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Heather Mac Donald
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Fellow @ManhattanInst. Contributing Ed @CityJournal. Paperback: “When Race Trumps Merit” @EncounterBooks now available for pre-order. Views mine
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    Heather Mac Donald
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    Sep 9, 2024
    The father of the Georgia school shooter is being charged with second-degree murder, confirming a pattern I identified after the 2021 Ethan Crumbley shooting in Michigan: White parents of school shooters are held responsible for their children’s crimes; black parents of
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    Heather Mac Donald
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    Dec 30, 2021
    Two weeks ago, police officer Keona Holley was shot multiple times while sitting alone in her patrol car in southern Baltimore. She was removed from life support a week later and died, leaving behind four children. Where’s the outrage? My latest @nypost
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    Where is the outrage over the killing of Baltimore police officer Keona Holley?
    From nypost.com
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    Heather Mac Donald
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    Sep 22, 2023
    WATCH: Here’s a clip from my recent talk at @BerkeleyLaw, hosted by @berkeleyfedsoc with @stevenfhayward as moderator. Student heckling became boisterous, along with fervent declarations of how oppressive it is to be a black law student at Berkeley.
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    Heather Mac Donald
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    Jan 21, 2021
    It’s an odd way to seek national unity: call a significant portion of the American public white supremacists, racists, and nativists. Welcome to the Biden presidency. My latest @CityJournal city-journal.org/bidens-inaugur…
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    Heather Mac Donald
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    Dec 11, 2023
    Conservatives are missing the real scandal in the congressional testimony from the presidents of Harvard, Penn, and MIT. It isn’t their inability to condemn calls for genocide against Jews: it is their outrageous double standard on academic freedom and protected speech. Read
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    Heather Mac Donald
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    May 20, 2024
    🧵 California is about to demonstrate what a world constructed from the tenets of critical race studies looks like. Starting this year, anyone serving time can retroactively challenge his conviction and sentencing on the ground of systemic racial bias.
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    California’s Looming Crime Catastrophe
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    Heather Mac Donald
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    Jun 2, 2020
    The officers who arrested George Floyd must be held accountable for their excessive use of force and callous indifference to his distress. But the charge of systemic police bias was wrong during the Obama years and it remains so today. My new @WSJopinion
    The Myth of Systemic Police Racism
    Opinion | The Myth of Systemic Police Racism
    From wsj.com
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    Heather Mac Donald
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    Apr 11, 2023
    "The university should embrace a single colorblind definition of excellence." @CityJournal adapted my opening remarks from the recent MIT debate on academic DEI programs, which you can watch. city-journal.org/higher-ed-must…
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    Heather Mac Donald
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    Sep 9, 2024
    Replying to @HMDatMI
    Moreover, school shootings with white perpetrators receive disproportionate attention, partly because the media value white life more than black life and partly because the country cannot bear to confront inner-city pathologies.
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    Heather Mac Donald
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    Feb 20, 2021
    My conversation with @TuckerCarlson last night on the destruction of learning by academic identity politics.
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