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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
RT @powellnyt: 1. As President Biden appoints Catherine Lhamon to enforce Title IX, worth recalling her record under Obama drew criticism f… — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
In a diverse institution that values pluralism, how does one decide, when one party takes offense at what another does, if the best way forward is forbearance or apology or dialog or nothing at all? It's a question DEI administrators should answer in detail. Have any? — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@aashaik16 @NAChristakis @shyam_ala @monicacbell @SajaSpearman The dean did call his email "racist" and "pejorative" — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@NAChristakis @aashaik16 @shyam_ala @monicacbell @SajaSpearman It may be useful to note that different offense taking students may have responded in different ways. The subset who filed formal complaints seem distinct to me from the ones who didn't. — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@aashaik16 @shyam_ala @NAChristakis @monicacbell @SajaSpearman there's a complaint about falsely accusing students of cancel culture, and a defense of the deans implicit in which is a narrative where they're warning Colbert he may be cancelled if he's not careful. — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@aashaik16 @shyam_ala @NAChristakis @monicacbell @SajaSpearman One irony here, of course, is that even if you take the career repercussions as the deans warning how others might behave, then it means the deans were effectively saying, better apologize or a classmate might cancel you when it comes time for the bar. That is, — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@monicacbell @NAChristakis @shyam_ala @aashaik16 @SajaSpearman At Yale Law, according to its rules, can a student be found guilty of harassment and discrimination without any intent to harass or intimidate? — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@aashaik16 @shyam_ala @NAChristakis @monicacbell @SajaSpearman And if the administrators had stopped at *here's why your classmates find this offensive" that would be much, much different than ongoing pressure to sign an apology and warnings about career repercussions. — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@aashaik16 @shyam_ala @NAChristakis @monicacbell @SajaSpearman Come on. If the fact pattern here was, *Dean, I don't want to deal with explaining why we find this offensive, could you?* that would be much, much different than formal "harassment" and "discrimination" complaints. — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@aashaik16 @monicacbell @NAChristakis @shyam_ala @SajaSpearman That *here's some useful context to understand what's going on* is not among the reactions I have objected to--indeed it's the one thing I praised. — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
This question is core to the Yale controversy and many others. But no one, insofar as I have seen, addresses it straightforwardly and offers the standard that they want to see applied. — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
If you have a diverse student body, classmates will have imperfect knowledge of what peers from different subcultures see as offensive or understand to have pejorative connotations. How do we distinguish btwn what one ought to have known versus can't be expected to have known? — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
It appears to me that it has no principled or substantive answer to these questions. Instead it is reactive to whatever complaints are filed. But maybe I'm wrong. If anyone can point me to countervailing evidence I'm seeking it out. — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@monicacbell @NAChristakis @shyam_ala @aashaik16 @SajaSpearman I don't understand how a successful educational intervention could be divorced from understanding the speaker's intent? Had the speaker intended to draw on pejorative anti Black stereotypes that would in your view warrant a distinct intervention, wouldn't it? — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
How would Yale Law describe the minimum threshold for filing a formal complaint? How does it understand the distinction between when students should work things out among themselves and when administrators should be involved? — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
A question I'd like to see Yale Law's leadership answer: if a classmate uses a word that offends because of an identity-based connotation of which he or she is unaware, is that in itself a sufficient trigger to file a justified "discrimination" or "harassment" complaint? More: — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@monicacbell @shyam_ala @NAChristakis @aashaik16 @SajaSpearman and indeed educational even when ignorance of an association is the root of a controversy. — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@monicacbell @shyam_ala @NAChristakis @aashaik16 @SajaSpearman As well, insensitive is typically defined as "showing or feeling no concern for others' feelings." And I don't think that's fair in situations where ignorance of a connotation is the explanation for giving offense. I do think articulating offense and the reasons for it is fine — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@monicacbell @shyam_ala @NAChristakis @aashaik16 @SajaSpearman As I said in my piece, I thought the administrator was at his best in the *education* portion of the talk. But neither the filing of discrimination complaints nor the pressure to issue an apology were *education.* — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@shyam_ala @NAChristakis @aashaik16 @monicacbell @SajaSpearman I can imagine a racist invocation of the term, but the one I describe in the Tweet above does not strike me as racist. Curious to hear your view. — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@shyam_ala @NAChristakis @aashaik16 @monicacbell @SajaSpearman Is your position that using "trap house" is racist even if the user has no idea that it has a racial connotation or affiliation for some, and intends a different meaning widespread in his subculture and generation? — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@shyam_ala @NAChristakis @aashaik16 @monicacbell @SajaSpearman I personally was unaware of the racial connotations. I'd only heard the term in the context of Chapo Trap House. I've also asked around to a bunch of Gen Z folks, who were ignorant of that meaning/connotation, and others who thought it was obvious and widely known. — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@shyam_ala @NAChristakis @aashaik16 @monicacbell @SajaSpearman To me, the text itself has a clear ambiguity: reading it without knowing the intent of the author, it is unclear whether he intends or doesn't intend to evoke the racial associations that some but not all people have or are even aware of with regard to "trap house." — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@shyam_ala @NAChristakis @aashaik16 @monicacbell @SajaSpearman The argument I've made is that, regardless of whether the email was offensive or not, the response of administrators was abusive, for reasons I laid out in detail. So my position doesn't turn on offensiveness either way. But let's turn to that now. — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@shyam_ala @NAChristakis @aashaik16 @monicacbell @SajaSpearman I'd ask you to ponder if you'd feel as sanguine about formal complaints of that sort and administrative responses of that sort of you felt like administrators were at odds with rather than aligned with your beliefs about what is offensive. Wouldn't you worry about power abuses? — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@shyam_ala @NAChristakis @aashaik16 @monicacbell @SajaSpearman And wouldn't you feel mistreated if the complaints were for "harassment" and "discrimination" if your speech, offensive or not, clearly didn't rise to that threshold per the definitions of those transgressions? — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@shyam_ala @NAChristakis @aashaik16 @monicacbell @SajaSpearman To pose my question again: of a law student takes offense at what a classmate says, do you think it is appropriate to file a formal complaint with administrators? Wouldn't you feel coerced if summoned by a Yale administrator based on a peer reporting your speech? — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@shyam_ala @NAChristakis @aashaik16 @monicacbell @SajaSpearman Shyamala, do you think it was appropriate for his peers to file formal complaints to administrators about his email? — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
If you lived in Los Angeles for the last decade and wondered *what on earth is causing the visceral change in the homeless population,* here is one part of the answer that's relatively unknown. https://t.co/SAfhiOHzph — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@pehenne Sorry I missed that at the time, I would've corrected. I have a rather long and antagonistic relationship with Breitbart and hadn't realized the source, and I'd recently seen some masking arguments that struck me as excessive. On Covid it sounds like we're of similar minds. — PolitiTweet.org
