(a thousand shitlib articles on the way, along with hundreds of con articles too.)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893129&forum_id=2E#50068197)

i'm sure there will be articles blaming cons too.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893129&forum_id=2E#50068264)

I have no idea how he even LARP'd as a Cambridge prof for so long. You'd think he'd have been clearly exposed almost from day 1. That might be the biggest embarassment of all from the university's perspective

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893129&forum_id=2E#50068209)

true, and should have been obvious to Cambridge.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893129&forum_id=2E#50068214)

Maybe he really did deserve to be Cambridge faculty

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893129&forum_id=2E#50068256)

https://a.co/d/0fwDglEX

Great and Unfortunate Things is Jason Arday’s memoir of overcoming remarkable challenges and responding to adversity with resilience.

Jason Arday grew up in a lively corner of South London as the second youngest of three boys. He was diagnosed with autism and developmental delays at age three, and experts told his parents he would never speak, write, or live independently—and should be institutionalized.

His parents refused. Instead, his extraordinary mother, Giff, drawing on her faith and thinking outside the box, embraced his neurodivergence and devoted herself to helping him realize a potential few others believed possible—using everything from the proverbs of her West African culture to music, sports, and film to help him make sense of the world.

In Great and Unfortunate Things, we see how Arday went from being nonverbal as a child and illiterate until he was eighteen to scaling unimag-inable heights as an adult. Without romanticizing the struggle, this is a story of determination against seemingly insurmountable odds—and of a family and a small group of believers whose compassion helped him see what is possible.

A powerful story for our moment, Arday’s journey is a testament to resilience, dignity, and the life-changing force of community in action.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893129&forum_id=2E#50068296)

Between the Racist World and Ta Coates

By Alfonso Dupont on July 24, 2015

Format: Kindle Edition

Ta Coates is one of the great thinkers of the 21st century. Don't agree? Then you're on the wrong side of history.

Ta has written a book for the ages, chronicling such fascinating episodes as dating, doing poorly in academics because of racism, reading comic books, the racism of attractive white women he has asked out, what it was like to be in a down low relationship with Matt Yglesias for five months, cartoons, and the phenomenon known as "muhdik". Between the World and Me (a brilliant title that counterbalances the entire world with Ta Coates' genius) ranks with the Confessions of St. Augustine, if St. Augustine had done poorly in school and mostly just watched television and read comic books during his formative years. In fact St. Augustine is a rather trivial figure in Western history that you don't need to have heard of, he never even influenced society through highly praised magazine columns, and his books are very boring compared to reading about the adventures of men in colorful skin tight costumes.

During a long and rambling eighth chapter, Ta discusses his brave decision to disable comments on his blog. He shows how talking back to a highly paid media personality is an example of "punching down", employing a series of stories which usually involve noting that people who have promoted him are actually racist and did so only because they expected him to fail. There's also a moving account of how he literally wept on discovering how to turn on Microsoft Word's spelling and grammar checker.

As A.O.Scott has observed, Between Ta World and Me is "essential, like water or air", a truism you'd have to be a real hate-in-your-soul racist to deny. As a matter of fact, people who are too racist to read and enjoy this brilliantly spelled and grammar-checked volume are expected to die very soon because this book is literally essential, like water or air. An edition in which all of the book's passages are placed as dialogue between comic book heroes Black Lightning and Luke Cage is said to be in the works.

Like Ta's 14-year-old son, you may not be interested in reading through the many spelling and grammar corrected pages of this book, but even just having it on your bookshelf is important until the forthcoming graphic novel version arrives. How will they know you're not a racist otherwise? I personally enjoy reading it while enjoying water and air, two things that like this book are essential. Thus I give it the first star rating of excellence.

http://www.amazon.com/Between-World-Me-Ta-Nehisi-Coates-ebook/dp/B00SEFAIRI/ref=cm_rdp_product

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2950280&forum_id=2#28448493)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893129&forum_id=2E#50068842)

looked him up - seems like this poor chap got caught in the culture wars and was somehow hoisted as a totem in an effort to construct social order and authority.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HPtHuM6XEAEbgJy?format=jpg&name=medium

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893129&forum_id=2E#50068465)

Lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893129&forum_id=2E#50068411)