If you have to train students to recognize when a *university provided* resource is lying to them, maybe the university should not provide that resource.

Well I do have family in Israel. I think she just thought all Jews miraculously know Hebrew

I was the only Jewish person at the last college at which I taught. I had way too many of these conversations. One of my students very excitedly gave me a New Testament in Hebrew. Why she thought my Hebrew was that good. Idk. Also given Jewish respect for holy books I didn’t know what to do with it

Weird thing about the US is in most ststes you can't marry your cousin but in 40 (I think?) you can have sex with them and have kids with them. Only marriage is banned.

For all the mocking of liberal white guilt, conservative white guilt is the same feeling, just mobilized to more destructive and self-destructive ends (upward redistribution of income and class domination, not to mention pervasive censorship).

Saying individual market health insurance used to be much cheaper in 2010 is like saying a golf cart with only 3 wheels cost less in 2010 than a Honda CR-V does today.

A cool thing is that many (if not most) of their staffers went to historically white Christian colleges that intentionally don’t take federal money precisely so that they don’t have to comply with the federal civil rights laws they’re using to try to shut down Portland’s Center for Black Excellence.