1/ Some of us suspected that Trump would use ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฑ๐ผ๐ป๐ to enable those ๐บ๐ผ๐๐ ๐น๐ผ๐๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ผ ๐ต๐ถ๐บ so that they can be free to ๐ฏ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ธ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐น๐ฎ๐ and ๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐บ๐ถ๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ถ๐บ๐ฒ at Trump's request.
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โHe'd been told, on repeated occasions, that the way he wanted to do it was ๐ถ๐น๐น๐ฒ๐ด๐ฎ๐น. His response was to say: โDo it. If you get in trouble ๐'๐น๐น ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฑ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ผ๐โโฆโ
- Miles Taylor @MilesTaylorUSA, August 24, 2020
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8:42 โI've received vicious, graphic ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ต ๐๐ต๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐. โฆPeople are ๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฑ to ๐๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ธ ๐ผ๐๐ bc they have families, live in homesโฆTrump fans the flames of this divisiveness & makes ppl ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ for their ๐น๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐.โ
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@MilesTaylorUSA:
5:15 โThe agencies in the fed gov't have done extraordinary work to prep for this election. Cybersecurity leader Chris Krebs, FBI director Chris Wrayโฆ put in place an extraordinary system to fight back against foreign interference.โโฆ
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6:26 โDonald Trump will ๐ณ๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ ๐๐ถ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ผ๐๐๐น๐ and vigorously to make sure that he doesn't lose this electionโฆ even after November 3.โ
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7:40 โI fear the Pres. is preparing to ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐น๐ ๐น๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ฎ๐๐ฒ in every state where he has the opportunity.โฆ I could see the Pres. wanting to ๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐บ๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐น๐ฎ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ to contest as many states as possibleโฆโ
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The meat of the criticism is that the history Adler gives is insufficiently critical. Adler describes a few figures who had a great influence on how the modern US university was formed. It's certainly critical: it focuses on the social Darwinism of these figures. 2/x
Other insinuations and suggestions in the review seem wildly off the mark, distorted, or inappropriate-- for example, that the book is clickbaity (it is scholarly) or conservative (hardly) or connected to the events at the Capitol (give me a break). 3/x
The core question: in what sense is classics inherently racist? Classics is old. On Adler's account, it begins in ancient Rome and is revived in the Renaissance. Slavery (Christiansen's primary concern) is also very old. Let's say classics is an education for slaveowners. 4/x
It's worth remembering that literacy itself is elite throughout most of this history. Literacy is, then, also the education of slaveowners. We can honor oral and musical traditions without denying that literacy is, generally, good. 5/x
As someone\u2019s who\u2019s read the book, this review strikes me as tremendously unfair. It mostly faults Adler for not writing the book the reviewer wishes he had! https://t.co/pqpt5Ziivj
— Teresa M. Bejan (@tmbejan) January 12, 2021
The meat of the criticism is that the history Adler gives is insufficiently critical. Adler describes a few figures who had a great influence on how the modern US university was formed. It's certainly critical: it focuses on the social Darwinism of these figures. 2/x
Other insinuations and suggestions in the review seem wildly off the mark, distorted, or inappropriate-- for example, that the book is clickbaity (it is scholarly) or conservative (hardly) or connected to the events at the Capitol (give me a break). 3/x
The core question: in what sense is classics inherently racist? Classics is old. On Adler's account, it begins in ancient Rome and is revived in the Renaissance. Slavery (Christiansen's primary concern) is also very old. Let's say classics is an education for slaveowners. 4/x
It's worth remembering that literacy itself is elite throughout most of this history. Literacy is, then, also the education of slaveowners. We can honor oral and musical traditions without denying that literacy is, generally, good. 5/x
