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Jennifer Mercieca
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Explaining anti-democratic rhetorical tricks. Award winning #teamrhetoric professor & author. Read my column . Fascism is for losers.
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Supreme Courts hands propagandists and harassers a weapon (unlocked):
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Can communication be used as a weapon? Yes, it can. Even if it isn't threatening violence (unlocked): oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/
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"Overall, reports of each type of hate and harassment increased by nearly every measure and within almost every demographic group" in the past year:
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What does education for democracy look like? >>
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My students are reading Henry Giroux's 1992 essay, "Educational Leadership and the Crisis of Democratic Government."
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If you're not educating for democracy, then you're educating for despotism.
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“In my 3 decade-long career being a weather forecaster, and now Chief Meteorologist and Climate Specialist, I have never observed so many of Earth’s vital signs blinking red.”
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You may have read that Instant Brands, the company behind the Instant Pot and Pyrex filed for bankruptcy.
How can a business that manufactures two of the most successful cooking brands in the world fail so badly that it winds up going bankrupt? (THREAD)
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Biden on MSNBC: "I think if we start the process of trying to expand the court, we're gonna politicize it maybe forever in a way that's not healthy."
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THREAD. Admissions officer here 🙋🏾♀️ IMO Harvard/UNC opinion is much narrower than I expected it to be and impact will be much less than I see a lot of people suggesting -- and possibly give institutions MORE ability to curate classes based on diversity interests 1/
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What kind of admissions policy is best for democracy? Let's do that.
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Honestly, these things aren't that hard to sort out if you make your motive "democracy."
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I think universal education and universal admissions would best serve the cause of democracy. Of course, it would make certain colleges less prestigious (not a downside in my mind, but you may have a different opinion).
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This #PrideMonth, it is important to recognize non-binary and gender nonconforming people have been here from the beginning of the U.S. Here is a thread on one of the most influential such persons in early America. An abolitionist minister known as The Public Universal Friend. 1/
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The Biden voters are right, actually. And, sadly, the Trump voters live in fear. Fear is easy to exploit.
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This question and result by YouGov poll is so very telling.
Respondents were ask to pick one that they agreed with:
A. Our lives are threatened by terrorists, criminals, and illegal immigrants and our priority should be to protect ourselves.
B. It’s a big, beautiful world,…
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Philosophy of Gender class attacked in Canada. The fascists know that their anti-trans hatebait is stochastic terrorism.
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Earlier today, a man burst into a classroom at the University of Waterloo and demanded to know what the course was about. He then drew two knives from his jacket and began to stab the prof.
The course was Philosophy of Gender. uwimprint.ca/article/stabbi
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In a free society university students are able to discuss philosophical issues, including the philosophy of gender, without suffering violent attacks.
Fascists can't live in a free society, which is why fascism is for losers.
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Free movie idea: He has flown 23 million miles. Here are his travel secrets. (unlocked)
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Bravado is the new locker room talk.
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TRUMP: “I would say it was bravado, if you want to know the truth, it was bravado. I was talking and just holding up papers and talking about them, but I had no documents. I didn’t have any documents.” semafor.com/article/06/27/
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Y’all: papers v documents is a distinction without a difference.
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