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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Aug 2020

    Jeet Heer Retweeted b-boy bouiebaisse

    1. Good piece that makes a crucial point that bitherism doesn't just target politicians like Obama & Harris. It's also part of a broader project to radically re-define citizenship along racial lines.https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/1294397854874828802 …

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    b-boy bouiebaisseVerified account @jbouie
    a righteously angry @mjs_DC unleashes on those who want to unravel birthright citizenship. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/kamala-harris-birther-birthright-citizenship-claremont.html …
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      2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Aug 2020

        2. Too often, Trump's birtherism is treated as a sick joke: racist, but really aimed at political rivals, comparable to his crude nicknames. But it's more than that: it's undergrided by a conceptual framework of a double standard of citizenship.

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Aug 2020

        3. There's a reason why birtherism resonates among Trump's right wing base: it's not just a way to insult an Obama or a Harris but also, more importantly, to re-assert white power to decide who is and isn't an American.

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      4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Aug 2020

        4. Birtherism is a dominance view. Dominant are they who can decide who is and isn't a citizenship. It's the same move white discourse on whether Obama or Harris are "really" black. It's an assertion of power to define identity.

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      5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Aug 2020

        5. More thoughts on the hidden logic of birtherism.https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/birtherism-trump-racist-kamala/ …

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      2. p-brane‏ @BraneRunner 14 Aug 2020
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Aren’t you German?

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Aug 2020
        Replying to @BraneRunner

        Are you an ICE agent?

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      1. Kevin Adams‏ @KvnJAdms 14 Aug 2020
        Replying to @HeerJeet @mtsw

        It's going to be really weird in 2024 with the Cruz/Haley ticket.

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      1. Philip Gourevitch‏Verified account @PGourevitch 14 Aug 2020
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        Yeah it’s just plain old nativism dressed up in a legalistic fright wig

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      1. craigtopicalthemestar‏ @craigsuperstar 14 Aug 2020
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        Why would this work, though? "Not from the US" isn't a race.

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      1. Happy ‘Nuke The Filibuster’ Warrior,MD‏ @marietoto 15 Aug 2020
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        True. Trump’s mother was an immigrant from Scotland. Ivanka’s mother was an immigrant from Czechoslovachia who wasn’t a citizen at the time of her birth.pic.twitter.com/o4sHSQDfJD

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