Musa al-Gharbi
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Asst. Professor @SBUjournalism . Research Fellow @HdxAcademy . Columnist @Compactmag_ . Author, "We Have Never Been Woke" (forthcoming @PrincetonUPress )
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For those who'd rather avoid Amazon,
#WeHaveNeverBeenWoke
is now available at
@Bookshop_Org
:
Purchases made through support local bookstores and, in this case, an increased share will go to the author (me!) as well. But the main…
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One intuition I can't shake is that media coverage of the impending and ongoing crackdown against campus protestors would be very, very different if it was Trump in the White House instead of Biden.
When the 'correct' people are in charge, all sorts of things become tolerable…
It’s chaos now. DPS riot troopers forcefully dispersing protesters, making contact, at least one arrest
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I'm pleased to report
#WeHaveNeverBeenWoke
is now available for pre-order!
It will be published October 8 with
@PrincetonUPress
-- you can reserve your copy now.
And please give me a retweet to broadcast in your networks.
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@squig
@tage_rai
@HdxAcademy
I'll add, I have things to do IRL today, so I'll be removed from social media, but on my way out, I'll just flag that I'm someone who personally knows loss from war. I've also personally lost a job for speaking out against U.S. foreign policy.
I met my…
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Fundamentally,
#WeHaveNeverBeenWoke
is about the rise of a new elite constellation -- symbolic capitalists -- the narratives we tell to justify our social position, the dissoance between those narratives and the world we actually live in, and the consequences of our…
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Okay, but, to be fair, the quality of the education is not why anyone pays $89k per year to send their kid to Columbia (for the super rich families who end up paying sticker price). The main function these schools serve in practice is privilege laundering -- converting wealth…
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Hero (unironic)
once again doing peer review the day i received the request
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Expanded version of this article here:
Includes still more data and studies that were published or came to my attention since the original came out -- largely confirming the initial picture.
The version on my website also goes into struggles over how to…
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Over the last few years there have been many books published analyzing "wokeness" and the "Great Awokening" -- most of them polemics -- this book is not like those. I can promise, you haven't read *this* book before:
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@tage_rai
@HdxAcademy
Heterodox Academy doesn’t issue statements about particular incidents and they 100 percent don’t produce them on demand because someone on the internet says we need to. I’m a core part of the team. You can easily see where my alignments are from my timeline. But the organization…
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For tracking media trends and many other symbolic economy outputs, I'd highly recommend following my friend and colleague
@DavidRozado
who piloted and produced so many of these important visualizations.
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@tage_rai
The letter was 100% not a response to schools expressing solidarity. It was in response to university leaders offering confused and inconsistent messaging and policies, then backtracking and apologizing for previous statements, all the while selectively enforcing their rules. The…
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@Cedrick_BC
@FreeBlckThought
Many significant differences. Nancy Leong's book was really just pointing out that people trade on identity, but it didn't provide a particularly deep or historical dive into how and why this mode of identity trading came about, and it doesn't even touch on things like the major…
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@CaitlinPacific
For so many of the 'campus politics' beat issues and other culture war topics, to understand what's going on, look to "adults these days."
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@squig
@tage_rai
@HdxAcademy
We don’t issue statements full stop. That was the first part of the sentence. The second part emphasized that our general policy is not responsive to people on the internet telling us we should, in fact, issue statements.
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@squig
@tage_rai
@HdxAcademy
We don’t issue statements full stop. That was the first part of the sentence. The second part emphasized that our general policy is not responsive to people on the internet telling us we should, in fact, issue statements.
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That said, although the macro trends show that many widely circulating anecdotes present an incomplete or misleading picture of what's going on at American campuses -- nonetheless, there clearly *are* misguided folks whose horror, sadness and frustration in Gaza seems to be…
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@robsica
@tage_rai
I'm following him too because I like his scholarship and actually retweet many of his things on Gaza. But here, we part ways significantly. My last comment on this, moving on for the day:
@squig
@tage_rai
@HdxAcademy
I'll add, I have things to do IRL today, so I'll be removed from social media, but on my way out, I'll just flag that I'm someone who personally knows loss from war. I've also personally lost a job for speaking out against U.S. foreign policy.
I met my…
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@ubuto23
@Tyler_A_Harper
That's true, and I talk about this at length in the piece Tyler linked to:
Non-whites are especially *un*likely to self-identify as "liberal" or "progressive" (or, as I show in my book, as 'environmentalists,' 'feminists,' 'antiracists,' or 'allies' to…
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@Cedrick_BC
@FreeBlckThought
I wasn't familiar with Represent and Destroy. I try to promote my own book and end up other texts to put on my own list! Looks great
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@HistoryBoomer
@James_West_PhD
Yeah, many of those folks are unlikely to be "woke." Many see non-white college kid and assume "woke" but as I detailed here (and at length in my book), non-whites are actually the *least* likely people in America to subscribe to the views, dispositions and identities commonly…
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@StevieDougie
That is, a Jewish and conservative author found that white liberals are the least likely to be antisemitic -- not white liberals trying to exculpate themselves, or 'woke' minority scholars trying to provide cover for their allies, or whatever else the assumption or insinuation…
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@DStrungk
@James_West_PhD
I've highlighted this distinction ad nauseum myself. In this case, however, looking at hate crime statistics and other behavioral measures shows the same patterns as the attitudinal measures. They're just patterns we often avoid talking about:
I detail…
@ubuto23
@Tyler_A_Harper
That's true, and I talk about this at length in the piece Tyler linked to:
Non-whites are especially *un*likely to self-identify as "liberal" or "progressive" (or, as I show in my book, as 'environmentalists,' 'feminists,' 'antiracists,' or 'allies' to…
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@darelmass
Not wrong. I'll go into this more in the Compact column, and go into it at great length in the book (), these schools select for highly-capable and conscientious conformists -- these characteristics really are important, although they can be offset for…
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@huspsa
@Nudraxon
@mattyglesias
And the graph from the screenshot is total sleep time in a 24 hour cycle, which would include any napping between stuff too, not just sleep at night, as relevant. On average, contemporary students self-report getting almost 9 hours of sleep in a 24 hour cycle.
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@StevieDougie
That study doesn't use unusual or 'woke' definitions of antisemitism. It tests likelihood to agree with blatantly antisemitic attitudes, building on measures developed by ADL and other pro-Israel organizations (and it was conducted by a conservative, Eitan Hersh -- more about him…
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