I actually want to talk about this article a bunch because it is exceptionally important.https://twitter.com/waldojaquith/status/1002157697188483072?s=19 …
You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history. Learn more
"We can't stop Nazis because if we do they'll go after Black activists!"
Black activists: 




There's a lot of fretting that a thing might happen. Except that thing is already happening at scale, so..... Maybe we ought to rethink our fears about that thing.
We already have laws that specifically protect marginalized populations. Those laws haven't really been distorted to be used against those populations in any broadly meaningful way, although there have been and are currently attempts to do so (e.g. Damore).
Why should we treat speech laws any differently? We shouldn't, but we do, because the country is built on a founding myth, and American free speech concepts are that myth writ large.
Furthermore, the idea that free speech is an antidote to tyrrany is laughable. Look around. ICE. Pipelines. Trump. There's a lot of fucking tyrrany out there, how's speech working out stopping it? We can't even get the New York Times to say the word "lie."
The issue is we've focused on free speech as a concept instead of the thing that free speech was supposed to protect. In this sense, the ACLU is doing *precisely* the thing that they have been warning about.
Yup. The 1st Amendment did not protect abolitionists in the antebellum South, or socialists in 1919, or Japanese-Americans during WWII, etc. You can't restrain fascists with rights on paper. You have to stop them from gaining power to begin with.
They don't have the means to secure the same protections. But in communities where BLM is the population, no matter my children's affiliation, which shouldn't matter BECAUSE THEYRE CHILDREN, black lives are more likely to do harm to my children than vice versa. Start at the kids.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.