#Racist

Helen Pluckrose

HPluckrose

Going to start my day with a thread but then I'll need to go and work so I probably won't catch most of the replies. When I used to focus

Eric Lang

eric_lang

So Rahdo's take on the recent Italian designer's racist remarks and fallout is not only disappointing, but potentially harmfully inaccurate. The designer was not blitz-cancelled by his publisher without warning

Jeff Samuels

JeffSamuels16

WHAT IS ANTISEMITISM? A thread.Everyone seems to be an expert. Especially non Jewish supporters of Jeremy Corbyn. The impression I have gleaned from hundreds of interactions is that it is

Norasferatu 🧛

NoraReed

it's 9-11 let's all revisit the concept of civic religionhttps://twitter.com/NoraReed/status/1117297885647757313 the cognitive dissonance of having never forget shit while the country is in the middle of a pandemic, horrific wildfir

manu #BLM 🖖

trekonomics

Ok let me put it out there in plain words: as someone of middle eastern descent I find Dune racist, but that's ok I'm used to that, it's an old

Lux 🤷🏻‍♀️ Alptraum

LuxAlptraum

I understand — and support! — the urge to make white supremacists the villains in fiction, but I feel like if you're going to do that you should probably work

Vidya Shah

VidyaShah6

1/ 4 Racial capitalism: the process of deriving social & economic value from the unequal differentiation of human value. In this "era of anti-racism", white anti-racists continue to derive benefit

I too am a Black-passing Latina

InADash

1. Sees a Latin American film centering Black people2. Clicks on director & producers3. Sees a bunch of white Latin Americans (usually middle class or richer)4. Turns off wifi for

Britney Spears Jalisco (Official)

cesarmrvm

In 1998, voters in California voted to pass prop 227 which eliminated bilingual education in the state. It wasn't repealed until *2016*Not being educated formally in your native language and

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Ayaan

I do not expect anything but hostile reviews from the @NYTimes. But @JillFilipovic's review makes a number of completely false insinuations about the book, essentially accusing me of reviving racist

Freddy McConnell

freddymcconnell

Saying JKR is not transphobic ≠ saying JKR is top banana."I hate the idea we are fighting between ourselves" is the key phrase for me. I take it as Eddie

Bruno Maçães

MacaesBruno

One of the interesting contradictions today is how Western societies have lost their faith in themselves but not their faith in guiding the rest of the world You see this

𝐇𝐚𝐲𝐥𝐞𝐬 🍁➕

haylesoflagos

A Thread On some of The Most Evil Rulers/Humans To Have Ever Lived .I'm pretty sure most of you will be expecting Adolf Hitler to be on this list, oh

Izzy Diab

izzy_diab

1/ A young woman has been brutalized by her brother in Jordan. He beat her and tied her up wounded, and wouldn’t “agree” until much later to let an ambulance

Larry Lynam

scopedbylarry

The Woodward reveals this week have been disturbing for a lot of reasons. First, where Trump is concerned, they simply have just confirmed or added further confirmation to all of

Evan Jewell

quidamabo

Re-upping this in-class activity to say: it's important, esp. in US, to teach Roman slavery in conversation with New World Slavery. In future years I hope to integrate the history

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