Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

My view is that grantmaking institutions have created some highly unrepresentative ethnic niche activist groups that in turn misled a wider progressive community into believing this was a more authentic demand and priority than it really was. https://t.co/SeGLR7fVHX — PolitiTweet.org

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So there’s an abstract social science question “how import was this in the grand scheme of things?” but also a narrower question about strategy and funding — “was this a smart decision given the nominal aims of these groups and their funders?” — PolitiTweet.org

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So on the one hand I wouldn’t want to overstate the causal impact of these funding decisions. But on the other hand sometimes people who make funding decisions listen to me, so I think it’s a reasonably important thing to have arguments about. — PolitiTweet.org

Ady Barkan's memoir is not only beautifully written, but contains crucial insights into the importance of reading M… https://t.co/PnsHU0K4G3

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