@marceliusb.bsky.social
"Mar" "Sell" Us". Director of Center for Social Change, Associate Teaching Prof (Africana Studies, Philosophy, etc.), and ABD in Education Doctorate. Former Law School Dean of Students, K-12 DEI admin, and cultural center director. *Views are my own*
Not only this, but politicians will let you down many times. Rather than idolizing them, praise them when they do right. Challenge and push them when they do wrong. And never lose track of the fact that no matter how great they initially seem, they are politicians who serve their own self-interests.
“What gets me about the United States is that it pretends to be honest and therefore has so little room to move towards hope.” - Audre Lorde
Something that always bothers me is how often we see “College Basketball” for the men and “Women’s College Basketball” for the women. If there’s enough space for the “Women’s” label, then there’s enough space for “Men’s”, and you wouldn’t be reinforcing a very problematic and sexist norm.
This still holds. I’m ready to donate. He’s terrible and keeps getting worse, so someone please primary him.
At my current institution I am simultaneously a faculty member, a staff member, and a student.
Something that always bothers me is how often we see “College Basketball” for the men and “Women’s College Basketball” for the women. If there’s enough space for the “Women’s” label, then there’s enough space for “Men’s”, and you wouldn’t be reinforcing a very problematic and sexist norm.
A couple of years ago, I wrote this about the perils of process-only war powers strategies:
warontherocks.com/2024/03/cong...
When the U.S. or Israel attacks someone, media calls it a “conflict”, but when someone else attacks them, media calls it an “attack” or “war”. Shows you exactly the role power, bias, and hypocrisy play in how things are reported or portrayed.
If you're local, come check it out. If not, I can send you my presentation, notes, or maybe even a draft of the paper after. /4
I will also explore the constitutionality of PA's decision, as it contributes to air pollution, water pollution, and other harms to the environment, disproportionally impacting areas with large populations of low-income people as well as areas with large populations of Black and Brown people. /3
Many don't realize that there is a provision of the PA State Constitution that expressly grants and requires the state to maintain the rights of people to have clear air and pure water. My presentation explores the moral, ethical, and legal tensions of PA allowing/embracing AI data centers. /2
I'll be speaking at "Confronting the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence": A National Interdisciplinary Conference hosted by The University of Scranton, which will be held from April 16-18th. The title is: "When AI Meets the Pennsylvania Constitution: Fairness, Justice, and Environmental Rights" /1
Institutions love to be like "After an extensive, national search where we paid a firm tens of thousands of dollars, we have hired this person who already works here, who has already been serving as the interim, and who everyone knew we were going to hire regardless of who applied externally.”
No, if you ask them conservative student don’t feel persecuted. Contrary to what so many on the political right been asserting as a fact in their attacks on higher education @aaup.org @osuaaup.bsky.social www.insidehighered.com/news/student...
To be clear I wasn’t saying or implying that having a disability or being disabled makes one more or less culpable. It was about someone acknowledging or apologizing for an act that was involuntary (as experts have indicated).
But also, given the circumstances, acknowledgment might also lead to an apology because of the level and degree of harm. Someone having to be subjected to a racial slur associated with harm, violence, and death could make it so one might need to do more than just acknowledge and offer an apology. /3
If someone pushes me into someone, spilling their drink, I am not at fault and lacked control, but I can still own the outcome. I acknowledge it not because I was wrong but because the outcome harmed someone. Acknowledging is different than apology (which carries admission of an offense/failure). /2
I’m still thinking it through, but I personally don’t see asking John Davidson to acknowledge harm as forcing him to apologize for having Tourette’s. Acknowledgement is different. I see it as asking him to own the outcome even if it was involuntary, which we often do in small and large ways. /1
Manchester by the Sea
It’s a lot more horrible for people called the N word! Come on. That’s ridiculous. They absolutely should be the people given priority because they were literally called a racial slur on stage. Everything and everyone else is secondary to the people who are the actual and only victims.
The people who were called a racial slur should absolutely be centered because they were the target. Regardless of the circumstances, they were called a harm, offensive racial slur.
And everyone should be upset that they weren’t centered in this entire discourse and discussion.
I don’t have an issue with educating about Tourette’s.
I DO have an issue with the focus not being on the two Black men who were called a racial slur and not centering them/their feeling first.
Despite being the targets of the slur, they are forced to be secondary to the person uttering the slur.
If many talking heads weren’t so insincere, they’d accept that often the most patriotic thing to do is critique/expect better from one’s country. Baldwin said: “I love America more than any other country in the world, and exactly for this reason I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
A GOLDEN GOAL FOR JACK HUGHES🥇
The United States beats Canada in OT to win its first gold medal in men's hockey since 1980.
#WinterOlympics
"Love is Blind" is always hilarious because they almost all immediately give away their race in pretty obvious ways.
"My favorite movie is 'Love and Basketball'
"Mine is 'Love Jones'"
Obviously Black
"My favorite song is 'Mr. Brightside'."
"I love playing Broomball."
Obviously white
He was also able to go to court - the son of immigrants - to argue that Nestlé and Cargill shouldn’t be held liable under U.S. law for using child slave labor because int’l law doesn’t apply to corporations. His argument? The company that provided Zyklon B to Nazis for gas chambers wasn’t indicted.
Whether it is biased/offensive messaging about Israel/Gaza, compliance in advance (giving up) related to DEI, or inconsistent application of the first amendment, many college/university admin have shown us exactly who they are. As time passes, we can’t allow anyone to forget their words and actions.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court STRIKES DOWN Trump's "emergency" tariffs. The vote is 6–3. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
This. Also, didn’t conservatives just spend months basically deifying a certain right-wing personality whose entire act was coming to campuses and telling students they need to “debate” outrageous and offensive ideas even if it means being forced to defend their own humanity or existence?
I've said for months that colleges/universities didn't care about the legality of these orders or fighting back. They preemptively eliminated things because many don’t (and never did) value DEI, are fine with resegregation, and/or wanted an excuse to eliminate initiatives seen as an “inconvenience”.