Austin McCoy
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Historian, Old School Rap Specialist. Writing book on history of the Left in Midwest. Words @truthout HK fan. Words all mine. IG: ausmccoy
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Here is some of the good news I couldn’t share—I’ll be spending the summer (and the year) working on my academic book, and I’m writing a book about De La Soul!
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A mostly white board voting to opt out of fed funding for free school meals in a district where Black and Brown students would be disproportionately affected because the board believes they would “become spoiled” is a textbook illustration of structural racism
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the detroit police department created an undercover street crimes unit called, 'stop the robberies, enjoy safe streets' in 1971, which spells out STRESS. STRESS killed at least 19 people in 2 years. so, i had to roll my eyes when Memphis police chief outlined what SCORPION meant
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Ralph Northam's racist yearbook photos are terrible. And, yes, terribly racist, let's not mince words. But, shame on his peers who put it together and the school for allowing that. The publication of those photos is clear example of privilege and how institutional racism works
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I've sagged my pants, wore a cap without bending the brim, and my family received food stamps at one point. Got a PhD and I'm a professor now.
I'm kinda confused. lol.
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The fact that we live in a country where it’s expected to continue with business as usual after a national airing of a lynching will never not feel weird to me. The same applies to mass shootings
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academia: where some of us have impostor syndrome and some of us are just impostors
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I think I only wanna see Black folks’ analyses of the Chris Rock and Will Smith situation because some white folks on here are just gonna expose themselves
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protests against racism and state violence in this country were already dangerous before Rittenhouse, now they're going to be extremely treacherous for demonstrators if folk wanting to "defend property" can kill folks and get away with it
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Since today is juneteenth, here's pdf copy of W.E.B. Du Bois's chapter, "The Propaganda of History," from Black Reconstruction. Extremely relevant today since Du Bois confronts the whitewashing of the history of slavery, emancipation, and Reconstruction.
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happy to block folks who defend private property and/or equate it with humanity today
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"Street Crimes Operation to Restore Peace in Our Neighborhoods"
the names are usually orwellian, but the acronyms are pretty straightforward
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So if we in the US are at 1 million Covid cases every two days, then how long before we see another variant?
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“The Ku Klux Klan were actually Democrats” isn’t exactly the “gotcha” argument some think it is. BUT—it’s a good indicator of an inability, or refusal, to understand a crucial principle in studying history—change over time
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@DineshDSouza
minor player? I mean, helping organize Selma, leading SNCC, being one of the 'big 6' leaders w/MLK? yeah, that's minor. haha
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If Black people in this country mounted a sustained general strike and basically paralyzed a portion of a city/part of the US-Canada border, it'd probably start a civil war. i mean folks here could barely handle the protests in 2014, 2020, or even one football player kneeling
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“If a police officer can’t tell the difference between the taser and a gun, then they shouldn’t be a cop,” is the most no shit Sherlock white liberal take one can have. The police as an institution is the problem, not whether or not one officer can tell their right from left
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Like I've said and written: radical political demands aren't meant to be "market tested" and analyzing all protests through the lens of two party politics is very myopic when one understands that movements tend to move along a longer arc than a presidential election
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only in America can a white guy without an advanced degree write an op-ed telling a woman doctor to not use her title in public because she's not an MD. that's the "american dream" at work
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Well, last week I submitted my letter of resignation. I’m taking a job at West Virginia University, starting fall 2022 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
Will be happy to be a little closer to home and, hopefully, a little happier (feels like a lot to ask these days) 😅😭
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Remember when Michael Brown was “no angel”?
Kyle Rittenhouse, who has idolized law enforcement since he was young, arrived in Kenosha on Aug. 25, 2020, with at least one mission: to play the role of police officer and medic. The night would end with him fatally shooting two men and wounding another.
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i'm not into quoting judges, but when the judge in the Ahmuad Arbery lynching said maybe folks should expand their definition of what it means to be a neighbor to someone who doesn't own property near where they live was a surprisingly pointed observation about where we've been
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@cwood0214
@DineshDSouza
I also hope y'all accepted Obama's legitimacy as president. It would make y'all hypocritical if y'all didn't.
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Took 4 years for some of these universities to go from publishing statements declaring their support for protests against racism & police violence to using police to suppress protests
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I was today years old when I learned MC Hammer has been reading Foucault
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Figure I'd dust off this tweet since the whole "defund the police is a bad slogan" talk is back. smh.
Moderate Dems need to actually examine their own faults/how they respond to right wing attacks instead of constantly blaming someone or something else for their failures.
Like I've said and written: radical political demands aren't meant to be "market tested" and analyzing all protests through the lens of two party politics is very myopic when one understands that movements tend to move along a longer arc than a presidential election
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I wish folks would stop saying “there’s a worker shortage.” No there are plenty of workers out there. There’s a shortage of businesses willing to pay a competitive living wage + benefits. Also a lack of universal child care. Workers aren’t the problem here
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can everything be true--kanye suffers from bipolar/clearly needs help & he's now anti-Black, anti-Semitic, & an abusive person who doesn't deserve my sympathy b/c he's an adult making his own decisions to associate w/known racists? yep. all of that is true
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umpteenth reminder that your employer is not your family
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Would bet my next paycheck that the folks who voted for this would also deny the existence of structural racism
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Finally got dad’s wallet today (it was on him when they took him to the hospital) and of course he still had two union cards in it ✊🏿
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Proud to announce I’ve become the guy who says “capitalism is the problem. We all should join labor unions” in the Q&A part of every panel now 😂
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I must say, the police do an awfully good job of taking white male mass murderers into custody without harming them.
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@reneeygraham
“Splitting the difference” between enslavement and racism and representation and justice is as American as apple pie 😬
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Socialist and communist women invented international women’s day as it emerged out of women’s labor struggles, so happy day ✌🏿
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@cwood0214
@DineshDSouza
I mean, we can tit-for-tat if you want. Name any Democratic congressman who called W. Bush a liar during the SOTU?
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Sometimes it’s amazing how some folks lack this much critical thinking when it comes to academic labor. I also feel like this thread is a lesson in middle class whiteness. This cowardly aversion to conflict harms faculty, staff, and students from marginalized backgrounds the most
1) On TT - Be the fuzzy bunny nobody wants to kick - advice my academic big sister gave me when I started on TT. These people will be voting on your future. You can be the game changer after you get tenure.
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She looked the camera in the eye and offered her name and city of residence. No. Elizabeth is not ready for the revolution 😂
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Hey y'all, I set up a gofundme to cover Dad's final expenses while we try to manage all of his affairs. We'd really appreciate your help. And, if you cannot, then I'd appreciate it if you shared the link.
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The president’s tweet threatening protesters is one of the reasons why I never affix “peaceful” to protests. I have intellectual and political reasons, but policing how folks protests or emphasizing being peaceful isn’t going to save you from an authoritarian
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Of course, I wish everyone in academia could get a job if they wanted one, but you ain't making sense if you're arguing you can't get a job because you're a white male in US history.
White folks, generally, have vastly outnumbered Black and POC folks in US history.
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Wow. This is big and their statement gets to the crux of the problems of confederate monuments:
Archives Department acknowledges role in distorting Alabama’s racial history
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Dr. King was assassinated 54 years today while supporting striking Black sanitation workers (AFSCME Local 1733) in Memphis. Dr. King was also in the process of organizing the Poor People's Campaign--a national mobilization of a multiracial coalition for economic justice
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My latest: Record Police Killings in 2022 Show Need to Continue Organizing for Abolition via
@truthout
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My essay on the summer of 2020, abolition, and the dilemmas of protests and organizing for
@thebafflermag
is out!
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i remember seeing someone somewhere say how it was remarkable how some folks in this country went from "all lives matter" to "no lives matter" during the pandemic and i think about that every time there's a mass shooting
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I know Ben Shapiro was being racist in that tweet. Lol. Don’t take the “I’m confused” part so literally. Haha. I’m well familiar with “culture of poverty” arguments
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Capitalists are like, “nah, we don’t like coups taking place in the US, only in other countries”
Quite a statement from the National Association of Manufacturers: “The outgoing president incited violence in an attempt to retain power, and any elected leader defending him is violating their oath to the Constitution ..”
(via
@ShopFloorNAM
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Someone suggested I should frame Dad’s union cards, so I did 🙏🏿
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was nice to receive a message from a student saying the class expanded what they thought could be taught in a us history class. i had a misogynist & racist student in the class who tried to disrupt it everyday. so its awesome some of students were able to learn in spite of that
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The police, themselves, tend to make the best argument for abolition
Cops stood outside the school while the killer rampaged inside.
Onlookers yelled at them to go in. They didn’t. One parent urged bystanders:
“Let’s just rush in because the cops aren’t doing anything like they are supposed to.”
@AP
story:
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A group of students in my Af-Am History course put together a "Black Athlete Protests" twitter timeline for their final project. Folks should check it out and follow! Their post on Craig Hodges is pretty relevant.
[1] Craig Hodges... After the Chicago Bulls won an NBA title in 1992, they were invited to the White House by President George H.W. Bush. Hodges saw the invite as an opportunity to voice his political concerns to Bush.
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"It's just words..." Rape culture in three words. On the presidential debate stage. Oof.
#debate
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the president pardoning roger stone while calling for law and order isn't really a contradiction. it's actually historically consistent: the law in the US is hardly ever applied evenly, especially when race, class, and sexuality are concerned, and it's part of the point
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Sweet's comments remind me of a scholar who asked me about how my work was, as he put it, "history as advocacy," after a job talk. It was a very weird (and archaic) question because his evidence was that I called the 1967 Detroit uprising a "rebellion" and not a "riot."
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It's so ridiculous that we have to keep having the same conversations about protest. Democrats can't talk about protecting freedom and democracy and then get mad when folks protest against them publicly. Protesting your candidate is part of that freedom and democracy...
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My Oxford encyclopedia article about Black Power and organized labor was also published today! It's accessible for free (for now)
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I haven't felt so uninterested in carrying on with business as usual since July 2013 (Zimmerman verdict), November 2014, and June 2020.
And there's no amount of "self care" that helps
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One of the lessons for Labor Day is that you’re employer isn’t your “family” and workers don’t owe employers their “love” or “loyalty” because these things are only meant to keep workers from unionizing. And we know your employer will cut you if given the opportunity
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“Mirror, mirror on the wall. Tell me, mirror, what is wrong? Can it be my daily clothes, or is it just my de la song? What I do ain’t make believe. People say I sit and try. But when it comes to being de la. It’s just me, myself, and I.”
#RIPDave
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We should always be reminded of DuBois's epigraph at the beginning of the last chapter of Black Reconstruction anytime we hear about "CRT" bans
NEW: Every Black member of the Mississippi Senate walked out today in protest as most of their white colleagues voted to approve a bill that Republicans claim would prevent “critical race theory” from being taught in schools. 1/
#MSLeg
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WNBA not playing either, which is not a surprise since they’ve been the most militant for the longest ✊🏿
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Just a periodic reminder—the place you work for, your employer, your boss aren’t your “family.” Never were and never will be
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My latest for
@truthout
Racist Attack in Buffalo Was Crafted to Terrorize Us. Here’s How We Fight Back.
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i understand folks are desperate for a definitive repudiation of Trump, esp after the trauma of the last four years, but we weren't just going to vote Trump and Trumpism away swiftly. and we cannot vote away entrenched white supremacy, misogyny, settler colonialism, etc.
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But what's kind of crazy is that folks just discovered Northam's photos. I bet Tom Perriello is pissed. Jesus christ the VA Dems are stupid. lol
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Solidarity with all my historian friends indoctrinating students with radical histories that teach them to hate their country
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every worker should get a one year sabbatical every few years
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I wish "the radical left" was as powerful as the right thinks it is
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Multiple students visiting office hours to ask questions about civil rights and activist work; students engaging each other about the readings and lectures; students asking questions up until the last minute of class. I’ve just never experienced this before. It’s wild
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Meanwhile some potential good news slipping through the reactionary assault.
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@LDLDN
@LilBrickyY
@FriedChickpea
@Avmech1
@CocoaBrownJesus
@LynnWiberg
@StoneyHustle
@CoreyAStewart
@denniallen
@WalshFreedom
Nate's response is the typical willful obtuseness I've come expect from the white folks who rationalize racism. A cowardly position actually
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Dana Greene, Jr.'s letter to President Schlissel explaining why he is kneeling on the Diag. This needs to go viral.
#WhyIKneel
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Here is my hip hop history syllabus. This is not the version I am submitting to Black Perspectives, but the one we're using this semester.
#AuburnHipHop
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An Indian guy claiming the former president will be more appealing to Black people because of his mugshot--and him claiming that the former president is the 'ultimate gangster'--is like anti-Black racism wrapped within racism wrapped within racism.
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In a better world, it wouldn’t have taken an arrest of a former president for folks to learn of the terrible conditions of the Fulton Co jail. folks would listen to all of the activists and incarcerated folks who’ve spent years calling attention to this…
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A university president asks a militarized army of police to invade its campus, arrest protesters, and then occupy the campus. Like wtf
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my only hope is that SCOTUS inspires more folks to adopt abolitionist principles and more folks begin to organize around these principles. we ain't getting out of this mess without radical politics. business as usual and relying on capitalist political parties is why we're here
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and maybe Rittenhouse tries to go to another protest somewhere else, but none of this happens if Kenosha police didn't shoot Jacob Blake in the back and the side multiple times.
We don't get to this point without the police.
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Kinda wish I could mute all of these accomplishment posts from folks tbh 😂😅🤣 nothing personal
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I know this story is really about legal and judicial reform (the pursuit of reform is problematic, in itself) but I need to know more about the person (or people) who would call the police on a 6-year-old for picking a flower
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Mom always used to ask when the book was coming. Well, I woke up and signed this paper this morning. Excited to add my project on the post-1960s history of progressive politics in the Midwest to the awesome Justice, Power, and Politics (
@jppbooks
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Imagine being a regent and bragging about “taking back” the Diag from
*checks notes*
students
We’ve taken back the
@umich
Diag.
Thank you to all our facilities people that cleaned & restored it so swiftly.
Thank you to DPSS for their quick work & service to the University.
💙💛💙💛💙💛
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Finally going to my first ever therapy session today. Feels a little weird, but much better than not going at the moment 🙏🏿
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Pay 👏🏿 people 👏🏿 to 👏🏿 stay 👏🏿 home. Pay 👏🏿 businesses 👏🏿 to 👏🏿stay 👏🏿 closed. Pay 👏🏿 people 👏🏿 to 👏🏿 raise 👏🏿 kids and loved ones 👏🏿
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This 👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿 the threat of, or actual, racist violence has been the real “cancel culture” in the US
It's notable that this rash of bomb threats at HBCUs follows the artificially engineered national hysteria over so-called "critical race theory" by cynical political actors who are more than happy to benefit from stoking the flames of white fear, resentment & paranoia.
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white historians complaining about "identity politics" and presentism is rather predictable, boring, comical, and exhausting
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This exchange saddened me bc some white folks and defenders of state violence expect Black folks to remain “calm” in response to police murder. The expectation that Black folks shouldn’t react with righteous anger for fear of undermining their credibility is racist itself
MMA fighter Donald Williams, who filmed George Floyd’s killing, tells Derek Chauvin’s defense attorney Eric Nelson: “I stayed in my body. You can’t paint me out to be angry.”
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So, I actually wasn't imposing my own views onto the event. I was listening to my sources. The irony was that the questioner was actually trying to impose his political perspective onto my work because "riot" is obviously not a neutral term (was not one in the 1960s either)
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The writer pointing out that cops tend to take white kids to their parents while they tend to take Black kids to the state is real, tho. The police know who the juvenile system is for
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Hoping your political opponents “do the right thing” is not a strategy
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Almost ready to go 👏🏿 how long have I been working on this, off and on? Like 20 years? 🤣
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Imagine if the store clerk who took George Floyd's money wouldn't had been required to report it for fear of it being deducted from his wages. Imagine if the clerk earned a living wage, w/benefits & the business took that loss. All of that could've saved Floyd's life too
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