“1/ For those of you watching the Betsy DeVos interview, some background: 2/ DeVos, married to heir to the Amway fortune, has spent a lifetim […]”
@ClaraJeffery
Source: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/973021580723810304.html
The idea that so many rich people without any background in education or child development have: that they know best how to “fix” schools. It is the worst form of blinkered paternalism.
Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/03/nation-of-islam/555332/
This is a bit of a long read (*groan*) but totally worth it. People need to have a little more nuance and a little less bumper sticker.
Some quotes:
“In this era of mass incarceration, the Nation [of Islam] still maintains a presence in the prisons, where we have too many people of color locked up, too many men, they are in many of our communities. So the unsparing critique of racism that he provides has a certain appeal.”
(Maybe we should begin to wind down the prison-industrial complex (or “mass incarceration in private prisons” to use a less loaded phrase).)
Denouncing the marginalized Farrakhan can seem ridiculous to those who feel like white people put their own Farrakhan in the White House.
and
But watching Farrakhan bask in the media attention, as yet another generation of black leadership faces public immolation on his behalf, it is impossible to see him as worthy of her loyalty.
How much of published scientific research is false? Scientists are trying to figure it out.
Source: Episode 677: The Experiment Experiment : Planet Money : NPR
I think I’ve heard TWO re-runs of this episode. It’s that good. Might be a good idea to always ask: “Was that study registered?”
Source: Unrolled thread from @drvox
I think this is what they call “straight savage”.
4. Trump’s rise has shown that purported principles of conservative ideology meant virtually NOTHING to the conservative masses. Trump abandoned the Very Serious script & the RW base didn’t care, at all. He voiced their anger & resentments. That’s all the RW base is any more.
7. If NYT printed the *actual, real-life* sentiments of today’s conservative masses, it would print a bunch of paranoid, Fox-generated fairy tales and belligerent expressions of xenophobia, misogyny, racism, and proud, anti-intellectual ignorance.
9. The NYT’s commitment to “intellectual diversity” doesn’t go THAT far — not far enough to expose its readers to that reality. It is too invested in America’s own Noble Savage myth, the idea that conservative Heartland Americans are more authentic & in touch w/ simple virtues.
12. It is no coincidence that these guys – Gerson, Douthat, Brooks, Stephens – have little voice or influence inside actual conservatism, or that they’re all anti-Trump (unlike 95+% of Republicans). They are anomalies, idiosyncrasies, not representative of anything broader.
18. In the name of “exposing readers to diverse viewpoints,” NYT is, in practice, obscuring the true nature of today’s right. Virtually the entire political elite & most NYT readers are in denial about what the right has become & that denial is increasingly dangerous.
It was never about her emails, was it?
https://apnews.com/a4b39a25b90a4bd68c0995f446a332e7
FLDS Mormons quitting because a woman was elected mayor.
https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/972646104478224384?s=20
In reference to:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/972259720886177793.html
Turns out you don’t actually get to do whatever you want and have the system just acquiesce.
