Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

But they didn’t want to be racial controversialists — and they certainly didn’t want to be conservatives — they wanted to be progressive scholars in good standing, who happen to have had a different interpretation of 19th Century economic development. — PolitiTweet.org

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I think the reason wasn’t exactly that they thought they would be “canceled” if they spoke to me. But they would get attacked in certain terms, that would then lead to a certain discourse, and they’d end up with a reputation as racial controversialists. — PolitiTweet.org

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The problem was that this literature, though mostly by white scholars, was being publicly championed by some prominent Black writers. The norms of being a progressive intellectual in good standing suggest that you need a Black person to make that criticism. — PolitiTweet.org

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