R. P. Schwartz

Lapsed historian of science. Educator, amateur sociologist of Orthodoxy, tweeter in the early morning. US history/politics, race, feminism, SAR HS Color War, 🏒

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@skjask "Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings."

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@skjask And every single one of these men should, at a bare minimum, driven out of public life forever. Yes, Bill Clinton. Yes, Bill Gates. Yes, the whole crew: Steven Pinker, Noam Chomsky, Alan Dershowitz, Alex Acosta, Donald Trump, the whole entire list.

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@IlanBlock @DBashIdeas @zschrieber I left. Dovid summoned me back.

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@DBashIdeas @zschrieber My friend, you forget that I grew up yeshivish and without a TV. I know who these people are, but have no idea what characteristics might make the comparisons apposite.

[Leah Greenberg says NO KINGS ❌👑 @Leahgreenb]

I am not saying this is fair. I am saying it's important and I'm gonna try to do it, and I invite you to do the same

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friendly reminder that the best case scenario over the coming years is that a lot of people say "I supported Trump but this isn't what I wanted at all" and when they do that it's gonna be really, really important that we say "welcome in," not "fuck you, we told you so"

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@ParkerNation25 @Leezard3 I think as a history teacher I am required to maintain public professional neutrality between U.S. and European history. If you ask me privately what I think, I might have opinions.

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@Leezard3 @ParkerNation25 Slander. Vile slander. I did no such thing.

(Anyway, they haven't let me teach APUSH in almost ten years 😭😭😭so no one else is subject to teaching predilections.)

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@ADelMonte123 Bsky, silently.

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This week was SAR High School Color War. For those of you who've been following for a while, you know that I usually tweet exclusively about that for a few days every December.

In fact, SAR High School Color War is why I got on Twitter in the first place.

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@DGamulka Already thinking about next year, when my grade will be black team. :-D

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@DGamulka Last year, my grade was red team, so I ran around in a Price jersey. This year, my grade is blue team, and since I don't own and am not buying the ugly baby blue reverse retro from a couple of years ago, I ran around in this. (Looks black in the photo, but I promise it's navy.)

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@IlanBlock @18_forty @SruliFruchter ROFL. Geography Bee, last year. That banana is in yeshiva in Israel now.

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@18_forty @SruliFruchter If I ever get around to publishing my own stuff regularly in other venues, I'll come back and let you all know. /fin

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@18_forty Thank you to @SruliFruchter for your thoughtful and sensitive editing, back when I was deliberating over publishing this. And thank you to @18_forty for first launching it into the world.