The Rise of the Completely Wrong ‘Expert’

A Columbia intellectual’s baseless police-shooting claim is just one example in a troubling genre.

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Kimberlé Crenshaw speaks during the 2024 ESSENCE Festival Of Culture™ Presented By Coca-Cola® in New Orleans, La., July 05, 2024.

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We need to talk about today’s critical mass of unimpressive “experts.”

Just a week or so back, at the end of July, Columbia and UCLA law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw — the founder of “intersectional” theory — took to Twitter/X to argue a point. As she passionately put it: “Black women make up less than 10% of the population, yet when it comes to killings by police, we make up a 3rd of them, with the majority unarmed. And that’s exactly what happened with Sonya Massey. #SayHerName.” This post, so far, has received 1,800 likes and has been shared 1,200 times.

Wilfred Reilly

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Wilfred Reilly

Wilfred Reilly is an associate professor of political science at Kentucky State University and the author, most recently, of Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me.

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