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Tom Nichols
Professor and . Fmr US Senate aide. Sr. Cont. . New book: The Death of Expertise (Winter 2017). Dad, cat guy. Views my own.
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Radley Balko 13 set
"'Are you calling him a liar?' Conway asked." Yes. Yes we are.
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Tom Nichols 13 h
Why read, when you can just make sulky assumptions?
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Tom Nichols 13 h
If you'd like to know what I wrote about the relationship between Trump's rise and PC culture, it's here:
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Tom Nichols 13 h
And a Kielbasa King, IIRC, but you boys leave me out of whatever's about to happen next
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Tom Nichols 13 h
And they used to crown a Kielbasa Queen, as God is my witness
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Tom Nichols 13 h
Or, you know, 15.
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As I wrote here, in talking about this very issue:
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Tom Nichols 13 h
intact as of 0525 ZULU
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I figure you guys would see it. Correcting spelling is elitism.
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Tom Nichols 13 h
it happens
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Tom Nichols 13 h
I don't see how goading millions of people to live down to the worst stereotypes of dumb white racism undermines PC.
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Tom Nichols 13 h
Not *everything*, but I'm getting there
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I'm especially insulting to people who think they know my life story.
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Well, I did grow up pretty rich and privileged, in a nice San Francisco suburb, as I discussed in my NYT piece.
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Tom Nichols 13 h
And they were like that before anyone ever mocked them. But mocking them now is essential, imo.
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Tom Nichols 13 h
Hey, maybe I'll write about that in my next book, or give some lectures or interviews on it. Good topic.
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Tom Nichols 13 h
Sure. But there are legit debates (poverty, gun control) where charges of racism are deployed like conversational napalm, imo.
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