It has been three years since the Court's ruling in SFFA v. Harvard, and institutions still continue to defy the decision. It’s clear that higher education isn’t inclined to comply on its own.
“The court’s ruling was clear enough. What’s missing is enforcement with teeth. Right now, an institution caught running a race-proxy scheme risks, at worst, a strongly worded finding and a promise to do better. That’s not a deterrent; it’s a cost of doing business, no different than a compliance fine a hedge fund writes off before lunch.”
Virtue signalling substitutes applause for action. By turning conviction into costume, it cheapens the cause, alienates the unconvinced, and leaves the real work to those too busy doing it to pose for the cameras.
In 2010, as an Indian American college student at @OhioState, I went on a road trip to Iowa to watch our Buckeyes play in a big game. Before the game, we were tailgating on Iowa’s campus. The picture enclosed is shortly before we started tailgating (I’m pictured in the far right of the photo). As Iowa fans passed us, the normal trash talk ensued, both ways. But one man decked out in Iowa overalls decided to use the opportunity to throw racial expletives at me.
My overwhelmingly white friends stepped in to defend me. They didn’t hesitate. A few of them tried to fight the guy who said the racist things. A scuffle ensued, and was eventually deescalated.
Racism isn’t new. It isn’t new to Indian Americans. It isn’t new to Indian Americans who enjoy college football.
But this Indian American went on to become the first Indian American State Senator in the 223 year history of Ohio.
Nearly all Americans aren’t racist, including Republicans. It’s shameful a few loud mouth racists exist. But they have existed. And unfortunately they will continue to exist.
The way to combat them is to continue being American. To continue watching college football just like every American.
@bofrench is the worst of America. I, and every other Indian American, will continue being the best of America.
@BarakRavid Here's their story: Our evil government started a war of aggression and terrorism that it couldn't win, and then refused to surrender. We ended up paying the price.
🚨 Da’Shaun L. Harrison at Socialism 2026 argues that the political deployment of GLP-1 drugs is “fascistic” because they exist in “a world fixated on genociding fat people.”
“The political deployment of GLP-1s is fascistic, not because individuals take them, but because the conditions under which they become necessary are shaped by a world fixated on genociding fat people.”
And to explain why that is supposedly fascistic, Harrison turns to Frantz Fanon and “Black flesh under colonial surveillance.”
If GLP-1s are already “body fascism,” the dual and triple agonists are going to require an entirely new theoretical vocabulary.
I was Governor of New York on September 11, 2001. The planes did not simply crash into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. They were hijacked and deliberately flown into those buildings by Islamist terrorists.
This clip perfectly embodies the uselessness of so many of our politicians.
Senator Blumenthal (from my home state of Connecticut), holds a press conference on train safety.
Blumenthal breaks the rules, walks too close to the edge, and almost gets hit by a train. 🤣
OK : who wants a laugh. But I warn you, do not (as I did) have coffee in yr mouth as you read.... I do love @camillalong 🤭🤭
"She is the worst actress that ever lived — she cannot project anything on screen except the hunger not to be Meghan Markle"
😂😂😂😂😂
Flock cameras remind me of Stop & Frisk rules back in Bloomberg NYC.
The law-abiding citizens in the Harlem neighborhoods loved it, because it stopped the drug dealers and murderers.
The people against it were people in safe neighborhoods and the drug dealers and murderers.
Female means possessing the reproductive system that produces eggs instead of sperm. It is irrelevant whether said system is defective, immature or surgically altered.
I just described every female on earth.
No engagement with the arrant lies, the massive plagiarism, the airy public addresses. Kendi thinks all of that is okay if you're Black (and have dreadlocks) and that Arday was still a legitimate academic seized upon because of his color.
Kendi thinks Blackness exempts one from amassing data, drawing connections, and presenting novel insights. You're the real thing in just showing racism exists, despite that this is a rote exercise. We don't have to be actually smart, and in fact shouldn't (too "Western"). We are authentic in eternally "contesting."
That take is deep if you (have dreadlocks and) changed your name to Kendi.
Note that he seems not to have worked out at the Atlantic, and publishes this soapbox performance art somewhere you're a little surprised a public "intellectual" of his status would choose.
I wish Arday were alive. But this take on Arday as lynched is performance art. American academia should hesitate to embrace it.