- I quit life rt @literarychica: ::headdesk:: RT @redclayscholar: Welp! Here it be: http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/the-most-persuasive-case-for-eliminating-black-studies-just-read-the-dissertations/46346 …/blogs/brainstorm/the-most-persuasive-case-for-eliminating-black-studies-just-read-the-dissertations/46346”
http://twitter.com/tressiemcphd/status/197758019663183872
— tressie mc (@tressiemcphd)Wed, May 02 2012 18:42:40 - .@tanyagolashboza @literarychica @redclayscholar I scrolled after the 1st para looking for the rhetorical turn into irony. Never came
http://twitter.com/tressiemcphd/status/197760088667201537
— tressie mc (@tressiemcphd)Wed, May 02 2012 18:50:54 - The biggest insult? naomi schaefer riley doesn't critique the arguments of black studies scholars. That would be too respectful @chronicle
http://twitter.com/tressiemcphd/status/197760993743482880
— tressie mc (@tressiemcphd)Wed, May 02 2012 18:54:29 - I think I will walk away. Derision punches ALL my buttons @miriamkp
http://twitter.com/tressiemcphd/status/197763566563102721
— tressie mc (@tressiemcphd)Wed, May 02 2012 19:04:43 - @tressiemcphd I just read the original article a few days ago. Her response and critique of it is angering and heart breaking.
http://twitter.com/dopealicious/status/197763357552553986
— Dopealicious (@dopealicious)Wed, May 02 2012 19:03:53 - Eff that. I pulled over to write a response. I got 'that' feeling...
http://twitter.com/tressiemcphd/status/197767360646610944
— tressie mc (@tressiemcphd)Wed, May 02 2012 19:19:47 - Naomi Schaefer Riley's blog piece @chronicle attacking Black Studies reads like lifted from Manhattan Institute and/or Amy Wax lecture
http://twitter.com/SandyDarity/status/197793006617759746
— Sandy Darity (@SandyDarity)Wed, May 02 2012 21:01:42 - The Inferiority of Blackness as a Subject or, Naomi Schaefer Riley Can Kiss My Grits http://wp.me/p28iGT-2H 2H
http://twitter.com/tressiemcphd/status/197804687980896256
— tressie mc (@tressiemcphd)Wed, May 02 2012 21:48:07 - cont'd: Same time yes, it is worth questioning how/why this piece http://bit.ly/KGpCf9 was pub'd. I will do so & report back. @tressiemcphd
http://twitter.com/Chronicle_Amy/status/197794409453060096
— Amy Lynn Alexander (@Chronicle_Amy)Wed, May 02 2012 21:07:16 - Yes, please let's have that discussion. Because this kind of attack should not be legitimized http://tressiemc.com/2012/05/02/the-inferiority-of-blackness-as-a-subject/ …/2Chronicle_Amy-inferiority-of-blackness-as-a-subject/ @Chronicle_Amy
http://twitter.com/tressiemcphd/status/197805181453344770
— tressie mc (@tressiemcphd)Wed, May 02 2012 21:50:04 - 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.
http://twitter.com/tressiemcphd/status/197805807373533185
— tressie mc (@tressiemcphd)Wed, May 02 2012 21:52:34 - 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?!
http://twitter.com/tressiemcphd/status/197806080963788800
— tressie mc (@tressiemcphd)Wed, May 02 2012 21:53:39 - @chronicle Saddened by your magazine's decision to endorse hateful, semiliterate, racially-motivated criticism of black doctoral students.
http://twitter.com/TomHeadLovesYou/status/197806242322857984
— Tom Head (@TomHeadLovesYou)Wed, May 02 2012 21:54:17 - I'm not kidding: the clock is running on me publishing a petition to dismiss Schaefer Riley from @chronicle
http://twitter.com/tressiemcphd/status/197819801383612416
— tressie mc (@tressiemcphd)Wed, May 02 2012 22:48:10 - No. I'm REALLY indignant. Petition: Challenge @chronicle to Dismiss Naomi Schaefer Riley http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/challenge-the-chronicle-of-higher-education-to/ …s.com/petition/challenge-the-chronicle-of-higher-education-to/
http://twitter.com/tressiemcphd/status/197824930304376833
— tressie mc (@tressiemcphd)Wed, May 02 2012 23:08:33 - @tressiemcphd Notice as well that when they responded to you here, they still included the link? Traffic is traffic. Sigh.
http://twitter.com/readywriting/status/197826043816579074
— Lee Skallerup (@readywriting)Wed, May 02 2012 23:12:58 - @tressiemcphd @chronicle Just read Riley on black studies. I'm a former sr writer @ Chron. Riley's piece is scandalously irresponsible.
http://twitter.com/JeffSharlet/status/197829613722931201
— JeffSharlet (@JeffSharlet)Wed, May 02 2012 23:27:10 - check out my new post on why black scholarship matters: http://surlyurbanist.blogspot.com/2012/05/black-scholarship-matters.html ….blogspot.ctressiemcphdlack-scholarship-matters.html word to @tressiemcphd
http://twitter.com/surlyurbanist/status/197831293269061632
— .... (@surlyurbanist)Wed, May 02 2012 23:33:50 - As a blogger for the @chronicle, I'm seriously disappointed by their decision to publish NSR's irresponsibly anti-intellectual opinions. +
http://twitter.com/GeorgeOnline/status/197835626685546496
— George Online (@GeorgeOnline)Wed, May 02 2012 23:51:03 - I would hope that they consider how *other* @chronicle bloggers feel being associated, however indirectly, with content like this. -
http://twitter.com/GeorgeOnline/status/197836163757772800
— George Online (@GeorgeOnline)Wed, May 02 2012 23:53:11 - @GeorgeOnline Just as disturbing as the @chronicle publishing the post is the @chronicle tweeting it to increase page views.
http://twitter.com/samplereality/status/197836223065235456
— Mark Sample (@samplereality)Wed, May 02 2012 23:53:25 - @GeorgeOnline @samplereality @chronicle Yeah, they even tweeted it in response to @tressiemcphd's article: http://bit.ly/JfCWmP
http://twitter.com/retius/status/197837256634007552
— Tad Suiter (@retius)Wed, May 02 2012 23:57:32 - NSR is an "affiliate scholar" at Institute for American Values, funded by a foundation which was founded by a charter member of John Birch.
http://twitter.com/samplereality/status/197839498808279040
— Mark Sample (@samplereality)Thu, May 03 2012 00:06:26 - Dear, @chronicle,1hr = almost 50 scholars have signed their name to demand you dismiss Naomi Schaefer Riley http://bit.ly/JOHall
http://twitter.com/tressiemcphd/status/197846912764874752
— tressie mc (@tressiemcphd)Thu, May 03 2012 00:35:54 - That's more reads than most journal articles. People really don't like bullies, @chronicle. You shouldn't either.
http://twitter.com/tressiemcphd/status/197847040082972673
— tressie mc (@tressiemcphd)Thu, May 03 2012 00:36:24
