Why is Ilya Shapiro, best known for characterizing the first female Black SCOTUS nominee to be a "lesser Black woman" treated as an expert commentator on Black history by the NY Times? nytimes.com/2023/02/01/us/
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The short answer is that this is the same author of this piece:
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I am begging the NY Times to stop being People magazine of campus speech issues nytimes.com/2022/07/01/sty
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...and this piece. You might think Shapiro was poorly treated at Georgetown, but that does not make him an expert on Black history.
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I am begging the NY Times to look at other perspectives about campus speech.
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Shapiro has also blogged about him not getting a job he was plainly unqualified for (Law School Dean) because the faculty voted for a "diversity hire" instead.
NY Times: Sir, yes, tell us more about your insights on Black history.
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Amazing. Ilya Shapiro applied to become a law school dean, and was "pissed off" he didn't get an interview after devoting a whole 15-20 hours to the application process. Naturally, he blames the fact that woman of color (no word on whether she was "lesser") was in the mix.
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February is Black History Month: to understand how we should think about Black history in the classroom, we talked to Chris Rufo and Ilya Shapiro of the Manhattan Institute.
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Wrote a bit about how the media has been treating DeSantis attacks on education here.
I'd add that a) DeSantis picks these fights to boost his national brand, and its working, because b) the media treats it as a both-sides story w/o conveying the damage.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-desantis
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Is it even a "both sides" anymore? Because it keeps seeming like the NYT has chosen its side and doesn't even bother with false equivalences anymore, just "Republicans love America and Dems want to kill your dog!"
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