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Lester Spence retweeted
Link here: redemmas.org/events/shawn-gu…
true.
@LesterSpence we need that update, brotherman. I’m sure you have plenty of things to say with everything going on as of late.
Lester Spence retweeted
Anyone who has a chance to go to @astradisastra and @NaomiAKlein’s book tour for End Times Fascism needs to go. As someone who’s been catching Naomi’s book tours for almost two decades now, the way they can weave our various crises into a cohesive throughline is just unmatched
This wasn't a bug. This was a feature.
The problem with that original piece in @TheAtlantic was that it was written as a personal essay but in a way that was supposedly representative of how things were for all Black professors at @BatesCollege and beyond. 1/
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Don't miss this open-access volume. The TOC is stacked:
link.springer.com/content/pd…
Here's my contribution, which goes out to all of the clowns on here associating the term racial capitalism with racial liberalism or even neoliberalism:
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We don't need silence. When they tell you what they believe (and implicitly, what standards they use for their claims), take them literally and seriously.
No. We want them to speak. The last thing we need right now is silence, because we need to know who they are.
yeah....but it's worth noting that there are only one or two sectors (charitably) where something like this exists. and as we're witnessing in higher ed, even moving from 3-4% generates civilization threatening anxiety.
“That’s Gary Becker’s notion of justice. As Walter Michaels has put it, by that standard, then you can have a society where 1% of the population controls 90% of the stuff, but as long as 12% of that 1% is Black, then we’ve got no room to complain.” theblackscholar.org/neoliber…
For folks interested in both an empirically accurate and politically helpful examination of the US university in this moment: bu.edu/bulawreview/2026/07/3…
Tyler's piece is wrong. But the timing is only bad from the perspective of folks who want to reverse what's happening.
Harvard just laid off more than 30% of its Faculty of Arts and Science administrators
The hardest hit job titles were: coordinator, faculty assistant, financial associate
thecrimson.com/article/2026/…
No. Is this illustrative or representative? Is the causal claim he's been making true? We've got anecdotes masking as evidence. Correlation masking as causation. His record suggests why the piece reads as it does. Treat him as a whistleblower if that makes you feel better.
Nothing validates @Tyler_A_Harper recent essay as much as some of the academic reactions to it. It’s like he’s revealed a dirty family secret over dinner and the grandkids are going “not now grandad, not now”.
No one can dispute the details of Harper's experience...that's the point. What we can't dispute is the record. And a quick Google scholar search tells me a great deal here.
The Atlantic article makes me think of the Vanderbilt/Wash U report, commissioned by two empirical political scientists....and containing this paragraph:
