From day 1, I intended to build @shoutoutso_ in public, and part of it is to be transparent with numbers, talk openly about our highs and lows, and share lessons as we grow!

I have been doing individual posts on numbers every week so wanted to one big thread with all updates 👇🏽

Week 1:
https://t.co/Vn8D5lUg6v
Week 2:
https://t.co/SO5URPrWcj
Week 3:
https://t.co/DmALz7qIK0
Week 4:
https://t.co/7RFAPJv7Pm
Week 5:
https://t.co/ty9zfbkzXp
Transparency time: @shoutoutso_ is in week 6 🔥

Here are some highlights:
👑 43 rockstar paid customers(7 new)
💰 $710 MRR
💪 602 signups and counting
🏆 Onboarded @aaditsh as part of our Ambassador program

Grateful for this amazing community for all the love and support ♥️

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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