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alitch
causapinallyssa
A lot of this rage could've been minimized had UST published a clear metric in regards to how they give USTAR Score. I get that the comment invalidating our efforts
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Jared Yates Sexton
JYSexton
The pandemic is America's problems rolled into one.Racism. Toxic individualism. Misinformation. Economic inequality. Anti-meritocracy. A corporate infrastructure that de-prioritizes leadership and incentivizes delegated responsibility.I
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
Our societal narratives are invisible by dint of their ubiquity, but they are far more important in stabilizing the status quo that all the cops and jails and domestic surveillance
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Shogun Gaikwad
Gaikwadshogun
All UCs who have attained education have done so by trampling on the throats of Bahujans. Yes ALL UCs! They've had multiple advantages at various stages thanks to their caste
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James Palmer
BeijingPalmer
I think an underappreciated difference between the US and the UK is that going to Oxbridge convinces a lot of people, especially if you come from state school, that the
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RobbieShilliam
RobbieShilliam
I have a couple of reflections on teaching at Oxford for a couple of years mid-2000s. Don't want to reduce anyone's biography down to a couple of "key-points", but for
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DEFUND & ABOLISH POLICE, REFUND OUR COMMUNITIES
BreeNewsome
Trump is such a perfect embodiment of how nothing about this system is a meritocracy and is instead built upon elevating the most mediocre figures in our society based solely
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erin pineda
erinrpineda
It is troubling to me how the liberal investment in meritocratic standards as *neutral* and *nonideological* (“brilliant,” “qualified,” “credentialed,” “experienced”) preemptively delegitimizes *political* grounds for object
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Michael T Lombardi (He/Him)
TrebuchetOps
This is some of the worst advice I've seen in a while; it conflates being an asshole with being assertive, phrases the value of fuck you money as being able
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Chardine Taylor Stone
ChardineTaylor
Most Brit’s are royalist because they have been indoctrinated since birth to believe that the class system and aristocracy is a valid way to structure society, regardless of whatever feelings
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Geo
Geo_AW
One Piece thread:Why King is the strongest right hand/1st commander in the series: Recently in OP chapter 996 it was confirmed by Killer that Kaido is the absolute strongest pirate
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Shannon Foley Martinez🍍
_Shan_Martinez_
Since no one is asking, here's a starter set of ideas for parents to better innoculate their kids from radicalizing into hate- or violence-based worldviews: Making sure kids feel truly
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della ~ mothra shrine maiden
della_morte_
He should but he never will. He’ll never publicly interact with the Black left because his whole act would be shown for what it is. He has to pretend to
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Vishal Ganesan
vjgtweets
Written by an Indian-American journo @pahwa_nitish, which shouldn't surprise us. I used to get angry about this stuff (he didn't even bother calling the people involved), but then I had
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michael wave
SzMarsupial
sorry i know we all bang on but within my lifetime it was unlawful to tell school kids that being gay is finehttps://twitter.com/Independent/status/1310870440622149634 and as stan says, british education -
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Dr Clara Nellist
claranellist
We need to be really careful in academia to not let survivor's bias cloud our advice on how to make it in this career.Person does X and succeeds, doesn't mean
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