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Race, gender, sexuality — these aren't matters of shame or pride. They aren't the substance of anyone's identity. They're happenstance.
I honor the dignity/potential of every individual, but real pride is derivative of character and achievement. Pride isn't trivial; it's earned.
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I’m in the house by myself, just laughing out loud. It's been about three minutes. I can't stop.
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Biden: "It’s time we remembered that 'We the People' are the government."
Fact Check: False.
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Lots of these tonight:
Ad hominem. Crude racial slurs. Assailed for my *youth*. Derided for my *obvious self-loathing*... and my overconfidence? LEGIONS of strawmen....
Largely absent from all of this; direct rebuttals of particular arguments I made.
I need better haters.
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Most people throughout most of history have been subjugated. Your ancestors incl subjects/slaves/servants/serfs.
Despite *any* societal defect you can imagine, being a citizen of RIGHT NOW –the most free, literate, prosperous epoch in human history– is an incalculable privilege.
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When a lunatic goes on a deadly rampage, maybe wait 24-48 hrs before co-opting the tragedy to malice your political enemies.
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Folks keep telling me, 'this is progress.'
I'll never believe it.
“If you’re a person of color! To the middle! If you’re white! Go to the edges!”
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AOC BREAKS IT RIGHT DOWN: **If you're uninspired by talk of "socialism" or appeals to "defund" the local police dept, this isn’t a matter of honorable disagreement; you're just a racist.**
How could anyone not love her!?😐🤕
So the whole “progressivism is bad” argument just doesn’t have any compelling evidence that I’ve seen.
When it comes to “Defund” & “Socialism” attacks, people need to realize these are racial resentment attacks. You’re not gonna make that go away. You can make it less effective.
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"Our past is one of slavery, racism, and injustice. Our systems were built to oppress people of color."
The history of humankind is a dense catalog of inhumanity, subjugation. The American project isn't the apogee of that awfulness; it's part of a sharp deviation from the mean.
CA just became the first state in the nation to mandate the study and development of proposals for reparations.
Our past is one of slavery, racism, and injustice. Our systems were built to oppress people of color.
It’s past time we acknowledge that.
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Nothing screams, "END WHITE SUPREMACY" like a segregated field designated 'blacks only.'
They mill about, taking in the sun, surrounded by a cordon of white guardians. Beyond parody. Also, more than a little disturbing.
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How can any thinking adult continue to take THESE PEOPLE seriously?
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Contrary to *popular* belief, poverty is entirely natural. It’s the condition most of our ancestors were relegated to.
Societal prosperity isn’t a forgone conclusion. And you can’t legislate actual wealth into existence; it has to be created.
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Critical Race Theory is a myopic ideological program steeped in racial essentialism. Acknowledging as much + opposing it on that basis is explicitly NOT RACIST.
Laughing at someone in obvious emotional distress; flippantly branding them racist — that’s pretty low,
@JoyAnnReid
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MSNBC contributor Joy Reid laughs and calls people opposed to Critical Race Theory in the classroom racists.
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I am shocked. Absolutely shocked. Having such a hard time containing my astonishment -- on account of this completely unforeseeable development. 😐
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Another disturbing call for censorship from this administration.
Whatever your opinion of Rogan — if you support Free Speech, you ought to be concerned that Biden functionaries keep suggesting someone critical of their policies should be silenced.
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"What matters is not what passes across our minds; it's how we live our lives together." (The Jeffersons - S1 E1)
Manages to be funny, sane, inspirational -- imagine that.
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You're earnestly trying to sell me **some good or service**, and the first thing you mention Is the race and/or gender of the person who makes the damn thing -- that's probably gonna be a hard pass from me.
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Make no mistake. The belief that students of a particular race, cannot or should not, be held to the same standard as their classmates is objectively racist.
Motives aren't irrelevant. Obviously some context omitted. But this is outrageous + toxic in nearly any imaginable frame.
At the heart of these debates is the question of what constitutes fair admissions criteria.
On Oct. 13, 2020, Commissioner Alison Collins said that merit is racist and the "antithesis of fair." (3/7)
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The Manhattan Social Scene; changing for the worse.
In NYC circa 2021, the appetite for Nazi Punching far exceeds the local supply of Actual Nazis. No matter, these *masked heroes* seem determined to find *someone* to punch.
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Post 30 secs of shaky, poorly lit video + a few hundred characters of garbled context. Pray it goes 'viral.'
Objective: Replace some stranger's anonymity w/ enduring + ruinous ignominy.
Mob *justice* has distinct, primal qualities; disproportionate, symbolic, incurious, savage.
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This post is equal parts remarkable and despicable. It’s also consistent with Kendi’s entire program.
Some White colonizers "adopted" Black children. They "civilized" these "savage" children in the "superior" ways of White people, while using them as props in their lifelong pictures of denial, while cutting the biological parents of these children out of the picture of humanity.
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Grotesque, undignified, and decidedly on-brand for this pair.
There’s no argument on offer + no allowance for earnest disagreement.
*Your independence of mind is proof of your corruption.* Religious fundamentalism always operates like this.
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Race isn't a matter of shame or pride.
You aren't your phenotype; you are an individual.
Any individual may do things that merit praise or condemnation.
If EVERYONE recognized these indisputable truths, we'd all be better off. Whiteness, blackness... It's all dreadfully boring.
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"…do you notice I never tweet about nor mention you. Why do you think that might be?"
My Guess: It’s the same reason we’ve never seen her engage in any sober public discussion w/ her critics. And it’s hard to casually deride
@coldxman
as racist—easier to pretend he isn’t there.
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THEY want you to be ashamed of some imagined 'defect.'
YOU insist this same 'defect' makes you exceptional.
These are identically, if not equivalently, fallacious claims.
This isn’t binary. And accepting the false choice is a victory for the bigot. You become what you hate.
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M: I think you're ugly. Other people agree. What do you like about being ugly?
C: I don't buy the premise, so...
M: Sure, but humor me.
“What do you like about being White?” I asked this question to anti- Critical Race Theory advocate Christopher Rufo. He stated that Whiteness was always only painted as negative, so I asked him to offer something different. Peep his response:
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Kendi’s race monomania (and his particular obsession with *whiteness*) may forever prevent him from seeing what’s been painfully obvious to me for years:
RACE (not whiteness) prevents people of all kinds from connecting to humanity — Kendi included.
“Whiteness prevents white people from connecting to humanity.”
Ibram X. Kendi receives a giant applause from the Netflix film screening audience after demonizing white people around the world.
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How do we know the
#DaunteWright
shooting has anything to do with race or racism (systemic or otherwise)? Easy -- we really don't.
Why are people *determined* to believe this in the absence of evidence? That's a more complicated question to answer.
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Pretty well acquainted with the details of this case now, and no facts support for this claim.
George Floyd would still be alive if he looked like me. That must change.
No conviction can repair the harm done to the Floyd family, but today’s verdict provides accountability.
Now, we must continue our work to root out the racial injustice that haunts our society.
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"We know what largely built the nation, and it wasn’t freedom."
Slavery was undeniably important to the development of the Americas, but Kendi’s *analysis* is shallow and incurious.
+90% of enslaved Africans landed in the Caribbean, South America... 6% were sent to British
On
#PresidentsDay
, it is important to recall that at least twelve U.S. presidents enslaved Black people, eight while in office. Two-thirds of the first 18 presidents collectively enslaved nearly 2,000 Black people. We know what largely built this nation, and it wasn’t freedom.
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"As a [insert some combination of race/gender/age/sexual orientation]..."
8 times out of 10, you can just stop right there. You've already said too much.
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Translation: 'You must be at least this pigmented to express your views on X topic.'
The bottomless vapidity of race tribalism.
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Real Talk: This has a legit Jonestown/Heaven's Gate vibe. If you have a loved one who's liked even a single tweet in this thread, reach out to them. And be gentle.
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And what if you persistently avoid engaging with your critics?
Choosing instead to ignore counterpoints. Conveniently dismissing critiques as 'misrepresentations'...
Does your evasiveness (and limp subtweeting) suggest anything important about you or your *scholarship*?
We should take it as a compliment when people attack us personally or when people misrepresent our work. Because that means they can’t challenge what we are actually saying or writing or meaning or doing. Take the compliments with grace and move on.
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What a striking contrast:
BYU: Conduct a thorough investigation. Details the lack of corroborating evidence. Exonerate and apologize to the falsely accused.
DUKE: "We believe." That's it.
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If your kid is deeply invested in a Disney mermaid’s skin color, that’s weird.
Race pride isn’t something that ought to be cultivated or esteemed. It’s universally loathsome.
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I wish I could say this is outrageous. Apparently, this is just DC now.
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I'm... 40.
@RealTimers
@billmaher
@FrankFigliuzzi1
@kmele
@PeterHamby
@HBO
Kmele Foster is a kid. And completely full of himself. Shame no one else could talk. Horrible. The only interesting part of the show was
@FrankFigliuzzi1
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This headline is doing SO MUCH work (which is great, since everyone knows *you people* don’t actually read the articles).
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"1619… 2021; Same Struggle"
Among the most unintentionally hilarious protest signs I’ve seen. And the context only makes it more preposterous:
'Refusal to give this famous, powerful, wealthy woman a well-compensated job* she can’t be fired from — exactly like slavery.'
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He had DAYS to work on this response. I couldn’t have imagined him handling the moment so badly.
He’s barely coherent — almost like he’s embarrassed to be saying something so abjectly contemptible.
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I keep seeing descriptions like this; but I'm increasingly unsure about how accurate it is.
Yeah, a group of teenage boys appear to have behaved like teenage boys, but it isn't obvious they approached anyone to harass them. In fact, the opposite may be true.
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Has Twitter ever permabanned anyone for being an over-the-top Covid Apocalypticist?
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"Racist"
"Reverse Racist"
"Antiracist"
"Neo Antiracist"
Please, make it stop.
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This is what passes for serious critique? No factual dispute, just slanderous ad hominem.
I conducted the interview + was primarily responsible for the reporting.
Amy’s account is eminently newsworthy. New facts presented meaningfully illuminate things.
Isn't that journalism?
It’s funny to me that Bari Weiss‘a job now is interviewing unimportant racists
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This is depressing. It’s also statistically absurd.
Cultivating racial paranoia and self delusion among children is obscene.
Best Case: the post + co-signs are purely performative. Even then, something is wrong w/ a society that inspires (and rewards) such perverse signaling.
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When surveying US history, what’s more remarkable: that slavery once existed in the United States — or that the same country gave rise to an intellectual and moral tradition that helped outlaw slavery all over the world?
Hint: Human slavery is older than writing.
America is a slaveocracy that has allowed white privilege and Black oppression to set the flow of wealth for centuries. That’s not even a controversial reading of American history.
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This is bullshit, opportunist, garbage. And I've only bothered to look at the below description.
If it manages to drive more people to watch the segment, I win.
The “Real Time” host has a history of bigoted and racist remarks on his program (including saying the N-word), so on Friday night things got weird when the talk turned to race.
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ATTN: If you’re recommending a 'black' person as a 'worthwhile follow,' please be sure they have the *correct point-of-view.*
Otherwise, a Pulitzer Prize-winning, certified genius* may start obnoxiously subtweeting you. This is racial essentialism.
It’s lame, elitist, and ugly.
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The ”race” of the persons who helped teach me algebra is among their least important characteristics. If you or your child believe otherwise, perhaps you should consider upgrading your cognitive software.
Ferroni's premise is essentialist — it’s also distressingly prosaic.
It is so important that nonwhite children have teachers that look like them, and it is equally as important that white children have teachers who do not look like them.
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I'm not anti woke.
I'm not anti-anti-racist.
I'm an individualist. I'm a universalist. I believe in the principle of equality under the law. I don't believe vigorously defending these values is done at anyone's expense. Period.
If you don't get that, you do not *understand*.
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@LawTeck
@balajis
2019 Police-Involved Shooting Deaths of Unarmed Civilians: 19 White 9 Black
Everyone has skin in the game. Propagating the falsehood that this is exclusively, or primarily, a problem for black folks, is a bad look. I'm pro-police reform. I'm against fact-free anti-racism tropes.
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For The Record: I’m generally opposed to having my opinions on any issue enhanced or diminished on account of my appearance.
@feministabulous
is free to disagree w/ me ON ANY SUBJECT. My phenotypic traits shouldn't be a *force field*. That sort of thinking is part of the problem.
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If you're making generalizations RE *whiteness* or *black crime* (directed at whomever), odds are you're being insufficiently thoughtful.
Refine your 'insight.' Narrow the lens. Broden the context. Disregard some conventions.
Individuals act; races do not.
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The Weeknd is a mediocre vocalist, and his stage presence is underwhelming.
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This conspicuous false dichotomy is a centerpiece of Kendi’s work. In all his many talks + interviews, has anyone ever pressed him on this?
One consequence of never seriously engaging w/ your critics; you grow accustomed to making feeble arguments.
My invitation remains open.
If it is “un-American” to train federal workers to view racial inequities as the result of racist policy and not inferior peoples, then how would Trump describe an American? Trump is saying to be an “American” is to be racist like him and deny it like him.
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This is a vitally important thread.
I am personally seeing this play out all over the place. It has a sinister, almost McCarthyite vibe to it. That sounds sensationalist, but when you're on the wrong side of one of these contests, you’ll understand.
This needs your attention.
The civil war inside The New York Times between the (mostly young) wokes the (mostly 40+) liberals is the same one raging inside other publications and companies across the country. The dynamic is always the same. (Thread.)
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This is a blessing; she can't *help* you.
I was raised by my mother + a dad who wasn't my biological father. His attention/love is an unmatched gift.
If you're considering adoption and have the means to provide a loving home, DON'T LET ANYTHING AS TRIVIAL AS PHENOTYPE STOP YOU.
Prospective white adoptive parents looking for advice or information about transracial adoption — respectfully, I don't do free consultation work. Like discussing racism, and specifically breaking it down for white people, this is emotional labor. Hard emotional labor.
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This is a tour de force. Sam is nuanced, fact-based, and in the prevailing climate -- incredibly brave. It may be among his best efforts.
I may or may not agree w/ every conclusion, but I give it my strongest possible endorsement w/ zero hesitation.
Thank you,
@SamHarrisOrg
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The shouting and general air of chaos on the floor of the house right now… is honestly kind of wonderful.
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ALSO: An overwhelming number of generous, thoughtful, and encouraging replies.
Grateful for all the public expressions of support (and the private messages too 😈).
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Nope, it’s a political statement — one has to be obtuse and/or dishonest to insist otherwise.
I’m a vigorous proponent of individual liberty + human rights. I’ll also never endorse a fraught, tribal and overexposed slogan like "Black Lives Matter." Zero inconsistency there.
We wear Black Lives Matter to affirm human decency. This is not political, it’s a statement on human rights.
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Americas "Racial Retrogression" continues apace.
The color of your skin isn’t even incidental to the substance of who you are.
Race isn’t a firm biological/genetic category.
Race is a jumble of confused beliefs about human difference. An ideological contaminant. Brain poison.
Sesame Street has two new Muppets, a Black father and son, in an effort to help children understand racial literacy.
In the promo, Elmo asks why Wes’s skin is brown. His dad Elijah explains how “the color of our skin is an important part of who we are.”
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If you're at all uncomfortable w/ Kendi’s proposal to alter the Constitution and create an unaccountable new agency w/ the power to strike down *virtually any* state or federal statute... it's only because you're so incredibly racist. 🙃
@AlexBerenson
I know, you want the freedom, the civil liberty to be racist, to enslave, to segregate, to exploit, to exclude. And you don't want any governmental official stopping you or punishing you for taking away the human or civil rights of your fellow Americans. Just admit the obvious.
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On one hand, *the dignity of individuality*.
On the other, *the crude dishonesty of racial essentialism*.
Chris is precisely right about this.
“What do you like about being White?” I asked this question to anti- Critical Race Theory advocate Christopher Rufo. He stated that Whiteness was always only painted as negative, so I asked him to offer something different. Peep his response:
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SHAQ!
SHAQ on China: “They know and understand our values ... and one of our best values in America is free speech. We’re allowed to say what we want to say and we’re allowed to speak up on injustices, and that’s just how it goes”
“Daryl Morey was right”
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This would be an excellent time for everyone to take a big step back from hysterical demagoguery and conspiracy-mongering.
Insisting your *least-favorite* candidate is *literally Hitler* was always bad — maybe stop doing that. Perhaps even walk it back.
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You don't need to read it. You just need to know it exists.
A lifetime of therapy probably can't fix this. It's the quintessence of America's deluded + paranoia-fueled "racial reckoning."
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Harboring shame on account of crimes committed by someone else -- this is self-sabotage.
My predecessors' defects don't define me. Same for their transgressions. Same for their conquests.
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I mean, I get a vote, right? Cause I’m totally fine with this. 🇯🇲 🇯🇲
No one.
Absolutely not a fucking soul.
Nary a person.
Adele:
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Hard to strike a balance between my urge to firmly swat toxic replies vs. my determination to avoid inspiring ugly Twitter scrums.
[logging off, again]
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Of all the people my wife could randomly sit across from on the plane. (True story)
If you think being front row at your favorite comedian's show is a transcendent experience, imagine how I felt getting to sit next to
@therealroseanne
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The public discourse about police violence is race-obsessed and prone to hysteria. It's a haven for ideological opportunists and the statistically ignorant.
*Progress* achieved under conditions like that may be expensive and short-lived. Likely much of the costs will be hidden.
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Imagine a loved one dies in a high profile act of violence. The media narrative surrounding the tragedy begins w/ intense speculation RE racial motives, and this framing persists despite growing evidence that race is likely irrelevant.
How would you feel?
Who benefits from this?
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A woman was **literally** in the act of stabbing someone when she was shot by police, a fact that directly contradicts widely circulating internet rumors.
KMELE: [post facts] + [admonition] 'Maybe don't promote lies.'
HIM: "But
#WhiteSupremacy
👻!"
Can't make this garbage up.
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We must be honest about this:
We've endured yrs of escalating polarization and political violence. Full Stop.
Past 4 Years: Mass shootings targeting lawmakers. Scores dead amid waves of mass demonstrations + riots. Municipal bldgs torched. Fed outposts under months-long siege...
>>
@DavidFrum
with key context for Wednesday's attack: "We've had an escalating crescendo of pro-Trump political violence over the past four years," he says on
@morning_joe
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"What am I doing wrong?"
Making sweeping assumptions about recent tragedy. Systematically eschewing nuance + promoting hysteria. Promulgating ridiculous binaries that have virtually no relationship w/ reality. Doing all that in an echo chamber, making correction far less likely.
I talked this morning about an inflection point in this country right now, specifically for reporters:
What are you more afraid of? Being on Breitbart for saying that trans people deserve to be alive?
Or are you more afraid of waking up to the news of more dead people?
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Let's all play a very dumb game!
RULES:
1. There's a magical word.
2. People who-kinda-sorta-look-alike-or-something, they get to use THE WORD freely.
3. If 'other kind of people' use THE WORD in any context (or even a word that sounds similar) 💥 — They’re out! Maybe forever?
Americans have a perverse relationship w/ ‘nigger’:
Insufficiently black person uses this word in context, leaving no doubt about intent or meaning, and it’s ‘sackcloth & ashes’ — Termination of employment and an expectation that offenders emphatically profess their corruption.
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This is a remarkable staetment. Equal parts inspiring + harrowing.
Whatever your opinion of my friend
@bariweiss
, I hope you won't flippantly dismiss this thoughtful account of why she felt compelled to depart an institution she so obviously still revers.
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"right psychopaths and ghouls..." "...defending the right to be racist..."
@AGoldmund
is... maybe a little unhinged. Someone ought to check his meds.
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🏆
Dear Brutal Dictator XI JINPING and the Chinese Government
Tibet belongs to the Tibetan people!
#FreeTibet
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Entirely fake controversy, but it manages to succeed* in at least two ways:
1) Falsely denigrating a man as racist
2) Giving oxygen to an actual racist organization *no one* has ever heard of
America’s racism fetish at it’s most absurd.
Sadly, 'absurd' ≠ 'inconsequential'.
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