Coast Guard searched over 600 sq miles. Family is acting bizarrely, deleting calls for help, then asking again, not being cooperative with volunteers, stuff being found, boat not sunk, etc
After this, you shouldn't be convinced by ANY conservative who tells you they want to:
1) defend personal liberty
2) limit "big government"
3) uphold the constitution
Long as cops are busting up people who dont think/look like them, they're okay with authoritarian governance.
If I was born fifty years earlier I wouldnt have to read all this mess about harvard and some article about shoes inside the house and ukraine. I'd work at a lumber mill and get pissed off at johnny Carson every night instead
This interviewer is only as stupid and obnoxious as the average outspoken supporter of Israel. These people aren't outliers. This is the deal now. Cranks on low rent cable news, sex pest lawyers like dershowitz, hollow eyed state dept demons. That's the Israel lobby in 2024.
It's hard to blame Duke poli sci kids for what they turn out to be considering theres a fairly high chance they were mentored by someone who belongs in the Hague. There is no group of people less thoughtful, more arrogant, or more smug
You cannot go to any town outside of Raleigh, Durham, or Chapel Hill without hearing people talk about how development is killing them. Adding apple to the mix is going to magnify this x100
I think some things that make me sad about Apple coming to NC are
A) how unlikely it feels that well-paid tech employees will educate themselves on NC culture and assume they’re “saving us”
B) how much this could stir resentment in smaller, dying towns outside the triangle
@no_good_wyfe
The real activists are at home tweeting just waiting for the right switch to flip and suddenly they'll be ready to confront the state for the first time in their lives, unlike pansy college students getting their skulls cracked on campus for fun!
People who work at universities and complain about this stuff are like "I'm upset with how the Class Inequality Factory I work at worded this email. Stop trying to feed me and let me do the work of reifying predatory structures in peace"
A reminder for every academic event planner: please stop centering your get togethers around food. I don't like to describe my medical diet in detail. I don't think there's anything thrilling about a lunch, dinner, or drinks. Also it's still a pandemic. 1/2
Stupid guy has heard people mention police abolition but never actually read up on it, has no idea how well "thought-out" it is, but presumes no one else has done any more work on it than he has and that it must be stupid
I got accepted to present at the Southern Studies Conference in Montgomery, which is good because: 1) conferences are fun ? 2) networking and all 3) (& most important) theres a diner in Montgomery that's half diner, half steer auctioning floor and their buttermilk pie is so good
Everyone tweeted about popeyes too much and now every cashier is gonna have to sit through a woke white online weirdo snapping a pic in line and tweeting "line was so long but popeyes is serving Black chicken realness and it is SENDING ME¡¡¡"
!!!!! These are all people who own landscaping companies and car dealerships, not poor people and they will happily tell you that. This is not americas noble working poor. They are little trumps who worship the big one.
Colleges right now are led a bunch of people who get paid 400k/year because they have a doctorate in Leadership, and they're all looking for ways to blame kids for getting sick on the campuses they enticed them to return to lol
Last week before I went to a high school football game I ate at a restaurant in east Gainesville and I went back today and the guy asked where hed seen me before. I told him I came in last week before the Eastside High game and he said "oh, does your son play for them?" 😤
It is easy to tell that Bari Weiss is stupid because at the most basic level she believes that there is an objective history that an objective journalistic endeavor should seek to uncover. That is Charlie Brown football, Wile E Coyote stuff. Rich college freshman stuff.
one of the things about getting older is that you occasionally have jarring, embarrassing recollections of stupid things you did, and a big one for me is that there was a period of time in middle school where I made my mom listen to Alice in Chains every time I got in the car
Just finished the last chapter of my thesis draft (I still have to do my conclusion but that's easier) and I feel like someone did the green mile thing and sucked a bunch of poison out of me
if you pay more than 8 dollars for a cocktail in chapel hill it is going to taste like a memory or a sensation rather than a food that a person would eat. it is going to taste like a yeoman farmer losing his only horse in 1890. and its going to suck big time
The good thing about sending all the capitol hill trump rally people to jail for fifteen years is that theres no way they can connect with more well organized, more radical white nationalists in prison
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Mr trump I know how you feel. i have been kicked out of three fishing groups on facebook today for my political believes please send me an email and $100000 and we can make a new platform for free thinkers and you can have my twitter to make posts I will send you my password
It took like 30 minutes for CNN to bring Kasich on to explain that the "far left" "almost cost Biden the election," and that it's time for democrats to cater to republicans like him