Instagram. Shares of facebook plunging on friday. The stocks opening up dismally today but then leveling out and ended the day up 2 . Discuss, earlyto facebook investor and elevation orders cofounder, and also the. Thor of the book, zucked this seems different. I dont recall any time that so many major brands all at once joined a boycott against facebook on the grounds of civil rights. Would you say this is different as well . Definitely. Is part andthis parcel. Think about how different the world is today from three months ago. First, the pandemic, then the economic decline that went with it, then since the murder of george floyd, we have an awakening on issues of racism and civil rights that i believe have affected every part of the American Economy and our society. Emily so, why now . Abigail again, roger again, i think if you think about this from the perspective of an investor or advertiser, facebook gave the ability for the advertiser to reach audiences with a level of precision
[laughter] see you know what that means, ive received the walkout, the storm the stage strategy, and at Claremont Mckenna in southern california, the blockade that prevented anyone from actually attending my talk. Socalled students of color at nearby Pomona College announced i w i was ignoring systems of domination that produce lethal conditions under which oppressed people are forced to live. So to actually have an audience still in its seats and apparently willing to listen is an unusual experience that may take me a while to get accustomed to. Now, weve been hearing a lot of late about the crisis of free speech on College Campuses, but not much about its root cause. The narcissistic victimology that is rapidly spreading from academia to the rest of culture. In a word, the American University is in the grips of a mass hysteria. Students actually believe that they are victims of oppression at risk of their lives from racism and sexism. The degree of caterwailing is hard to overstate.
[laughter] you know what that means i received walkout storm the stage strategy in Southern California the blockade that prevented anyone from actually attending my talk. Students of color at nearby Pomona College and the fascist white supremacist ignorant of interlocking systems of domination that have the lethal conditions of which people are forced to live. So to have an audience still in its seat willing to listen is an unusual experience that may take me a while to get accustomed to. We have heard a lot of the crisis of free speech on College Campuses but not about the root cause, the victim apology rapidly spreading from academia to western culture American University is in the grips of the mass hysteria. Students actually believe they are victims of oppression and risk their lives from ambient racism and sexism it is impossible to overstate. And brown students of color occupy the president s office to complain about meeting academic expectations when we were so focused on stayin
Teaches a class on the progressive era. She talks about how politicians and reform groups in the early 20th century attempted to improve social and Economic Conditions. Our goal today is to think about what progressivism was and to think about what i think its core dialectic was, the tension between democracy and efficiency. These were both ideals that people from a Broad Spectrum of political backgrounds in the progressive era believed were important, and they believed they were not incompatible, but you can see some ways in which they were fundamentally at some tension. Again, throughout class today, be thinking about democracy versus efficiency. So the central question for historians of the early 20th century is, what is progressivism . A famous article that came out in 1982 was entitled, in search of progressivism, which i think aptly summed up the way historians were rummaging around, knowing that the progressive era existed but quibbling about what counted as progressivism, who c
Report tensions flare in the senate as republicans wrap up their investigation into obama era officials amid public and private pressure from donald trump. Gop senators are embracing calls to use their congressional power to investigate trumps biggest grievances from the Obama Administration, including the origins of the russia investigation. Foreignt established Intelligence Surveillance act and hunter biden. The Senate Judiciary committee will hold a vote they give chairman graham broad subpoena authority to call dozens of officials to testify as part of his investigation into the pfizer court and hurricane. Russianstigation into meddling and the 2016 campaign. We will have coverage at that hearing at 10 00 a. M. On cspan, downloadg, and you can the free cspan radio app. The chair of the Judiciary Committee Lindsey Graham, republican from South Carolina, spoke to reporters. [video clip] model waspoena used by senator lahey when the Judiciary Committee was investigating torture abuses