Just imagine if you are a person that has a PhD in criminal justice, spent an entire career in the CJ system as e.g. a parole judge or internal affairs prosecut

Just imagine if you are a person that has a PhD in criminal justice, spent an entire career in the CJ system as e.g. a parole judge or internal affairs prosecutor, wrote textbooks about CJ reform, maybe even experienced incarceration and rehabilitation first-hand. Imagine how you would feel about this appointment. Would this look like a genuine commitment to advancing the kind of intelligent discourse that solves a problem? Or would it look like a desperate celebrity appointment for marketing and fundraising? Surely he’s brave and has learned a lot. His contribution was symbolically transformative. It’s hard to imagine that he is the expert on the topic. It seems to me that what is going on here is picking sides. BLM is like a social startup on a massive growth trajectory. Invest now for massive gains in social proof. There’s also a fear element, like, get your business on the internet or it’s the internet will kill your business. Replace ‘internet’ with ‘social justice movement’. This is the point in the timeline where every company on earth is desperate to make a website.