Post your asides here

[mahagonny]

I was always a pretty good speller, but I'm not going to delve into a NYT spelling bee, not now. Not when proper spelling is going to reinforce white supremacy.

[jimbogumbo]

More of a musing than aside. I'm going to guess Howard students are fine with her hire.

[mahagonny]

In a last minute effort to boost Larry Elder's political career, President Biden will be in California today campaigning for Gaviner Newsom.

[FishProf]

That YOU is an "if the shoe fits, wear it" you.

[mahagonny]

I agreed with your statement, but I note that if you write

"People have reasons for what they do.  Imagining the most nefarious reasons doesn't bring you closer to understanding them, or them you.  Well, maybe we do understand you (and it isn't good)."

As opposed to

"People have reasons for what they do.  Imagining the most nefarious reasons doesn't bring you closer to understanding them, or them you.  Well, maybe I do understand you (and it isn't good).

It sounds quite different to me.

[mamselle]

^ Unrelated.

Well, Bildad and Eliphaz have weighed in. Will Zophar and Elihu be next, I wonder?

M.

[FishProf]

I agreed with your statement, but I note that if you write

"People have reasons for what they do.  Imagining the most nefarious reasons doesn't bring you closer to understanding them, or them you.  Well, maybe we do understand you (and it isn't good)."

As opposed to

"People have reasons for what they do.  Imagining the most nefarious reasons doesn't bring you closer to understanding them, or them you.  Well, maybe I do understand you (and it isn't good).

It sounds quite different to me.

Royal "WE".

[mahagonny]

More of a musing than aside. I'm going to guess Howard students are fine with her hire.

Good guess, considering that saying anything other than 'wow, she's a genius' would get one branded as an Uncle Tom or a racist.

[Langue_doc]

What on earth is  geneious?

[jimbogumbo]

More of a musing than aside. I'm going to guess Howard students are fine with her hire.

Good guess, considering that saying anything other than 'wow, she's a genius' would get one branded as an Uncle Tom or a racist.

Or perhaps that journalism students at a prestigious HBCU will be thrilled to be in a class with an African American investigative journalist who has won both a Pulitzer and a MacArthur grant.

[mahagonny]

More of a musing than aside. I'm going to guess Howard students are fine with her hire.

Good guess, considering that saying anything other than 'wow, she's a genius' would get one branded as an Uncle Tom or a racist.

Or perhaps that journalism students at a prestigious HBCU will be thrilled to be in a class with an African American investigative journalist who has won both a Pulitzer and a MacArthur grant.

Well, why don't they? they are young still, and one can pass ignorance on the way to knowledge.

[marshwiggle]

More of a musing than aside. I'm going to guess Howard students are fine with her hire.

Good guess, considering that saying anything other than 'wow, she's a genius' would get one branded as an Uncle Tom or a racist.

Or perhaps that journalism students at a prestigious HBCU will be thrilled to be in a class with an African American investigative journalist who has won both a Pulitzer and a MacArthur grant.

They may be, but it may confuse them a bit about how academia normally works, and what is required for someone to become a professor, and what is required to get tenure.

Olympic medals and Nobel prizes are both great honours, but they're not interchangeable in who gets them and why. They both have higher value by being distinct.

[mahagonny]

More of a musing than aside. I'm going to guess Howard students are fine with her hire.

Good guess, considering that saying anything other than 'wow, she's a genius' would get one branded as an Uncle Tom or a racist.

Or perhaps that journalism students at a prestigious HBCU will be thrilled to be in a class with an African American investigative journalist who has won both a Pulitzer and a MacArthur grant.

They may be, but it may confuse them a bit about how academia normally works, and what is required for someone to become a professor, and what is required to get tenure.

Olympic medals and Nobel prizes are both great honours, but they're not interchangeable in who gets them and why. They both have higher value by being distinct.

there's not much confusing about hypocrisy once you've seen enough of it.

[mahagonny]

The only reason Dr. Suess is active now is I've been goosing it. Otherwise the forum is quiet. Me, the pariah, the troll. You're welcome/.

[little bongo]

Geez, man, way to hog all the credit.