1/ This summer I covered the #PortlandRiots in a series I called #PortlandiaNights because the mainstream media refused to do so. Yesterday @tedwheeler actually acknowledged that Antifa is not only very real but very dangerous. I'm reposting my coverage in this thread.

2/ America's Newest Reality Show: Portlandia Nights (Originally posted 7/17/2020) I had watched the riots going on for more than 50 days when I decided to start covering them. #PortlandRiots

https://t.co/27jTk2QcDG
3/ Portlandia Nights: Barricade & Burn, Attack on the Portland Justice Center (Originally posted 7/18/2020) #PortlandRiots

https://t.co/QV5bvqFM11
4/ Portlandia Nights: Divide & Conquer. (Originally posted 7/19/2020) #PortlandRiots

https://t.co/bmZyseNf9C
5/ Portlandia Nights: Missing in Action. (Originally posted 7/20/2020 #PortlandRiots

https://t.co/sM69nkOZiZ
6/ Portlandia Nights: #RiotMoms (Originally posted 7/21/2020) #PortlandRiots

https://t.co/Xg92tVQzIH
7/ Portlandia Nights: Iraqi Rescue (Originally posted 7/22/2020) #PortlandRiots

https://t.co/TaMAdX8iZm
8/ Portlandia Nights: #RiotMayor @tedwheeler (Originally posted 7/23/2020) #PortlandRiots

https://t.co/jrzdL30DpP
9/ Portlandia Nights: Groundhog Day (Originally posted 7/24/2020) #PortlandRiots

https://t.co/3Ug3YfQJFp
10/ Portlandia Nights: Snitches Get Stitches. (Originally posted 7/25/2020) #PortlandRiots

https://t.co/bR6SAJrPEy
11/ Portlandia Nights: What you need to know about Antifa University. (Originally posted 7/25/2020) #PortlandRiots

https://t.co/xjfMwkdSCd
12/ Riot Ribs: a case study in Marxism (Originally posted 7/28/2020) #PortlandRiots

https://t.co/Q0xV5f3N8V
13/ The Antifa Bombmakers (Originally posted 7/30/2020) #PortlandRiots

https://t.co/h89Fb4CKIw
14/ Speaking truth to power (originally posted 8/1/2020) #PortlandRiots

https://t.co/vkxQH3aVpj
15/ How Portland became the Epicenter of White Supremacy in America. (Originally posted 8/05/2020) #PortlandRiots

https://t.co/aVl8Z6sQbE
16/ White Privilege in Portland. (Originally posted 8/7/2020) #PortlandRiots

https://t.co/7odvS6PkVw
17/ Fixing Portland. (Originally posted 8/10/2020) #PortlandRiots

https://t.co/bEXMVdEaDi
18/ Riot Fitness. (Originally posted 8/9/2020) #PortlandRiot

https://t.co/bEXMVdEaDi
19/ Aiding & Abetting: How a district attorney and a congressional candidate are prolonging Portland's insurgency. (Originally posted 8/12/2020) #PortlandRiots

https://t.co/GVspHj05j8

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The meat of the criticism is that the history Adler gives is insufficiently critical. Adler describes a few figures who had a great influence on how the modern US university was formed. It's certainly critical: it focuses on the social Darwinism of these figures. 2/x

Other insinuations and suggestions in the review seem wildly off the mark, distorted, or inappropriate-- for example, that the book is clickbaity (it is scholarly) or conservative (hardly) or connected to the events at the Capitol (give me a break). 3/x

The core question: in what sense is classics inherently racist? Classics is old. On Adler's account, it begins in ancient Rome and is revived in the Renaissance. Slavery (Christiansen's primary concern) is also very old. Let's say classics is an education for slaveowners. 4/x

It's worth remembering that literacy itself is elite throughout most of this history. Literacy is, then, also the education of slaveowners. We can honor oral and musical traditions without denying that literacy is, generally, good. 5/x