amulya.bsky.social
👤 Joined on 01 July 2023
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@amulya.bsky.socialAlgorithms killed the spectrum of emotional valences. Everything now is set to 10. Bring back the eyeroll, the exasperated sigh, the hand wave, the shoulder shrug. Some stuff is just mildly annoying or blandly dumb. You don’t need to blow every emotional outburst on the mundane.
Show PostWhere Harper is sentimental and aggrieved, Baker is laser-focused on racial solidarity within institutional racism.
Show Postnewsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/racism-and... Absolutely searing rebuttal of Tyler Austin Harper by Andrew Baker, another Black professor who worked at Bates
Show Postweird that Harper's concern for the material working conditions of professors didn't see any issue with the chronic understaffing of Africana studies!
Show Postwhat is described here is concrete organizing in the name of cross-racial, cross-class solidarity. this is exactly what Harper claims to want! but he is too blinkered by his own ideological priors to recognize it as such. anything that is deliberately anti-racist must, for Harper, be purely symbolic
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