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Fred I. Lee
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Political Science & Asian/Asian American Studies, UConn, studying Asian American political thought & East Asian science fiction.
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    Fred I. Lee
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    Jan 4, 2025
    Academia is currently a hyper-competitive dystopia.
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    Xin Eric Wang
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    Jan 2, 2025
    Started reviewing PhD applications this year, and while I expected it, I am still blown away by the students' achievements before starting their PhDs. The 2015 version of me wouldn't have even made it past the first round.
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    Fred I. Lee
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    Nov 3, 2024
    It's easy to mock Ta-Nehisi Coates and Viet Thanh Nguyen as liberal media darlings. It's also clear that their writing on Palestine approaches the outer limit of what the US cultural industry will publish. Don't know if it changes anything, but I respect this effort.
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    Fred I. Lee
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    May 3, 2024
    Tenured professors, moments like this are very reason tenure exists. Use it.
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    Fred I. Lee
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    Dec 31, 2024
    Letters of recommendation
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    The PhD Place
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    Dec 31, 2024
    What’s one thing from academia that we should leave in 2024? 👇
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    Fred I. Lee
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    Jan 4, 2025
    Replying to @fredleept
    Mindless productivity, pointless competition.
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    Fred I. Lee
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    Dec 27, 2024
    This is typical Western chauvinism to think that only Western cultures contain the full range of humanity, whereas Asian cultures... "all look same."
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    FischerKing
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    Dec 27, 2024
    One of the greatest aspects of Western culture has been tolerance for eccentricity. You don’t get a bizarre man like Isaac Newton without this allowance. Einstein was weird too. Wittgenstein was bizarre. Beethoven couldn’t get along with people. Bach is an outlier as pretty
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    Fred I. Lee
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    Jun 24, 2021
    If you weren't working on race/empire prior to summer 2020, yet are suddenly publishing in this area, I'll check back on your research in around 10 years.
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    Fred I. Lee
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    Oct 29, 2021
    Replying to @JPHilllllll and @JoshuaPotash
    I like Graeber's take on this: online utopia is what they started promising once it was apparent that the flying cars and Jetson's like future wouldn't pan out, to say the least
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    Fred I. Lee
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    May 11, 2021
    Replying to @alvinsights and @pengdangcomedy
    Agreed it shouldn't have happened. He's punching up, though; he just doesn't know it.
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    Fred I. Lee
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    Feb 23, 2024
    If my scholarship isn't good enough to get past the desk reject stage at your journal, I don't see how I'm qualified to review the papers that get sent out for review.
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    Fred I. Lee
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    Nov 3, 2024
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    The brutal truth of the matter is no Palestinian author will reach the "mainstream audiences" these two have. Edward Said came closest.
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    Fred I. Lee
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    Dec 14, 2022
    Replying to @PurdueNorthwest
    Funny how the word "racism" appears nowhere in this apology... it was just a "mistake"
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    Fred I. Lee
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    Jul 4, 2025
    The idea of white adjacency is literally white people's idea
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    Fred I. Lee
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    Jan 22, 2024
    I teach about 375 students a year at a public university. I am teaching 94 right now with zero TA support.
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