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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
OlufemiOTaiwo
Brief pettiness: Back in grad school, when I expressed an interest in philosophy of race, folks began inviting me to convos/conferences about "implicit bias" and such. I stared blankly and
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academia needs far better standards for attention and intellectual labor than it currently has: right now norms tend to respond powerfully to prestige hierarchies - functionally, any argument made by
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short thread:"In a randomized controlled trial among 1634 disadvantaged high school youth in Chicago, assignment to a summer jobs program decreases violence by 43% over 16 months (3.95 fewer violent-crime
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one thing I like about how I was trained to do philosophy that I hope we keep around: a very particular notion of "disagreement". just cause someone's saying something you
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stray thoughts: been having a lot of ambivalent thoughts about respect, personality and power given the big changes in my life over the past decade or so. if you had
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Apparently we're debating whether or not the term "wage slavery" is racist. @Nessanihil posted these of Lucy Parsons, Frederick Douglass, and Dr. King, which give you a sense of how
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THREAD: I'm part of a group that just published a commentary in One Earth as part of a special issue on carbon removal. Speaking for myself: I feel strongly about
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actually let me just get this out of the way. Overall, the broad points we made (largely ignored in this response) are:1) the racial capitalism argument that racism plays a
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reacting to a few different things (some of which are on Twitter), but not a subtweet: I see two well-intentioned norms floating around these days.1) You *must* address justice issues
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