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gita “the formalist” jackson

The stuff related to race that she brings up is just way way above her pay grade

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌

The sad part is that she’s unusual for even trying and it’s one reason she gets so much hate

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌

The academic space she came from is … well let’s just say Oxbridge makes Harvard look deeply egalitarian. So in context, she’s comparatively like a rabid leftist.

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gita “the formalist” jackson

Learning that she’s third generation Oxbridge did unlock something about her for me

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌

Having grown up with UK classism, it ironically makes me more sympathetic because I can see how much she’s stepping out of what she was trained for and mostly I want to be encouraging about that because the intention is there

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌

I remember being awed by it as a child and then going back as an adult after graduating from Harvard and realizing how much worse it was than Harvard, which is really saying something

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🕎The G-ddamn Unix Man, eternal fucking Jew🕎

I had a British friend from NW London who went to Princeton then back to London to found a startup with a dude who hung out at Oxford and whose parents taught there, and the slapfighting about who was more refined was over the top. But neither of them could use fucking cutlery so fuck those boys.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌

Are you sure that person was from NW? What part? I suppose Hampstead counts … but my NW was Kilburn and quite working class

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🕎The G-ddamn Unix Man, eternal fucking Jew🕎

Or maybe not as far... My London Geography is very much nonexistent. I lived it Plumstead and Hackney, anything north of the river was exotic...