AI powered drones from US & Israeli tech companies--as well as the 2000 lb bombs & all our other lethal military technology. It's hard to look into these faces & not feel the horror of what we have done.

historians...Not to mention the artists. Who did you think the Palestinians were? With their 10 Universities, 98% literacy rate & more PhDs per square mile than most places on earth. So many. Taken out by 2/

p.s. Here is the link to the First Things roundtable.

In conclusion: consider literally *any* counterfactual scenario where a liberal or left or queer or POC or Muslim (or or or) academic attempts “irony” in the way George did when discussing lethal politicized violence. How does that go for them? Do they get a puff piece in the Chronicle?

Nobody called for RG to be fired. But they were baffled as to how the same adults firing staff over their personal social media posts (esp. after other politicized deaths) could take him seriously as a guru of “civil dialogue,” much less pay him thousands to lecture undergrads about it.

“Oh, it was sarcastic!” was obviously not a satisfactory answer for them.

Once I assigned this roundtable + failed to add sarcasm tags to George. Big accessibility fail! Many students read him literally.

They were horrified: Why are these higher ed ppl platforming + celebrating (lavishly!) a guy who *affirmed in writing* the vigilante executions of gynecologists?

The piece — which was part of a roundtable published a couple of months after the murder of physician John Britton in FL — was almost certainly intended to be read as ironic.

He was satirizing people who say they are “personally” anti-abortion but won’t impose this position on others via law.

Run, don't walk, to read Jennifer Doyle's *Shadow of My Shadow.* You've still got time to order it during Duke UP's biannual 50% off sale. @dukepress.bsky.social

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Like student evals, citizens snitching on each other will be felt most by PoC, women, LGBTQ folks, migrants. A lot of mediocre white ppl (ie, men like Kirk w/o college degrees saying Black women’s brains don’t work) will engage in what @profkori.bsky.social calls “know your place aggression”

snitch culture can keep them from getting to learn. Sometimes a student who never takes a professor’s class will snitch (to admin, donors, Congress or some “watchlist”) that they feel too uncomfortable to TAKE a prof’s class bc of their writing! And so they keep ANYONE from taking their classes.