This take on blackface / Halloween is weird. People don’t apply blackface because of your social sciences definition of “blackness,” they apply it because they want to look black. (Short thread)pic.twitter.com/8dBRVmogWg
Counter Left Propagandist, French middle-class sensibilities.
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This take on blackface / Halloween is weird. People don’t apply blackface because of your social sciences definition of “blackness,” they apply it because they want to look black. (Short thread)pic.twitter.com/8dBRVmogWg
Actually skin color is a defining characteristic* - as are the languages you speak, your age etc etc. The fact that blacks and whites are different and therefore racism also exists isn’t caused by blackface.pic.twitter.com/6V7Fb5i8OI
* I don’t know what he means by “independent” , perhaps he means “all encompassing.”
Yeah, yeah , not everyone wants to mess around with blackface.pic.twitter.com/bi9dWPdzvj
These are stupid things to be teaching kids. “Affirming” is code for “making your kid emotionally soft” AFAIK. And what is this “essential selves” thing but yet again the Gnostic Heresy raising its ugly head?pic.twitter.com/JAoYUqlkos
Finally a tweet I can agree with. It’s fine to highlight superhero’s good values. In fact, that’s half the reason humans enjoy some good mythology. The heroes are physically and mentally great (even if flawed in some ways).pic.twitter.com/OBjPxiAg5T
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