Professor of Cultural Studies at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Eclectic debunker of cherished American myths. Currently working on a comprehensive history of civics education. https://blogs.bgsu.edu/tmesser/
Timothy Messer-Kruse
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NBC News silent on the most significant finding in its own survey: that a whopping 69% of respondents "strongly agree" that in the US "wealthy people can often avoid consequences that ordinary people would face for the same actions." Instead spooning out civics propaganda.
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I haven’t posted about AI even though I’ve been actively trying to figure out the edges of its usefulness for qualitative research. I’ve built some powerful applications that involve searching large archives of text conceptually. Calling current LLMs ‘word predictors’ is wildly inaccurate.
Conservatives claim to believe in meritocracy and responsibility but when they fail their powerful buddies always bail them out.
University of Iowa's struggling Center for Intellectual Freedom faces required expansion due to law www.yahoo.com/news/politic... via @@YahooNews
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To conservatives trying to take over higher ed with a Trojan Horse of civics. Stop claiming the Founders supported your agenda. Civics as a concept was not widespread till the 1820s. The term ‘civics’ was not coined till 1885. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Nothing quite like race day with my champion girl.
Reading early 19c pamphlets debating whether Catholic immigrants should be afforded due process and ran across this verse no Christian nationalist ever quotes:
LEV. 24:22. YE SHALL HAVE ONE MANNER OF LAW, AS WELL FOR THE STRANGER, AS FOR ONE OF YOUR OWN COUNTRY: FOR I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD.
We've arrived at the bread and circuses stage of imperial decline. But these geniuses have left out the bread part...
What began as a review of Wood's well-written and deeply researched book turned into a wider critique of the pervasive hagiography of 18c abolitionist studies. It has long confused antislavery and anti-racism and been blind to its pervasive white supremacy.
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"it is always the case that the weaker people seek equality and justice, while the stronger don't give these things a thought." -Aristotle
