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Jan 28, 2023 9 tweets 3 min read Read on X
Behind-the-scenes: the provost and president of New College attempted to shut down our conversation with faculty and students, citing a threat against Trustee Eddie Speir. But Speir and I insisted that we continue with the program—and establish a new standard for open discourse.
These are the threats received by the New College communications team, released to the public for the first time here.

"SEE YOU ON WEDNESDAY ASSHOLE, MAKE SURE THAT YOU HAVE A FLAK JACKET ON, YOU MOTHERFUCKIN MORON!" ImageImage
We cannot allow those who threaten violence to shut down the democratic governance of our public institutions. We need to have the courage to stand up for open discourse. I appreciate all of the faculty, students, and staff who attended these conversations. Lots of common ground.
I've asked law enforcement to investigate the person calling himself "Jim Conefry." I hope that we can find out who sent the threat and that law enforcement takes all appropriate action. Shutting down the democratic process with threats of violence cannot be tolerated.
Lastly, I want to thank New College Police, Sarasota Police Department, and Sarasota County Sheriff's Office for protecting us during the event. They mobilized dozens of officers, including SWAT, and provided excellent security. They are the guardians of free speech!
FYI: Provost Sherman, featured in the video, failed to uphold the basic standards of university governance and free speech. After Trustee Speir and I decided to proceed, she secretly sent a campus-wide email attempting to cancel the event again. She will be held accountable.
I'm learning that much of the problem with our universities is weak leadership. Administrators do not have the courage to stand up to left-wing activists who mobilize grievance narratives and threaten violence.

That stops now. We are establishing a new standard in Florida.
Here's my opening speech to faculty:

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Mar 20
EXCLUSIVE: Harvard racial-studies professor @ChristinaJCross plagiarized multiple passages in her dissertation and at least one other paper, according to a new complaint filed with Harvard’s research integrity office.

Harvard's plagiarism crisis is spinning out of control. 🧵
Christina Cross is a rising star in the field of critical race studies. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, garnered attention from the New York Times, and won a slate of awards for her dissertation, including one from the American Sociological Association.
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The most serious allegation in the complaint is that Cross lifted an entire paragraph nearly verbatim from a paper by Stacey Bosick and Paula Fomby—the latter of whom was her dissertation advisor—without citing the source or placing verbatim language in quotations.
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Feb 22
I've obtained documents alleging that Harvard DEI administrator Shirley Greene plagiarized more than 40 passages in her PhD thesis, making her the third black woman at Harvard to be accused of academic fraud.

Harvard's plagiarism crisis is spinning out of control. 🧵
Greene is a Title IX coordinator affiliated with the Office for Gender Equity. She has worked to advance "Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging," and hosted a panel on "The Past, Present, and Future of Juneteenth" with the DEI department.

The Harvard Crimson previously downplayed the allegations against Greene, but I have obtained the full plagiarism complaint that paints a much more damning indictment of Greene’s scholarship than the student newspaper had let on.Image
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In the dissertation, Greene lifts multiple passages directly from Janelle Lee Woo’s 2004 dissertation, "Chinese American Female Identity." In one section, Greene copied words, phrases, and nearly entire paragraphs verbatim, without proper attribution or quotation.
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Feb 2
What is the scientific definition of "racism" here? How do you measure it quantitatively? How do you determine the causal influence from racism to intermediary institutions to individual income? With what controls? And what is the current quantity of racism in the United States?
As far as measuring childhood poverty, when you control for welfare dependency, family structure, mother's math/verbal skill, and some smaller variables, the black-white gap disappears—i.e., black and white children in similar circumstances have the same poverty rate. These cultural factors, which are trans-racial, even if racial groups have different rates, are far more plausible than "racism is the prime cause of everything, even if we can't properly define or measure it without appealing to disparities to explain the cause of said disparities."
There are additional questions that undermine the "racism as prime cause" thesis: Why do some minorities outperform whites in income? Why are there wide disparities between racial subgroups (e.g., Swedes v. Scots-Irish, Taiwanese v. Thai, Nigerians v. ADOS)? Why ignore family structure, math/verbal skill, hours worked, years in profession, median age, and other variables that are measurable quantitatively and highly correlated with income?
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Jan 21
This is a new low, which, for NPR, is impressive. My local station compares my work fighting for colorblind equality to a Proud Boy who “stormed the U.S. Capitol” on 1/6 and the local Klan chapter 100 years ago. If it weren’t so stupid, I’d be offended.
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I often wonder whether these reporters are doing this maliciously or if they really cannot see beyond their limited repertoire of historical analogies. Luckily, the vast majority of Americans are much smarter and much less gullible than the average NPR reporter.
I’ll give the technique a try: NPR reporter @katiecampbellwa is a left-wing ideologue. Other left-wing ideologues include Stalin, who killed millions, and Harvey Weinstein, a convicted rapist. That’s the equivalent playbook with the target reversed.
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Jan 16
I spent more than three years working in an all-black public housing project in Memphis, Tennessee, culminating in a vérité-style documentary for PBS. I have spent more time building relationships in disadvantaged black communities than most social-justice intellectuals.
If you're more curious, honest, and informed than Brandon Bradford, you can watch the entire film for free on YouTube:
When I was making the film, I studied authors from the black conservative tradition, reading books from Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Shelby Steele, John McWhorter, Glenn Loury, Jason Riley, and William Julius Wilson.* The idea that conservatives, and black conservatives in particular, are driven by ignorance is ridiculous—our opponents show much less curiosity.

*Wilson is not exactly a conservative, but I found that his empirical analysis trends conservative, even if his prescriptive recommendations trend liberal.
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Jan 15
The Right needs to champion colorblind equality and reform existing civil rights law to make it a reality. The agenda: overturn Griggs v. Duke Power Co.; rescind LBJ's executive order on affirmative action; abolish the disparate impact provisions from the 1991 Civil Rights Act; restructure the enforcement bureaucracy to ban DEI-style discrimination. These are all majority positions—even in California, voters reject racial preferences. Time to get it done.
If I were, let's say, Secretary of Education, I would launch a civil rights investigation into every Ivy League university's discriminatory DEI and admissions policies, then work with legislators to block all federal funding until they remedy the situation.
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