"'If you hear hooves, think horses, not zebras,' Mom liked to say, drawing from her wisdom as an emergency-room nurse that cautioned against wild medical diagnoses...But I wonder — in our walling off what we can talk about and what we cannot, in our work to accept each other despite our conflicting views of the … Continue reading Horses, Not Zebras
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Too Broke to Be Woke
"Though it might grant social and professional benefits to members of the elite liberal class, engaging in scholarship and activism that demonizes men, white people, or heterosexuals doesn’t make the world more just, nor does providing students with empirically-unsupported implicit-bias training and “toxic masculinity” workshops. These practices bake the seeds of prejudice and discrimination into … Continue reading Too Broke to Be Woke
My Affair With the Intellectual Dark Web – Great Escape – Medium
"If the idea is that I piss people off by being disloyal to my likely tribes, well, I don’t think that makes me unusual. I think it just makes me a good intellectual." —Alice Dreger quoted in Meghan Daum. "My Affair With the Intellectual Dark Web." Medium. August 24, 2018. Easy test to see if … Continue reading My Affair With the Intellectual Dark Web – Great Escape – Medium
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