@PoliticusSarah
@oneunderscore__
@donie
@drewharwell
What fascists mean by “free speech” has always been the freedom to shout and shut other people down.
That their words are taken at face value is a failure of our education system on the history of Nazism/fascism.
@JJRodV
@adriel_rose
Yes, it speaks to the level of privilege white people inhabit - to see masks as a symbol of, or actual oppression. For, POC, it isnʼt a discomfort compared to daily interpersonal or systemic racism in housing or healthcare, environmental racism, the rise of fascism globally :/
@brythax
not that deep: white supremacy, capitalism, patriarchy, internalized racism, ableism. (basically, any structure)
deep, bro: celebrities, rappers, black capitalists, etc.
@Dr_ElleScott
I mean, ✉️ people also think Elon Musk is an inventor because their failed education system is all about “great white man” theory of discovery. But the truth is thousands of people across the world collaboratively come up with a single invention.
@RoseSymotiuk
@xtinamagwaza
@leilacohan
Because punishment is the only logic of white settler-colonialism. They will support any position as long as women, minorities, and marginalized folks are not entitled to their own boundaries/bodies.
@yodifiji
@OgbeniDipo
We need to start showing Europeans and Americans that Black support is not unconditional - from the UN to the streets, we can make their wars very bitter for them like they do to our children every day in their countries.
#UkraineUnderAttack
#Poland
BREAKING: Just over three-quarters of Americans (76%) want Pres. Biden to consider "all possible nominees," while 23% want him to follow through on his commitment to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court, per a new
@ABC
News/Ipsos poll.
@MariusKothor
Many white folks donʼt seem to connect Black/POC folks are fleeing the same imperialistic and neocolonial wars, militarily and economically. Yet we are subjected to all kinds of racist, artificial border controls and immigration systems. 🖤
@kelechnekoff
I told my pro-Israel friends that the Apartheid state sees them even lower than Palestinians. Just in case they think the West or anyone would care if they need help.
@HeatherEHeying
@KonstantinKisin
Ukrainians with a deeper understanding of Russia know this not the case, but your agenda against 'wokeness' supercedes all of that I guess.
@UjuAnya
Respectability types really believe this tripe, and are rewarded for it, financially or psychically, at a cultural level, and that’s why it works most of the time.
@TinyWriterLaura
@Tinu
“These sick people are only faking” is an ableist myth born out of their abled people's own fantasies of what chronic disability looks like (an escape), instead of interrogating a society that makes them wish they were disabled to escape capitalism and its moral judgements.
@EbonyJHilton_MD
@mattbc
@CDCDirector
There are people who believe theyʼve never experienced racism because mainstream society has defined it as acts, rather than living in underinvested neighborhoods, poor quality schools, bad air, water, soil quality, overpolicing.
@steevaneagain
So, Christians spend a large chunk of their time not believing in Santa 🥴
The hateful thoughts and actions of religious people in Nigeria is enough proof that religion is pure opium.
@abike1999
@dimensionsofdj
@IamTabithaBrown
The only habit that runs through our communities is (internalized) racism and blaming Black people individually or collectively for structural problems.
@levarburton
Knowing those cops will never do that to a white person shows how internalized racism (dehumanization of Blackness) works at an interpersonal level. It was a culture shock for me how Black people saw each other in America. I thought it would be better...
@yodifiji
Self-hating South Africans trying to make themselves relevant in the comments when they should be fighting for their 'white-owned' lands is next level colonial trauma.
@tastefullysaucy
@samah_fadil
Now they see their crimes is just another evidence on their pile of atrocities. As a Nigerian, I’ve never been prouder of South Africa after Mandela, despite Mbeki and Ramaphosa 😤
@FennecWF
@TylerHuckabee
Akshually, the wine mentioned in the Bible is just Ocean Spray, *skips all the part where folks got drunk and why you should only drink a little (for poor Timʼs stomach)*
@yodifiji
@OgbeniDipo
We need to start showing Europeans and Americans that Black support is not unconditional - from the UN to the streets, we can make their wars very bitter for them like they do to our children every day in their countries.
#UkraineUnderAttack
#Poland
@AdetolaOlutosin
This is one of the reasons I donʼt want to come back to Nigeria - - Black Diasporans, especially African Americans (nor Haitians) don't worship white people the way Nigerians do 🤦🏿♂️
When I consult on public health policy in Naija, they would rather listen to what some white person
@birgitomo
This is what institutionalized white supremacy looks like – “we investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong.” Stay strong and know there are more for you than against you.
@Lagaless
@UjuAnya
What did he revolutionize? His sexism and racism against Black women (misogynoir), and wealth/white worship are the oldest oppressive institutions around. He took patriarchal victimhood to a mainstream audience is all I can say about his grift.
@Olas_Truth
Iʼve always wondered why my medical school was like military school in hierarchy and behavior for a profession that purports to be about “saving lives.” Itʼs about bullying, power and control of social capital and networks first before the patient.
Having spoken of Japan as his Twitter center, Elon Musk is now enjoying conversations with Japanese MAGA groups in Japanese. In addition to the MAGA group on Twitter, Elon Musk's interactions with Japan are also closely conducted with aggressive incels among anime/gaming otaku.
@nhannahjones
@heylhgierb
@HicklinWilliam
Covid is just not the flu. Iʼm a physician, I studied public health; how much of this faux concern for children's inability to “catch up” is actually a failure of the US educational objectives and lack of childcare as in other countries?
@stephhegarty
@ColinUdoh
Those of us in the West know how painful the wait in years are to be treated with a modicum of respect. I hope Africans can see clearly how it plays out in a pandemic and war now.
#UkraineUnderAttack
Black Africans are being treated with racism and contempt in Ukraine & Poland. West cannot ask African nations to stand in solidarity with them if they cannot display basic respect for us even in a time of war. Ignored in a pandemic and left to die in war?!! UNACCEPTABLE.
@JLeep86
@serenawilliams
@SerenaVentures
@nytimes
Look at the voices they centered during this pandemic (economists and pundits), and see who they keep in the margins (literally). Not to mention all their faux neutrality jumps out of the window when they need to cover a war in Europe but not for US social movements.
@HalfAtlanta
The hypocrisy of the US is beyond absurd as usual. You can’t boycott, divest, and sanction Israel in 37 states but it’s totally cool when it’s Cuba.
@JJ27581708
@Mochievous
You lot just like to talk without knowing the Western context. What if Black people are automatically perceived as 'loud(er)' and more aggress because of racism? Because there are studies and experiences to back that up.
@Ani_Kayode
TERFs are basically linking up with people who think Michelle Obama is/was a man. The kind of internalized anti-Blackness it takes to be a Black TERF defending a white supremacist binary of “biological sex” is insane.
@CorvaCorvidae
@gpswenson
@JulianCastro
The American police are literal descendants of the Slave Patrol whose job was/is terrorize Black people and non-white males. The work of any decent human remains being opposed to slave catchers, traders and drivers today.
@ztsamudzi
“I can’t believe this”
“I doubt it will pass into law”
- liberals and fascist sympathizers even as the GOP spell out exactly what they want to do.
@AkwariCharles
When I came here, unlike most Nigerians, I took African American history, went to their churches and events. Made good friends. Black Americans have survived here for 400 years among the most genocidal race on earth, your 10 year experience is just a blip. Reach out.
@BreeNewsome
Funny how “it” now means a slap on a stage and not a recent coup attempt. Americans want to distract themselves so bad from actual issues.
@natalie_mcelyea
@Olas_Truth
@bibicosplays
Each time I try to explain medical school bullying, pettiness, and sheer maliciousness to family or friends, they just dismiss it and see it as coming from privilege. That is colder than anything I see daily because Iʼm talking about what they will face as patients.
@uwagbale_
The only thing the colonized African calls “our culture” is sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and internalized racism. Never love, tolerance, and resisting oppression/oppressors.
@SeanBellring
@MariusKothor
@OlufemiOTaiwo
The most important donation for those of us who have survived mass violence is to end the causes of war (esp. white supremacy and neocolonialism). Do better.
This moment is clarifying because it shows how unnecessary refugee camps actually are. They are sites of confinement/containment for those deemed undesirable by nation-states. Refugee camps can and should be abolished.
@LeeFlower
I need a paper on whether the American urge to describe basic stuff in other educational systems violently will lead to them appreciating science, humanity and the natural world more.