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@jonbecker I think it is when you turn a pizza into a stromboli

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@jonbecker I think it is when you turn a pizza into a stromboli

@MissCimato I also think people started discussing it today bc Simpsons made an artistic response to the film. Had they explored it differently (like

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@MissCimato I also think people started discussing it today bc Simpsons made an artistic response to the film. Had they explored it differently (like in an episode staring Apu dealing with bigotry) maybe today we wouldnt see reaction

@MissCimato If you go through my feed I said I am unsure how I feel and the much larger role of stereotypes in comedy. Especially on race. Could Blazi

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@MissCimato If you go through my feed I said I am unsure how I feel and the much larger role of stereotypes in comedy. Especially on race. Could Blazing Saddles be made today? Not sure? Is that a good thing? Not sure? Did strike me watching the movie that folks were called "apu" as slang

@ThatDrunkGeek @harikondabolu or there are only like 12 people still watching the Simpsons

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@ThatDrunkGeek @harikondabolu or there are only like 12 people still watching the Simpsons

@MissCimato 30 years ago I was ten. My understandings may have evolved a bit since then. #problemwithapu

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@MissCimato 30 years ago I was ten. My understandings may have evolved a bit since then. #problemwithapu

I tried to discuss the #ProblemwithApu episode in my #highered class Only problem not one college age student watches the Simpsons. Never believed all

I tried to discuss the #ProblemwithApu episode in my #highered class Only problem not one college age student watches the Simpsons. Never believed all the millennial criticism...till now

@matt_barnum Not many in terms of interventions. Many scholars use NAEP items to develop assessments when states have different tests. I like this: ht

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@matt_barnum Not many in terms of interventions. Many scholars use NAEP items to develop assessments when states have different tests. I like this: http://bit.ly/2HkN6YI and this: http://bit.ly/2HlBepn feel this is important: http://bit.ly/2Hm9EYV

Not sure Fagella-Luby's study suggest that lower readers need more intervention or if it is further evidence that SSR and independent reading have lit

Not sure Fagella-Luby's study suggest that lower readers need more intervention or if it is further evidence that SSR and independent reading have little instructional value in school: http://bit.ly/2HmhkKP #literacies

@EmilyGorcenski This just brings up memories of Mind Control in Strange Brew for me

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@EmilyGorcenski This just brings up memories of Mind Control in Strange Brew for me

@davewiner Only in British English. In American English we keep the e

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@davewiner Only in British English. In American English we keep the e

@d8aninja @BoomerangToons I also have vivid memories of my friends and I trying hard to nail the accent, "Thank You, Come Again" in the nineties. We w

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@d8aninja @BoomerangToons I also have vivid memories of my friends and I trying hard to nail the accent, "Thank You, Come Again" in the nineties. We were laughing at a stereotype and not seeing it as a peak behind the curtain of bigotry. That was and is wrong. #TheProblemWithApu

@d8aninja Don't be messing with my Dudley Do-Right. That being said cartoons do make up for their mistakes. @BoomerangToons doesn't show Mammy Two-Sho

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@d8aninja Don't be messing with my Dudley Do-Right. That being said cartoons do make up for their mistakes. @BoomerangToons doesn't show Mammy Two-Shoes or Tom ever in Blackface #TheProblemwithApu https://t.co/3SLe1KBdFG

Kudos for Apu for standing up for himself by not joining the "Stereotypes" bowling team. I struggle with the role of satire in bringing issues of race

Kudos for Apu for standing up for himself by not joining the "Stereotypes" bowling team. I struggle with the role of satire in bringing issues of race to light Could Blazing Saddles be made today? Should it? #TheProblemWithApu https://t.co/EMcb3VSdkX

@mathewi Maybe that's how Twitter fixes their verification problem. Only give to the blue check to good bots.

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@mathewi Maybe that's how Twitter fixes their verification problem. Only give to the blue check to good bots.