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    1. ryan cooper‏Verified account @ryanlcooper 19 Feb 2021

      funny how we don't seem to hear the Ta-Nehisi Coates view of racism so much these days https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/19/opinion/heather-mcghee-racism.html …

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    2. b-boy bouiebaisse‏Verified account @jbouie 19 Feb 2021
      Replying to @ryanlcooper

      i don’t think Coates would disagree with a single word in McGee’s book.

      1 reply 7 retweets 121 likes
    3. ryan cooper‏Verified account @ryanlcooper 19 Feb 2021
      Replying to @jbouie

      I have not finished McGhee's book yet, but she seems to be arguing that racism is bad for white people too -- in contrast to Coates' "positive interest" framework, no?

      3 replies 0 retweets 18 likes
    4. b-boy bouiebaisse‏Verified account @jbouie 19 Feb 2021
      Replying to @ryanlcooper

      i don’t think Coates has ever argued that racism/race hierarchy/white supremacy is good for white people

      2 replies 1 retweet 97 likes
    5. ryan cooper‏Verified account @ryanlcooper 19 Feb 2021
      Replying to @jbouie

      how else to read this? https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/09/books-for-the-horde-the-new-jim-crow-chapter-one/380350/ …pic.twitter.com/ry9ngAZPQZ

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    6. b-boy bouiebaisse‏Verified account @jbouie 19 Feb 2021
      Replying to @ryanlcooper

      that white supremacy is an “interest in and of itself” for many white people does not, again, mean that it is good for them.

      8 replies 12 retweets 250 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Feb 2021
      Replying to @jbouie @ryanlcooper

      Yep. I read TNC, like Baldwin, as arguing white supremacy is bad for white people as a whole even as it gives a rush of power, sort of like cocaine.

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        1. Frank Lynch‏ @FLynch2020 19 Feb 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @jbouie @ryanlcooper

          The book "Caste" is very good on this, strong rec. Also, Hank Aaron reminded that Babe Ruth never faced the best pitchers, only the best *white* pitchers.

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        2. Another Bike Commuter‏ @schnufflerowner 19 Feb 2021

          Except that the disparity of punishment for powder cocaine vs. crack cocaine was made to punish black people while showing leniency to white drug addicts.

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        1. Paul Elliott Johnson‏ @RhetoricPJ 19 Feb 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @jbouie @ryanlcooper

          yea i actually think the language of "owns the libs" is no accident: the conservative vernacular is populated with this kind of language of possessive individualism b/c trampling on the left is an exercise in racializing violence more broadly for the Right

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        2. Michelle Goldberg‏Verified account @michelleinbklyn 19 Feb 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @jbouie @ryanlcooper

          I didn't get into it in the piece but McGhee discusses the psychological rewards of white supremacy, though she argues it pays diminishing returns as the strip-mining of the public sphere immiserates more and more white people

          2 replies 1 retweet 27 likes
        3. Michelle Goldberg‏Verified account @michelleinbklyn 19 Feb 2021
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          There was a mid-century era where people got white supremacy *and* the welfare state. Now they get white supremacy *instead* of the welfare state.

          2 replies 1 retweet 36 likes
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        1. Knight of Arrows‏ @JosiahBiggs 19 Feb 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @jbouie @ryanlcooper

          "The wolf licks the blade."

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        2. James Surowiecki‏Verified account @JamesSurowiecki 19 Feb 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @jbouie @ryanlcooper

          I don't think anyone has ever described doing cocaine as "sensible."

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        3. Alec Hanley Bemis  ✨¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 📲‏ @alechanleybemis 19 Feb 2021
          Replying to @JamesSurowiecki @HeerJeet and

          you haven't done any time in the music or entertainment industry then, i take it?

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        1. Rob Steinernomics  🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸‏ @Steinernomics 19 Feb 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @jbouie @ryanlcooper

          During Reconstruction there was a burgeoning alliance between Freedmen and poor whites. This would’ve been a powerful coalition that threatened the recently reacquired power of the former Confederates...so they used the zero sum white supremacy lie to drive a wedge between them

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