Making Legitimate the Fringe: The Story of Naomi Schaefer Riley & The Chronicle of Higher Ed

Some people thought Naomi Schaefer Riley's Attack on Black Studies and Blacks Who Study Shouldn't be in the Chronicle...and, they disagreed

  1. .@tanyagolashboza @literarychica @redclayscholar I scrolled after the 1st para looking for the rhetorical turn into irony. Never came
  2. The biggest insult? naomi schaefer riley doesn't critique the arguments of black studies scholars. That would be too respectful @chronicle
  3. I think I will walk away. Derision punches ALL my buttons @miriamkp
  4. @tressiemcphd I just read the original article a few days ago. Her response and critique of it is angering and heart breaking.
  5. Eff that. I pulled over to write a response. I got 'that' feeling...
  6. Naomi Schaefer Riley's blog piece @chronicle attacking Black Studies reads like lifted from Manhattan Institute and/or Amy Wax lecture
  7. The Inferiority of Blackness as a Subject or, Naomi Schaefer Riley Can Kiss My Grits wp.me/p28iGT-2H
  8. cont'd: Same time yes, it is worth questioning how/why this piece bit.ly/KGpCf9 was pub'd. I will do so & report back. @tressiemcphd
  9. Yes, please let's have that discussion. Because this kind of attack should not be legitimized tressiemc.com/2012/05/02/the… @Chronicle_Amy
  10. And I'mma give Amy a hot second before I hit publish on this petition to remove @NaomiSRiley from their pages. But only a hot second.
  11. I mean can you imagine having your diss recognized in a nat'l publication for the same pub to turn around and print a personal attack on u?!
  12. @chronicle Saddened by your magazine's decision to endorse hateful, semiliterate, racially-motivated criticism of black doctoral students.
  13. I'm not kidding: the clock is running on me publishing a petition to dismiss Schaefer Riley from @chronicle
  14. No. I'm REALLY indignant. Petition: Challenge @chronicle to Dismiss Naomi Schaefer Riley ipetitions.com/petition/chall…
  15. @tressiemcphd Notice as well that when they responded to you here, they still included the link? Traffic is traffic. Sigh.
  16. @tressiemcphd @chronicle Just read Riley on black studies. I'm a former sr writer @ Chron. Riley's piece is scandalously irresponsible.
  17. As a blogger for the @Chronicle, I'm seriously disappointed by their decision to publish NSR's irresponsibly anti-intellectual opinions. +
  18. I would hope that they consider how *other* @Chronicle bloggers feel being associated, however indirectly, with content like this. -
  19. @GeorgeOnline Just as disturbing as the @chronicle publishing the post is the @Chronicle tweeting it to increase page views.
  20. NSR is an "affiliate scholar" at Institute for American Values, funded by a foundation which was founded by a charter member of John Birch.
  21. Dear, @chronicle,1hr = almost 50 scholars have signed their name to demand you dismiss Naomi Schaefer Riley bit.ly/JOHall
  22. That's more reads than most journal articles. People really don't like bullies, @chronicle. You shouldn't either.

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Sociologist. PhD student. I stan for organizational lit. Professional hell-raiser. I tried to shut up once & it ended badly for all. #EmoryUniversity

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