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To this point abt political spaces... a lot bad policy ideas have come out of the credulousness extended to public articulation of those feelings. https://twitter.com/a_gallivant/status/974146520390909958 …

It took a long time to beat back the idea that racial disparities in edu outcomes was not fueled by some specific Black contempt for learning. And many of the people who made this argument loudly were prominent Black ppl who felt this alienation.

They said “Black people teased me Bc i was smart!” And they attributed their adolescent social struggles w/ Black folks to their academic prowess or, you know, their consumption of “need culture” and not to what @KimberlyNFoster described as...

...agility/familiarity with whatever the cultural touchstones were. Those are NOT the same things, but the former reading — “I am a good student + punished for it by a dysfunctional social pathology” — is - more flattering/aggrandizing way to metabolize not fitting in.

He said that to thunderous applause. Imagine the policy implications of a future American president believing that a major problem in US education is Black kids bullying other Black kids for being studious.