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Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
@iamtexture @ConceptualJames What you are talking about are a small number of teachers who use bad *pedagogy* in the classroom. There are thousands of pathways to bad pedagogy. Critical Race Theory is *theory*. It is not pedagogy. But I think you should lecture a longtime college professor more about this. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
@iamtexture The problem we have right now is that half the country or so supports a man who read Hitler’s speeches in his formative years, not the fact that 2% of academics have read bell hooks — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
@iamtexture No, it's not. It’s just one of many things a person encounters if they decide to go to law school. If you study theory at the doctorate level, it’ll be one of several dozen theories you encounter. Every other mention of it in American life can basically screw off as political BS. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
(PS3) If you wonder who Rufo is he’s the little washout no-account fash turd who devised his own dimestore-fantasy definition of Critical Race Theory to rile up bigots, and since it worked he basically gets to write GOP policy now because anyone that hateful automatically gets to — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
(PS2) In other words I think now would be a good time for everyone to decide if you’re really in this or not and by *this* I mean the whole damn American democratic experiment since the Founding because Donald Trump and his fash goons aim to dump gasoline over it and toss a match — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
(PS) If “centralized ideological control” written down conversationally when it might as well have been plagiarized from Mein Kampf doesn’t send a chill down your spine nothing does — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
The fash are ramping up bigtime This isn’t the time for those who love democracy to take our eyes off the ball or before long there’ll be no democracy or ball let alone chicken in every pot just brownshirts at every door If you think I’m being hysterical read a history book FCS https://t.co/lNwg22D8zt — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
RT @KatiePhang: NEW: Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Cleta Mitchell, Kenneth Chesbro and Jenna Ellis have now been subpoenaed by the Fulton Co… — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
@KentRoseNotes1 Agreed! — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
An incredible true story about discovering yourself and what you want to be in/to the world, and one I relate to even more than I would otherwise as a fellow recovering poet https://t.co/2Hy29kLKSS — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
@OhmMeOhmMyO Yes and back in the 60s they were dealing with “payola” also — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
@Raykripaitis I prefer “Let Her Dance” to those three songs—and “Never to Be Forgotten”—but they don’t sound like the early Beatles because, again, they came from a different set of influences. The latter song had an aggressive Texas guitar the skiffle-influenced Beatles would never have used. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
@OhmMeOhmMyO Granted, we had Dylan and Motown and Johnny Cash and so on, but the fact that America did not have its own distinctly American pop-rock phenomenon besides surf rock could have gone differently, especially with the 13FE inventing psychedelia *also in Texas* (where Fuller was) — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
@OhmMeOhmMyO I wasn’t using muted as a binary, but a spectrum, i.e. could a different music scene in America have caused the Invasion to hit different Anyone who says one band/musician couldn’t change the narrative dramatically in America mid-20th c. has apparently never heard the name Elvis — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
@Raykripaitis But this misses the point, in any case. I’m not saying that Bobby Fuller was Paul McCartney. I’m saying that there was a scene developing in Texas in the mid-1960s that really could have flowered into something distinctly American and incredible. *Not* the Beatles. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
@Raykripaitis Signed to a major record label in 1965, Fuller murdered early summer 1966—an event linked to the terrible label situation they were in. How many years after the Beatles signed to a major record label was Revolver? I can tell you: they signed to EMI in 1962; Revolver was 1966. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
RT @SethAbramson: ICYMI (2015, NYT): Justice Clarence Thomas Was Angry That in 2015 SCOTUS Did Not Take Up a Challenge to Gun-Safety Regula… — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
@KWealty Yes—a great piece of 60s trivia! So many wrongly assume they were from England. (Compare that to their fellow Texans, The Five Americans—who wanted to make a very different statement!) — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
@danmadrigal27 Absolutely — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
@areed21774 Oh it was all lip-synched back then — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
@Antonblakeactor I agree that I inadvertently minimized it, which is why I updated the thread. British Invasion music is literally what got me into music, period. (That and a touch of the Beach Boys.) — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
@BeechcraftBo @rdgreid Buddy Holly was my late dad’s favorite artist, so I’m fascinated by the generation of Texas musicians and frankly just American musicians generally who were profoundly influenced by him. That includes Bobby Fuller. It would be wrong to imply Fuller looked to The Beatles, instead. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
@Antonblakeactor Candidly, if you think I dislike British Invasion music, you should see my 600 Invasion LPs. I have no idea where you are getting this narrative that I do not absolutely love that music. I am just also very interested in what was happening in Texas at the time, which you are not. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
@Antonblakeactor The Animals were great, I used to go as far into their lifespan as “Sky Pilot” on the radio. I just don't listen to them now because for some wholly personal, idiosyncratic reason their songs depress me. I think it’s just some of the melodies—and I do not blame the band for that. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
@Antonblakeactor Sniffy? Besides Tom Jones, you just named three bands I used to play on the radio all the time when I was a DJ. I’m not a Stones fan, but I recognize their enormous importance. Dusty is a way more complex story than being lumped in with the British Invasion (same with Tom Jones). — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
@palmer_eldritch My thinking is the last inflection point was 1966—though the Beatles had appeared on Sullivan in 1964. If an American band (besides the Beach Boys and Pet Sounds) were going to really pump the brakes on the 60s music narrative, it would have had to happen that year at the latest. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
@palmer_eldritch But I see your point, as by 1968 the narrative of the British Invasion having defined the 60s was so entrenched almost all the musical experiments and innovations of the Byrds were acknowledged by the critics but didn’t really saturate into the general population as important. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
@palmer_eldritch Agree about their commercial success, though if that’s all we’re considering we’d be speaking of Paul Revere & the Raiders. The Notorious Byrd Brothers was 1968—and they coinvented country-rock with the Flying Burrito Brothers and a few others that year. The band just fell apart. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
@anotherjoshua I think the bigger issue is that he did not have a writing partner in the way we saw with both the Beatles and the Stones. He would have had to be a Ray Davies figure (which is not to take away from any of Dave Davies contributions). — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
@anotherjoshua Agreed to disagree. Other than “I Fought the Law,” which I actually find a bit cloying and overrated, he wrote almost all his hits and did so between the ages of 19 and 22. “A New Shade of Blue” was so good Bob Dylan stole it in 2012. Who knows how he would have evolved in time. — PolitiTweet.org
