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This Howard University professor apparently has no idea how toxic it is for the public's perception of black people to tell them "If you offend a young black man, he has every right to stab you to death, that's just science."
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Free Black Thought retweeted
I'm really getting tired of people like Mike Berube calling the authors of the Vanderbilt/Washington "Report on the State of Scholarship" misleading; it feels like gaslighting.
Clearly, he hasn't spent much time with Rhet/Comp scholars!
Sailer's take is more accurate. 👇
Jun 5
NEW: a report from Vanderbilt and WashU just dropped, taking on the "state of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences," a big topic among critics of higher ed.
Read along w/ me 🧵
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Karmelo Anthony was found guilty of murder today. A teenager who will likely lose his freedom for decades. Austin Metcalf already lost his.
We raise black boys to perform toughness, to harden their faces around white people, especially. We tell ourselves we are preparing them for a hostile world. We are handing them a script that ends in a courtroom or a casket.
I know, because that script was handed to me. We have to stop doing this to our sons. virgilwalker.substack.com/p/…
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The crisis in the humanities does not come "from external forces, but from an institutional aversion to anything external."
I my latest for Real Clear Education, I argue that there is no crisis in the Humanities. The crisis IS the Humanities.
realcleareducation.com/artic…
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Jun 7
Table of contents of my new book Virtuous Nonsense: Progressive America's Epistemic Crisis (with Lawrence Eppard of @UtterlyModerate Podcast and @PsychRabble). Pre-order link in next tweet.
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I think a lot of people have woken up to the conclusion that the only way to burn off the woke mind virus is to actually not care about racism or about being racist at all.
Pretty soon, if it’s not already happening, anyone crying about racism will met with the default response:
“So what?”
Do you really want white people checking out like this? Because this is the predictable, exhausted endpoint of weaponizing race for power.
Believe me when I say that we will all come to miss the days when the word ‘racism’ actually meant something, back when white people still cared about not being called racist.
Gen Z guys are already there. Once that word is completely drained of any real meaning or moral weight, we’ll all rue the day we let it happen.
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Anti-Woke, or Just Wounded? A Typology of Two Types of Anti-Woke Intellectuals
Kaufman says that 2 separate categories of anti-wokeness exist: The Critic and the Wounded Crusader.
Which agent of anti-wokeness are you?
skeptic.com/article/anti-wok…
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Surprise, Surprise!
Anyone who has been an academic for more than a week already knew this (even those arguing FOR the legitimacy of microaggressions), but it's nice to have legitimate empirical research on it.
Thanks, @PsychRabble, for this important work.
Title says it all: Research on Microaggressions and Their Impact Assesses Neither Microaggressions nor Their Impacts. (now you do not need to read the paper, but in case you want the gory details, it is linked below).
In a special issue of Current Opinion in Psychology on politicization of psychotherapy. Early draft appeared first at Unsafe Science.
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Jun 3
"The left tends to blame disparities on racism, past or present, and the right tends to blame them on culture, behavior, or most ominously, genetics. This essay proposes that we simply stop worrying about the origin of disparities and focus on solutions. There’s a principled reason to quit obsessing about origins, namely, the origin of a disparity does not design the remedy for it."
—@docgotham and I are in the Journal of Free Black Thought (link next tweet)
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FBT's Erec Smith sat down with Thomas Chatterton Williams (@thomaschattwill) to discuss his latest book, The Summer of Our Discontent, and how the summer of 2020 changed the American culture war.
And the Q & A gets interesting for reasons that still aren't clear. Woke 2.0?
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The discussion is available here: cato.org/events/summer-our-d…
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Apparently, a law professor wants to make perceived cultural appropriation a literal crime.
Thoughts?
jonathanturley.org/2026/05/1…
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So a black person with an appreciation for reason and rationality is "self-hating"? Got it, Don.
We appreciate the breakdown @the_jeffreymead. This crap needs to be called out.
May 15
Don Lemon needs to be quiet. There is no real comparison between Jim Crow and race relations in 2026.
He’s trying to shame Wesley Hunt for seeing reality and understanding history. Nope, not going for it.
Anyone with eyes and a basic understanding of history can see how full of crap Lemon is.
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What happens when DEI debates collide with free speech and civil discourse?
Join Erec Smith May 15 for a live Book Forum with Thomas Chatterton Williams on his latest book, The Summer of Our Discontent.
#FreeSpeech #CivilDiscourse #DEI #CatoInstitute
cato.org/events/summer-our-d…
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FBT's Erec Smith will speak to Thomas Chatterton Williams about his latest book, "The Summer of Our Discontent," and the crisis facing American liberalism since George Floyd's murder.
Register to attend online or in-person here: cato.org/events/summer-our-d…
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