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"Barnor Hesse, an associate professor of African American studies at Northwestern University, has created this handy graph where you can place your relative 'whiteness' on a scale and discover your true, glorious, racist self."
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Hey Professor Hesse– if you want people to stop treating you differently then stop demanding to be treated differently.
This is about as racist as it gets, what about a blackness scale.
NU has become a clown school. For clowns. The value of that degree is cratering to the ground. Can it have negative value? Who knows, we’ll find out.