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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 31 Aug 2021

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Noah Smith  🐇 🇺🇦

    People should read Willkinson's smart post but this tweet raises questions like: is identity simply given to people or something they create? Is a proud white identity, given history, separable from white supremacy? Is white identity completely cultural with no material basis?https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1432803600909045762 …

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    Noah Smith  🐇 🇺🇦Verified account @Noahpinion
    This is a great post. I think it comes down to this: As a country, we needed to give rural White Americans some sort of identity they could be proud of other than Confederacy-style white supremacy. We failed to give them one. https://twitter.com/willwilkinson/status/1432439582436458497 …
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    • Isaac Miller in solidarity with 🇺🇦 Michael Talbot David Allen Goobernaculum Shona Black 🏳️‍🌈 Andreas Kyng Thats how the light gets in. 🇨🇦 V and Vrious Valerie Curl
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      1. UWS Pete‏ @UWSPete 31 Aug 2021
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        How about a slow pitch softball league?

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      1. Vova Thags‏ @23Mjoshi 31 Aug 2021
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        No

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      2. Sepideh‏ @sepzilla 31 Aug 2021
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        Blaming racism on Southerners is the unserious way that people across the country refuse to confront their own racism. This happened because everyone was comfortable with racist things and said it was impolite to criticize them.

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      3. Sepideh‏ @sepzilla 31 Aug 2021
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        People can have casseroles, baseball, and bluegrass without deciding to have an extra helping of racism and a complete disconnect from reality.

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      2. Mezentine‏ @Mezentine 31 Aug 2021
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        I think the major problem is that the identity in question is one of exclusion. Not all identities are exclusionary, but exclusionary identities are so because exclusion can have emotional benefits I don't know what identity could have developed that "gives the same high"

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      3. Mezentine‏ @Mezentine 31 Aug 2021
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        If the thing that your identity does for you is gives you the satisfaction of excluding others and declaring what your social enclave is, you're not inclined to swap it for anything that doesn't work the same way

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      1. Kim Young-Sam Stan Account‏ @RealLPerezLA 31 Aug 2021
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        There probably needs to be an acknowledgement of a Euro American/"Amerikaner" identity. Rn, white Americans either adopt a generic American label or identify with an ancestral home country. Something like Italian American makes sense if you are second or third generation but
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      2. Noah Smith  🐇 🇺🇦‏Verified account @Noahpinion 31 Aug 2021
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        People choose their identity, but they need something to coordinate around.

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      3. Wagner James Au‏Verified account @slhamlet 31 Aug 2021
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        "American" not a good enough identity for Southern Whites to coordinate around for some reason?pic.twitter.com/0shAYja6c9

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      1. Sly Reference‏ @SlyReference 31 Aug 2021
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        Pad thai.

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