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    1. 𝓯𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼‏ @and_furiouser 16 Nov 2019
      Replying to @rasmansa @HeerJeet @CathyYoung63

      Yes I would agree. Although I should mention in both cases that the slogans are disturbingly unclear.

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    2. 𝓯𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼‏ @and_furiouser 16 Nov 2019
      Replying to @and_furiouser @rasmansa and

      If someone said "it's ok to be a slave", I think I'd use context to distinguish between whether they were justifying slavery, or trying to reassure slaves that it is not due to personal wrongdoing that they are slaves. In the same way that I use context to interpret things now.

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    3. Dr. Mansa Keita‏ @rasmansa 16 Nov 2019
      Replying to @and_furiouser @theFuriousSJW and

      Sure, but if you agree that "it's not okay to be a slave" isn't an attack on the enslaved, ask yourself why you so adamantly insist "it's not okay to be white" is an attack on the people categorized that way.

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    4. 𝓯𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼‏ @and_furiouser 16 Nov 2019
      Replying to @rasmansa @HeerJeet @CathyYoung63

      Because I have never seen it bundled anywhere alongside the claim that people conventionally thought to be white are not white, or shouldn't be white.

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    5. 𝓯𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼‏ @and_furiouser 16 Nov 2019
      Replying to @and_furiouser @rasmansa and

      In the slavery case, I'd look to see if the statement is bundled with a call for slavery abolition, or not. If you're just enslaving people and then criticizing the enslaved for their state of affairs, that doesn't make it better.

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    6. Dr. Mansa Keita‏ @rasmansa 16 Nov 2019
      Replying to @and_furiouser @theFuriousSJW and

      I think you're very clearly reading and in fact are insistent on additional malicious motives that are not found in the initial tweet. That explains in my opinion, your reaction.

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    7. 𝓯𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼‏ @and_furiouser 16 Nov 2019
      Replying to @rasmansa @HeerJeet @CathyYoung63

      Here's the tweet she was replying to. It's not a statement of white supremacy. It's in fact a criticism of the self-hatred that another white person has of herself. The tweet I quoted was criticizing that. Do you still think I'm reading in too much?pic.twitter.com/jsDkfzsWkb

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    8. 𝓯𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼‏ @and_furiouser 16 Nov 2019
      Replying to @and_furiouser @rasmansa and

      Do you think people who get ancestry results in Europe should be sad and disappointed that they are boring and vanilla, and should long to have asian ancestry? That seems to me to be psychologically unhealthy, and racist in multiple directions at once.

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    9. Михайло Ska Tov‏ @m_s_ska_tov 16 Nov 2019
      Replying to @and_furiouser @theFuriousSJW and

      I'm not really sure you know what whiteness is, which is a part of the problem here.

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    10. 𝓯𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼‏ @and_furiouser 16 Nov 2019
      Replying to @m_s_ska_tov @rasmansa and

      I'm opposed to taking a convoluted ivory tower definition of whiteness and then applying it to conversational situations as a justification for racial bias.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Nov 2019
      Replying to @and_furiouser @theFuriousSJW and

      I'm opposed to you being ignorant of history.

      12:14 PM - 16 Nov 2019
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        2. 𝓯𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼‏ @and_furiouser 16 Nov 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @rasmansa @CathyYoung63

          I haven't said anything ignorant of history, and I've clarified to you repeatedly that what I'm saying has more to do with semantic interpretation, and is consistent with history. At this point you're insisting on willfully misinterpreting me.

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        3. Dr. Mansa Keita‏ @rasmansa 16 Nov 2019
          Replying to @and_furiouser @theFuriousSJW and

          No, he's correct again. I'm going to pull out here though. I think this is too heated anyway. I don't think this is one of those things where either sides true points will get through to the other.

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