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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 20 Dec 2015

    Not the Onion: Oberlin College Students protest that Cafeteria Food Is Racist http://thebea.st/1OfVQ2S  via @thedailybeast

    8:10 AM - 20 Dec 2015
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      2. Raghu Karnad‏Verified account @rkarnad 20 Dec 2015
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker It's a sad day when a professor sees an on-campus conversation distorted by an digital tabloid & thinks, 'Must RT' @thedailybeast

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      3. Raghu Karnad‏Verified account @rkarnad 20 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker Note that in the source article on @oberlinreview, no student uses the word 'racist'. In fact they choose their words v carefully.

        2 replies 1 retweet 3 likes
      4. Raghu Karnad‏Verified account @rkarnad 20 Dec 2015
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        .@sapinker But @dailybeast has a writer dedicated to finding oversteps in student politics and amplifying them as internet click-bait

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      5. Raghu Karnad‏Verified account @rkarnad 20 Dec 2015
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        .@sapinker So what happens to students' ability to ask questions/make mistakes when professors help digital media bring them to ridicule?

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      1. Stephen Wray‏ @stephenwray2 20 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker @thedailybeast I won't eat KFC unless I know the chicken has been resident for at least a1/3 of its life in Kentucky.

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      1. Ehud Ur‏ @udiur 20 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker @thedailybeast We have officially reached peak nonsense

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      1. Steve B‏ @SDB57 20 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker @thedailybeast I do hope the grownups at Oberlin are going to take charge again soon.

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      1. Goffredo Puccetti‏ @goffredodotcom 20 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker @thedailybeast In my campus the cultural appropriation of pizza margherita by our indian chef Joseph is totally approved.

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      2. Alan Wood‏ @MichaelAlanWood 20 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker @thedailybeast food can be tasty, bland, awful, delicious, overcooked, undercooked, well-seasoned, dry, moist...but not racist

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      1. John Smith‏ @phillyjohn19047 20 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker @JeffreyGuterman @thedailybeast If you didn't tell me any different, I'd assume this was an article from the @TheOnion

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      1. aka Steve (no chekists please, we're Canadian)‏ @Anton_P_Nym 20 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker @thedailybeast (2/2) History suggests "cultural purity" leads to dark places; was a goal of everyone's favorite villains.

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      1. Goffredo Puccetti‏ @goffredodotcom 20 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker @thedailybeast But of course in the 16th century italian pizza was culturally appropriated by imperialist tomatoes from America...

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      1. LGRooney‏ @LGRooney 20 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker @thedailybeast I guess interracial adoption is out of bounds? Raising a generation of flowers ready to wilt.

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      1. John D‏ @kimberyote 20 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker @thedailybeast how out of touch of reality can you be? Their parent should be totally ashamed.

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      1. aka Steve (no chekists please, we're Canadian)‏ @Anton_P_Nym 20 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker @thedailybeast It's not that I'm fond of "cultural appropriation"; it's that I hate the idea of "cultural purity". (1/2)

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      1. The Kill Chair‏ @killchair 20 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker @woebegonekenobe @thedailybeast Good thing this isn't The Onion! Supersurfacers appropriating names of subterranean vegetables.

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      1. Dan Tobias‏ @dantobias 20 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker @thedailybeast Students have always griped about cafeteria food, but now they're using trendy social-justice buzzwords to do it.

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