so excited to share that I contributed to @thenation.com's special issue on America at 250
I wrote about the need to reinterpret the Constitution in light of the unfinished and urgent mission of Reconstruction
here's hoping I did y'all & Frederick Douglass proud 🙏🏾
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Separately on the Tate brothers piece: there's an essay to be written about it vs. the Louis Theroux doc, on the question of whether its harder for subjects to co-opt print journalism vs. video.
The authors suggest that innocent employers are terrified of disparate impact liability, and to that let me say: LOL
This is a shoddy analysis in a bunch of ways, one of which is that the authors seem to assume that the alternative to a facially neutral hiring practice w/ a disparate impact is an identity-based hiring preference www.justice.gov/olc/media/14...
Obviously this is a defining characteristic of the Trump presidency too. I really think people's brains cannot process that people do terrible things totally openly, so they assume that anything done openly must be acceptable.
In the last 24 hours I have read this piece and also the New Yorker piece on the Tate Brothers (extremely horrifying, all the content warnings), and am struck anew by how much people can get away with if they are extremely, brazenly, out-in-the-open about it.