Two tweets - the first is from a tenured chair at Harvard University:
And the second, from Senator Ted Cruz:
I really hope Senator Cruz runs for POTUS in 2024. For the backstory on this, The Weekly Standard has a nice writeup:
Six Ways Harvard's Joyce Chaplin Is Wrong About the Creation of the U.S.
Twitter has a remarkable power to make well-credentialed people look like fools. Case in point: Joyce Chaplin, who is theJames Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History at Harvard University.
In response to President Donald Trump's withdrawal from the Paris climate accords, Chaplin tweeted, "The USA, created by int'l community in Treaty of Paris in 1783, betrays int'l community by withdrawing from #parisclimateagreement today." Senator Ted Cruz would have none of this, and responded, "Just sad. Tenured chair at Harvard, doesn't seem to know how USA was created. Not a treaty. Declaration+Revolutionary War+Constitution=USA." Chaplin, apparently forgetting that discretion is the better part of valor, responded, "Sad. US Senator, Harvard Law degree. Doesn't know that national statehood requires international recognition."
Chaplin is not just wrong, but embarrassingly wrong. A 17-year-old high school student should know better.
Typical Social Justice Warrior - when you are shown to be wrong, just double down on your fallacy.
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