#Elitism

1- This article is outstanding, & so important..To this point, a personal story.In 1977-78 I attended my 1st year of college. In ‘78 I got a summer job working in
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Open Tweet to @professorJVH. Sir, It has come to my attention that the @JoeBiden is considering you for a position at the Dept. of education. Congrats. Perhaps this is why
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The A level fiasco has exposed the craziness of a system where - for no good reason - we think it’s absolutely key to sort a BBC and a BCD
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I have thoughts about anti-establishment, counterculture thought tendencies. I want to use the term “punk” here very intentionally to refer to anything counterculture, as punk music/culture was ostensibly conceived as
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It is very difficult for most members of the American press/academia/punditry to accept the idea that their core thinking on climate change and the planetary crisis has been bounded and
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How to identify a fake Liberal 101Instead of welcoming or appreciating you speaking or thinking, a fake Liberal will always try to stop or intimidate you against thinking and speaking
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Yeah, I watched a ton of black and white Mexican movies growing up. Pedro Infante and María Felix and the like, because my great-grandma couldn't read so the new Hollywood
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1/ Volunteering in counselling:The 1st thing to say on this topic is that counsellors who CHOSE to volunteer for charities/orgs because they have the time & financial resources to do
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LIFESTYLE MEDICINE: A THREAD.I’d like to talk a little bit about lifestyle medicine please. For background, I am a GP. Over the course of several years I made many lifestyle
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The richest president in American history has gotten financial support from nearly one in 10 U.S. billionaires. Let's meet some of them for 2020:
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"A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors".I've long fired (harsh) criticism at the FP community for statements like this, because to the outside world, it seems
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Whenever people call me an elitist, I am flummoxed. I am from a working class background, I am a product of public education my entire life, and I spend my
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My term as political theory editor for the Journal of Politics is ending soon. This thread is a review of what's been published or accepted on my watch (including many
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THREAD (I’ll build this one as I go.) my daughter gave me a copy of “The Death of Democracy”, by @BenjaminHett. This excellent book explores the fall of the Weimar
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There was a pandemic before Covid - it’s called Neoliberalism. It had already taken a toll.It deindustrialised our economy - it propelled income inequality - it impoverished our public schools
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How did an entire group of people/generation get brainwashed into thinking they were helping to provide the common good!? Because we need to be honest, most of them think they
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