#Meritocracy

Heidi N. Moore

moorehn

I simply cannot with France right now https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/15/paris-city-hall-fined-for-putting-too-many-women-in-senior-roles Because there are (too many) people arguing in the mentions about why this is a problem: Wo

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/Let's talk about college admissions, why they're unfair, and why they're probably about to get more unfair unless things change.https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-08-19/college-admissions-are-about-to-get-even-mor

Jasmine D. Parker, Ph.D.

DrJasmineParker

Hi, interdisciplinary social scientist here. I see a LOT of convo around #CancelStudentDebt, and I want to help frame this concept. Not only is canceling student debt good for the

Sadie Ryan

sadie_d_ryan

This is me on talking to @DrMatthewSweet, @TimandraHarknes, @selina_todd and @David_Goodhart about language, class and social mobility. At the end of my segment I was told fairly firmly that linguistic

Clover and Co.

Occupy_PDX

Alright, it's time to talk about shame. I've been wanting to write this thread for a while. You might have heard me say that I never use shame to motivate

Andrea Roventini

AndreaRoventini

THREADC'è una relazione tra la crescente disuguaglianza (in diverse dimensioni) in USA e il sostegno a Trump degli ultimi anni? La disuguaglianza di reddito e di ricchezza è aumentata molto

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

Inequality requires narrative stabilizers. When you have too little and someone else has more than they can possibly use, simple logic dictates that you should take what they have. 1/

Sita Balani

sitainshort

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/15/chumocracy-covid-revealed-shape-tory-establishment this article does a brilliant job of mapping how a small group of tories are profiting off our misery. what it doesn't show is that these h

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samifouad

You called this province the "promised land" but failed to mention how it's also stolen land.https://twitter.com/kayceemaduyeg/status/1332161247337320449 You went on about Nigerian colonization, recognizing a deficiency in jus

Samuel Hammond 🌐🏛

hamandcheese

If meritocracy is bad because it rids non-meritorious elites of noblesse oblige, I wonder if China's explicit embrace of propaganda is in some ways preferable to the US model in

Kim Crawley

kim_crawley

I have many thoughts about the 13 year old autistic boy who was almost murdered by the cops, now in critical condition...1. All anger toward the cops is completely justified.

EarthWitchSam #XRP 😷👍🏻🧙🏻‍♀️

DeadmanSamantha

Fscinating article and one I can absolutely agree with. God forbid the #middleclass should recognise their #privilege, they might have to acknowledge social injustices. Screw that, let's just keep blaming

Stonekettle

Stonekettle

Gargamel pretty sure the Smurfs are up to no good.You know, it's ironic Gohmert should bring this up. Because he's right: this IS how you end up with communism. Or

Zuhaib Ahmed

pirzada_zuhaib

A thread.To All CSPS and AspirantsCSS: Revisiting Paulo Freire I was a bright child of my family as I always passed my examinations with flying colours. This made my family

Jason Hickel

jasonhickel

The claim that Trump voters are reacting against neoliberalism doesn't really work this time. Trump is an uber-neoliberal: the past four years have been characterised by tax cuts for the

Maddie McClouskey

soundofmaddie

As long as the American theatre industry relies on classism to exist, we will continue to cycle through problematic white people's non-apologies from plucky personalities who love the works of

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