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davekarpf.bsky.social • 175 days ago

The American Political Science Association has some explaining to do. #APSA2024

https://open.substack.com/pub/davekarpf/p/what-is-the-claremont-institute-doing?r=eeyg&utm_medium=ios

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mrl53.bsky.social•170 days ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Haywood

patrickmccray.bsky.social•175 days ago

Serious Q - what's the upside of APSA having these folks present?

davekarpf.bsky.social•175 days ago

Saves the headache they would cause by complaining. And their members all have to register for the conference.

That’s the whole of it, though.

patrickmccray.bsky.social•175 days ago

So, laziness and lucre.

davekarpf.bsky.social•175 days ago

On the tiniest scale, yes.

pkostad.bsky.social•174 days ago

APSA appears 'non-partisan'. The organization's leadership both-sided Jan 6.

pearljamfixer80.bsky.social•175 days ago

I live in the same city it's headquarters are in, ironically not Claremont. Small disgusting world.

troysch1.bsky.social•175 days ago

Lol damn what a kicker on that post

jonathanhassid.bsky.social•175 days ago

Well said!

Having Claremont at APSA is like inviting RFK, Jr to present at a vaccine science conference.

majeff.bsky.social•175 days ago

One question that seems significant to me is the roles that the elected (academic) leadership versus the permanent staff may have played in this. When you speak of the leadership, is it both of these groups, or one of them?

mikecowburn.bsky.social•175 days ago

Here is a QR code to your piece, I will be including it at the start of my slide deck for my presentation this afternoon:

karmasdad.bsky.social•175 days ago

Follow the money. It's the first rule of political intrigue - follow the money.

goldstein.bsky.social•175 days ago

"Political scientists membership dues ought not be spent in support of an organization trying to overthrow electoral democracy."

This is gatekeeping. smh

ubiquity75.bsky.social•175 days ago

https://apsanet.org/about/governance/officers-council-members/

rbergin.bsky.social•175 days ago

Substack still shoveling money at LibsOfTikTok.

Can’t click their links.

You can migrate your newsletter or run a copy of it on a non-hatemonger supporting platform.

davekarpf.bsky.social•175 days ago

It’s on the to-do list. Migrating is non-trivial on a few levels.

I don’t have subs turned on, so at the least they get no revenue through me. Have decided that’s a reasonable compromise position for now.

tanzpunk.bsky.social•174 days ago

Same compromise I made, turned off paid subs. Migrating is more than I can handle right now, but likely at some point.

marypcbuk.bsky.social•175 days ago

if it's any help, I have a longish thread of links to how other folks have done their migrations to different platforms

rbergin.bsky.social•175 days ago

I may have to start a pro bono consulting service to migrate folks off Substack.

thedaisymoon.me•174 days ago

I'd be interested. I have been trying to find a newsletter platform that cater to my needs since substacks has been shown to be okay with nazis but it's not as simple as it seems.

drsaddison.bsky.social•174 days ago

@swordsjew.bsky.social went to Buttondown.

thedaisymoon.me•173 days ago

If I wasn't in a horrible situation money-wise that would have been my pick too.

annacwebs.bsky.social•174 days ago

Would literally be interested in knowing how to do this without destroying my entire little blog 😭

aguyinnj.bsky.social•174 days ago

APSA needs to understand that to those of us learning and looking in, this is a case of 'if your hosts invite you to a party, and you get there and you find they've invited a Nazi, congrats you're at a Nazi party. All guests who don't leave, are now also Nazis.' APSA appears to endorse Claremont.

aidnography.de•173 days ago

„It‘s an important election year in the US and we want to ensure that a broad range of voices is heard at the conference so critical exchange, always at the heart of APSA, can take place“-there’s your institutional response you will be getting…

carlbeijer.bsky.social•175 days ago

Are there any criteria for what orgs get to participate and what orgs don't other than perhaps "have wealthy donors"? I'm surprised a non-academic org like CI can even get its foot in the door.

davekarpf.bsky.social•175 days ago

Historically they had a relationship with APSA because historically they were a more academic group.

They are no longer listed as a partner association or related group, so there are… questions to be answered about how this happened.

rednecklefty.bsky.social•174 days ago

Please do a follow up on the obvious and not so obvious questions y'all have raised. Thanks!

johncluverius.bsky.social•175 days ago

i almost forgot that he's a Harris birther!

kschultz.bsky.social•174 days ago

Do you know what the deal is with the Eric Voegelin Society? They have 15 panels.

davekarpf.bsky.social•174 days ago

I do not, and wonder that too

desireeweber.bsky.social•173 days ago

Dave, I hadn’t realized you helped spearhead the effort to kick the CI out before — thanks for doing that

If APSA (or any professional org) can’t do at least that, I don’t want to be a member

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